Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Even though I myself won't be celebrating it, dinner-wise: I've made my infamous home-made nasi goreng, omelette on the side. It could have been made with turkey morsels, but I always use chicken instead. Still a bird though, so it could count to some extent...

Fun fact for those that aren't aware: Thanksgiving's origin is actually Dutch, and it was the Dutch colonists that brought it over to the States. What makes it a bit strange is that the custom has subsequently all but disappeared from the Netherlands, while it has certainly proliferated over in the US. Part of that has to do with both catholic and christian faith having massively diminished in the Netherlands over the centuries, so devout church-goers are a definite minority over here.

But regardless of that fact, nowadays, with the whole "let's copy almost all of the American holidays and festivities" vibe of the last decade or so over here, they've adopted it/taken it back again, and slowly but surely, more people are celebrating it once again, and they're adding their own, non-religious meaning and context to it.

I've never really seen it like super tied to religion.

Then again, nobody celebrates it here so I've only seen it represented in media.

@Eel No, not "super tied", but all of the original colonists were definitely devout believers, so I was specifically talking about the situation over here, over the centuries. Of course, because the custom remained and proliferated over in the States, some leniency has more than likely crept in over those same centuries. Which is also what is now once again happening here, now that we're also slowly starting to warm up to the idea of celebrating it once again.

EDIT:
Come to think of it, it's actually kind of similar to Christmas, well at least over here, where practically no one is celebrating the birth of baby Jesus (which is a misconception/miscalculation/deception anyways), but simply having a nice time with family and friends, and handing out presents or just sharing a nice, copious meal.

In other news, it seems one of the dogs has decided to, uh, breastfeed the kitty I talked about the other day. It's a bit weird.

She's never had puppies, so I can't help but wonder if the kitty is even extracting anything.

@Eel It's the air-guitar alternative of breast feeding: air-feeding...

This is the big puppy’s first time around so much food being prepared. It’s exhausting. She’s pretty good at learning “No” by now.

Introducing Stadia for 56k modems. Games avaliable:

• Pong
• That one Chrome dinousar game but with less details

My mother, planing for the yearly Christmas trip to Arizona.

"I think I'll exchange 1000 dollars at the bank, for the trip"

(Two minutes later)

"Though I guess 500 should be fine"

(Ten minutes later)

"No, no, 300 and the leftovers from the last trip is more than enough"

(At the bank, in the near future)

"Hello yes, I'd like 10 dollars please"

*Performance may be affected when using party lines.

@NintendoByNature No problem. I came to China as an English teacher about 5 years ago after a year doing the same in Spain. At the moment I still do classes every now and then, but I invested in some of other small businesses here so I help them operate and manage them. I do take breaks and come back to the States for 3-4 months a year
though. I mainly travel because I enjoy it and not for any work related reasons. I was teaching the management at a factory English for a while and that required me to leave town. The Switch helped with the boredom at that time.

I heard you talking about Pepperidge Farm a while back, so I assumed you were involved somewhat in Sales. Am I in the ballpark?

I can confirm that the sugar cream pie recipe I linked makes a really good pie. It’s a pretty simple pie to make, the two important techniques are to warm the custard slowly while stirring the entire time, and give it lots of time to set up in the fridge before serving. It did end up looking and tasting quite a bit different than my grandma’s pies, but it’s a fine sugar cream in its own right.

Another dessert that’s easy; poor apple cobbler. I threw things together and it turned out great.
4 peeled apples (I had 2 Fuji and 2 gala), diced in half inch cubes
Dash of sugar (maybe a spoonful?)
2 spoons of ground cinnamon
325F for 20 minutes
Stir, add 1 1/2 cup plain oatmeal
Cook another 20
Refrigerate

Now I’m making fresh pico de gallo. But I licked a serrano...

Phew....
I got C grade from playing Anti-Matter Expert difficulty (lv 17) on DDR X3 Arcade this evening. 😅

@NotTelevision that's very cool. Sounds like youve been all over. And its great you get the opportunity to do those kinds of things. Very rarely do we get the chance to go to places outside of the Midwest or let alone, anything exotic.

Yes, I do outside sales for a small company, 7 of us. We sell Sanitary processing equipment to food and beverage plants. For instance, if you've been to a craft brewery and you see the big stainless steel tanks, with hoses, valves, and pumps around it, that's all stuff i sell. It's pretty neat considering I get to see how most things are made, food wise.

Got a copy of Sword while out tree shopping. I’ll wait till Christmas gift cards to get Assassins Creed.

@HobbitGamer nice. Same for me. I'm asking for the witcher 3 and Wal-Mart gift cards to grab assassins creed rebel collection. Or maybe some eshop games pending something gets announced at the game awards. Although im not holding my breath. Grabbed AC3 today at Wal-Mart

Anyone know how much the new ATARI might be if or when it's out

@NintendoByNature I think you’ll have fun with AC3, and Liberation too. I just checked my google rewards thing earlier and I’ve got just over $10 from surveys, so I think I’ll grab those two TT Batman games at $3.50 each that’s cheaper than a movie, so it fits.

@HobbitGamer funny thing, is I didn't even realize there was a pack in game ( liberation) til I got home and examined the front cover lol. So $15 for 2 games ain't bad at all. I actually played ac3 years ago when it came out but I don't recall much about it or if i even finished it. Liberation will be a brand new experience though which is nice. Once i finish dmc I'll jump to it. I know your a cat dude. Did you try out gato roboto yet?

Never played the tell tale games yet. Not sure if I'd be into them. Wish arkham games would come over

@NintendoByNature Yeah, definitely a great value since 3 has all the Tyranny dlc as well.
I haven’t tried Gato yet, I’ll have to take a look.
I liked the TT Walking Dead, Wolf Among Us, and Jurassic Park games, but the price points always cause me to wait. I typically don’t play them a second time because of my memory. But $7 for essentially two 5-episode seasons is a sweet spot. If they’re anything like TWD seasons, each episode lasts me 1-2 hours. So 20 hours of Batman story? Sold