nyctre

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Personally I've never heard of a cafe crème before, but one website says it's an espresso to which you add a bunch of milk. Another website says it's supposed to be less foamy than a cappuccino and less milky than a latte. Found a swiss Site which makes it sound even more complicated.

As for the others.. lungo and allongé are the same thing, which is usually an espresso but you let more water flow through the coffee. Usually at least twice as much. Americano is usually just an espresso to which you add a bunch of hot water. Usually to fill one of those bigger mugs till you get to like 150-200ml

I'm lucky to live in France so there's plenty of affordable and good local wine but I'll definitely keep an eye on the import section for that one. Heard good things about Californian wines. So I was already curious but never actually tried any.

Depends on the wine. I wanted to see for myself so I bought 2 bottles from the same producer. Same type of wine and stuff as well. One bottle was 25-ish€ and the other was 80-ish. I could instantly tell which the more expensive wine was. Then I asked my wife to taste without telling her which is which. She could also instantly tell. Was it worth the price? Fuck no. I usually buy in the 10-15 range from a guy that I trust since supermarket stuff is hit and miss and I like trying new ones, not just buying the same one every time.

on On talent · c/microblogmemes · 3 pts · 9d

But there's so many examples out there of people that don't try very hard and are still very good at stuff while others work twice as hard and can't surpass them. What do you call that if not talent?

on Chef · c/comicstrips · 1 pts · 10d

I'm sure you have cheese pizzas and they're distinct from quattro formaggi. I'm not saying there isn't. I'm just answering your question. As a non-american, the only pizza with cheese is quattro formaggi. All the others are just "pizza". Because all the others have tomato sauce + mozzarella as a base. Except supermarket pizzas which sometimes have cheaper cheeses on them. But they're still just pizza, not "cheese pizza".

on Chef · c/comicstrips · 2 pts · 10d

The only "cheese" pizza I know is quattro formaggi.

Disclaimer: my tastes in doom seem to be different from the vast majority of doom lovers.

For me, doom is slow and sad, hopeless. As we go down the list, it'll be less and less like this, but the sound/vibe will still be there, imo despite the change is style/lyrics.

There's only one album that I'd call perfect for my tastes and that's warning - watching from a distance. Some other great albums:

My dying bride's feel the misery (among other great albums that they have)

While heaven wept - sorrow of the angels

Draconian - arcane rain fell

Solitude aeturnus - alone

Swallow the sun - new moon

Bongripper - Satan worshipping doom

Empyrium - songs of moors and misty fields

Isole - silent ruins

Ahab - the boats of Glen carrig

Overmars - born again

Thy listless heart - pilgrims on the path of no return

And altho it's not really doom metal, to me they fit super well : anathema's alternative 4 and judgement

Yob are also great

Rotting Christ - rituals (technically a black metal band but they're also not typical black anyway.. especially not this album)

Primordial - where greater men have fallen (similar to rotting Christ)

Because it's pedantry. I checked 4 dictionaries for america or american. Or just type "america" on whatever search engine First thing for 3/4 dictionaries was the US or its citizens. If anyone ever means to refer to the continent they usually say north/south America or "the Americas".

Go to any country other than the US and ask a local "Are you american?". They're all gonna say the same thing. "No, I'm Mexican/Canadian/Chilean/etc."

Whenever a word has multiple meanings, you're supposed to use context to figure out which one is being used. Well, the article title mentions the US government. It's also a very common phrase with a well established meaning. Check out Green day's american idiot, for example.

Really doesn't take a genius to understand what op meant.

on Flrulep · c/onehundredninetysix · 4 pts · 18d

No man's sky had a bit over 200k peak online players on release in 2016. Over 100k peak for the anniversary release in 2025 and constantly gets 10k players even now.

Cyberpunk got 274k peak online players for the release of 2.0 3 years after the original release and 60k daily players even now.

Those are great numbers for single player games so I don't know what you're on about.

Not buying the game costs the company 80€. This costs them more. I don't know if they're actually doing it for the reasons they claim, but if they are.. it makes sense and I support it. Hell, even if they're not, they're still drawing attention to it, so... Fuck rockstar. The more people are aware of how shitty they are, the better.

Nope. For metal the suggestions are like you said. Either generic or limited. I usually just look up "more bands like x" and use the results. Usually a mix of last.fm + reddit + other sites. Another thing I'd do is use rateyourmusic and browse by genre. For Symphonic metal, for example. Sometimes there's genre specific sites. Like the progarchives where I go as well from time to time. Oh, many subreddits also have discord servers so maybe look into that as well.

Exactly, you're right. Because it's all about influence and inspiration, that's exactly why the Beatles are considered so important and mc5 less so. Because Helter skelter came out in 68 and tons of people listened to it. MC5 were obviously important but their first concert outside of Michigan was also in 68 and their first album wasn't out until 1970. Only a live album and some singles before that. So they're a lot less influential no matter how you look at it. The first metal song could've actually been written in 1961 but if it's some demo that only 5 people have ever listened to, it doesn't really matter, does it? (Unless one of those 5 people was Tony Iommi or something xD)

I'm not a Beatles fan, but too many musicians credit them as inspirations so they were obviously important.