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HobbitGamer

Earl Grey >> Green
Green tea might as well be blended crabgrass.

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Tyranexx

I used to think I disliked tea. It turns out that this only applies to ice tea, not warm teas. That or some people find better stuff than the Nestea my dad used to mix.

I also generally prefer green tea over some brown teas, but that depends on the brand. I need to hunt down some quality tea bags; the last batch was part of a gift my mom didn't want.


@Anti-Matter the Western version of Yo-Kai Watch 3 combines all three versions into one game. You could collect all Yo-Kai in one save file.

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Eel

@Octane I’ve only seen it in Walmart. The closest one is about 220Km away from me.

We’ll do our weekly shopping tomorrow, so I’ll look around in the local shops.

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Anti-Matter

@Morpheel
220 km ?!
It was like the trip from Surabaya (East Java) to Jakarta (West Java) in my country.
It can take a whole day from Surabaya to go to Jakarta by car (not including traffic jam) but will be a few hours by train.

Anti-Matter

Octane

220 km gets me anywhere in this country. I'd even have to take a detour if I want to drive 220 km and not cross any borders

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Eel

220km takes me to the closest major city.

There's other towns closer, but they're like, smaller than mine.

Other than that it's all desert and cows. With sea on the sides.

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ThanosReXXX

@Anti-Matter I have no idea, since I don't have Federation Force, nor have I ever played it.
Oh, and people will sooner worry that you DON'T change. Time to get with the program and become a real man. Guns, babes and boobs. Oh, and explosions and blood. Lot's of blood...

But all joking aside, I do agree with some of the other commenters: you'll like Star Fox Adventures on the GameCube. It's like Zelda, but with animals, and there's only very little shooting in it. You'll mostly be doing puzzle solving, and some hand to hand combat, almost like martial arts, with a staff and all that, so that should appeal to you. Watching gameplay just doesn't compare. Just try it, you can always sell it again if you really don't enjoy it.

@Tyranexx Haha, yeah... I'm sure you will. I've actually done the same. Every now and again, I'll still give it one or two go's. And I fail, AGAIN, and then I wash down that foul taste with another game that I'm much better at, either also on the SNES Mini, or on any of my other consoles. Gotta end the evening on a positive note, after all, right?

@Morpheel Earl grey tea expensive? Since when? I can buy it by the truck load over here, and it isn't any more expensive than any other kind of tea.

@Link-hero Well, if you think tea is bitter, then you must REALLY hate coffee...
But seriously: with a bit of sweetener, sugar or honey, a cup of hot tea can be really good, and no one can tell me that with so many different flavors around, there wouldn't be a single one to like, or at the very least be palatable.

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Eel

Well, I consider 5 dollars expensive for 20 bags of tea, specially considering it would take like a week or more for me to finally get it.

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ThanosReXXX

@Morpheel That's the Amazon price? That actually IS expensive. I was talking super market prices. Over here, it never costs more than around €2.50, or €3.07 for the more expensive brands, such as biological tea and/or fair trade brands. Those euro prices equate to $2.81 and $3.45 respectively, by the way, to give you the numbers in US currency...

Here's an example page from one of the more well-known super markets over here:
https://www.ah.nl/zoeken?query=earl%20grey+thee

They also accept online orders, so I'd figure American supermarkets do the same, so why not look those up, and order from them, instead of from Amazon? I'd personally never order any food items from a website like that.

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ThanosReXXX

@ReaderRagfish I don't know who you see as "so many people", but I actually like the game very much.
Heck, I still own it to this day, so you'll hear no argument for me. Perhaps you might think that because some of us recommending it to Anti-Matter, we might be making fun of it, but at least far as I'm concerned, that's really not the case. I just figured it's friendly enough to be considered a suitable game for him.

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Eel

The second half of the game feels like they ran out of time and just pushed forward with what they had.

I do like the game though.

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HobbitGamer

220km would get me to the middle of my state.

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ThanosReXXX

@Morpheel Yeah, it kinda feels like that indeed. I will probably always keep wondering what it would have been like, if Nintendo hadn't forced Rare to shoehorn Star Fox into the game, but just allowed for it to be Rare's own Dinosaur Planet. Not saying that this would have been a guarantee for a better/more balanced game, but perhaps the second half being what it is, may also be due to the original story not really fitting Star Fox characters and lore, and as such, they probably had to build around what was always a bad idea in the first place.

But regardless, it still has its charms, and it certainly is a Rare game, so I've never regretted buying it for a single second.

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Eel

Yeah we may never know. Apparently it was also during the Microsoft transition. So that probably affected development as well.

On the subject of tea, I found regular black tea.

I guess I can add lemon or something.

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ThanosReXXX

@Link-Hero Well, in all fairness, if you compare the two, then I'd say that coffee without sweetener is about 5 to 6 times more bitter than tea without any sweetener, so that's hardly comparable. In a normal sized cup, two cubes of sugar should be more than enough to neutralize the slighter bitterness of tea, and besides doing that, it also enhances any fruity flavors that a tea might have.

Tea only tastes really bitter, if you let it sit for a longer time, but if you just swig the bag around a couple of times, until the hot water is just slightly colored instead of almost coffee black, then it should be just fine.

And with coffee, it's more or less the same. Maybe it would need a bit more sugar, but you could also use milk, creamer or whipped cream to take the edge of the bitterness.

The only other thing I can think of, is that you're simply very sensitive to bitter tasting things, which would make it stand out for you, and overrule any other thing you might taste, in which case, it would make a lot more sense that you really don't like the taste of either tea or coffee.

Just to test that theory: how do you fare with radish, grapefruit, cranberries, tonic, bitter lemon and chicory? (provided you've ever eaten/drunk any of it, once or several times)

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