The Arms of the Oak

[iwilleatyourenglish]

tumblr i have a series of food questions for you.

let us begin: do you like Japanese food?

[iwilleatyourenglish]

great! what would you say you most think of when you think of Japanese food?

[iwilleatyourenglish]

i see, i see.

and when you think of Japanese food, do you think of any of the following:

lime Jell-O

cream cheese

sour cream

[iwilleatyourenglish]

interesting...

so are you saying your enjoyment of Japanese cuisine would NOT, in fact, automatically compel you to consume this then

[qvackjack]

what the fuck

[iwilleatyourenglish]

just so we’re clear, you are not, in fact, tempted by this very special 1950s recipe that includes cold canned crab, cream cheese, sour cream, lime gelatin, food coloring, and onion juice?

[qvackjack]

what the fuck are you talking about

[iwilleatyourenglish]

why i’m talking about the slops!

[iwilleatyourenglish]

what the fuck

[feyspeaker]

oldschool babey 😎 prints | patreon

[dungeoneering102]

The aesthetic of BG 1 & 2 is so accurate here! I love it.

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[cannibalfilmphd-deactivated2023]

That right there is a good solid burger patty with the intriguing addition of middle eastern spices 👀👀👀 (and as we all know variety is the spice of life, and spice is the variety of food.) I’m also intrigued by how she put the patty in the pita(?) which makes it a sort of burger panini. It looks good and I am going to have to try it.

[raindearreindeer]

I want to make this for my family, but my mom’s pretty iffy on beef that is anything but well done (dry as fuck) so I’m wondering how to cook it throughly enough without burning the bread.

[vergess]

You can cook it in very thin pita with a thin layer of minced beef/lamb so that the meat is cooked brown all the way through in only 1 minute per side.

But also! Red Meat is "Well Done" at 160F/72C (white meat is 165F/75C). Bread actually doesn't even toast until 255F/123C!!

So, if you make the full size patties in a frying pan on a low-medium heat, or an oven set to 300F/150C, it will take about 20 minutes to cook instead of only 3 minutes, but it will DEFINITELY not burn the bread, and the meat will be VERY well done.

Here is the oven based recipe I suggested elsewhere on the post

Kafta in pita - Taste of Beirut

The first time I had this dish was in Lebanon when a childhood friend took me to a restaurant called Taaj El-Moulook (meaning The kings’crow

@bananafosters In case you are interested also!

[6kuro]

[goldfishwarden]

[video id: a baby sensory video of various smiling fruits dancing around the screen. the audio is “beware” by death grips. end id]

[weepingwitch]

i know this means absolutely nothing to most people but basically all of the little web game things I've made recently (angels in automata, hex plant growing game, d.a.n.m.a.k.u., life music, sudoku land, the metroidvania style map editor, etc etc etc) are all entirely self-contained individual client-side html files that can be downloaded and run offline and have literally no libraries or frameworks or dependencies, because i'm an insane woman who enjoys hand coding my input handling and display code from scratch in vanilla js and having it all live in one single html file with the game logic and the page structure and the page style all just living and loving together side by side in a universal format that can be run by any web browser on any devixe. i'll even include image files as base64 data-uri strings just to keep every single asset inside the one file.

[submalevolentgrace]

the sudoku one is gorgeous and a really intuitive way to play sudoku

[greaseonmymouth]

i also really love the hexplant one

(reaching the purple aquare with the three exlamation marks is how you 'win' this game)

[headspace-hotel]

Here's a little bit of what I mean with "you have to be comfortable not knowing things about the world"

Good worldbuilding rewards you for asking questions about it, and it makes you want to keep reading just to see the answers to those questions. This means that there are SUPPOSED to be loose ends. You have to give the reader part of the picture and make them curious about the rest.

For example:

"Well, there are thirteen provinces," said Elbdil Leaf-dangle the elf wizard, pointing to a map, "two in the far south, Pheegia and Zepher, three to the west..."

This is a lot of information, but it's not really memorable or interesting. Provinces? We have those in real life.

"Well, Demonic Kudzu Blast is a spell completely outlawed by the Wizard Council," said Elbdil Leaf-dangle the elf wizard, "one of only 42 horticulture spells in that category. That should give you an idea of how dangerous it is. Even Eldritch Corn, the spell responsible for the Corn Maze Event of 769, is only in the Highly Restricted category."

I would want to keep reading this just to find out what some of the other banned spells are.

[headspace-hotel]

You're supposed to lure me in by waving a couple cool dragon species in front of me and then saying "There's more where that came from!" by showing me a scene where the MC opens the Encyclopedia of Dragon Species and it's like 4 inches thick

[entnoot]

a little a Ragnarök, as a treat ☀️🐺

[entnoot]

You can get this design on shirts and mugs and whatnot here!

[dungeonsandkobolds]

Honestly the biggest thing that in my experience makes DnD or any ttrpg run smoothly is buy-in

Players have to buy-in to the story otherwise it won't work

And by this I don't mean be railroaded by the DM I mean like,

When one of my players switches characters and I introduce them to the party by them just happening to be nearby, I know my players will find a reason to talk to the new PC cause it's important. If there's a noise outside they'll investigate (albeit cautiously) cause that's the point of the noise outside

You have to meet the DM at least halfway and Want to engage with the world

[dungeonsandkobolds]

Coming back to this post after a little time away from it and honestly

The amount of people turning this post into "yes but the DM also has to..."

That's not the point! It's not the point of this post - how many discussions do we already have about what DMs should do.

Players also have to take some responsibility for making the table, story, and game work. You also participate in the game and shape the story.

If you're making the DM do ALL of the work you're probably helping that DM along to DM burnout and you won't have a game for very long

[beardedmrbean]

[theman]

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

[tattooedzombigirl]

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

[secondlina]

Reblogging because it’s a damn potato and I want to encourage people to assume potatoes are magical.

[distractedbyshinyobjects]

Is the good news that someone has made me some perfectly roasted potatoes?

[chayscribbles]

helppp i tried to reformat a document but for some reason half of the words are invisble so now it looks like really weird blackout poetry

[intercal]

we're a Castle Crashers family, we don't play Magicka here

[armsofoak]

CC and Magicka have different vibes tbh.

CC is for having a good time with your friends and occasionally fighting over a princess.

Magicka is for subjecting your friends to their own stupidity and seeing how long it can go on for.

One is for friendship, the other Chaos.

[noshowjones]

@intercal has leprosy

[intercal]

fuck. hell. hsit

[noshowjones]

now he has a sword and a mask and he's forced to kill

[intercal]

wtf this is awesome. I hope it's like this forever and none of my limbs fall off

[armsofoak]

Now he's hired by an eccentric, last surviving member of an old noble house. Travelling to a ruined estate to face creatures the likes of which threaten to break his mind.

He remembers our venerable house.

Opulent and Imperial.

Gazing proudly from its stoic perch above the moors.

[bfleuter]

Nine new Sword Interval pages. Start reading the new update here.

You can read updates early (up to page 70, at the time of posting this) on Patreon.

[armsofoak]

WE ARE SO FUCKIN BACK

*absolutely feral about this*

[armsofoak]

W'adrhun Predator by Para-bellum Wargames

[what-even-is-thiss]

For a while in my life I legitimately considered moving to Germany. There’s multiple reasons I inevitably ended up staying in the US but one of the big ones was that one time when I was in Germany and wanted some salsa the closest thing I could find was basically just tomato sauce.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You crave a burrito. You ask your aunt, hey. Can we make burritos? And she says, sure. But we can’t use tortillas. They don’t sell those here. And you learn to your horror that she plans to use flatbread. Which she insists is basically the same thing as a tortilla. It is not. It’s not. It’s adequate but good lord it’s not a tortilla.

[what-even-is-thiss]

There’s the near impossibility of dual citizenship, the pay toilets, my difficulty with the language, being really far away from most of my family, the difficulty of finding a job as a foreigner, the lack of diversity especially in rural areas. But also in there. Is buying a bottle of supposedly habanero “hot” sauce and it being so mild that I could drink it.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I know how to make tortillas, guys. Perhaps also read the rest of the post. With a lighthearted tone, preferably.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You have my deepest condolences.

[ineffable-writer]

Okay so I’m American and I live in Scotland and let me tell you about this fucking abomination:

I once found corn tortillas in a Sainsbury’s. Oho, you may think, that’s a lovely find! But no, my friend. These were flour tortillas… with cooked corn rolled into them. Individual kernels. Like one may find blueberries in a pancake.

I still see red when I think about it.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I have… no words. Beyond stunned.

[pamsssssss]

In honor of my tags passing peer review, i would like to inform everyone that when i make quesadillas my german gf dips them in mayo

[void-milf]

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals.  protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

[void-milf]

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity.  make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged.  and strike. attack.

[37womenwieldingknives]

YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

[afraidofamericans]

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

[queeranarchism]

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

[anarchopuppy]

Ooh I know this one!

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

@afraidofamericans

[mayflower-gal]

Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE

[flork-of-cows-official]

melatonin

[flork-of-cows-official]

[flork-of-cows-official]

[radiumfox]