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Starting 2023 by checking in on which emulators are currently #1 🏆
I reviewed Emulation Wiki's updates and updated my Top Emulators guide with the latest and greatest emulators.
My guide goes into more detail and gives different recommendations for different audiences. This graphic is simplified for social media and not intended to be the end-all and be-all.
Tomorrow is Tu B’av, so I love you Jews, I love you Jews of Color, I love you queer Jews, I love you disabled Jews, I love you nerdy Jews (all of us), I love you Jews
i saw this tag and my brain’s immediate response was this:
My good people, I give you: Amatonormativity.
This got me dying
who paid for this study bruh
it’‘s literally seasoning. that’s it. that’s what make food taste good.
Bro it’s more complex than just ‘ey they used seasoning’
It’s HOW they used seasoning, compared to other areas of the world.
Indian seasoning does this neat color wheel of flavor, fitting a bunch of spices that are very DIFFERENT from each other, to create a huge range of complex flavor.
Meanwhile in Italy for instance, they tend to use flavors that are SIMILAR. For instance, Basil and Oregano, or Sweet fish with Sweet wine. It makes foods less likely to contrast weirdly in your mouth, and it’s the basis of why fancy european people pair red wines with steak and white wines with chicken. Savory with Savory, Light with Light.
But the Indian food steps it up a notch. The research is definitely worth a read.
“ That like flavors should be combined for better dishes—an unspoken but popular hypothesis stipulated by recipe-building in North American, Western European, and Latin American cultures—is an idea essentially reversed in Indian cuisine. “
well yes, spices need to not just complement the food but contrast against each other. to get maximum flavour when cooking indian food:
1. use whole spices, dry roast small quantities of individual spices together and then grind them to a powder. balance is what you’re looking for, not just chucking in handfuls of seasonings willy nilly because quantity does not equal flavour when it comes to spicing indian food.
2. whole spices go in the oil first. always. also everything gets fried on its own before it’s chucked into the sauce/curry. even the curry base is started off by frying onions/ginger/garlic/tomatoes or any combination thereof. basically…FRY THAT SHIT. i don’t know of any regional cuisine in india that uses stock for simmering. frying everything individually is how we add flavour instead.
3. indian food needs to be cooked long and slow for the flavours to really merge. don’t skimp on the cooking time if you can because that makes a huge difference.
This was so enlightening
I feel a need to mention that the researchers for this study are NOT white, as stated above. They’re Indian. It’s Indian people saying “why does our cuisine work and taste so vastly different than anywhere else in the world?” To quote from the article:
“Researchers Anupam Jaina, Rakhi N Kb, and Ganesh Bagler from the Indian Institute for Technology in Jodhpur ran a fine-tooth comb through TarlaDalal.com—a recipe database of more than 17,000 dishes that self-identifies as “India’s #1 food site”—in attempts to decode the magic of your chicken tikka masala or aloo gobi.”
There’s a major misunderstanding in how a lot of people understand science. There’s this idea that there’s a frontier of stuff we don’t know and a big block of stuff we do. Their first reaction is to scoff because we already “know” that Indian food “uses spices” and that’s why it tastes good. Why waste time re-treading that ground to come to the conclusion you already have?
In reality, the frontiers of knowledge are everywhere. Most of what gets studied is common everyday stuff because we generally have a good grip on what stuff does but the holes are in the “how it does it”. And we don’t know anything to perfect certainty, only degrees of relative certainty, and in varying levels of precision.
The person who says the Earth is flat isn’t making a terribly large miscalculation of the curviture of the Earth, and on a local scale it may not impact their day to day life, but they are still wrong. The person who says the Earth is round is also wrong, but the model is off from reality significantly less. The one who says the planet is an oblate spheroid futher brings the model into precision, but ultiamtely, the only perfect 1:1 model of the planet, is the planet.
Every measurement is going to have a margin of error. Doesn’t mean we should just stop at the sphere, or even the oblate spheroid.
#i think about this post like#every time i have indian#and the ‘white people don’t understand spices!’ bs#when it was indian people going ‘why is our food so much more baller amazing than everyone else’s??’
it’s so reductive! “indian food tastes good because of Basic Non-White Knowledge that spices exist, there couldn’t possibly be anything else special about it” - what an example of shitting on the people they act like they’re supporting!
We literally still have *no idea* how to make Maple syrup without Maple trees.
The tree does something fucking magical with compounds and mixtures and whatever the fuck with it’s sap we humans are unable to figure out.
It’s why all the fake maple syrup doesn’t taste right. We can’t fucking mimic what the trees do.
We’re able to grow literal MEAT IN A PETRI DISH and yet tree blood is beyond us.
cc: @petermorwood :)
An activate charcoal AND grapefruit smoothie called "what will your meds do ;)"
Actually its a juice
Wait no this was a joke
you're on antidepressants and you drink this you meet the devil
Ok I just want to say activated charcoal is really good for you. Especially if you have an upset stomach. Take it, and it'll absorb all the toxins in your stomach and make you feel better.
Natural remedies are good. They do work. And we shouldn't make fun of them.
You know how they give activated charcoal to dogs and cats if they get into your meds or drink coolant or anything else toxic? That’s because it binds with meds and carries them out of your system without them interacting with your body.
If you’re on meds and drink this bullshit you’re not on your meds today, champ. You may as well have flushed them down the toilet. So kiss goodbye to your blood pressure meds/antidepressants/anything else you’re on and if you’re on the pill I hope you’re ready to be a mom.
Among its other charming traits, activated charcoal can prevent your body from digesting food and absorbing nutrients and oh yeah side effects can include “diarrhea, constipation, vomiting, and blockage of the digestive tract.” (Source)
But ya know, “really good for you.” 🙄
This is gonna be a very unpopular opinion but I don't care
Activated charcoal is a medication, not a food additive, and should not be taken if you're not sick. It absorbs toxins, as well as other chemicals in your stomach. And by toxins I mean actual toxic stuff when you accidentally poison yourself. Not the mysterious "toxins" you get rid of when you "detox". "Detox" is bullshit. You detox by having a working liver. If you're alive and not currently dying of liver failure, odds are you liver is working and therefore you don't need to detox and eat activated charcoal when you're not having food poisoning.
You wouldn't just make yourself an ibuprofen latte, so stop putting activated charcoal in everything.
“You wouldn't just make yourself an ibuprofen latte, so stop putting activated charcoal in everything.”
Just in case someone missed it
Also incredibly important
Also, on the off chance the activated charcoal doesn’t immediately suck everything out of your body, grapefruit is literally the (second) worst possible thing you can eat or drink when you’re on medication, as it interacts with a LOT of them, and you should always double check- https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/grapefruit-juice-and-some-drugs-dont-mix
ah yes, activated charcoal and grapefuit, the potion of Fuck Your Meds
Morning bath of the Plain-bellied emerald. São Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Ciro Albano.
Hummingbirds are so adorable. 🥰
My favourite Wikipedia page of all time is definitely the one of aptronyms - aka, names that suit the person who has them. Here are some gems:
This page also contains a section of IRONIC aptronyms, AKA inaptronyms. Here's a sample
Not to forget
Not gonna lie my birth name is also a word for an industry I very badly would like to get into and the hilarity of it is definitely a perk
Instant regret
The big blue dog gets the big bad blues sometimes. Too bad his best friend has trouble expressing some emotions
I'd like to thank a mutual on FB for giving me this idea
isnt it so strange how something can be so so so different yet at the sum of its parts its still the same? hard concept to grasp,,
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friend showed me those monster-showing hand symbol thing and it gives me an idea to do it with mr charming resident over here
og idea belongs to koikoisararira on twitter !
I AM SO NORMAL I AM SO NORMAL I AM SO NORMAL ABSOLUTELY NORMAL
THE UPDATE MADE ME SO HAPPY I'M LITERALLY JUMPING AROUND MY ROOM AND BITING EVERYTHING THAT SURROUNDS ME RRRRRAAAAHHHH
what's up with this pathologic thingamajig? your blog is the first (and only) place I've ever heard of it at. if it's an honorary when they cry then I have I have no choice
Pathologic is a lot of things, but if you were to boil it down, it's a eurojank game about slowly and anxiously walking around a dying town while managing a shopping list in your head and getting lied to. also you're starving to death because all the shops are closing and you can't medicate your plague because you're too physically worn out from aforementioned starvation. and then you have drawn out conversations with characters who talk like stage actors! it's a lot of fun
it's kind of hard to summarise the themes because there's a lot it wants to talk about (and imo it succeeds at most of it)
it's about hometowns changing and becoming unfamiliar, tradition and progress, environmental collapse, militant imperialism, breakdowns in communication, the prisoner's dilemma, the subjective differences between utopia and dystopia, and generally everyone seeing themselves as the protagonist in their own story, regardless of what has to happen for them to fit that role
all that being said there's a certain element of moé to daniil considering panic-eating the papers until he remembers artemy is a surgeon and would just cut his stomach open to get them
daniil being one of the few people who consistently remembers that artemy isn't an epidemiologist or anything relevant to dealing with an outbreak -- but ENTIRELY because he doesn't respect him -- is one of the better understated running gags in the game
