Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

the killer fish from the castlevania series is to die for fried if i may add

Sounds like you haven’t had good shrimp. Fried with lots of crispy batter and Cajun spice, drizzled in Texas Pete.

It’s like desecrating a corpse. The more toppings, the more humiliation to your victim. I mock cows with jalapeños, for example.

No, my family is actually very good at cooking all kinds of seafood. We live surrounded by sea after all.

I just don't like the flavor of shrimp. No batters or drizzles will change that...

I can tolerate a little bit of crab meat every now and then. That's about it.

Lobster... No thanks.

@Yosheel Where do you live mate? I'm in Yucatan and despite being living about 20-30 minutes from the closest beach I rarely eat sea food. It's a shame bacause when I moved from Mexico City I thought I was gonna eat it almost daily, and I really like sea food...

BCS. It's not like my family eats seafood every other day, but it's extremely easy to get fresh ingredients. So they could if they wanted to (and I let them).

When my eldest uncle was still alive, my dad would stockpile on shrimp, lobster and other sea stuff to throw him a banquet every year on his birthday. He lived in Arizona where that's expensive, so it was kind of a special occasion for all the family there.

I've never been that far south, but I'd like to assume you can find fresh seafood in local markets and stuff.

I like most seafood, but the really good salt water stuff is sort of expensive here in my corner of the Midwest.

Weirdly enough, I've never had lobster. I've tried their smaller crawdad lookalikes, though.

@Yosheel Nice, those sound like awesome memories. Sorry for your loss, but it's nice to now your uncle was so loved by your family.

Haha, sure, there are more options than in Mexico City, but I kinda expected a considerable difference in prices and... well, it still costs a lot in many places and there aren't as many specialized on sea food as I would have expected. There are good options for cheap sea food if you know wehere to look though.

I may move to BCN when I finish my career, and if I do, I'll definitely try to go visit BCS.

@roy130390 haha yeah...

About buying stuff, I'd recommend to stay away from super markets and big stores. Try to go to small fish shops and mercados.

I know in some places there's entire outdoors mercados that open only early in the morning and sell nothing but seafood.

It would also help having some connections, a few local friends. If the people think you're a tourist, they'll up the price.

To be fair, the fancier stuff is always more expensive, but you should be able to treat yourself every now and then if you become a regular.

If you wanna visit BCS some day, late winter is a good time if you wanna go whale watching!

I think the only seafood I really eat is shrimp and salmon, both rarely. More of a beef and chicken region in Georgia. Tonight I actually made corned beef hash, topped with a fried egg.

I prefer Vegetables than meats.
I still eat both of them, but i really like vegetables if i can find Vegetable dishes on the table.

Woo boy. Back to work after a 3 day weekend.
"Can you have this ready by 8?"
No, because I just got in 30 minutes ago. And that's in 4 minutes.

Trying to decide what movie to put on in the background...Either Black Hawk Down, or just more episodes of Video Game High School.

I would like to give my thanks to Shigeru Miyamoto for being the father of Mario and Zelda and for giving us great Mario and Zelda games. I hope he keeps working at Nintendo until the day he dies.

BTW, I know I mentioned this before in another thread, but for those who have a laptop and have trouble connecting their Switch to the internet because the router is either far away or something, try turning your laptop into a mobile hotspot. It worked for me. Took me a few days to figured it out and my Switch works fine in WiFi.

Black Hawk Down is a great movie.

I've begun naming files for email attachments very aggressively today;
"Al Gore.xls" - Someone wanted me to rerun a report for the 5th time
"LiarLiarPantsOnFire_YoureAnEnabler.xls" Someone wanted data changed to make an outcome more desirable.

BHD is great. But IT did something to the network, in that they decided to initiate carbonite backups on everything during normal hours. Everything is running slower than a turtle with nothing to live for.

@HobbitGamer You're lucky. My parents gave me a crappy private network for me to use and it is causing slowdowns on my PS4 and can't connect to my Switch, so I had to turn my computer into a mobile hotspot that is using my own wifi network and it is great for both of them by better connection and improved speed. Need to do that with my 3DS sometime.

I'm also fortunate in the placement of my Router; On a breakfast counter that separates the kitchen and living room. My switch is about 8 feet from the source, with only 1 half-inch wood plank between on one side.

Are fanfictions allowed in the General Discussion?