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Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

you do not, in fact,

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Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

harperdc posted:

It looks like it could be alright, if more a reboot and opportunity to do something with the same spirit. But yeah just announced last week so expect it to be a little while.

Supposedly it's coming in late February of next year, which is awesome. Hard to imagine it won't get delayed, though.

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way
Mitch loving McConnell has three daughters who are all somewhere between liberal and progressive, IIRC

The apple can, in fact, fall very far from the tree

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

Asproigerosis posted:

I want to go to wawa but also don't want to put on pants

pants have never been a requirement for going to wawa

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way
My hairline started receding when I was like 20, and I made the call right then and there I'd never be the dude clinging to way-too-thin hair, getting plugs, etc.

Took it down to almost nothing with some trimmers like ten years ago and I've never looked back. Life's just better.

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

seiferguy posted:

Managed to get to a beach right as the sun was setting, and as it set, asked my girlfriend to marry me...















She said yes :)

Hell yeah bud, way to go :)

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

Barudak posted:

Like, Mission Impossible seems to be doing just a-ok fine pulling in the big bucks and every single one is a spy thriller without whatever the hell the people making the last 4 bond films have thought he needed.

At some point it became really difficult to make a classic Bond film because, y'know, times change. Casino Royale was so good because it seemed like a fresh, modern take that threaded the needle and balanced "slick, womanizing white man with bottomless wallet travels the world and saves the day" with "but also let's be real, this lifestyle would be enormously traumatic and this would be a broken human being." After that, they tried but they never really found that balance again. Right or wrong, the folks in charge of Bond films think there needs to be an emotional core to a modern take on Bond.

Mission: Impossible has no such limitations.

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

General Dog posted:

I guess I want to make sure I’m not falling behind

gender is a construct and people have the right to signal and request they be referred to in whatever way they feel most comfortable with

these signals and requests may be in conflict with your own interpretations, which is okay because many of us have until recently only been aware of gender more as a biological reality and less as a social construct—but the polite and more importantly right thing to do is get yourself into a space where your reaction to someone asking to be referred to as "they/them" is not "but he definitely looks like a he/him" and is instead "okay"

Toaster Beef fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Oct 4, 2021

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

General Dog posted:

I was addressing a phenomenon of people who have not expressed a preference for being referred to as "they/them" (rather, expressed no pronoun preference at all, to anyone's knowledge) being referred to as such. Like if someone's pronoun preference is unknown, you default to "they/them" rather than trying to guess.

this goes back to the potential conflict between how someone prefers to be referred to and how you/someone might assume they should be referred to; which is to say because we have largely been conditioned to associate he/him and she/her with specific presentations we might, having not learned their preferred pronouns, label someone as he/him or she/her by default, which might be against their actual wishes. so they/them is the right and polite way to handle it, as it prevents you/the speaker from accidentally misgendering that person.

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way
i should stress that i'm not trying to give you poo poo, here

in part it's because other folks will fill that gap just fine, but mostly it's because i'd rather people felt okay making these observations and asking these questions because that can lead to productive conversations and get us to better spaces more quickly

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

Leperflesh posted:

The humble granny smith is the perfect apple, both for eating and for pie.

what are you doing with the pies leper

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

Leperflesh posted:

I don't make pie very often, but when I do, I eat that pie. My favorite pie is Key Lime, and since it just uses the yolks of eggs I use the whites to make merengue which is a nice topper for a key lime pie; but a granny smith apple pie with a lattice crust and lots of cinnamon is a drat good pie to eat as well.

Tell me my friend toaster beef, what do you do with pies

oh you know i too am eating the pies

Pie chat: I kinda think of pie like I think of ice cream, in the sense that I don't believe I've ever had a bad flavor of either. I'm sure there are gross pies and icky ice creams out there, I just haven't found them yet. I'm basic at heart, though, so a really good apple pie is all I need.

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

Braksgirl posted:

I really don't understand how people do that in airplane bathrooms. There isn't room enough for just me in there. How do two people manage to get in there and then have enough space to actually line poo poo up right? I just do not get it.

you know how your truly dedicated stoners can turn basically anything into a bong

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

FizFashizzle posted:

Holy poo poo that’s on switch!?

The Switch version is widely considered to be the best one, IIRC

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

Ehud posted:

nice of John Mulaney to sum up his entire career so succinctly!

i will fight you

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way
I wish I had more confidence in my Instant Pot's ability to slow cook. The heat only coming from the bottom weirds me out, so I haven't yet been able to ditch my slow cooker.

BlindSite posted:

What's y'all favourite salads.

I'm basic as hell. Just gimme a decent Caesar salad with some blackened chicken.

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

GD_American posted:

Yesterday in the MRI about 40 minutes into a 50 minute scan, I had to squeeze the bulb and tell the dude my rear end was itching like crazy. He said "pretend the magnet is scratching it" and I'll be goddamned, it got me through it.

mri works by using a really strong magnet to force the protons in your body to align a certain way, then using a radio frequency or something to gently caress with the protons. they scramble a bit before falling back in line with the magnetic field, and by analyzing that realignment process we can create an image of the various tissues.

technically the mri was scratching your rear end at a molecular level

Toaster Beef fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Oct 22, 2021

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

Qwijib0 posted:

No Rona!

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way
Dune... will be fine

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

seiferguy posted:

Unrelated but I am in awe at the size of this pigeon



That is one hefty lad

you and i have wildly different ideas of what constitutes a fat pigeon

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way
gently caress man, I love commuting home in the dark. Riding a train at night is weirdly soothing for me; There's nothing quite like it. Toss on some synthwave and just watch the city/suburbs roll by.

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way
remake or give me a sequel to skies of arcadia you absolute bastards

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

Freaquency posted:

Stuffing is a C-tier thanksgiving side and I’m skipping it for all of the other delicious foods anyway

it's impossible to be more wrong

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way
I guess if you're talking about stuffing that comes straight out of the bird and hits the table, sure, it's a gooey mess. But if you're not baking some stuffing separately (or even just baking off the stuffing that sat in the turkey), you're missing out on a delicious heterogeneous plate of toasted bread, savory seasonings, and vegetables.

A while back I decided to try adding crumbled toasted spicy Italian sausage into my stuffing and the result is a side you can't keep on the goddamn table because it's passed around and gone so fast.

word:

hifi posted:

if your stuffing is wet bread then that's on you

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

breaking bad reboot lookin dope

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

Can confirm, story's awesome. Worth a click.

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

Forrest on Fire posted:

Sex workers tend to be reasonably into tabletop gaming. That's at least from my experience, living completely on accident with SWs on completely separate instances. It wouldn't be too hard to find someone with top-down RPGs, if not tabletop gaming outright

One of the McElroy brothers mentioned on MBMBAM that they were participating in a D&D game with a bunch of other gaming personalities, and one of the names they listed was Satine Phoenix. My brain was not ready to hear that name in that context.

Edit: I feel I should clarify it's not a matter of "sex workers?! gaming?!?!" so much as it is "the last time I heard that name it was years ago and involved hardcore pornography, so hearing it spoken in the context of a D&D game on one of the more notoriously wholesome podcasts is wild"

Toaster Beef fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Dec 2, 2021

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way
Yeah vegan desserts are loving incredible, it's pretty wild

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

GD_American posted:

You guys are insane. The Star Wars movie was deeply flawed but the only one that tried to break the cycle of fanboyism bullshit. Knives Out was amazing. Brick was great.

Looper was a good movie that would have been great if the last 20 minutes were tied together better.

gently caress, he even directs great music videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gIhrPGyu6U

Brothers Bloom is the only thing he's done that was objectively bad.

I was getting ready to make this exact post

Johnson isn't flawless but he's very, very good, and he tried to do Actual Interesting poo poo with Star Wars—which was a breath of fresh air after Force Awakens made it very clear we were heading straight for trodden ground with the new trilogy.

Also Knives Out and Brick are incredible

Edit: Like seriously one of the reasons Rise of Skywalker sucked so badly is Abrams and the powers that be looked at the implications and questions raised by Last Jedi and entered panic mode, screaming PULL UP PULL UP until finding and slamming an open palm onto the blinking red Palatine button

Toaster Beef fucked around with this message at 10:34 on Dec 10, 2021

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

Its Rinaldo posted:

We keep saying that as if Trump wasn't an empty suit used to sign legislation the rest of those vampires want anyway.

Yeah that post was eerily similar to a lot of the hypothesizing about what kind of president Trump would be in the run-up to ("Donald the Dove") and immediate aftermath of ("he was a Democrat for a long time, he had to say a lot of crazy poo poo to get elected and won't be that crazy as president, etc.") the election. And even though he and his chucklefuck brigade managed to bungle a lot of the poo poo they wanted to do, they still did an unfathomable amount of horrible, horrible poo poo.

gently caress that guy, gently caress the irrevocable damage he would do with another presidency, and gently caress the Democratic Party for making it a virtual guarantee he or someone very similar to him will win in 2024.

Toaster Beef fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Dec 20, 2021

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way
Yeeeeah, without knowing the life and background of everybody who may say it I'll stop short of calling it white privilege but there is absolutely a certain naïveté to going full accelerationist. There are enormous swathes of people whose ethnicities, genders, religions, or sexual preferences mean their lives will immediately be made far, far worse—if not straight-up endangered—by a Republican president who's backed by a Republican legislature open-palm slamming the fascism button. I loving hate Democratic leadership as much as the next guy, but there's a huge gap between the garbage we have now and How Bad it Can Really Get.

Toaster Beef fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Dec 20, 2021

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

Braksgirl posted:

Hey, I get it. poo poo is hosed and hosed bad, but I truly do not WANT to know how much worse it can be. That is not a road I care to travel.

Exactly this.

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

saintonan posted:

If you can see through it, it's not gravy, it's gruel.

Spot-on.

Also I'd eat cookies in gravy. gently caress it. Why not. Fill my stupid body with dogshit before the seas swallow us all.

(i'd give it a shot, sweet/savory is a thing)

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way
We got two air fryers as housewarming gifts and kept them both because air fryers are so goddamn convenient. There are weeknights where dinner is five minutes of prep, 15-20 minutes of dueling air fryers, and some quick steamed veggies. Twenty-five minutes, start to finish, for something that'd normally take longer and be a little less healthy. They take up a lot of space, but they're nifty.

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way
We have a set of ceramic-coated pans and pots and they're absolutely loving spectacular. Can't recommend it enough. Only downside is you have to be really, really careful with anything steel (spatulas, forks, spoons, etc.) on that surface. Should avoid it entirely and just stick to plastic/wood/etc.

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

FizFashizzle posted:

Gonna love when they eventually try to convince us again making payments is critical to the economy.

not that i don't completely agree with you in principle here, but there's a very real chance the economy eats absolute poo poo in the first few months of 2022 and if that happens you can bet your rear end they'll be telling us we need to make payments again to jump-start the economy

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

Bird in a Blender posted:

Adding back student loan payments would be awful for the economy since people will stop spending that money and put it back into loan payments.

yes, i agree

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way

Timby posted:

I just use a cheese grater if I need that. (I got rid of my mandoline; I was tired of goring myself on it and my kitchen looking like a Friday the 13th kill scene. Being on lifelong anticoagulation sucks.)

I know that game. Mine took forever to heal because the wound wouldn't stay closed. And good lord, the blood.

Was my middle finger, too, which as an Eagles fan is outright debilitating

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way
I started a new job three weeks ago, and on the first day I had to check in with IT about an issue my computer was having with Creative Cloud.

Guy spent fifteen minutes trying to figure it out, then threw up his hands and said it was just gonna be broken for a bit. After he left I was able to fix it through some Googling and dicking around in Terminal. I didn't wanna deal with the ramifications of "I dicked around in Terminal" so I just told him a reboot fixed it somehow.

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Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way
at this point not handling paper money is—on top of just being The Way Things Are Going—a net good for public health

unfortunately there are a shitload of people, from retail workers to those in disadvantaged communities, for whom handling paper money is not a choice and won't be for quite some time

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