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themoonisacheese, in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?
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I’ve never seen a video on this, but surely someone else has heard of it.

Back in the late 2000s, early 2010s, I got a CD in a cereal box with a PC game on it. the game was I think some kind of gamified flight sim, and the interesting part is that there was a decal of a plane on top of the CD surface. On the other side of the CD, there was another game (maybe a racing game?) And it had a corresponding decal, so the CD had decals on both sides and could be inserted both ways in your player to play each game. I’ve never seen that anywhere else (2 -sided CD or CD readable surface with decals) and I remember the game actually being somewhat fun, but promotional games of the era are very often lost media.

Synthead,

I did a little digging and found that Nestle added CDs to their cereals! There were quite a few different titles with different labels. Maybe these links well help you find your games?

There’s a bunch more content here:

themoonisacheese,
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It was this one archive.org/details/nestle_game

But in french instead of Portuguese. Thanks for the throwback!

KinNectar, (edited ) in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?
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A movie called Sir Henry at Rawlinson's End, extremely surreal British Arthouse. Like an opium dream from the brain of a fox hunting aristo, part comedy part stream of consciousness spoken word poetry. The gags, puns, and quips are truely monumental. It's a gem, though not PC, you've been warned: https://youtu.be/N6W5RB50fXk?si=eYUlKqkTyyMvHz-Z

Naich,
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawlinson_End

There was also a radio series and LP. I've heard the radio version but never seen the movie before.

FaceDeer, (edited ) in Is there an artist so horrible that no matter how hard you try that you cannot separate their art from them?
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Adolf Hitler.

chitak166,

Hitler actually made some pretty good art.

But even way back then, the art world was a crock of shit.

FaceDeer,
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His art was okay, but it's only famous because of some of the other stuff he did.

Kase,

Plot twist: that was his goal all along. /j

Kase,

Plot twist: that was his goal all along. /j

Delphia, (edited )

NGL If I were rich Id probably buy one of his paintings just to hang it in the least used guest barhroom.

Id never mention that it was a “Hitler” or why I had it. Id just like to have his failure be something my least favorite relatives have to stare at while they take a shit. My own personal fuck you to the cunt.

sentient_loom,
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That’s really inviting layers of ugliness into your life and your mind, and subjecting your guests to stealth ugliness.

Delphia,

Nope, its hilarious.

Reducing anything that anyone who venerates Hitler or Nazis to a joke is better than destroying it. Because its just a shitty painting, its not evil, it doesnt hold psychic power, its not a banner to rally behind. Its just a terrible mans terrible painting that is now something that hangs above Uncle Joe while he clogs the toilet with his mammoth fast food dumps.

sentient_loom,
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It’s poison, and you’d be subjecting yourself and your guests to poison.

It’s not funny, and Burt K is a drooling moron. He’s pretty much brain dead.

Crowfiend,

I don’t like it. It’s smug aura mocks me. It’s evil, Charlie!

Spaceballstheusername, in What is Something Scientific that you just don't believe in at all?

I don’t think gravity really stretches space. A black hole is suppose to stretch space to infinity but if you drop electrons into a black hole you can feel the charge of the electrons outside the black hole.

SmoothOperator,

How would you feel the charge outside the black hole? Electromagnetic interactions are mediated by photons, which are famously unable to escape black holes.

pete_the_cat,

How do we know that though? “Math” can’t really prove this IMO.

Spaceballstheusername,

I’m not sure if there’s been experiments to show this but the question is what is something scientific and that’s scientific.

Brunbrun6766, in Is there an artist so horrible that no matter how hard you try that you cannot separate their art from them?
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Roman Polanski and by extension Jack Nicholson

Olhonestjim,

Wait, what’s up with Jack Nicholson?

Brunbrun6766,
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Polanski’s known crime happened AT Jack Nicholson’s home. Nicholson tooooootally didn’t know about any of it.

stoy, in What is the most unusual spirit you have in your home bar?

The most unusual spirit I have in my collection is a raspberry liquer, made from distilled raspberries.

It is called RoslagsHallon and is made a few scandinavian miles borth of where I live by Nortälje Brenneri:

www.norrtaljebranneri.se/…/roslagshallon/

(Just click “JAG HAR FYLLT 20 ÅR” to get in)

It makes a fantasticly dangerous summer drink when mixed with sprite, you hardly feel the alcohol, but the taste is amazing, with a fairly standard sprite tast first, that explodes into a full raspberry taste with the aftertaste.

I seldom drink, and drink little when I do, but this is brilliant.

QuarterSwede,
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Sounds great!

Zeppo, (edited )
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Similar to kirchwasser, I’d guess? I love fruit brandies. At various times I’ve drank raspberry, pear, cherry and more common ones like grappa.

stoy, (edited )

I have never tried Kirchwasser, so I don’t know myself, but from the description it is peobably similar

Zeppo,
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Yeah, I used to get this one. I guess it’s called Himbeergeist?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himbeergeist

stoy,

I have that as well, I have yet to try that one though, and I also have the pear one on one of my lists in Systembolaget and will order it later.

Zeppo,
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From what I read here, raspberries don’t have enough sugar to be distilled by themselves. I didn’t realize it but apparently the himbeergeist is an infusion.

stoy,

The way I read it, they add water to crushed raspberries and let it ferment, they then distilled that, and later let it “ripen” for 10 years.

They only made 600 bottles, and I bought three of them…

Mango, in What is the most unusual spirit you have in your home bar?

Jumex.

The straight up instant refreshment of chugging a jumex after I get off work is far more pleasing than alcohol IMO.

stoy,

There have been a few people mentooning not drinking alcohol, so perhaps the next thread will be about “what is the must unusual non alcoholic ingredient in your home bar?”

Lennnny, in What is the most unusual spirit you have in your home bar?
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I guess the spirit itself - vodka - is not unusual, however I like to infuse local produce, and I have a fucking delicious passionflower vodka made from ripe local fruits. I also had a pawpaw rum, but that has a short shelf life so I had to imbibe it quickly.

stoy,

Vodka in and of itself is not that unusual, but there are unusual vodkas, and I would absolutely classify home made passionflower vodka as beeing unusual.

At the moment Inonly have one bottle of vodka at home, a bottle of Nemiroff DeLux vodka from Ukraine, I just saw it at Systembolaget and thought it was a cool way to both get Vodka and in a small way support Ukraine.

I also have a bottle of Japanese rice vodka on order, I mainly ordered it as it has a beautiful bottle.

gac11, in What is the most unusual spirit you have in your home bar?

Centerba. It means hundred grasses in Italian. It tastes like grain alcohol infused with whatever they cut down in a field. Maybe a hint of mint too? It’s fluorescent green now because food coloring is cheaper than bright green glass apparently.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centerbe

stoy,

That looks really cool, I will have to try and get one just for the look if nothing else

sanguinepar, in What is the most unusual spirit you have in your home bar?
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A small bottle of the delightfully named Unicum:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f15601bd-ad97-4a1e-90bc-1d1a0085f7b2.jpeg

Really not sure where it came from, we just found it one day!

MyOtherUsername,

Tasted it while visiting Hungary, beloved by the locals. Not being a connoisseur, it tasted to me like the extracted essence from a ton of black pepper seeds into a single ounce of alcohol. Strongest stuff I’ve ever had. They had also a traditional drink with like 85% alcohol. Quite a culture. Lots of warm people.

stoy,

Hummm, this sure seems like a unique spirit:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicum

fubarx, (edited )

It’s exclusive to Hungary. Used as a ‘digestif’ before or after a heavy meal. The formula is a closely held family secret.

They made a movie inspired by the family liquour business: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_(1999_film)

GraniteM,

Oh God, I’ve had this. It tastes like a cedar chest smells. I can’t believe I didn’t go blind.

Linkerbaan, in What is Something Scientific that you just don't believe in at all?
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Baby formula is not as good as mothers milk this gets debunked like every two years and then they change the formula and claim that bs again.

Mango,

It’s also prone to being straight goddamn poison if you live in the wrong part of the world.

A_A,
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A baby formula doesn’t have the mother’s antibodies which are made and adapted as new microbes appear in the environment. So, you are saying the mother’s milk is superior, right?

Linkerbaan,
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Yes of course.

LifeInMultipleChoice,

Yet breast milk isn’t always better is it? I for one would advise against a mother with TB(or any other transferable disease/cancer) to breastfeed her child.

Most of the time breast feeding is better for the child, but science shows us that absolutes are usually bad.

apfelwoiSchoppen, in What is the most unusual spirit you have in your home bar?
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Linie Aquavit. It is a Scandinavian liquor meaning “water of life”. It is a white spirit infused with botanicals, like gin. Its principal herbs are caraway or dill.

It’s incredible.

Zeppo,
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Vikre in Duluth MN makes an aquavit. I think it’s pretty good.

apfelwoiSchoppen,
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Ohhhh, I’ll have to seek that out.

Zeppo,
@Zeppo@sh.itjust.works avatar

I checked the website, and apparently they make two!

Wogi, in What is Something Scientific that you just don't believe in at all?

I am out to revoke degrees from chiropractors.

Giving them a degree is like calling myself a writer because I post bullshit comments on Lemmy.

doctorcrimson,

I tend to take things very literally so I will say: it’s got a lot more hoops than that comparison. Anybody can become a writer if they have the bare minimum tools, imo. They can’t all be good writers but that hardly matters given the low risks.

To play the devils advocate, almost everywhere these days regulates chiropractors requiring licensure with an organization who themselves require degrees and comprehensive knowledge testing.

For example, Doctors of Chiropractic (admittedly a 3 to 5 year program just like most entry level Engineers) are licensed in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and many U.S. territories. They are also regulated in many other countries throughout the world. Just a random specific organization, the California Board of Chiropractic Examiners require:

  1. The Aforementioned Degree
  2. NBCE. Chiropractic students must pass parts I, II, III, IV, and physiotherapy of the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners (NBCE) exam to be eligible to apply for a state license.
  3. A full criminal background check with fingerprinting
  4. CCLE. The California Chiropractic Law Examination (CCLE) is administered through computerized testing on a continuous basis. Once the board determines the applicant is qualified to take the CCLE, the applicant will be notified by letter.

As well as a bunch of associated fees and insurance requirements.

So, no, it’s not as easy as publishing comments on Lemmy.

Do I think there should be non-medical doctors twisting people’s necks and giving X-Rays? No, I goddamn don’t, but we can say that without bullshitting.

cheese_greater, in Why do people not understand that you can agree with one thing someone said or did while disagreeing with the majority of what they stand for?

toxic negativity is solution?

Lafari,

… I’m not sure what the opposite of toxic positivity is, but probably not that. Basically acknowledging problems and working from there in a positive direction, rather than simply denying problems and pretending everything’s fine when it isn’t. A google search tells me “tragic optimism” can be described as the opposing concept, whether that fits or not.

cheese_greater,

That guy is beyond toxic to me. I’ve never seen a less self-aware and more mentally ill psychologist.

I would see this guy before I ever entertained being in the same postal code as Peterson

He’s taking advantage of young, desperate, vulnerable men and its beyond infuriating as it is discouraging and dangerous.

Lafari, (edited )

Well I completely agree with you there 😂

cheese_greater,

Good Lafari

DuckOverload, in What is the most unusual spirit you have in your home bar?

A handle of tequila with cacao nibs added. I do infusions, and this was a failed experiment. Should have tried it in a mason jar.

Though it usually works out well. I have a bottle of premium Costco vodka with two anise stars and some simple syrup added. It’s like a homemade ouzo and delightfully sippable for $18 a handle. I also have slices of pear in another bottle, and it’s yummy. And a mason jar of bourbon with black peppercorns, which I like to splash into an Old Fashioned.

Hot tip: Buying flavored liquor is expensive and never as good as infusing it yourself.

SheerDumbLuck,

Have you tried it with Sichuan peppercorns? I hear it’s really different.

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