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Love Tetris Theme 1...Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy! The very essence of Tetris. I had to go look up the rest to refresh my memory. As epic as Theme 1 is, Theme 3 is the one I usually picked and I completely forgot about how great it was. It's been so long since I played NES Tetris. Oh man, that takes me back...I could play this on repeat for 3 hours. Maybe I will.
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I would love the music for Stratosphere Base from Iridion 3D. That song I could listen to forever. It's damn shame the album of the music didn't include boss levels.
I listened, I'm more familiar with the Gameboy. But those have updated versions on Tetris Worlds.
I can't double-post so looks like I'll have to repurpose my last post here for the next question. I'm not sure if the ping will go through this way...we'll see.
Today's question: What's your best culinary or baking specialty?
My answer
I find cooking to be an annoying chore but I do it because I have to eat and I'm too cheap to buy prepared food all the time. Luckily, I have about as refined a palate as my dog so I'm perfectly willing to eat the slop I create. What I'm saying is, I'm not all that great at cooking and I don't care to put in the effort to change that. However, I believe I have actually gotten really good at making one thing: borscht. I looked up a bunch of recipes and figured out the most essential aspects of making it and now I can wing it without a recipe (it's surprisingly complicated and kind of a PITA, at least by my standards, so I don't make it often...properly preparing the beets creates an entire murder scene in the kitchen). It's the one thing I cook that I have enough confidence in to share with others and even people who don't particularly love pots of boiled vegetables have raved about it.
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My favorite video game OST of all time is from Super Metroid, and Tetris Theme 3 kind of reminds me of it, like it would fit in.
It occurred to me later you might have been referring to the Gameboy version since you called it A instead of 1 (I found those later in my search...I had that game too but didn't play Tetris much on the Gameboy...I was all about Metroid 2 and Super Mario Land on there).
So much nostalgia today oof ow right in the feels
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What's your best culinary or baking specialty?
Hahaha, I am exactly the same - except my palate is apparently worse than my dog's. I remember making gravy and letting my dog lick my spoon. She had one lick and slunk away to hide from it. That bad apparently.
I will eat any crap I cook, but when making food for others my go to nicer foods would be: strawberry jelly cheese, loaded nachos, or some sort of pasta stir fried. I also make really nice sandwiches. So just really simple stuff with lots of space for error.
The great irony is that my mum is a FANTASTIC cook, and thus my sister and I never needed to learn to fend for ourselves cooking wise.
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Oh, I think I saw your dog on reddit the other day lol
I could probably manage to assemble something like nachos for a group but anything more complex than that and I just don't trust my own senses enough to know if what I made would be acceptable to other people. I mean, I could follow a recipe, but it would still be stressful, idk. Like, one time I did follow a fancy recipe for spanakopita but somehow I got an absolutely ridiculous amount of salt in there. It looked gorgeous but it was literally inedible. Fortunately, my ex (a much better cook than I am) was able to turn it into some amazing soup...I was sure it was a lost cause.
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I'm not sure I really have a specialty. I can follow pretty much any recipe no problem and my knife skills are good. There just isn't anything that I make all the time that I'm like... known for? I guess I'm pretty good at winging it though and coming up with good spice blends lol
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I make a good chunky pasta sauce, and chili. I think my limited cooking yields good treats, cookies, brownies, and biscuits. One thing I'm certain of, is I don't cut corners.
There are some recipes I want to learn, but apparently it's your wife's job.
[Spoiler=Atomic] HAHAHA I LOVE THAT DOG! So much sass!!
That impressive that you made a spanakopita even if it had to later be made into a soup... I guess you may just need someone to taste test as you go :P Did the crust also make it into the soup or just the filling?
I am fine with free styling my cooking but struggle with anything that requires the recipe to be followed accurately. Which is why baked goods (especially sweet baked goods) is a no go. Its essentially kitchen chemistry and I am a chaotic mess at cooking :(
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So envious that you have the skills and temperament to bake! Pursue those recipes, gender roles be damned. People criticisms will quiet once they taste the delicious food you made!
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Today's question: What's your most recent Subeta achievement and what are you working on next?
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My most recent is NUMBAH CRUNCHA! (solving Subeku puzzles, final tier 100/100). So glad to be done with it; I don't really care for Sudoku.
I'm not sure what to work on next...I'm pretty much done with all the easy-ish ones. The rest require a lot of luck, a ton of sP, or skills and/or patience I don't have (e.g. solving a bunch of those sliding puzzle things...I never have bothered to figure out how to do them aside from just haphazard guessing but I hope there's a trick to it because I find them really annoying).
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To be fair, the phyllo dough was premade...and yep, it all went into the soup. I know it sounds like a gross mushy mess but somehow it was amazing. It just thickened it up nicely and as I recall (it was years ago) it gave it a texture similar to egg drop soup.
I keep trying to tell myself cooking and baking are essentially chemistry to try to get myself excited about it but it's just not interesting to me. I know the end result is going to be disappointingly boring and non-explosive so meh. (Note to self: do not make a joke about beans)
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Inapplicable, I neither know what my last was nor do I care for any other.
My last one was Pumpkin Deleter which I finally got after like six years (I've been here almost nine but I spent a while carving them). I don't really actively work on achievements much, so the next ones I get will probably be some Luminaire-related ones, visiting Melody or whatever... unless Kuzaku gets a stat-related one, but I am too lazy to check if he's close to any. XD
edit: Aw, ping didn't go through for the last question... oh well, I can't cook anyway. :D
What's your most recent Subeta achievement and what are you working on next?
My last achievement was Holding. Now I'm working on the other layer ones.
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I think my most recent achievement is some quest one that I got yesterday. I finally reached my goal of 1000 achievements now, so I don't really plan on avidly pursuing more achievements. Maybe the subeku ones because I am enjoying playing the games now that I understand how it works. :)
[Spoiler=Atomic] That sounds like a really interesting soup. Damn, that would be talent to make.
I also find it hard to get excited about baking even though I know its chemistry. I love watching other people bake though, so long as I am not the one suffering. I think the only thing I could potentially enjoy with baking would be making dough... it just looks so messy and fun. My bread would probably turn out crap though :(
EDIT: I forgot to ping you Hopefully the retroactive ping works [/spoiler]
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Hey guys! Please, if you have any ideas for questions you'd find interesting, let me know. :)
Today's question: What's your preferred home decor aesthetic?
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I just like to surround myself with random stuff that makes me happy. Band and video game posters, things I collect (everything from rocks to action figures), souvenirs from places I've been, my own drawings, my favorite Halloween decorations. I use rope lights, small lamps and candles that provide low ambient lighting with bright LED spotlights I can turn on and direct as needed (and an overhead UV bulb for when I want to enjoy all my glowy stuff). It's basically a cross between a man cave and some nerdy teenager's room, with lots of sparkly crystals and a bit of glitter thrown in because I like shiny things.
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We talked about that soup for a long time afterward and wished that we could make it again but it was one of those "happy little accidents" that could really only occur once I guess.
I like eating stuff other people bake! haha I'm just entirely disinterested in the process. I do have great memories of "helping" my grandma in the kitchen though (she was a fantastic cook and baker). She made a lot of pies and she usually had a little extra dough left over that she'd let me experiment with. I made little tarts and stuff in various shapes and filled them with whatever jam or fruit she had around but she did all the actual work of making the dough and baking my creations, while I got to play with edible play-dough and eat treats so what's not to like about that? XD
About pings
I can't figure out what the deal is with pings, sometimes they seem kind of hit or miss. The retroactive ping just added for me worked fine, and the other day when I had to reuse an old post for the daily question because I was the last poster in the thread, I personally received the group ping from that edit but didn't get one (sorry about that). Editing posts with pre-existing pings has produced inconsistent results for me in the past. I guess it's just sort of broken.
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I've never been able to decorate the way I'd like to but I do like the more minimalistic modern style. I don't want it to be cold, I'd like soft, neutral shades with pops of colour. I love loads of comfy pillows and soft throws on the couch, though. I'm also a fan of light up decorations like fairy lights.
Though someday I'd love to have a den that's a completely different aesthetic lol I want it to be ALL retro like the 80s and 90s with lots of old video game and sci-fi collectibles. I would do most of my retro gaming in there so I'd have to have space to hook up all my old systems and display my games. :) I'd love to get some neon signs as well!
Someday.