@Zuljaras After I posted that reply, I already considered that it could also be how it comes across on a photo, which might not be how it looks in real life after all, so if you say it's too light, then you're probably right.
On a side note: I do still think calling it beige is a bit of a stretch though, so either the manufacturers of that clay are color blind, or the actual color tone of it is just not conveyed correctly on a photograph...
(well, at least not unless you use professional lighting and filtering)
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@bimmy-lee good to know thanks. I'll have to keep an eye out for a bob Evans then. @hobbitgamer@bimmy-Lee@Heavyarms55@NotTelevision@Eel on a side note to you guys, yesterday I solely used the drop box at nooks cranny and racked up 16k. I got a call this morning when i left my house saying the funds are being added into my account from yesterday; but that 16k never showed up. Anyone else have this issue?
@ThanosReXXX - Wow, I had that deck of cards and haven’t thought about them for decades. I believe it was a version of what we call Old Maid with Alfred dressed up as all the characters if I remember correctly. I was a fan of Cracked as well, even if it was a bit of a MAD clone.
@NintendoByNature - Weird. I can’t say I’ve had that happen, but I probably wouldn’t know because I’ve assumed it’s being deposited correctly and don’t double check. It goes straight to your savings, so I assume you checked at the ATM and it didn’t arrive. It doesn’t go into your pockets.
@bimmy-lee Over here, I believe it was likened to an old Dutch card game called "pesten", which basically means bullying. It is called that, because almost all cards mean that someone else gets some form of punishment. The closest international card game that is similar to the Dutch card game, is Uno.
@ThanosReXXX I didn't say I didn't trust the sites numbers. I said you're not applying them correctly, that's not how that particular set of data is used because it doesn't represent part of what you're trying to measure. Big difference.
American food...ohhhhh boy, FDA allows tons of toxins that are banned in Europe. Part of it is how they analyze things. EU has a sort of "better safe than sorry" policy. If there's credible evidence suggesting a link between a health issue and a food additive, EU bans it out of safety. FDA works the other way and requires something be absolutely proven to cause a health issue before they ban it. I'd say the EU way is overall better, but not always. There are many instances where things that are banned in the EU are done so hastily based on circumstantial evidence that in the end it turns out was never a problem. Aluminum cookware is one such example. (Despite the false remaining stigma, aluminum does not cause altzheimers - altzheimers leads to the body accumulating aluminum, and you get more aluminum from the food itself than the cookware, naturally.) So the FDA method does have some merit....the EU method has merit. But the lobbies are what kill it for us. So we have tons of bromides, thyroid disruptors, and pure toxins (like Roundoup.) in our food. They're actually stricter on new additives, but grandfathered ones are bad.
Worst case example is this one though. Our wheat supply. "Bread basket of the world" - more wheat than we know what to do with. Though you'd never guess it looking at supermarket shelves where everyone hoarded it like it's going extinct. But part of why we have so much is how we've pushed the envelope to strip it of flavor and nutrients in order to produce hearty maximum yield crops. We have a practice here, to further boost yield and bulk uniformity. If you spray roundup (or some other dessicant) on the crop a few days before harvest, it dries it out and makes it uniform for harvest faster. There has been back and forth with the Snopes refuting how widespread the practice is (never, ever, ever trust Snopes, which is little more than a mouthpiece of "re-education" by your betters more times than not.) But simple tests for glyphosate have turned up quite a bit of the stuff in most brands of commercial flour here. "not widespread" indeed. Basically: They spray roundup on our food to improve timing, profits, and yield right before they harvest it and sell it to the mill. It's in the bag, and has been tested as such.
That's illegal in EU. Though many other countries do do the same outside EU.
We do all kinds of nasty things to our food for the purpose of uniformity and production yield. Meanwhile we're hiding in our homes for fear of a plague, while hoarding tons of food that contains known poison hoping to be safe.....
@NEStalgia Well, I have no idea where that supposed ban on aluminum in cookware is being implemented, but definitely not over here. At least half of the pans I own, either contain aluminum, or are made from it entirely, save for the handle...
Oh, and you can drop the T in Alzheimer's.
As for how food products are handled and/or treated: I've read up on that quite a bit last year, and I've also seen plenty of documentaries about the American food industry, and I gotta tell ya, that these practices are one of the biggest reasons that I'm not exactly in any rush to find myself a permanent ticket to America yet, if ever. That and a far inferior health care system. Once you're used to what we have over here, also food and other commodities-wise, it's VERY hard to go back to something that just doesn't come close.
I'd probably have to find a REALLY well-paid job, so I could import all my food directly from the Netherlands, or any other safer country...
But I do agree that both systems have their merit, much like with the justice system and the medical system. The Europeans are indeed way too strict sometimes, and especially in the case of a certain type of medication or medical treatments that can literally mean the difference between life or death, I truly detest that way of going about things. But having said that, I do think that good testing is always warranted, so ultimately, there's something to say for either method.
And Snopes? Who or what is Snopes? Never heard of it.
As for the Corona virus numbers thing: my numbers and my statements were dead on, as was my explanation of them, so it was more how you interpreted my explanation than what I actually meant to say with it, which was basically an exact explanation of those numbers, and several times over. And if you do the math, it also adds up EXACTLY as I explained.
Lastly, I also explicitly said that I know full well that those numbers are only preliminary figures, and only representative of confirmed recovered and diseased people, so they are never to be seen as complete figures/numbers as in a total, worldwide death toll. All of that is ironclad and correct.
But still, you're basically telling me that my numbers weren't right. What kind of a sales & marketing professional would I be, if I wouldn't at the very least be able to correctly interpret/read and/or implement numbers? If you really knew me and my reputation, we would both laugh about that. But because of the forced social distancing (pun intended) of online communication, it's always harder to cement one's real life reputation/value/mettle with others, due to various factors.
That's actually also one of my biggest pet peeves with online communication: I'm still not always used to or prepared for people not taking me seriously or at my word. In real life, whether in my private life or professional career, I have practically always been able to put my money where my mouth is, so that's still a weird thing for me. It's also the very reason why I often kid that I'm always right. Not because I'm some smart@ss, but simply because I check things before I claim or state something, so that I have facts and figures to back up what I say, meaning that in practice I actually AM almost always right...
But I do realize that a big portion of all that either means nothing to strangers, or will simply never come across through online communication, so I'll forgive any and all people the transgression this time around, and will probably continue to do so to some extent, for the foreseeable future...
I forgot to mention that I had a three hour Zoom meeting last night. It was so much fun, but I probably had one gulp too much during that span and ended up eating 500 cookies and sleeping half the night on the couch covered in crumbs.
@NintendoByNature - Yeah, it should be in savings, I’m sure you’ve checked by now. I wish I could just have 20% of it automatically deferred straight to Tom Bezook.
@HobbitGamer - I’m not sure quite what the plans are tonight, but I’m in if I make it on and you guys are playing. We have a movie, and some other stuff on Netflix we want to try and watch this weekend, but I’m not sure if my wife is done with something she’s watching, and I’m sure this last sentence has been riveting for you.
@ThanosReXXX - That sounds at least vaguely familiar. I can’t remember playing it, and I can really only remember the artwork on a few of the cards. I’ll probably end up googling it this weekend, and end up debating internally whether $40 is too much for a complete deck on eBay.
@bimmy-lee yea im done with Tom. He's not getting another bell from me until i get paid for building 3 people's homes. Dudes crazy if he thinks I'll oblige to his wild antics
@NintendoByNature Reparations for Villager!! Down with Corporate Tom!!
Anyone know if there’s been any word on syncing an island between two switches? I wanna play my digital copy on my Lite.... if anything, I guess I could make Isla Sorna
#MudStrongs
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@NintendoByNature - Haha, oh yeah, he’s an opportunist all right. He launched his game about escaping to island life in the middle of a lockdown pandemic!
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