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  1. Aldarion

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Rice is tasteless bullshit BUT if you need to make it, instant pot rice is perfect. And it literally just requires adding equal amounts of rice and water, then pressing the button that says rice. Save the effort for the real food.
  2. Aldarion

    DC Universe (Batman vs Superman thread).

    Every picture I've seen of Donnelly (who I looked up in response to that post) shows her with a very clear butt chin. its somehow distorted and not apparent in the pic above. Butt chin is never ok. just say no
  3. Aldarion

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    thanks!
  4. Aldarion

    Marvel Universe stuff

    This is ridiculous, edgelord, knees too sharp bullshit. People can vary in terms of how much hotter Dunst was than that ghetto replacement. 100x? 1000x? 20x? Its fine, opinions vary. But context is important here. One was cute or hot depending on your taste. The other one is just fucking...
  5. Aldarion

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    @Lanx, apologies if you've posted it before. I want to try char siu. Recipes online are so incredibly different from each other - they often share only like 1/3 of the ingredients, its like they're each making their own different dish and just using the same name. I know you've posted about...
  6. Aldarion

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    You guys are just messing around with this jellyfish bullshit right? I don't think I've ever seen a less convincing ""UFO video"" and I've read most of this thread. Its literally a smudge on the lens. Wait'll you get a load of the UFOs I see through my car windshield every summer! But they...
  7. Aldarion

    For All Mankind

    Fair point, but we live in a world where "Epstein didnt kill himself" is considered a conspiracy theory. It doesnt seem that setting up accurate and realistic suicide scenes is necessary at all in the real world so I'm fine with it being the same in TV world.
  8. Aldarion

    Interesting, Non Political News

    I don't know these wrenches but I can take a guess. There are a billion or so devices connected to the internet right (*) now that have no reason to be. Why are they? They're that way because their designers didnt want to bother with buttons or any of that "old fashioned boomer tech", they...
  9. Aldarion

    For All Mankind

    I dont disagree with anything bad said about S4. But I'm just saying, they could still redeem this show for me if it ended in a big disaster. People making hilariously bad decisions for hilariously dumb reasons? I live in Clown World; thats the default expectation. If it all ends in a big...
  10. Aldarion

    Homesteading and Hobby Farm/Ranch

    Whats the fine for missing a shot on private property with no witnesses? Asking for a friend
  11. Aldarion

    Homesteading and Hobby Farm/Ranch

    This morning I was reading this thread and thinking, ya know, its been a while since we've had a hawk kill. Maybe I was blaming them unfairly. This afternoon I pulled into my driveway and there directly in front of my parking spot, a red tailed hawk was eating my daughters favorite chicken on...
  12. Aldarion

    Marvel Universe stuff

    When was the last time there was a portrayal of Jesus as a blond dude on film or TV? Don't think I've ever seen one, aside from old paintings.
  13. Aldarion

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Its like watching this meme play out in real time but on a cultural level instead of political
  14. Aldarion

    Marvel Universe stuff

    So lets recap. 1. They pull an absolutely ridiculous race swap and cast a black dude for the pasty white descendent of Reed Richards 2. The ghetto ass actor can't control his ghetto ass ways and gets in legal trouble 3. Marvel drops his ass 4. Even on fucking FoH the only replacements anybody...
  15. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    anything longer than this IMO (random GIS)
  16. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Wait there are people who disagree with this IRL? I thought that was one of those universal things like ugly people, where even newborns will show the same response
  17. Aldarion

    Marvel Universe stuff

    I'm sure its just a random coincidence that they were unable to find an actor who looks like the character. Twice. I mean there are very few white actors these days, maybe only like 1 or 2 left, and they were probably busy.
  18. Aldarion

    Marvel Universe stuff

    No thats what would happen by default. I'm saying that with a minimum of planning he could easily have established like The Avengers Trust or some bullshit (somebody can correct me on the terminology here; I dont know this shit but rich people do) to take care of all Avengers for life. It seems...
  19. Aldarion

    Marvel Universe stuff

    I mean, he's dead. The guy whos superpower was basically being rich and planning for stuff. He died, after a fight they were all anticipating for a long time. I wonder if theres any kind of legal framework where a rich guy can arrange it so his wealth can be distributed in some way after this...
  20. Aldarion

    What If...?

    I have no idea where that specific number came from, but the numbers I've read have been over the course of like a century or so. I don't think anybody said 85% overnight. Ever hear of the black plague? killed what, like 50% of Europe or something? And thats in a population with some...
  21. Aldarion

    Student Loans and the SAVE plan

    I have no idea what context this was meant for. But since its been on my mind lately: What'll really bake your noodle is when you come to the realization they've been right, all along.
  22. Aldarion

    What If...?

    You seem to be conflating two very different things. Smallpox blankets are made up revisionist bullshit. The actual dieoff happened hundreds of years earlier. There was a more or less continent wide plague spread (unintentionally and unknowingly) by contact with the earliest settlers -...
  23. Aldarion

    The Fast Food Thread

    There is no defense for bland food. Its an offense that should literally never exist. Not in a school cafeteria. Not in a home cooked meal. And absolutely, definitely NOT in fast food whose only reason to exist is that its supposed to taste good. It has nothing to do with being "real food". It...
  24. Aldarion

    DC Universe (Batman vs Superman thread).

    I want to argue more about this but find that my brain refuses to dig up enough details about either movie (CM or AM1). Its making it really fucking hard. But I'll say this. Aquaman was just dumb. That was the worst thing about it. I dont care enough to hate anything about it in particular. It...
  25. Aldarion

    What If...?

    It spread through the Americas like wildfire after first contact with the Spanish and Portuguese explorers, long before the colonial era. When the colonists arrived they were greeted with tales of a great plague that wiped everyone out long ago. Then a few hundred years later their ancestors...
  26. Aldarion

    DC Universe (Batman vs Superman thread).

    what? no. eternals was worse. captain marvel was worse. I'd say black panther 1 or 2 was worse but why would I watch those in the first place? flash was terrible. just as bad as everything anyone has ever said about it. but those were worse now the hard question is aquaman vs flash. and FML...
  27. Aldarion

    What If...?

    They can get away with this because even in an ""alt-right"" community like ours, the majority of people have swallowed revisionist history and think the white guys were evil invaders and the natives were peaceful nature hippies. American Indian race baiting was the foot in the door that got...
  28. Aldarion

    AI Image Generation

    Every time this comes up people just dive right into the technical details or the legal details, entirely missing the relevant points. All art is derivative. People dont have ideas; ideas have people. The notion of "stealing an idea" (or an image, or a song) is fundamentally dishonest, a...
  29. Aldarion

    Interesting, Non Political News

    I agree but its still no excuse for allowing it to continue. Its one of those areas in life where I have to exercise excessive, deliberate self control when I encounter it, like sit there doing breathing exercise and shit, cause its so fucked up and damn near 100% of society is apparently on...
  30. Aldarion

    The Fast Food Thread

    The trick is to live somewhere without ghettos or ghetto people so none of the fast food places are staffed by those people. Theres a Burger King in a town not too far from me. They appear to have all five black residents of the state working there. Its bizarre. Needless to say its not a...
  31. Aldarion

    Leave the World Behind (2023)

    Now can you explain to the class, in what way does the "everyone wants to fuck blacks" fit your definition? Its fucking 2023 and there are still people that think copy pasting from an online dictionary is a valid form of discourse Did you know that not every reply on an online forum has to be...
  32. Aldarion

    Leave the World Behind (2023)

    I was pretty clear, but I've learned that sometimes you can't possibly be clear enough. I didnt find it to be racist in the sense of "blaming the white man". This was basically a single line from the daughter who was a race baiter from her first moment on the show, so it didnt come across as...
  33. Aldarion

    The Fast Food Thread

    Purely from a food perspective Palums right. The CFA chicken sandwich is fine, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. But just like In & Out, its wildly overhyped and has a boring ass menu. Its a pretty much perfect analogy. CFA is to chicken sandwiches exactly as In & Out is to burgers...
  34. Aldarion

    Leave the World Behind (2023)

    Painting this as anti white is silly, looking to be offended. It was literally a single line from a single character, and she was an annoying bitch from her first appearance on screen, and consistently had a chip on her shoulder about race. One of the themes here was actually reasonably well...
  35. Aldarion

    What If...?

    Only 2 episodes in. If S1 had started like this I doubt I'd have bothered finishing it. "Hey guys, lets explore the multiverse by telling stories about what if someone you don't give a shit about and barely remember, did something you don't give a shit about, instead of someone else you barely...
  36. Aldarion

    For All Mankind

    First couple seasons were great, but the entire time its been a story about replacing the old white male NASA with the more female and brown government + private industry space force. It hasnt been subtle at all about this theme. Viewed this way, its entirely reasonable that we're seeing a...
  37. Aldarion

    RIP Araysar

    This is fascinating. The guys banned from all but this little corner, what does he do? Instead of taking the timeout and going elsewhere, he stands in this little corner still stamping his feet and insisting what he read in his favorite history book is correct? Its quite a window on the human...
  38. Aldarion

    Student Loans and the SAVE plan

    Yeah we're talking about different contexts. When you brought up standardized testing I went straight to SAT / GRE / etc. I'm only defending it in those contexts. In the classroom, absolutely I'm in favor of more essays and less multiple choice.
  39. Aldarion

    Student Loans and the SAVE plan

    I don't disagree at all, essay questions are a far better way to judge the student's grasp of the subject than multiple choice. (oral exams are even better) The problem is that its nearly impossible to grade written essays in a truly objective and reproducible manner. I've never seen a program...
  40. Aldarion

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    despite being the most commonly cooked cut of chicken, boneless skinless breasts are also one of the cuts that most often turns out badly. By which I mean, if you didnt do it perfectly youre in good company. I'm on board with all the suggestions so far. Pound it. Bread it. Butterfly it. Slow...