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1:03 AM

> cigien ✓ 24 minutes ago - Link to paid survey has been edited out by another user.

7:01 AM

Yet the moderator disputes the flag. It is a seed, self-seeded, written (asked) only to promote what was originally asked.

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@Rob the survey? I agree. Spammer made more effort than usual, actually adding something that sounds relevant and on topic, but it's just for the profit.

Rob

True. Pure seed.

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 Nowhere near as good as this:

and that's pigeon food.

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

7:24 AM

@Rob and Shadow's food! I love it. Though what we have here is bit different, let me look...

Different shape, but looks like same ingredients? (mainly sesame and honey)

Meta Andrew T.

Wait, wrong ingredients...

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

7:59 AM

@MetaAndrewT. tofu?

Luuklag

Chicken bits?

Meta Andrew T.

Whatever ~~Google Images~~ Google Lens says :D

but yeah, it's deep-fried tofu

Luuklag

@MetaAndrewT. fake chicken ;)

Rob

8:17 AM

Look like des balles poulet

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

I once made eggplant shnitzels.

Looks like the original, tastes... different. My kids weren't happy. :D

Luuklag

8:35 AM

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 we loved those as kids

cut long strips of eggplant, coat in flower, eggwash and breadcrumb, then fry in pan

delicious

SPArcheon

@Catija Cute art on the surface hiding eldritch-level world building? That is not Ito. That's Akihito Tsukushi -the one who made Made in Abyss.

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@Luuklag exactly! :)

@Luuklag tell my kids.... :/

Luuklag

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 it can be a bit mushy, I guess kids aren't all into that

especially not when you expect pork

or veal

SPArcheon

or...

(which makes Wii game "Fragile Dreams" seem happy by comparison)

As for Ito, @Catija... nothing he draws is even vaguely "cozy art".

Even the not-horror, slice of life comic he made about his cats... share the same art style as everything else he made.

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

8:51 AM

@Luuklag not sure, it also tastes very different.

@Luuklag chicken, in my kids case.

They can eat veal schnitzel too, but prefer chicken.

lol not vile :P

Luuklag

very vile of you to trick them into eating eggplant ;)

SPArcheon

@JourneymanGeek It is not like he don't manage to make even the comic about the cats unsettling...

Journeyman Geek

......

Point

Luuklag

Comma

SPArcheon

and this is just the less-unsettling things.

Rob

9:01 AM

Es ist Schitzel.

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

9:23 AM

@Rob ?

Luuklag

@Rob JAWOHL

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

9:46 AM

?**_**?

!!/JAWOHL

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 No such command 'jawohl'.

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

:(

SPArcheon

10:27 AM

@JourneymanGeek this user would make @Shog very happy. Finally, this is a dating site.

Jokes aside, nuke.

Luuklag

@SPArcheon what user?

Journeyman Geek

@SPArcheon what user?

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

Anyone watched The Eternals? Is this really as bad as the reviews claim?

@SPArcheon what user?

:D

Journeyman Geek

snort My avian co-mod is on a roll

Tinkeringbell

Ssst! That was a secret.

Journeyman Geek

10:38 AM

(nukes a post while she's distracted)

Tinkeringbell

Nuked one too, so I'm still winning this.

Journeyman Geek

(I suspect this is somewhat like the LOTR scene where legolas and gimli are counting how many orcs they killed)

Tinkeringbell

orca? XD Never seen those in that movie :P

You sure you're not confused and thinking of "Free Willy"? :P

Journeyman Geek

Other orca, twin ducted fans, fired rockets...

Apparently Sauron raided a GDI depot

Tinkeringbell

Could've been interesting XD

Journeyman Geek

10:47 AM

Actually, with slightly more 'contemporary' weapons, is roughly the plot of GRUNTS!

Which is a very strange book

Tinkeringbell

Sounds weird XD

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@Tinkeringbell not more weird than "Free Willy" when said by someone like me, out of context. ;)

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 Well, better Free Willy than Moby Dick....

2

SPArcheon

@JourneymanGeek Read "The Last Ringbearer"

also

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@JourneymanGeek just add 's and..

Moby

Richard Melville Hall (born September 11, 1965), known professionally as Moby, is an American musician, songwriter, singer, producer, and animal rights activist. He has sold 20 million records worldwide. AllMusic considers him to be "among the most important dance music figures of the early 1990s, helping bring dance music to a mainstream audience both in the United States and the United Kingdom".After taking up guitar and piano at age nine, he played in several underground punk rock bands through the 1980s before turning to electronic dance music. In 1989, he moved to New York City and became...

:P

Journeyman Geek

11:00 AM

@SPArcheon the russian story that had LOTR from the perspective of Orcs as a technologically advancing group of humans with bad PR?

I think I've read it

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@JourneymanGeek yup

SPArcheon

@JourneymanGeek Yep, that one.

Title: "We never heard of Nadia before"

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

11:56 AM

$20 for a pizza. Yay or Nay?

@Rob what says you?

Meta Andrew T.

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 I can't read the text, but I just had Domino's

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 Not Rob, but that's a ridiculous price for a pizza...

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

12:28 PM

@MetaAndrewT. huh! :D

@Tinkeringbell I agree! But many still buy.... :/

Tinkeringbell

Well, things are usually worth whatever fools want to pay for it :D

Journeyman Geek

>_>

I'm pretty sure its like 4-5 bucks of stuff... at moooost

and its square.

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek That doesn't matter if fools pay $20 for it, it's worth 20 :P

Journeyman Geek

True :D

(then again, new place plans include making pizza :D )

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

Yeah, they take so much just because they can, aka greedy.

Journeyman Geek

12:32 PM

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 economics...

its what the market can bare

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@JourneymanGeek or can't, even basic food cost a lot and some can't afford it.

Journeyman Geek

._.

Yeah

but that's a sign that the socioeconomic system is a word rhyming with ducked.

But just as likely, what they can afford is unhealthyish

and worse

"Poor people eat unhealthy! Why can't they ...."

and it turns out its what they can afford

In a lot of ways society has always failed its poorest

We aren't that far divorced from feudalism, only our robber barons wear suits, and our mad kings don't wear crowns.

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek I always find this a bit... incredible. The biggest bills I have for food shopping is when I buy a bunch of junkfood because guests are coming. A week's worth of healthy food, I can manage for 30~40 euros. An evenings worth of junkfood and soda's for a few (say, 5-7 so it's comparable with the week of food) people can easily costs 50.

JNat

12:51 PM

@Luuklag gone

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell Maybe its a US thing? :D

If I buy at a local wetmarket and the co-op, its actually fairly ok

JNat

@Rob gone

Luuklag

healthy stuff is increadibly expensive in the US

you might end up paying 1-2 USD for an apple

here I buy 5 kg for eur3

Journeyman Geek

and stuff in cans lasts

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek Dunno. I think there's complaints about it here too. At least, there's been talk about how 'healthy' or 'biological' stuff is almost never on sale.

Journeyman Geek

12:54 PM

same with other packaged stuff

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag How many apples do you eat?!

Journeyman Geek

(I mean, given an option, I'd buy non perishables in semi bulk for a month, and buy perishables .... often... We do weekly here)

Tinkeringbell

(If I have 4, they can last me 2 weeks XD)

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell There are many doctors

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell we're a family of 5 ;)

Tinkeringbell

12:55 PM

@Luuklag Ah, yeah, that's true :P

Rob

Thanks.

Luuklag

Same thing, potatoes are also cheap here, and reasonably healthy, depending on the way you cook them

Rob

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 2 or 4, twenty is way too much.

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek Weekly shopping is nice, the fresh stuff like vegetables, fruit and meat can easily last that long if stored properly. I do tend to buy non-perishables in bulk, when on sale ;)

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag BOIL EM MASH EM STICK EM IN A STEW!

@Tinkeringbell We do weekly for greens + random runs

we do also uh

have 4 different sources of groceries

Tinkeringbell

12:57 PM

I mainly use two. If the third supermarket here has great sales, I might add a third.

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell I let mine be delivered ;)

Tinkeringbell

(Oh, and there's the vegetable/fruit shop that isn't a supermarket, so I guess I'm at 4 too)

Luuklag

And whenever I need something I go bye one of the supermarkets, we have 5 in town.

Journeyman Geek

('Nearby' place for most things like sugar and cleaning supplies, Indian hypermarket for indian stuff, greengrocer (and sometimes the wetmarket) for veggies, and a specialist baking store for stuff like bread flour and butter)

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag I've been toying with the idea, but for now shopping on my own is working well enough.

Journeyman Geek

12:58 PM

the last - their butter is... a lot cheaper than most places, and better.

Even if you don't buy 1kg blocks

Tinkeringbell

The supermarkets here are close by, so there's no real need for me to pay someone else to do things I can do myself :)

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell at AH, you need a minimum of 50 per order to deliver

Journeyman Geek

Well if I was on my own, I'd probably take a small cart (or big backpack!) and do grocery runs by train

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag Yeah. I think the local Plus has a lower boundary, so I'd be tied to that shop then.

Journeyman Geek

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_India,_Singapore most of the indian places are there

ugh

Tinkeringbell

1:00 PM

@JourneymanGeek Tricky. If the train is delayed, your food may overheat and spoil while you're waiting?

Journeyman Geek

Can't order groceries, need to see :D

@Tinkeringbell if the train is delayed, we're d00med

Yeah that's a risk

but I don't drive, and taking a uber/grab/cab is pricy ._.

Rob

@Tinkeringbell True that, here's less than 1/4 price, weighs almost a pound and a half, extra deluxe: walmart.com/ip/… - and at U$4.32 it's not the cheapest.

Journeyman Geek

and unlike my brother I do want to cook!

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell I find the Plus quite expensive here

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag It's not worse than the AH.

But yeah, Lidl or Aldi are better deals :)

@JourneymanGeek Bicycle? :D

Journeyman Geek

1:02 PM

uh

I don't know how to

+ far + dangerous

On the other hand, in theory I have a train station just outside my new place from... 2028?

Tinkeringbell

Well, fingers crossed the trains won't be delayed then ;)

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell Go get some japanese to run them

Rob

Food prices are a rip off there: it costs an arm, leg, and a kidney; if you want to eat kidney.

Tinkeringbell

Yeah well I don't know how expensive kidney is over here, I don't eat that XD

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell not too bad

one of the cheapest meats

Tinkeringbell

1:13 PM

Should eat it more often then!

Luuklag

Nah, don't eat it too often, your body needs time to process the waste

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag I am told it is offal...

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek you can eat most organs

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag its a pretty terrible play on words :D

Catija

@SPArcheon nah, I don't think that's what it was.

From here - reddit.com/r/animememes/comments/p9ebcn/…

Luuklag

1:23 PM

@JourneymanGeek lost on me I guess

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag Isn't that basically true for any food?

SPArcheon

@Catija Yeah, I don't agree that much.

Rob

@JourneymanGeek Tripe is worse than offal.

SPArcheon

It is true that some Mya works are pretty dark under an appearance of "cute art" but...

That is more of a Japanese anime things in general.

^ yay CUTE ART!

Actually starts with slave camps, people used as living materials to produce magic artifact, talks about a "journey to restore the world" that seems a bad scam at first (you sacrifice to restore the world) and then is revealed to be an even worse scam...

you know... "HAPPY"

Popolocrois Monogatari: cute as it can be. In the end, it goes about a girl who is "slave of her freedom" - so free that she can't be anything else, has to forever travel without ever stopping anywhere to have some friends....

Catija

1:43 PM

@SPArcheon I think you're missing it... the implication is that the person is opposed to their art.

Miyazaki is being depicted as a morose sort of person while Ito is depicted as a cute, happy person (on the surface).

SPArcheon

@Catija yes, I get that. And what I mean is that I don't think Miyazaki is that of a dark person.

possibly as direct and rude as it can be (see the "procedural animation demo" incident) but dark and gloomy? Never heard about that.

Totally possible that I just didn't read about that mind you.

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag offal sounds like aweful, and means organ meat?

Catija

2:11 PM

Yes

It's quite appropriate. :P

(for the standard American palate, anyway, where it's rare to eat much of that)

@SPArcheon Ah. Dunno. I saw two memes in the same day about it, so if it's not a thing, there's definitely people out there trying to make it one. :P

The point, though, was less about Miyazaki and more about Ito. :) That meme and another one (the one with two guys on either side of a train car and one's staring off into the distance and the other is staring at the wall of a hill)... were the place I heard about Ito at all.

knowyourmeme.com/photos/2252747-two-guys-on-a-bus

Apparently it's a bus. But whatever.

Rob

@JourneymanGeek It helps to not spell "awful" like "awesome", saying "aweful" sounds like it's full of awe.

Meta Andrew T.

3:01 PM

owlfur

SPArcheon

@Catija so... dog game?

Tinkeringbell

I like those penguins :)

(but what's with the first one's beak?)

SPArcheon

【Orisinal】a dog for all seasons

►

Meta Andrew T.

@SPArcheon it will always go right, and duck, and jump

SPArcheon

@MetaAndrewT. naaaah... this year I expect at least sliter.io clone.

Catija

3:05 PM

@SPArcheon I don't think there's any sort of game planned this year, unless Yaakov is doing something in secret.

Tinkeringbell

Too bad. I loved the egg-hunt type quiz last year!

SPArcheon

Will be forgiven if he adds either the Twily or the Klee hat.

Catija

That said... that game is amusingly appropriate for the supposed theme this year.

SPArcheon

@Catija so it is pets like it was suggested?

Tinkeringbell

Talking about games... has anyone played today's google doodle yet? I can't figure out how to cut the pizza that's supposed to go in 7 pieces....

(and some of the later ones still baffle me too)

Catija

3:24 PM

@SPArcheon No.

Meta Andrew T.

@Tinkeringbell apparently didn't reach my country :/

google.com/doodles/celebrating-pizza

Tinkeringbell

@MetaAndrewT. :(

Catija

@Tinkeringbell Square slices?

Tinkeringbell

@Catija You only get 3 cuts, and they have to go across the pizza...

Kevin B

do they have to go across the middle

Catija

3:27 PM

No

Tinkeringbell

(in such a way that each slice has a certain topping)

No, they don't

Kevin B

well there you go

Tinkeringbell

Sure, don't share your secrets :P

Catija

It's hard to get a screenshot.

I just finished level 6 though.

Here's 7:

Though, that one wasn't super odd. The one that needed 7 slices took a minute.

Tinkeringbell

Yeah, I'm not stuck at level 7, but the one that needs 7 slices XD

(which is lvl. 5)

Catija

3:32 PM

It was something like this:

(this is the wrong pizza, though, obviously.

Meta Andrew T.

The Muzzarrella one?

Tinkeringbell

... It looks so obvious now XD

Meta Andrew T.

Tinkeringbell

Yeah, that one.

I'll go sit in the stupid corner XD

Meta Andrew T.

Nahhh, it took me quite a few tries to get the cut :/

!!/hats

SmokeDetector

3:35 PM

@MetaAndrewT. No such command 'hats'.

Meta Andrew T.

I got a problem differentiating the topping patterns though!

Tinkeringbell

Hmm. That was easier for me, some pizzas you could see the cuts you had to make by the way the toppings were arranged.

Meta Andrew T.

Oh my... the last one....

(just trying to clear all first, but this... ugh X_X)

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@Luuklag yeah, here they have "organic" label, it multiple the item price by 6-8, compared to the non organic version. Mind you, I'm almost sure it's the same product, just with a label. :P

(most common: eggs. Also vegetables, fruits, etc.)

You can't really tell the difference.

Kevin B

3:56 PM

🚽

Catija

@MetaAndrewT. Yeah, the dessert bits are hard to differentiate.

Rob

4:20 PM

After seeing that, you are forbidden to cut my pizzas!

A slight modification of this, where the pieces are nearly equal sizes, is what is needed:

You can also answer here:

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Q: Cutting a pie into n equal pieces with fewest straight cuts

Suppose we have to cut a pie into n pieces, using only straight cuts. What is the fewest number of cuts we can do it in? When n is even, it is always possible to do it in n/2 cuts: with each cut being a diameter. When n is odd, a similar technique makes it possible to cut it in (n+1)/2 cuts. Can...

SPArcheon

5:14 PM

SPArcheon

5:34 PM

@Tinkeringbell third one too, and apparently the svg data is "bugged".

Tinkeringbell

5:45 PM

Hadn't noticed the third one, but you're right

SPArcheon

6:43 PM

So, anyone want to guess the "theme" Catja suggested? Not that there is much to guess.

The game I linked is just dogs jumping and multiple seasons.

Considering it is still "Winter" Bash... and there are penguins...

It just leaves the dog.

I get it.

Journeyman Geek

Or do you?

SPArcheon

Obviously, this means that users get to choose between "Dog" and "Cats" teams, right?

Journeyman Geek

I see no cats :D

SPArcheon

@JourneymanGeek if this is about dogs, either they have cats too... or this will be knows as "The great SE '21 Xmas Scandal: SE is not inclusive to cats lovers"

That said, even if they had cats, then parrot lovers will protest.

Journeyman Geek

I don't see an issue there.

And cats probably won't care. Then knock over things

SPArcheon

6:51 PM

and hamsters, turtles, fishes and so on...

Kevin B