Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Apple butter is great.
I made 2 PB&J for lunch at work today. JIF and Welches. Then I bebopped around a conference room for that 2 hour training, raising Cain. So I’m worth it.

Apple Butter reminds me of an Amish restaurant that I've been to a couple of times (there's a settlement roughly an hour from where I live). If you wanted, you could spend the whole time eating bread with apple butter and Amish Peanut Butter.

@Anti-Matter looking good. I know of nasi goreng, but what spice you put in there to make it "more than" just Indonesian fried rice?

If you guys wanna say the Switch eShop is a mess, at least that keeps In App Purchases/DLC/themes/avatars/tv/movies/music out of search results.

With the latest Gran Turismo Sport update, moving over 200 cars (92% of the game btw) to IAPs, it highlights how fundamentally broken the search function is on PS Store. Listing every single IAP out...one by one...in a nice....long....list, that you cant apply filters to.

@ReaderRagfish Oh yeah, the PS Store sucks for searching.

Like come on, the system has an on-screen keyboard. Why are we using this long list of characters that searches 10s of thousands of records on the store to determine all the possible next letters, then letting you pick from those, and repeating ad nauseum, making the process unnecessarily tedious and drawn out with constant "Mini searches"?

Why is there, in 2018, a search function, that doesn't let you filter results? Seriously. Even to just filter what types of content you display?

Switch lets you do that. Google Play does. Steam does. By genre, price, coming soon, etc. etc.

If Im going on the PS Store its either to browse a sale, or I know what I want and I slog through that god forsaken list. I have hated this thing since it was made, and it is a pinnacle of crappy UI design that flies in the face of the rest of the system. Hell it even crashes frequently.

Oh, my Fried rice is depend on the ingredients i put on. This morning, i found mushrooms, bean sprouts, onion, eggs and shallot from refrigerator. For the spice, i used sugar, mushroom essences, light soy sauce, fish sauce to season. Added with sliced of fresh onion spring and shallot as garnish.

@ThanosReXXX Sambal, kecap manis, fish sauce, finely chopped shalots and garlic in equal amounts is pretty much all the sauce you need! Some leftover rice and meat, spring onion, carrot, bean sprout or whatever I can find at home. I like to go a bit overboard with the sambal though

@ReaderRagfish The reason I fear them messing up cloud save is that there will be some stupid catch or restriction on what you can and can't do with your save data. And I am also interested in Monster Hunter:).

@HobbitGamer I never said a PBJ sandwich didn't taste good. However, we were talking about a full-on meal, and I can't compare ANY sandwich to a complete dinnertime meal, and I make my nasi goreng with all fresh ingredients, so the comparison of one being a real meal and one being a (tasty, but) rather unhealthy snack, still stands...

@Octane I always just stick to the recipe. Learned it from my mom, and it's a good recipe. I don't ever "make do with whatever I can find at home". If I miss certain ingredients, I just go out and buy them.
That goes for all the meals I prepare for myself. Agreed on going overboard with adding some serious spice, though.

Although nowadays, I mostly use Tabasco sauce. The sambal is already in the marinade for the chicken, and there's chopped up red pepper among the stir-fried vegetables, so it's already pretty spicy.

But it's still kinda tame, compared to my green curry...

You try to save face now, when you're hearing the thundering of a Peter Pan jar rolling down your street
These all sound like delicious meals. I just do things with the jalapeno, banana, bell, and tomatoes i grow on the field. Oh, and I make grape juice with my muscadines by boiling them off the vine together with some stevia and peppermint leaves from the herb plot.

@HobbitGamer Mad Titans don't need to save face: they only smash the faces of others. Haven't you seen the movie?
Oh, and they're always right...

That grape juice sounds good. Couple of ice cubes in it, and that could be really refreshing on hot days like these.

@ReaderRagfish Of course I do, which is also why I never debated it tasting good.
All I said was that it can't be compared to a complete meal, which was what we were discussing, initially.

Talking about snacks: besides the odd hamburger at Burger King every now and then, I like a good pepperoni pizza, almost any kind of baked bread with melted cheese and ham or onions on it, chicken wings, spare ribs, etc, etc., so I'm no health freak by any stretch of the imagination...

I was also only partially serious about eating something healthy. For me, it was more about "how the hell can you compare a sandwich to a whole meal"...

Having said that, I actually DO like to take good care of myself, so most of my evening meals are indeed varied and healthy.

@ThanosReXXX I like raw peanuts as a snack. I'd have more, but there's this wascilly wabbit that I'm constantly battling where they're growing.

@HobbitGamer That's a good option as well. I like mine salted, and usually when I do eat them, there's always a bottle of beer to go with it...

Oh oh OH! Just had one of those inspirational moments about an opening scene for Preorder Peril: Sean's Lament. Just follow along.

black screen
Phone rings twice, gruff old man's voice answers "Hello, Jim's Video Shack"
Another voice, younger and unsure asks "Hey, this is Sean Scotts, I was in there last week? I had a question about my preorder"
line clicks and goes to dial tone

Spooky

EDIT: I also should be doing one of 8 other things right now, and be productive, but yesterday's workload just took it right out of me. Plus, my workmate isn't here today, and I require supervision. It's hard to focus on writing SQL query when Dr. Mario music is stuck in your head, and you're attempting to bounce almonds off the ceiling tile into your mouth. I've built automated processes into my workflow over the past few years, so unless someone really needs something fast, I get bored and distracted easily.

@HobbitGamer You could be on to something there, but it needs some fleshing out. And instead of someone hanging up, letting the phone go to dial tone, it should probably go more along the lines of:

"Your preorder? For Sean Scotts, you say? We don't know anyone of that name here, and there's nothing in the registry either. You must be mistaking us with another game shop. Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got some clients to take care off".

(depending on what you want that last bit to mean, we could incorporate an audio clip of muffled sounds from people crying/screaming in pain in the background)

I like the black screen idea, perhaps some squiggly white text should be moving along with the audio, with a bit of shaky cam going on. Text font could be anything from chalkboard to a Comic sans type. And running dots when silences fall...

P.S.

Still don't like what has been done to the original title that I first came up with, should have copyrighted it, before someone bastardized it into the appalling title that it is now. Gives me a real Bruce Banner vibe...

@ReaderRagfish Yeah, but you see, that's the thing: Sean's no sissy boy, and he REALLY wants that game that he re-ordered, so he's not about to take no for an answer. He's going to pay them a visit after work/school, and give them a piece of his mind, not knowing (yet), that this is perhaps EXACTLY what they want, except literally...

You always need to build in some suspense and opposing factors to make it more exciting, and opposites attract, as they say. In my daytime job, a no also doesn't deter me...

And if we have to make it a bog-standard horror adventure story, we could always let Sean have a really good looking, but really stupid girlfriend, who always walks into danger, instead of away from it...

Why is my name being dropped left and right?

@ReaderRagfish Yep, that is also a much (and over-) used trope in bog-standard horrors. Abandon the girl(friend), and/or the black homey, so they can die first...

@Knuckles-Fajita Is it? Not in this thread, or I must have missed it.

By the way: I was right about one thing. I actually did get the call...