Coskii

Coskii, 1 year ago

Commanders quarters. Started as an interesting budget build magic the gathering commander deck channel and in less than a year went from that to click bait, 7 videos a day between 10-15 minutes about spoiled cards from whatever the new set coming out is. It absolutely flooded my feed and was completely worthless.

There was also some drama about the lead guys opinions about other IPs getting cards (the walking dead being the first) and how it was the end times for that particular flavor of inked up cardboard.

Coskii, 1 year ago

Macaroons. I have made them from scratch. I can appreciate the sophisticated sublime expression of culinary caution it takes to split egg white, whip them until hard peaks, and then gently and precisely fold in the other ingredients to get the flavor you are after… But holy hell is it tedious with lots of potential for failure most of the way.

Alternatively, making cinnamon rolls from scratch. Not because it’s hard, just because it takes too long. I believe the recipe I was using allowed the dough to rise three separate times. Simple enough to make, but planning ahead for them to be breakfast is a 16:00 the previous day commitment.

Coskii, 1 year ago

Macarons, mobile doing mobile things.

Coskii, 1 year ago

Ever think that wisdom teeth were supposed to be the replacements from back when our life expectancy was like 30?

Coskii, 1 year ago

Uhh… Soy… Soy sauce.

Coskii, 1 year ago (edited 10 months ago)

There was a questionable article written with that number not long ago. It’s completely bullshit though.

I’ll use my own experience as an example: I got approved for a mortgage of 125k (which is fairly low for my area, but there are still options) with the understanding that I’d be getting a house with a few issues that I can work on. My 30 year mortgage rate if I had managed to buy a house at that time would have been around 700 a month. If you double those numbers to 250k, 1400 a month and you earn 4x that amount your annual salary needs to be just under 70k.

Just for reference, there are a significant number of homes for sale for 250k or less, and I live in one of the top 10 most populated cities in the country.

Coskii, 1 year ago

Same God that ‘decided’ a year shouldn’t land on a whole day. Threw in that .25 for shits and giggles.

Coskii, 1 year ago

Such intelligent design.

Coskii, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

He was interviewed/was the topic of a Darknet Dairies Podcast. It’s his side of the story as well as some of the facts around the case. Don’t know how accurate it is, but it is interesting all the same.

Episode 136

Coskii, 1 year ago

For a long while mobile games were either beyond simple (like snake on the old indesctructible Nokia) or we’re pay to win money extractor gachas. It’s relatively new territory for games on phones to be anything other than those. There have almost always been exceptions of course, but finding them has not been simple. This is the first I’m hearing of the two you mentioned.

Coskii, 1 year ago

Ah, that must’ve been in my ‘accidentally Amish’ phase of adulthood where I was too broke to afford anything other than food, shelter, and clothes.

Coskii, 2 years ago

As soon as I heard RIF was shutting down I left reddit altogether. I don't have strong feelings about the official app one way or the other but the way in which the execs at reddit decided to handle this situation was more than enough to get me to move.

Coskii, 1 year ago

Sounds like you were handling some asbestos, because that is flame retardant is absolutely cancerous.

Coskii, 1 year ago

Say what you will, I will use the soda spoon for most purposes so that I feel like a giant eating with a tiny spoon.

Coskii, 1 year ago

At the start of 2023 there wasn’t one for me. I was in a rut and generally felt that if I didn’t spend the money on myself, my SO would. About 6 months later I had one entire paycheck vanish midway through the week from excessive takeout purchases (150+ daily) and quickly set a budget. We each get about 200 a week for ‘allowance’ to do with as we please, about another 200 for food for both of us, and the rest was going into aavings/toward bills, but then in November I realized just how little the principle on the credit card we haven’t used in two years was being paid with auto-pay and diverted the savings money towards that.

Currently, I’ve knocked down the CC by a third, plan to get it under control by march of work keeps up, then going back into savings and continuing with the basic plan.

Coskii, 1 year ago

Which is a shame. I prefer alternate rules which change the plus cards rules to allow plays such as more +2’s added on top, color appropriate skips and reverses, wild cards and +4’s.

Wild cards simply pass the draw to the next player. Basically every face card can be used to counter draw cards, though usually by adding more danger. It just adds a level of skill and planning over a game where getting randomed by a +2 or +4 is just a loss.

Coskii, 1 year ago

Ruffle has gotten to the point that I can share the joy of this beauty again. I regret nothing.

Coskii, 1 year ago

There are currently three types of isekai:

1. Writing crutch to explain why the MC is special.
2. Tangential isekai. These are the time skip, reincarnated, or other ‘from this world but not’ types
3. Writing crutch to explain a world with ‘game-like’ qualities.

Nearly all Isekai currently out do not need to be isekai, it’s just being overused to quickly explain why/how the world and MC are so different from baseline reality. Usually the real point is to connect the character to a more understandable and relatable base.

I’ve been reading way too many light novels lately, and many of them are labeled isekai, but it’s completely inconsequential outside of a very minor plot point.