HatchetHaro

HatchetHaro, 1 day ago

im lost as to how you consider it slavery when it’s supposed to be a consensual and mutual legal agreement of partnership. keep in mind that in most cases, either party can exit the legal partnership whenever they want through the process of divorce.

if either side does not want the marriage, then sure. but having a dedication to a loved one hardly constitutes “slavery”.

HatchetHaro, 11 days ago

oh hell yeah. adam ragusea’s recipe for pan pizza is the best. i’ve made all sorts already all based off his recipe: pepperoni, chicken alfredo, chicken barbeque, hawaiian, thousand island seafood (a hong kong favourite), etc; all bangers.

HatchetHaro, 12 days ago

wdym complicated? it’s easy!

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HatchetHaro, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

EthosLab

Adam Ragusea (subjective; I really like his style and philosophy, but a lot of people don’t)

Sebastian Lague

Acerola

HatchetHaro, 12 days ago

:O a fellow Ethogirl!

HatchetHaro, 15 days ago

bro no joke; i can get to my bf’s place in ap lei chau from shatin in an hour. the mtr is nuts.

HatchetHaro, 14 days ago

I do believe it’s a bread problem. Now you can either fix that, or you can start loosening your asshole.

Sounds like a joke, but I fart a lot and they’ve become way more quiet after I’ve started using dildos. I’m gay, but you don’t have to be to enjoy anal.

HatchetHaro, 14 days ago

you heard me.

HatchetHaro, 18 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

You could print it horizontally in ABS and then smooth it with acetone vapour.

HatchetHaro, 20 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

It’s happening right now with ESO’s 10th Anniversary celebrations.

It kicked off with an in-game Anniversary Jubilee event that started two weeks ago, and almost immediately players noticed the insanely low drop rates for some event items, taking players on average about 20 hours of mind-numbing grind of the same old content for certain pages, and some even longer.

The kicker with these low drop rates is that it’s unprecedented for ESO in its current form after having implemented plenty of progression systems for loot to lessen the impact of RNG.

Even now, at the end of the event, Zenimax Online Studios has refused to acknowledge the low drop rates, which only means that the player frustrations are intentional, most likely to pad player numbers for the sake of appeasing shareholders and/or daddy Zenimax Inc.

One week after the event was launched, ZOS also released a Public Test Server build of their latest chapter, Gold Road. This iteration of the PTS is supposed to have a copy of everyone’s PCNA characters so they can use their existing gear and setups for testing the new abilities and content. Template characters were also available to create, offering players a ton of gold, unlimited resources, and literally all the gear in the game; Public Test Server, after all.

About 30 minutes after the PTS went online, it was taken down, and so players who were on the PTS at the time went back onto their Live servers.

Turns out, the PTS wasn’t running a copy of the PCNA Live database.

It was using the PCNA Live database.

So now we have players who have deleted existing characters to create template characters on the PTS with a billion gold and trillions more value in loot running around on Live. The gold has been dispersed into the in-game economy.

The Live servers were taken down 20 minutes later.

There’s nothing else to be done; a server-wide rollback is imminent. After all, it would be dumb to just quarantine the players who have logged into the PTS and attempt to manually track down all the rogue gold and loot, right?

Right?

Well, ZOS is up to the challenge! First, they issue permanent bans on all the players who logged into the PTS (you know, the most loyal and experienced of the players) with an email stating that it’s temporary, that their accounts would be rolled back to about 9 hours before the servers went down (I assume that’s when their last backup was), and we could expect this issue to be resolved and for our accounts to be unlocked in 2-3 days.

Keep in mind, an event is active right now. There are reward boxes for completing any quest with high chances of dropping motif pages, crafting recipes, materials, currencies, etc, and most players are doing the 7 daily crafting quests for those on each character (max 20 characters).

The locked-out players are missing out on about 140 of those boxes per day.

3 days went by, there was another update. We’d be freed soonest at the end of the week. That makes 5 days of lockout. We’d be compensated, of course; they’d make things right.

5 boxes. Is all we get.

Okay, we also get a lot in another currency that lets us buy certain items in their microtransaction loot crates, and naturally the non-locked-out players are pissed about that.

Remember the event items with insanely low drop rates? We get all of those too. Would be useful to me if I hadn’t sunk 33 hours grinding those all out already.

With the event, there’s another currency that you can earn once daily, and you can use it to buy certain items from the event store. We’re not getting compensated any of those, though, even though those matter a lot for the sake of the event.

End of the week comes by. New update: there’s a maintenance right after the weekend, and they would discuss when best to take the server down after that.

We are guaranteed at least 8 days of missed game time. The event is almost over.

That server maintenance is happening right now. I will update on what they say next.

Update: they said earliest we’d be unlocked is Thursday. They’d also grant us one of the rewards we’d miss from the daily logins.

HatchetHaro, 20 days ago

wait, you’re supposed to peel them?

HatchetHaro, 21 days ago

Easy solution to this problem: Photoshop it.

HatchetHaro, 22 days ago

I don’t wear thongs, though I do have an interest in trying. That being said, I think it might be comparable to wearing flip flops; sure you’ll feel it between your toes for a bit, then it stops registering.

HatchetHaro, 23 days ago

That’s so perfect.

HatchetHaro, 25 days ago

So you’re saying that addicts fall back into addictions more easily than the general populace does?

HatchetHaro, 25 days ago

I’m just looking through this entire thread, and call me crazy, OP, but you seem angry not more people are using GIMP. You’re quite aggressive about it, attempting to shut down legitimate UI and UX concerns at every corner, and it is genuinely fatiguing to see.

HatchetHaro, 16 days ago

If it works for them, then it’s not the wrong tool for the job.

HatchetHaro, 12 days ago

In your opinion, sure.

HatchetHaro, 12 days ago

I don’t care.

HatchetHaro, 29 days ago (edited 29 days ago)

I feel there needs to be more nuance to how this AI is used.

For commercial settings (including streaming), permission from the voice actors must be given first, or at the very bare minimum monetarily compensated at their full rates for the amount of time those voice lines are used.

However, if I want to mod Baldur’s Gate 3 for fun and add a new companion into the game without any expectation of profit, as long as my usage of the Narrator’s and other companion’s voice lines don’t stray from the established style of the game, I should be allowed to use AI to create those voice lines until I secure funding (either through donations or Patreon) to actually hire the voice actors themselves.

HatchetHaro, 29 days ago (edited 29 days ago)

I see your point!

I go entirely by feel most of the time and only use cup/spoon measurements as a first step when I’m making batters or cookie or pizza doughs before adjusting based on how the dough is turning out. At that point it’s less of a measurement tool and more of a scooping tool to me.

HatchetHaro, 29 days ago

I don’t see the point of consistent results outside of a commercial setting, but that is an entirely subjective view. I personally find more enjoyment in testing and tweaking and changing things up, even in baking.

HatchetHaro, 29 days ago

I’m gonna be honest, being anal about exactly how much chicken I eat sounds like a miserable time.

Sure, track salt intake and carbs as portions for those are more easily controlled without leaving awkward amounts of food trimmed off, but chicken?

Like you demonstrated, just halve the pieces, in which case weighing the chicken is pointless as it’s already roughly where you want it.

HatchetHaro, 29 days ago (edited 28 days ago)

You’re just putting words in my mouth at this point. I’m saying that being anal about precisely measuring my food sounds like a miserable time, nothing about scales or justifications for “how I do things” (which is how everybody here, where I am, does things).

Secondly, the discussion from the beginning was about measuring ingredients for cooking, not for calorie tracking. It’s evident that your priority in this is for calorie tracking, which is an entirely different subject and I can see that having a scale to be able to do so would be beneficial, but that is none of my concern. My entire point is about measuring ingredients for cooking, which I just generally don’t care getting too precise about.

So to answer your question “How do you measure chicken breast?” more clearly: I don’t. I have no need to measure chicken breast. I just eyeball it.

And while I applaud you for trying to be health-conscious and count your calories, I simply just do not care about doing so for myself. You do you, but do not preach it to me, for I have no need for it.

HatchetHaro, 29 days ago (edited 28 days ago)

I do jot down the volume measurements that I use any time I bake (approximate, never exact, since I adjust little by little based on how sticky my cookie dough or how wet my pizza dough feels), and using that gives me consistent results already if consistent results are what I want.

There’s not enough variation in the ways I scoop my flour or salt or baking powder or sugar that would net me results that are noticeably different to my previous batches.

I just find this method more fun. Perhaps people prefer to skip the step of cooking by feel and adjusting their flour amount based on how wet their dough is, etc., and just prefer to follow exact steps to get to an end result; I myself find the challenge fulfilling.