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Actually after some tinkering, the religious fascism was unnecessary and child labor is only necessary for the beginning 2 weeks. The key to prosperity in frostpunk is to 1. Build more workshops to research faster. 2. Build lots of automatons because they’ll work 24/7, don’t need housing, don’t get cold, don’t get sick, and are extremely superior to humans in the tasks they can work at. 3. Don’t invite too many other refugees in with you so resources don’t get strained.
I watched Sinners yesterday, which won quite a few Oscars this year. Man, this is the third time I thought that the version of a piece of fiction without vampires would be more interesting than the version with vampires. I am not going to give too many spoilers, and it is a good movie, the acting, cinematography, music, costumes are all spot on, but… vampires are just so shoehorned into plots sometimes. It was so good before they arrived.
We made gyoza yesterday. I think I made the dough a bit sticky and it kept sticking to the pasta machine in the beginning, but after we figured it out it actually went really quick. I also could have chopped the cabbage a bit smaller, but I did like the crunchy bits. It is really fun to make as well.
Going to Germany for a week next month. I always like to check out the local restaurants and food-shops beforehand. If one likes kebab, schnitzel or pizza, you’re in luck there. For a town of just under 10k people, they have a surprisingly large number of places that serve just that type of food. Anything else, it’s a big no. Well, apart from the one obligatory Greek ofcourse.
From what I see there, schnitzel with some sauce seems to be the German national dish. Guess we’ll have a go at it.
I love the Cantonese language and how it sounds idk why. One of my favourite and first phrases i learnt was (and I don’t speak it at all) “lei mou gaau cho aa” or something like that which means “Are you kidding or what the f” I first heard that phrase in a skit by one of the Malaysian or Hong Kong youtubers i watched
and then I also know “ngo mou cin” (I don’t have money) diu lei lou mou, sik si, lei saat zo yaan, lei hou leng and all the swear words. I learnt a lot of random phrases in so many languages as a kid as I was such a linguistics nerd back then.
Tell me, am I going crazy with this stuff or am I making sense? On r/NBA you often see a certain structure for a title of a thread. If a player has an impressive stat line, but the team he plays on loses, you’ll see titles like “Luka Doncic scores 60 despite the loss”.
For the longest time I’ve thought this doesn’t make sense. Wether the Lakers win or lose does not affect Doncic’s scoring performance, so surely saying he performed in a certain way *despite* the outcome of the game is just wrong? You should say “The Lakers lose despite Luka Doncic scoring 60”, right?
It’s like me saying “it was -60°C outside despite me not getting frostbit”. No, that doesn’t make sense. “I didn’t get frostbit despite it being -60°C outside”, that makes sense. It’s the cold that affects the frostbite, it’s the performance of an athlete that affects the end result for the team. So when those two seem to misalign, surely it’s the team result that happens despite the individual performance.
I brought this up in one thread on that subreddit a few days ago, and people didn’t seem to think much of it. Somebody said it was phrased like that to highlight the individual performance. My argument would be that you’re already highlighting the individual performance even when phrasing it as what I think is “correct” since you’re singling out that performance anyway. Obviously I’m not a native English speaker, and I assume a lot of people on r/NBA are, so maybe I’m just overthinking this or something.
I’m visiting Birmingham, Alabama right now. It’s a pretty cool place so far. My biggest qualm is that damn near everything closes early on Saturday and isn’t open at all on Sunday. I blame the Baptists, they’re always killjoys.
This was my first time driving through actual mountains rather than just gently rolling hills. I’m not used to it so it’s making me nervous. Elevation is something that should happen to blood alcohol levels, not the ground.