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Biscuit: Cake:  Cookie:  Jaffa cakes, which are bite-sized sponge cakes with a chocolate coating and fruit jelly between the sponge and chocolate:  It's not complicated.
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:I'm sorry, I meant cake. How the gently caress can you confuse cake with a biscuit? That's because you're thinking of American biscuits, which are what we in the UK call scones and eat with cream and fruit preserve. Our biscuits are firm, dry because they're cooked twice, and only a little sweet. The dark chocolate digestive is especially prized.
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Jedit posted:That's because you're thinking of American biscuits, which are what we in the UK call scones and eat with cream and fruit preserve. Our biscuits are firm, dry because they're cooked twice, and only a little sweet. The dark chocolate digestive is especially prized. If you think a biscuit is anything like the garbage brick that's a scone, that's only because you haven't had a decent biscuit.
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Aug 18, 2016 17:39
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American biscuits are nothing like scones. You're in for a treat when you have one.
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Aug 18, 2016 17:44
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Doc Aquatic posted:If you think a biscuit is anything like the garbage brick that's a scone, that's only because you haven't had a decent biscuit. As resident of the Duchy of Cornwall, I feel the need to defend scones; especially with butter, jam and clotted cream (in that order).
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CottonWolf posted:As resident of the Duchy of Cornwall, I feel the need to defend scones; especially with butter, jam and clotted cream (in that order). What in the gently caress is clotted cream?
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Aug 18, 2016 17:48
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Agrias120 posted:What in the gently caress is clotted cream? This. It's really hard to describe if you've never had it, but it tastes more or less like sweet cream but with the consistency of partially melted butter. Despite how I just made it sound, it's really good.
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Aug 18, 2016 17:52
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You can probably roleplay as eating all the scones you want in that one goon project on KS with the ye olde English folk.
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Aug 18, 2016 17:56
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quote:four-page character tome a player uses to record all their information That "the seventh of their seven secrets is that they have more than seven secrets" is such 90's pseudomystical Gaiman/Morrison wannabe wank I cannot, as the kids say, even. The whole "I'm a bibbity boppity that boos" thing is one of those concepts that sounds good at first, but in practice just means you're only good at one thing ever.
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Aug 18, 2016 17:58
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"Order of the Vance." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfelqZpapZA
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Aug 18, 2016 18:08
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Oh goddammit I just got that. Now I hate this stupid thing even more.
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Aug 18, 2016 18:09
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Evil Mastermind posted:you're only good at one thing ever. Well of course, that way you can make more characters. 
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Aug 18, 2016 18:15
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Scones own, what the gently caress is what wrong with North America???
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Aug 18, 2016 18:53
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Has anyone heard anything about Unfair? I'm a sucker for rollercoaster themes.
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Aug 18, 2016 18:58
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Lemon-Lime posted:Scones own, what the gently caress is what wrong with North America??? Bagels seem to occupy the 'scone' niche over here.
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Aug 18, 2016 19:15
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Lemon-Lime posted:Scones own, what the gently caress is what wrong with North America??? I just googled scones and I see these all the times in bakeries. So, yeah, we have those things. Like, as a general rule, if it's food, you can probably buy it somewhere here. I saw bars made of crickets in my grocery stores last week.
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Aug 18, 2016 19:48
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No one is taking about NA not having scones. I'm replying to this post:Doc Aquatic posted:If you think a biscuit is anything like the garbage brick that's a scone, that's only because you haven't had a decent biscuit.
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Aug 18, 2016 19:52
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Covok posted:I just googled scones and I see these all the times in bakeries. So, yeah, we have those things. Like, as a general rule, if it's food, you can probably buy it somewhere here. I saw bars made of crickets in my grocery stores last week.
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Aug 18, 2016 19:55
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NGDBSS posted:How are those sorts of things? The last time I had an opportunity to eat something like that was in the Boy Scouts when someone was serving cooked ants or grasshoppers. (Or something similar; it's been at least 15 years.) And my perception at the time was that due to the size there was a lot of crunch but not a lot of substance. They were like popcorn but more exaggerated. You're making a lot of assumptions on what I'd impulse buy at a store.
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Aug 18, 2016 19:56
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Honestly, I think not allowing bitcoin donations is what killed Bitcoin Empire's campaign.  That and the creepy artwork.
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Aug 18, 2016 20:27
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That's probably my fault... I forgot to tell the Bitcoin Embassy that actually exists 5 minutes away from me about this project so they can fund it with their cryptofortunes.
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Lemon-Lime posted:No one is taking about NA not having scones. I'm replying to this post:
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The secret mystical truth of the universe that we are all smart enough to know is that scones are great.
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Oh god, not only are there three rock band based board games up on Kickstarter, but there are also three games based on baseball. Dump The Ump!® is the only real game of the three, easily portable too. Payoff Pitch Baseball 1948 and Pine Tar Baseball 1915 look like they tried to turn Out of the Park Baseball into a board game. Just a bunch of charts.
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The company I work for has a big meal catered for us every Christmas, the catering company always brings these amazing american-style biscuits that are fried instead of baked and topped with apple butter.
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I've told two of my playing groups now that I'd be happy to run Invisible Sun for them if they'd all chip in to buy it for me. No takers yet 
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Aug 19, 2016 03:53
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Payoff Pitch Baseball 1948 and Pine Tar Baseball 1915 look like they tried to turn Out of the Park Baseball into a board game. Just a bunch of charts. In my imagination, these two people are bitter rivals. The historical baseball simulation hobby has a deep schism, some aficionados have stopped speaking to each over this edition war.
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Aug 19, 2016 04:49
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I actually bought an earlier version of Payoff Pitch Baseball. It's nice - it's like B-17 Queen of the Skies except with hotdogs and beer and an umpire.
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Aug 19, 2016 05:14
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Payoff Pitch Baseball 1948 and Pine Tar Baseball 1915 look like they tried to turn Out of the Park Baseball into a board game. Just a bunch of charts. You say that like it would be a turn off for baseball fans. That said I'd be more interested in a 60s to 70s baseball game. I'd love to draw the "Sandy Koufax Refuses to Play on Yom Kippur" random event card or wield the power of Pete Rose's haircut. Lightning Lord fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Aug 19, 2016 |
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I got my PolyHero warrior dice today. Cracked them open straight away to see what they were like, and they seem fine. The D4 and D6 are a little on the light side, but the rest are pretty much in line with what I was expecting.
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So, my One Night Ultimate Werewolf app just updated, with the news that there's going to be a 'One Night Ultimate Alien' KS starting on August 29th.
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Mutant Manual is a "poly-system" RPG sourcebook, that will apparently have rules for Fate, Savage Worlds, Pathfinder Modern, Entropic Gaming System (whatever that is), and "Dr. Nik’s Happy Fun FUDGE". Pledge rewards include "random images from the book".
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Welp, ended up cancelling my pledge for Fields of Green. Instead I'm trying this weird thing where I order games from a store. To still keep it sort of like a KS I did a preorder.
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Despite myself, these wizard dice look super cool https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/polyherodice/polyhero-dice-wizard-set/description
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So a company called Blacklist Games has acquired the rights to Artistic Justice Games' Martial Arts card game and are making a second season. Hopefully they wont have as much trouble as Artistic Justice, who took three years to release the first set.
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Lightning Lord posted:You say that like it would be a turn off for baseball fans. Avalon Hill did a bunch of baseball games on that era, dunno how they are, though. I got a copy of Ultimate Baseball ( http://www.ultimatebaseballthegame.com/ ) a few years ago which the creator described to me as "the ASL of baseball games", and, welp, yeah.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Mutant Manual is a "poly-system" RPG sourcebook, that will apparently have rules for Fate, Savage Worlds, Pathfinder Modern, Entropic Gaming System (whatever that is), and "Dr. Nik’s Happy Fun FUDGE".
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CottonWolf posted:As resident of the Duchy of Cornwall, I feel the need to defend scones; especially with butter, jam and clotted cream (in that order). You're not helping. Saying you need to pile three layers of sugar and fat on makes them sound really dry and dull. But I know that scones don't need all that and a fresh one is a delight all on its own. Pancakes on the other hand are trash and the only reason people eat them at all is as a vessel for delicious maple syrup. That's my hot take.
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Jimbozig posted:You're not helping. Saying you need to pile three layers of sugar and fat on makes them sound really dry and dull. But I know that scones don't need all that and a fresh one is a delight all on its own. Then you've never had a properly cooked buttermilk pancake, or you just have bad opinions, I don't know.
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Jimbozig posted:Pancakes on the other hand are trash and the only reason people eat them at all is as a vessel for delicious maple syrup. That's my hot take. I think you're confusing pancakes with biscuits. Pancakes don't need anything because they're fluffy and buttery. Biscuits are trash no matter what you put on them.
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