Krudler
@Krudler@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick 6 hours ago:
Now you’ve got me wondering what kind of materials are cheap as hell, come flat out of the production line, and are still more durable than the steel you’re sharpening.
This whole convo has got me thinking!
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 22 hours ago:
Whataboutism makes you look like an idiot
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
It does for many people, because we as humans are continually in a dance between our conscious and subconscious minds.
Your subconscious mind is trying to protect you and trying to help you manage your emotions through those behaviors.
Your conscious mind is seeing a problem with those behaviors and you want to change.
Your subconscious mind freaks out and it clings harder to the things you’re trying to walk away from, when it fears that you will lose them and correspondingly, It’s ability to manage your feelings through these behaviors.
So in the short term, it can help a lot to tell yourself that you do not need to stop, while you gradually worry about reducing.
But in the longer term, it would be advantageous to you to seek counseling. There is an emotional component that is at play in every unwanted behavior, every addiction. The actual addictive act is almost irrelevant. For example a drinking problem has almost nothing to do with alcohol.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 1 day ago:
It’s very simple, valve is a gamer company. Epic is a money company. Every single thing each respective company does shows that. I’m not a bitch, I’m never going to let those Epic cunts have a penny of my money. Fucking with the games industry, fucking with gamers, locking exclusives, it’s all bullshit & they can suck my cock
- Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. 1 day ago:
Yeah but did you try Linux
- Comment on YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick 1 day ago:
I love the wild, devil may care, DIY approach!
It’s the type of lunacy that I would try just to see how it works hahahah
I’ve said in many other threads in regards to cooking, and my knives, that I admit and confess, in full, that I am a complete rebel and sinner
I use a dual wheel Rada quick sharp to blast the correctly angled edge, knowing full-well that it shears off material, and then I quickly use my 14-in hone
I know by official standards and reckoning… I am abusing my knives and doing it “wrong”
But I cook every day, and it takes me 5 years to go through a knife. I completely gave up on sharpening with a stone a decade ago. My attitude is “fuck it, I’ll just get another knife in 5 years, this is a primary tool for me and I’m not going to baby them”
I would love to know how this works out for you though!!! I can *absolutely" envision a scenario where you angle these pieces of slate and you make yourself your own version of a quick sharp!! This is madness though, which is why I love it LOL
- Comment on YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick 2 days ago:
I agree with your approach
I think knife sets are a bit of a con job because a good cook really just uses one or two. I’m looking at my knife block and I’m seeing 9 different knives in there, two of them get used. Two… The $5 el-cheapo chef knife and a $1 paring knife. I haven’t used the serrated bread knife in 10 years, because my chef knife is sharp enough to shave my beard
I’m also kind of exaggerating a bit on my prices. Yes I’ve paid $5 or 6 but I time the purchases to be right after Christmas when they’re on clearance. I’d say in “real money” and with recent inflation I’m using about a $35 CAD knife
I also find the pricing of them to be completely arbitrary. I have been gifted knives that should be extraordinarily high quality based on retail price… And found the handles/plugs were falling off, or they were degrading within weeks!
I don’t understand why we live in a world where someone can sell a $500 knife that in terms of manufacture and material cost, is almost indistinguishable from a no-frills budget one. And in many cases, conspicuously worse in every measurement!
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 days ago:
Oh shit you triggered me with “you don’t have the right” lol
Yeah like I don’t have the right to talk about abortion, reproductive health, or anything like that because I don’t have ovaries
I don’t live in a society, I don’t have a mother, sister, thousands of females in my life who I care about. I don’t get to advocate for women’s reproductive rights, because I don’t have the right bits in my crotchal area
- Comment on Whats the best way to deep dive into learning a language without apps? 2 days ago:
Look up language exchange groups in your city
Basically you get together and you speak to each other
You will speak in the language you want to learn, and they will speak in English
And you will correct each other in real time and go from there
- Comment on Is it weird to sometimes wonder wether everything you know is wrong? 2 days ago:
You seem to be obsessed with a certain area of thought, particularly with your own sexuality & that of others. You should get therapy and figure out your own sexuality before examining this any further. There’s something extremely wrong with worrying about other people and where they put their genitals.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 days ago:
Cherry picking is probably one of the most egregious
You can make a university-level essay on a subject, and people will identify one tiny irrelevant detail they disagree with and ignore the overall point
- Comment on YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick 2 days ago:
You’re making some great points
I like that you like sharpening, my grandfather taught me how as well and it’s a pleasure to know how. I have also been surprised how some “bargain basement” cheap ones are higher quality steel than the expensive Henkels, just as one random example
Maybe it’s my fault, but I don’t think so, I think it just revealed a deeper truth to me…
I was given professional chef knives by someone who dropped out of cooking school. I mean, you could just hold the chef knife in your hand for a second and tell you are dealing with a completely “next level” tool
I think I had that knife for all of 5 days before something took a massive chip out of the edge. I suppose a person could argue it was my fault. I really don’t think it was, I think it was just a freak incident. But the timing of it revealed to me that I’m just going to stick with my cheapos. There is too much going on with cooking to have to stress about if my little delicate knife can handle a tap against a pan edge
That chipping incident disabused me of many false notions. I can absolutely acknowledge it made prep quicker, but I did the mental math and realized I’m not going to pamper and baby knives my whole life. I need to be able to have tools that if they break, they go straight in the trash and I just get another one. In the forensic analysis, it’s much cheaper and easier to go that way.
This is for me as a home cook - I can acknowledge if I worked in a professional environment I would need pro tools that I would baby and pamper, but my home kitchen is not the place
- Comment on YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick 2 days ago:
I’ve cooked every meal from scratch for 5 years
There’s one tool that was worth the $50 and that was a garlic press, the rest was money wasted
It’s much better to understand your tools and buy appropriately, instead of just assuming that lots of money is the answer
That’s my opinion and experience
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 2 days ago:
It is inarguable that anything but twist/tuck is ok. Bread box is a whimsical idea from when material science was advanced enough to make horseshoes. Everything else either requires more plastic/steps or wrecks the bread.
There’s really no argument here.
- Comment on YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick 2 days ago:
As a wonderful cook, I resent just about every piece of cooking advice. They’re just oft-repeated, poorly-understood concepts.
For example, I love cast iron. It’s my go-to for nearly all my cooking. I cannot stand cast iron people. They think their lump of iron is a baby that needs to be spit polished and pampered like a Fabergé egg. No, you beat the ever-loving hell out of it, abuse it, soak it in water, leave it to rust, abuse it with scouring pads… then you rub a 1/16th tsp of oil on it and get on with life/cooking.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 3 days ago:
Not so much the spelling, just… I went to school with a girl who’s father fled the law and they ended up near us in Canada… they were originally from a trailer park in Tennessee
Her name was “Dollarina”
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 3 days ago:
Content creators need to eat. Platforms need to pay bills and employees. This is, and always has been, central to the issue but nobody will examine it. When presented with two options, one for 1 penny per year with no ads or a free version with ads, people will take the free one.
So there’s a push pull happening. People won’t pay. Creators need money. Platforms structure to meet the market conditions.
Leeches never stop to think about how content would ever get created if their 🧚magical utopia🧚 of decentralized, on-demand, ad-free video became real. They’ll also never pay a motherfucking cent to anybody ever, they’d rather have laborious semantics debates about the meaning of the words “steal” and “theft”.
- Comment on Can you read and understand this passage? 4 days ago:
This is something we would have been asked to read and analyze in grade 8
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Yeah, because you personally snore and you’re skinny, it totally defeats the tryth that being a fat is mostly the true cause of snoring. Genius!
- Comment on Researchers discover new security vulnerability in Intel processors 4 days ago:
I feel pretty duh here. That’s a great point.
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 1 week ago:
I love this comment just for the fact you point out that no one really thinks about you and even if they do, their opinion isn’t relevant.
I myself am 50 and I gave up many years ago even considering what other people think about me, as long as I behave in an ethical and kind way.
This to say, I cannot imagine the daily stress of today’s generation, where every moment is spent disingenuously performing for others on SM and trying to get them to notice you
- Comment on Why Do Sovereign Citizens Keep Pursuing Unsuccessful Legal Defenses? 1 week ago:
Yeah this is some kind of specific oppositional defiance disorder
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 1 week ago:
Absolutely not weird, and any normal adult would just walk by and think hey cool.
Unpopular opinion time, the only people, and I mean literally, the only people that are even suggesting it’s weird or thinking other people think it’s weird, are the sweatys that have never actually been to a park, or understand the dynamics of park people.
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 1 week ago:
That really dramatically takes the steam out of your argument though.
If the same conditions for you existed today, any modern game would blow qbert out of the water, and indeed you would put thousands of hours into it.
Also, Atari games were $20 when they were new not 10. So with inflation it’s about the same as an $80 game today.
- Comment on Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck) 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief? 3 weeks ago:
This is not Guile… Cut to throwing sonic boom
- Comment on How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief? 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure but I’m sharing this for interest sake
Fighter’s History vs. Street Fighter II Character Comparison - Lawsuit Exhibit
- Comment on Does anyone else hate knowing stuff and looking "smart"? 3 weeks ago:
In a way yes. There are times when I am so sick of dealing with people who cannot organize their thoughts - it becomes just exhausting.
So consistently being the most analytical, on-the-ball, ahead of the curve, able to predict the future, able to see-through people within seconds of meeting them, being generally good at most things, adept automatically the first time I try anything… It’s a burden.
But at the same time I’m not so dumb to think I don’t choose this burden.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 3 weeks ago:
I went back and played The Dungeon about 15 years ago and I just about cried because it was so fucking bad by modern standards lol
- Comment on Could I render the computer-generated graphics from Toy Story (1995) in real time using a single modern home computer? 4 weeks ago:
Doubtful
I’m not talking out my ass, a good buddy of mine worked for frantic films for decades and I myself learned 3D alongside him… We would squabble over the rendering farm too…
Anyways most of the renderers made for those early movies were custom built. And anytime you custom build, you can’t generalize to output to a different system. So it’s a long way of saying no but maybe, if you wrote a custom renderer that was specifically designed to handle the architecture of the scenes and the art and the lighting and blah blah blah