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Cake day: March 30th, 2024

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  • Same! For me it was the outposts and buildings. By the time we stopped playing I’d paved half our discovered area with roads, built way stations so you could sleep while traveling, and had a base and dock on every important island or biome.

    My crowning achievement was called The Sky Vault. I’d lifted 4 pillars to the maximum terrain hight on a tiny plains island, then built a building supported by them that could only be accessed via portal. There I had a long table and thrones for each of us and a collection of all the treasures, cool trophies, and artifacts from out time in play. Covered the room in piles of gold, little chests, cool weapons that we didn’t end up using. The finishing touch was that the gate to our settlement stood between two of the pillars, so you got to walk under it get into the town.






  • Im right here with you, I’ve recently been replacing all the candy snacks I have with various rustic snacks. I’ll have like, 6 cheese curds and salami slices, 3 dates instead of my peanut butter cups, I 've been really into Japanese style peanuts, peacans just on their own.

    When it comes to quick and not unhealthy meals, I found out I can make cheese rice in my rice cooker. Follow the usual rice cooker instructions, just add a cup of shredded cheddar, a tbsp of butter, garlic, salt, pepper, and if you want it extra rich replace 1/3 of the water with milk.

    If you’re air frying any veg, I highly suggest mixing your seasoning in a little oil and vinegar, then tossing the veg in it. That half assed vinegarette feels really fancy and if helps get an even coating of seasoning. Balsamic brings sweetness, all the others bring sour. You can even make it in bulk, put it in the fridge, and if keeps basically forever.

    If you do ramen a lot, toss some frozen veg mix in with it while it’s boiling, then replace half the packet with a splash of soy sauce, and some garlic. It’s less and somehow so much more.

    Recently I’ve gotten into “soy meat” it’s dried, crumbled, tofu that’s a really popular meat substitute in Mexico. Pound of beef equivalent for 97¢ at the local Hispanic grocery. Since it’s dried and functionally flavorless, you can mix you up a slurry of spices and the stuff will sponge it all up. Toss it in a pan and it comes out the exact same texture as ground beef, but you can make it taste like everything from plain beef to Italian sausage, maple cured bacon, even smoked pepperoni. I’ve taken to adding it to chilli, sloppy joes, pasta, not only because it halves the cost of meat, but because it can add such an amazing depth of flavor and it seems to naturally correct acidity.

    Hope some of this helps. I personally fell for the idea that eating right had to be miserable for so long and now it’s like, why is this not the standard? This is so fucking good!


  • I picked up an all metal French press from aldi about 2 years back. I’ve had 4 or 5 french presses in my life and they always end up broken, this badboy would dent the sink if I drop it. It’s got that two layer, hollow form thing that good travel mugs use so the coffee is hot for hours and the outside never gets too warm to handle. My only complaint is it’s bougey minimalist design. I haven’t figured out how to decorate it in a way that won’t wear off during washing.