🔔 One of our many passions is baking. Today we've been taking a stab at snickerdoodles, using the Serious Eats recipe; I'm QUITE pleased with the end result. First time we've made these that we got the proper crackly top.
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well, it's bea / multifaceted megafauna / mixed-race lebanese / plural, median (✨: Sylvia /🔔: Rime /🎙️: Alex / 🥊: Stella) / over 30, still not tired of our bullshit / 🔞 / no flirting unless explicitly cleared to do so / PFP: Daikanu
i don't care if you're a game dev, a sonic the hedgehog inflation artist, a hugo award winning author, a twitch streamer, a regular sonic the hedgehog artist, or therian ambassador to planet heckinbork
everybody's posts are so fucking good y'all. the passion here is A+ top shelf. keep it up.
🔔 So, I have been playing a fair amount of Baldur's Gate 3 over the past week. I want to preface this by saying that I am enjoying the experience, mostly. When this game is firing on all cylinders, there genuinely has not been a high-fantasy romp of this caliber for a decade; it's lushly-detailed, explores its setting in great depth, has a fascinating cast of characters I enjoy spending time with, and I do in fact get to be a very sexy and cool dragon, which is always a plus for me. However, I find myself frustrated with the game frequently, not because of anything its developers have done; rather I find myself frustrated because of its decision to build upon the bog-like substrate of 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons, which has shed some of its faults in the transition to digital play, but not its most pernicious ones, chief among them from a mechanical perspective the problem of the dreaded '1.'
✨ I think a lot about how Boruto kind of started as a series about, like, encroaching modernization annihilating not just traditional ways of life, but traditional safety nets for individual people, how greater interconnectedness and global trade also opened up yawning pits in the social contract. it elected to pitch itself on a bunch of ninja kids who are in that final twilight period of the world not really needing them anymore and consciously aware of the fact that their entire lifestyle and cultural history was being reduced to something quaint for tourists to gawk at. it was a story about what it's like to live in the shadow of the world that was and have both the expectations of your predecessors who had ended that world's status quo, and the awareness that nothing in your culture has actually done ANYTHING to prepare you for the world you ACTUALLY live in, crushing you from both sides before your life has even really started.
and then it abruptly decided 'actually no. it's not about that at all. what if if it was just Naruto again, but slightly worse in all possible ways'