Wandering Adventure Party

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe I hope you end up feeling better tomorrow.

@chickenofthewood@sakurajima.moe Good evening. ​​

I am a self-taught writer. I dropped out of middle school at a very early stage. I really just read enough books as a kid (hooray libraries) that I can stare at a sentence and get it mostly right. There are many times I do not get grammar right because I was raised by grammar wolves.

That’s to say: everyone comes from different backgrounds. The primary purpose of writing is to be understood. If the writer achieves understanding in their audience, they’ve gotten 90% there and you should be less of an asshole about it.

@chickenofthewood@sakurajima.moe I am not a nostalgia person, but if I was I think the original American covers by Darrell K. Sweet would be nostalgic to me. They definitely come from an era of fantasy before every piece had to be 'in conflict' and were most ... rustic?

It's sad that like Jordan, Darrell K. Sweet did not live long enough to finish the cover for A Memory of Light.

@chickenofthewood@sakurajima.moe Man, that's a blast from the past. I hadn't realized they were doing a remake. I kinda wonder how many modern English viewers have seen it given it's from that late-90s period when things were a lot more niche.

@chickenofthewood@sakurajima.moe same. last I recall, you were making a run at the Wheel of Time. Get any further?

@chickenofthewood@sakurajima.moe welcome back. I hope all was well during your time away. ​​

Watching to people argue on here reminds me that most people (probably including you, reader) are absolutely terrible at perspective taking.

Don’t tease me with what forever could look like, Abyss. ​​

@kuriko@wetdry.world what a terrible dream. I’m mad we print receipts on receipt paper. What’s supposed to be a record of sale is printed in such a way that a little rubbing will render it unreadable. Absolute garbage. A world in which we print more on receipt paper can only be a worse one.

Often I tell people in a wry voice "We live in a galaxy of horrors". They laugh. I smile. But I am not laughing. I'm not really smiling either.

@fen@zoner.work it’s infuriating, isn’t it?thats the “social club” democrats. Too self important to retire, too old and bored to fight. Why can’t America let them go back to their aristocratic parties? /s

* post Fix to something in a chat
* Someone calls me a hero
* Posts a homelander gif
* Says "This is Null"

unintentional massive OOF.

Hey. Hey charities. Come closer. I need to tell you something…

Stop giving out my god damn email and stop bombarding me. You’re abusing my trust.

Playing with it some more…

Fun fact; it just came assembled totally wrong. The ball is not supposed to be free floating. It was just never put inside the gasket and was just knocking around the glass bowl in the packaging. After figuring that out, I pried open the gasket and pushed it back in.

The switch is still shit, BUT it was also inserted wrong. In its original position it wasn’t actually lifting the ball as it should and fell out easily. I fully removed it and re-seated it.

Now it actually functions as intended. The ball lives inside the neck, and the handle successful raises it. Still not my favorite design, but for a moment I thought it was completely broken. Points for being functional. Minus points for shitty factory QC.

I bought a Hario Switch to replace my broken chemex and … I am not impressed by the design.

The “switch” is just a cheap piece of frankly, ill fitting plastic. Its purpose is to raise a metal ball that’ll form a sorta seal if left to rest. Think like a ramune bottle.

It’s elegant, in that backyard redneck way. In practice though: both of these pieces are unmoored to the assembly and can easily fall out. The ball actually fell out before I realized what was up. The plastic has to be manhandled into place and easily comes out of alignment (I did it testing the “switch”).

I’ll live with it, but I already kinda regret this purchase …

#coffee

@ivy_gay@wetdry.world huh. I had no idea Staedler made a set like that. TIL.

@ivy_gay@wetdry.world what pens did you get?

Sitting with someone. I share a Japanese recipe. It uses spaghetti.

Them: “I think I’ll replace the noodles (with somen). It doesn’t feel right for an Asian recipe to use spaghetti.”
Me: “that arguably makes the dish worse, also…Spaghetti has been in Japanese recipes for a long time. It’s part of a tradition called Yoshoku. It’s been a thing in the Japanese culinary tradition for over 100 years”
Them: “It just feels like it’s wrong”

It’s not wrong, friend. You’re wrong, and being white as a winter wonderland with your food stereotypes.

They did not take this well. This person is neurospicy enough that changing this opinion will take time. Still; it’s a common enough assumption that I have to tell people that national foods are not always what everyone thinks.

I’ll admit to being a little peeved with some of the hospital staff. Took a disabled relative to the hospital. It’s really hard for them to walk.

Get an order for the blood test on the other side of the hospital. Get there. System down. Refusal to do anything without a paper order. Won’t call their other department, won’t do anything. They’re literally standing around waiting for people with papers.

The hero of that staff was the receptionist at the other side of the hospital. She was willing to print me an order without my relative there when I walked down there myself to find the order. I’m guessing she shouldn’t have done that, but whatever. It was kindness.

Without that, an 80 year old with a bad foot and too much pride to use a chair would have had to hump it across the hospital. It was a good thing I insisted going with them.