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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I have two friends diagnosed with Celiac. Some people think it makes them healthier to eat gluten-free (I think that is more about the fact that it really forces them to control and research their diet) but... it is their body, their life, their decisions. My opinion doesn't factor in. If...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    Here's Why Soda Is Even More Unhealthy Than You Thought TL;DR high amounts of fructose makes you fat and prone to type 2 diabetes. High amounts of glucose doesn't have the same effect. Now I'm kind of curious to track obesity vs the increase in HFCS in products. EDIT: And that didn't take...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I cater to allergies 100% of the time... in the sense that there will be something they can eat. Everything? Not so much. If you can't eat gluten, you've basically given up on 99% of things with a crust. Time to learn to live with that. Though if my wife asked me to do it... in the case of...
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    Hearthstone

    Have now gotten 12 wins with everything but Warrior in arena. Like ~40 levels from having all classes at 60. Kind of sucks that I feel restricted to playing nothing but Paladin, Rogue, Hunter, and Druid though. Getting tired of them, since obviously they weren't my favorite classes to begin with.
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    Hearthstone

    I'd drop Ysera, it is to slow, Thalnos, because you don't really have enough spells that benefit from him. Replace with another Pyromancer and another Farseer. I'd also probably replace one Avenging Wrath with a Big Game Hunter. I don't personally like Blessing of Kings in constructed, I'd sub...
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    Hearthstone

    I got to rank 10 playing Murloc Paladin last season. It is surprisingly good, but worse than standard agro Paladin in most match ups so not really worth it.
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    Dresden Files

    I don't think there are Faerie Kings, I remember reading that in the Reddit AMA.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Medical people have stories of stupidity second only to IT people. Pic not related.
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    Hearthstone

    As someone who watches all the top streamers off and on and keeps track of their tournament results: Fuck yes they do. Not all of them and not all the time, but the tournament format for hearthstone is best-of-X, and every time you lose, you switch heroes (and thus decks) so you need X decks...
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    Hearthstone

    Nope. I actually asked about this during beta and got an official response that they had no plans to ever even implement tools that could be used to reset accounts, reimburse, restore accidentally disenchanted cards, etc. So even if you contact CS and get someone friendly, there will never be...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    It varies. Sometimes you can get it done free at local hardware stores, etc., they offer it as a thing to bring in business. At the high end it'd be $10 per knife (which you should never pay), $2-5 is reasonable and pretty standard.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Once a year, hire a professional to do it (unless you want to learn to do it yourself, but for something you're doing once a year it is barely worth it). Shun actually offers free sharpening if you buy their knives, send your knives in and they sharpen them and send them back. Hone your knife...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Most people have no idea how to take care of knives. The number of people I've seen wash their knives in a dishwasher is mind boggling and the amount of people who own honing steels is tiny. Just a general lack of education about knives. I was over at the home of someone in my book club and she...
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    Spring 2014 Anime Thread

    No Game, No Life is pretty good this season. Some good shows if you like sports anime, Baby Steps and Haikyu!! Mahouka is fun, but it has flaws. Nothing really stand out, you must watch this, this season in my opinion.
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    Hearthstone

    Not really, considering the point is to be able to do more arenas, not get a free pack. Every 100g can be a pack, but getting a pack is not the same as getting 100g.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Coconut paste is just toasted coconut that you've ground down in a mortar and pestle till it becomes a paste. Primary effect is changing the flavor from the browning and changing the moisture content, plus it integrates into batters instead of just being flakes of coconut. If you want that...
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    Hearthstone

    You need 7 wins to get 150+gold. Unless you count the card pack as 100g, which isn't quite fair in terms of being able to keep paying for arena.
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    World's Largest Video Game Collection for sale

    Actually his collection makes a lot more sense now. All his mint-in-box stuff was probably excess inventory that never sold and that is why there are so few games that were popular on the list of what he has. He just kept them rather than tossing them or putting them in a discount bin.
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    World's Largest Video Game Collection for sale

    The game systems he has complete sets for are uninspiring. If he had a complete NES and SNES set in the library I'd take it more seriously, but it really seems like he collected sets for crappy systems. Maybe it was difficult to find those games, but expensive? Probably not.
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    Hearthstone

    Liquidhearth.com has a get started guide that explains how to get the ~1,000 free gold you get for unlocking all the classes, beating the AI, etc. Watching arena streamers will help a lot with arena, as will the various ranking lists for cards. When drafting arena you want to pay attention to...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    It is more like dealing with pencil shavings. And no, not really, not for the same taste.
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    Hearthstone

    That doesn't sound right...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    If you have cats they will go nuts when you make Dashi, fair warning.
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    Hearthstone

    9. Could go 12 though.
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    Apple agrees to buy headphone maker Beats for $3bn

    Apple To Abandon Headphone Jack? Beats Deal Suddenly Makes Sense - Forbes Makes perfect sense to me. Apple is all about getting you to buy into their eco-system of products and pay a premium for doing so.
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    Orange Is the New Black

    Tomorrow.
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    Hearthstone

    Eh, there are quite a few cards even in the current limited card pool that people said were unplayable, but that ended up in top tier decks. Sure it isn't a good idea to stick it into the current Zoo or Handlock decks, but there could be a new mid-range demon Warlock that uses it.
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    Hearthstone

    Felguard or Doomguard would be the only good summons, I think. Though maybe combined with Rivendare it'd be interesting?
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Semi-relevant These Guys Are Creating A New Internet - Business Insider
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    He literally uses a thermometer and hot water he just adds to the cooler I think, though that might have been someone else. It loses about a degree an hour in a good cooler, so put it in a one degree over temp for every hour you're going to cook. This produces basically identical results to the...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    There is a good eats episode dedicated to it. It isn't hard, but you do have to make dashi, a traditional broth used in a ton of Japanese cuisine, from scratch. It is ubiquitous, they use it even more than we use chicken stock.
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    Hearthstone

    I can't see what your top 6 cards are, but a Shaman with 2x Hex and 2x Lightning Storm+a strong curve I'd be disappointed not to get 12 wins. In fact I can't think of a Shaman draft where I got 2x Lightning Storm where I didn't go 12 wins. Also you can get 2 packs at 12 wins, or a foil...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    It tastes good and it has an interesting texture.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I actually like balut... introduced to it the same way, dated a half Filipina girl.
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    Hearthstone

    Feral Spirits are either both charges of a deadly poison and you take 6, or your (usually just one) Blade Flurry+Poison, or both your Backstabs if you have spell power. And once they get to the point where they can guarantee the taunt totem, it gets impossible. Add in pretty decent burst and...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Hundreds I suppose, but still, it is a basic skill if you're going to use fresh tomatoes and it is like anything else, do it a few times and it is easy. Or you can get a food mill. The skins won't get pushed through.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Cut an X at the top, put in boiling water, remove, shock in ice, use the edges of the X to peel off. Hardly takes any time at all. Tomatoes can't be picked ripe and still be sold at the store, they'll go bad. They are ripened with gas or left on the vine... but even that doesn't always result...
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    Spring 2014 Anime Thread

    That is the real end. The rest of the series is because he was offered so much money to keep going he couldn't not take it.
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    Great Audiobooks

    I've read or listened to most of the stuff in this thread already and I have an ~8 hour drive tomorrow (there and back). My normal thing is listening to an audio book, so... any suggestions? Fiction is better.
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    Hearthstone

    It is kind of like miracle Rogue, you draw your Auctioneer (Divine Favor) in time, you win! It sucks against Zoo though, because they run out their hand so fast you never get a good favor off. It is a decent ladder deck in certain metas and is a great tournament deck, as it counters lots of...