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Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder.
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My password is The3n3mY if you want it. Or is that one of my alts? It's so hard to keep track of it all anymore.
I speak for everyone when I say this: TLDR.
That's one of the big problems I have with people: none of them have any semblance of an attention span! Shit like Twitter and Family Guy only contribute to that inability to focus on anything for more than 30 seconds. Without focus or memory, you are turned into nothing more than children. Adults can focus, read, think, respond to writing with writing, and remember some or most of what we've read or written. Saying "TL;DR" without any real attempt to respond to the content is a display of less-than-ideal intellectual abilities and a sign that you are still thinking like a child, while I am at least making an attempt to think and act like an adult.
But since I like you, I'll let you try again. I'd really like people to at least try to read these posts and respond as well as they can, and if you would take the time to read it, I'm sure you'd be able to think up a response. Fuck, Gustavos was just a kid back in 07, you should see how well he responded to that first news post of mine! You'd probably do well too, if you tried.
Homemade meals where you cooked it to the best of your ability, but it still sucked > Fast food.
That simple.
Exactly. Even my recent failed attempt to make fried chicken (should have gone with my instinct and skipped the allspice when the recipe called for it) dwarfed KFC, because its intent was quality and not simply quantity.
By the way, I actually read through the entire thing since I'm a nice person.
Today.
Obviously unlike all those other illiterate idiots with attention spans of goldfishes.
Thank you. It's good to have someone read my writing, ya know? I put effort into writing this sort of thing, and it's quite a good feeling when someone puts in the effort to read it. You have my thanks, ZeroInsanity.
You aren't alone there.
One of the things that piss me off the most is when I put a lot of thought and effort into something, and then people say something either completely unrelated or ask something totally stupid related to what I write. It's RETARDED.
Like my previous post on my page.
Only ONE person made a comment related to my profile I wrote up, and it as a perverted joke.
Sorry for making you listen to me whine.
But you have a valid point, that's all.
You seem like a nice guy, I gotta say. I'll keep an eye out on you. ;3
What would you expect? It's Newgrounds, it's loaded with crap users. But it's part of what I've been thinking since my days on certain obscure imageboards: people who enjoy the same things will generally be of similar quality as users.
And as you watch for me, I will listen for you. Here's to mutual success!
*Drains another can of Dew*
I have to laugh when you use the around the world in 80 days flashes as a comparison of quantity vs quality...
But in all seriousness, you make a strong point. Eating out at restaurants is nice on occasion, but eating fast food, takeout, out, etc. is just a bit much. Hell, I enjoy takeout on occasion (yum hot wings), but still, my wife and I try to eat home-cooked meals most of the time. Granted, we don't do things from complete scratch, at least my wife makes her own red sauce (yum) and we usually prepare our own recipes. It is amazing how much better things taste when they're done with a little effort and done right.
While I can't speak much about preparing food, I can say a lot about espresso. I have my own coffee machine and grinder and usually take the time to prepare my coffee right. Takes me a lot more work to do it, but you know what? My coffee tastes awesome...much better than the shit you'll pay too much money for at Starbucks... Just another situation where people take the time to do things right, and it's much better for the while.
Well, I tried to think of a reference that someone on NG might get, and the first to come to mind was the much-maligned Hitler series.
As for the rest, you understand perfectly. I'm not a coffee drinker, but yeah, go to Starbucks and you're paying too much for a drink you can make to your own tastes at home. I eat at restaurants/takeout places pretty often actually since there's not always suitable food to take from home, but not at fast food places where every product is uniform across a global chain.
I know it's not usually possible to make everything from scratch. I was just considering that earlier tonight, actually, while I was making spaghetti. Though the sauce comes in a jar or a can, the spices and the Parmesan come dried and powdered, the noodles come in a box and all, I figured that:
A. The less that comes as an "all-in-one" thing (Hamburger Helper), the more choices you have for which brand or flavor you make it with.
B. The less that comes pre-made, the more you can control what and how mych of it goes into your cooking.
C. The more choices you have in the market, and the more control you have in the kitchen, the more you can let your cooking ability shine. And the more you can do that, in general, the better your cooking will be.
There's a bit more to it than that, but those are general statements that hold true across almost all cooking.
I told myself that I would eventually reply to this. Interesting how it took over a month, eh?
I'm completely with you there on the food subject. Fortunately, it's a rare occurrence for me to eat fast food or other processed materials. My parents, who come from the old country (note: Africa), have, and still are, teaching me many recipes and dishes. My next recipe to learn is a tomato based stew that is spicy enough to burn the tongue of someone who isn't used to it, but once you are, it tastes very delicious. My family eats something different every night, and the taste always varies, as my mother gathers her ingredients and spices from the African import store. Expensive, yes, but we do end up saving money in the long run.
Now, on one occasion, I had dinner with a friend who comes from your typical American family. They usually eat out about half the time, and the other half of the time, they eat processed meats and pastas. The only good part of the lasagna meal that my friend's parents prepared that night was their garlic bread, and that's because I have a particular affinity for it. They said that they had used a pretty spicy pepper in the sauce, but I couldn't taste any of it at all. The most interesting thing about the entire event was that the food smelled better during preparation, than it tasted while eating.
Really, the only food that I eat regularly that is heavily processed is breakfast cereal (Cheerios). But I'm not giving that up. Seriously, I seem to eat cereal almost religiously. I know I was supposed to say something about the increasing blandness of our culture, but you kinda caught me at food...
So, with that being said, would you be interested in a Phantasmagoria of Flower View match? The concept of having a danmaku duel with another person is definitely appealing.
A month already? I should really get on writing a new one then! Something controversial too, like my first news post became. Or maybe I'll save that for November 5: "Fighting Spam and Saving Newgrounds: Two Year Anniversary".
The spicy tomato stew sounds pretty good: I'm a big fan of the hot stuff. Though what people around here consider "hot" is probably nothing compared to the spice of something like that, I'd still like to try it. As far as the import stores:
A. There's nothing I'd need from one at this point (it's not like I'm some master of authentic foreign cuisine), which is good because
B. I've never seen one around here.
But I don't get how it being so expensive helps you save money in the long run. Your taste buds, maybe, culture definitely, but money?
I'm actually working on a lasagna recipe of my own, however since my family only has lasagna on Christmas, I'm not making much headway right now. Still, I get a lot of practice with the sauce, since I make spaghetti every other week or so. It's going to be tough to find fresh basil and parsley in December though...
I actually don't eat cereal, or for that matter anything in the morning at home. It's just too hard for me to wake up in the mornings, so I just grab a candy bar or something at school. Not the best choice, for my health or my taste buds, but it's not like I can wake up every morning to make pancakes and bacon.
Sadly, I suck at Phantasmagoria of Flower View. I can't even 1cc Easy... To put that in perspective, with Reimu/Yukari in IN, I can get all the way up to Marisa on Hard before continuing, having beaten Easy and Normal. EoSD and MoF, I'm working on Normal. I'd just be a waste of your time in PoFV... It's having to keep tapping the Z button!
I wish I could cook my own food but this is college and I don't think I'd really be able to cook anything more than polenta here, and polenta is pretty much the easiest thing ever to cook
and as much as I don't like the french I find it funny that you're bashing them in the comments of a post about cooking
I'm at college, but still living at home. Which means I get the freedom of college, but with a good home-cooked meal whenever I want one. Though, if I lived in a place half as shitty as you described your area, I wouldn't want to live there any longer than I had to.
Look at the user to whom I was replying with the "French" thing, he was using a "True American" gimmick at the time. I simply played along with the gimmick.
If anyone would get that this isn't just about food, I would have thought it would be you. Food was just in my mind when I wrote it, there's a deeper cultural thing of which this is but a part. The traditional culture of the people, brought to America from all parts of the world, versus the cultural monopoly of large corporations, or something like that.
Ah, I think I worded that wrong. When I said stuff about buying from the import stores, I mean that the initial purchase is quite expensive ($80 for 20 pounds of yams), but what you buy will last for quite a while (Those 20 pounds are good for at least a month or so).
Now, concerning PoFV... I'm quite the opposite from you. It's really the only one I'm good at, and I've 1cc'd it on Normal now with Udonge and Shameimaru. Heck, I've gotten to Shiki with Aya on Lunatic and nearly did it there. But, I can barely 1cc EoSD on Easy, and Sakuya/Youmu/Reisen always knock me down to nothing. However, this all might have to do with the fact that I play Touhou with a controller. Good for Phantasmagoria, iffy for everything else...
I see what you mean about the imports now. Buying in bulk, eh? I often do that at a local pizza restaurant: the pizza may be $17, the whole meal more like $30, but that pizza might last me four or five meals so it's cheaper and better than filling up on candy. In the grocery store too, bulk buying is quite the money-saver provided I have the money to do it.
A controller? I considered that once, actually, but I rethought it after I realized that the keyboard was just fine and the controller would be just an extra expense. I don't even really like PoFV though, only good thing to ever come out of that game was Flowering Night (which ranks up there with U.N. Owen was Her, Border of Life, and Necrofantasia as some of the best music of the series).
Youmu is fucking annoying, she always ends up dealing a finishing blow after those damn musicians. I never had much of a problem with Sakuya, getting to her is the hard part on Easy and I'd guess Normal as well (having never gotten past Patchouli on Normal), a Dio Brando knockoff should be more powerful. Reisen has a special place in my heart, if only because she was the first one I really knew as "tough". Beat her, Kaguya is a joke. Since everyone else on the Reimu/Yukari run is easy enough to not die against, Reisen was the first time I was really challenged in Touhou (since I downloaded IN only a night or two after PCB, and didn't play much PCB until after I was done IN).
lmao I completely missed that, I can't think at 4:30 am
and yeah it's fucking sad that traditional culture is being completely killed, between the large corporations wiping it out, minority supremacists who teach that white people have never had any sort of culture, and the general laziness of the people. it's convenient sometimes, yeah, but it really shouldn't be so widespread that it's making all the other options way harder.
And that's why I love ya Zeeb. A little explanation, and you fully understand. I didn't think about the minority supremacists though, probably since nobody in their right mind listens to the Black Panthers anymore (of course, most politicians are far from their right mind).
meow! I like food (mostly) from scratch too. But it's more like there's not much vegan food on the german market, so I'm throwing everyday some vegetables and spices together and eating it with bread or pasta and I like it HOT!
Oh yes. I'm unemployed, so I have many times for cooking, but I'm certanly sure I will even cook everyday, when I'm working. cat out.
While I won't reject vegan food outright, I'm not exactly known as a vegetable fan, and I DO reject the idea of cutting a major group of ingredients and flavors from one's diet.
Also, I've never heard of a vegan cat: cats are naturally carnivores.
STFU! Liberal hippy scum.
Looks like someone needs to put down the crack pipe.
Pixonimateo
tl;dr: western civilization is shit. yeah we all know
SoulMaster71
No, Pixonimateo. Western civilization is good, or at least it used to be good during some periods of history. The Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and for America, that period between WWII and the whole bullshit of the 1960s, all fine times to be white. I'm just opposed to the loss of culture by anyone.