Ooh, how has your Maypop growing experience been, and do you mind specifying your growing zone? I just finally bought some Northern Maypop seeds that came back in stock and I'm really excited for them next year.
The shelf stable boxes are the only place I've ever found firm silken tofu. Silken tofu from the fridge is always very soft, and the refrigerated firm tofu is never silken. I think that's probably the key here.
Side note, but in my comparative experience, whipped coconut cream actually keeps better than dairy whipped cream. When I had dairy whipped cream, it would get watery and go flat in the fridge, while whipped coconut cream was actually better after a day in the fridge.
I can't give precise ratios without trying it myself, but I know I've seen vegan mousses that use some whipped silken tofu for body, and I suspect that would work well as a sub here.
Oh yeah, you can use them for increasing the output per-rune for runecrafting, for increasing the yield of harvests when farming, and for enhancing potions when potion crafting. I like it for runecrafting because it seriously reduces the time it takes to meet guild and quest quotas, and I haven't done tests on this to confirm, but farming says you get XP per crop and I believe that makes it an XP multiplier when harvesting crops. Plus farming dailies can get you a lot of XP, and you can contribute to those from inventory, so having a larger stockpile of crops helps a lot. I've prestiged Farming twice and timing it right with guild dailies can launch you from one to like level fifty in a single batch of dailies.
Ugh, I had suspected it might be vibe coded, but was living in denial. That is a bummer. I have much the same hopes; I don't super care about balance for an idle single-player game, because I just like numbers go up, and I do actually use firemaking a fair amount because ashes are good for farming and runecrafting, but in general I agree with you.
Majestic! Now just make sure that everyone who helps out in your garden understands that these caterpillars are supposed to be there. You would be astonished the number of people I have encountered who have planted milkweed for monarch butterflies and then picked off all the caterpillars who were "ruining" the milkweed.
That definition would capture things like crackers and pasta even when they're basically just made from flour, water and a bit of salt, yet would not include processed meat like hot dogs.
It is genuinely hard to define "ultraprocessed foods" with more than a rough heuristic. The one I tend to see that's most effective is "if you were to start with the raw components in your kitchen, could you make it at home, and how much work would it be to do so?" where processed foods can be made at home through effort and ultra processed foods cannot be practically made at home, but even that definition has a lot of edge cases and asterisks. It's something that's hard to define even just for research purposes, let alone legislative.
Not that I don't think it's worth trying to reform our food system, nor that minimizing ultraprocessed foods wouldn't be a part of that. I feel like that can only really be done by looking first at the ways that corporate fuckery has messed up our food system, though, and any reform that doesn't address that is doomed to fail.
Any genres in mind? Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a pretty fun one, IMO. I like Idle Fantasy for its vaguely RuneScape feel (though it's largely text-based, so don't expect much graphics) while letting you queue actions up for hours of letting the game run idly. 2048 is classic. Luanti (similar to Minecraft) is available on mobile but such a huge battery drain I haven't played it much TBH. And UnCiv will let you play a game similar to Civilization. I have all those on e/OS (de-Googled Android fork) and as I recall they are all open-source and ad free.
I feel like I link this video at any opportunity, but Climate Town does have a really good explainer video on the entire mess with the Colorado River basin here, including the incentives behind growing alfalfa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XusyNT_k-1c
This is a slightly embarrassing question, but I've never actually done cold stratification. Do I just put them in in a bag, or do they need some kind of moisture and/or growth medium, or?
Moths are just goth butterflies, LBR. (Rosy maple moths are pastel goths.)
Moths do have more of a tendency to slip into the house and be a pest, but I find them pretty straightforward to catch with a cup and relocate outside. I keep my pantry food in sealed containers to avoid uninvited critters eating it before I can, and the vaaaast majority of moths don't eat clothes (plus even the few who do primarily dine on animal fibers, which leaves my plant-fiber wardrobe alone), so they don't really have much ability to cause me any real grief beyond my desire for them not to fly in my face and also my desire not to hurt them by accident.
Ooh, how has your Maypop growing experience been, and do you mind specifying your growing zone? I just finally bought some Northern Maypop seeds that came back in stock and I'm really excited for them next year.
I'm so sorry for your loss. He sounds like he was wonderful. Sending good thoughts and vibes from this internet stranger.
The shelf stable boxes are the only place I've ever found firm silken tofu. Silken tofu from the fridge is always very soft, and the refrigerated firm tofu is never silken. I think that's probably the key here.
Side note, but in my comparative experience, whipped coconut cream actually keeps better than dairy whipped cream. When I had dairy whipped cream, it would get watery and go flat in the fridge, while whipped coconut cream was actually better after a day in the fridge.
I can't give precise ratios without trying it myself, but I know I've seen vegan mousses that use some whipped silken tofu for body, and I suspect that would work well as a sub here.
Oh yeah, you can use them for increasing the output per-rune for runecrafting, for increasing the yield of harvests when farming, and for enhancing potions when potion crafting. I like it for runecrafting because it seriously reduces the time it takes to meet guild and quest quotas, and I haven't done tests on this to confirm, but farming says you get XP per crop and I believe that makes it an XP multiplier when harvesting crops. Plus farming dailies can get you a lot of XP, and you can contribute to those from inventory, so having a larger stockpile of crops helps a lot. I've prestiged Farming twice and timing it right with guild dailies can launch you from one to like level fifty in a single batch of dailies.
Ugh, I had suspected it might be vibe coded, but was living in denial. That is a bummer. I have much the same hopes; I don't super care about balance for an idle single-player game, because I just like numbers go up, and I do actually use firemaking a fair amount because ashes are good for farming and runecrafting, but in general I agree with you.
You would think so, and yet I have known multiple grown men who did this.
Majestic! Now just make sure that everyone who helps out in your garden understands that these caterpillars are supposed to be there. You would be astonished the number of people I have encountered who have planted milkweed for monarch butterflies and then picked off all the caterpillars who were "ruining" the milkweed.
Ah, the age when INT starts to touch adult levels, but WIS is still well behind. Hope you've got some good closed-toe garden shoes.
You may want to consult with a medical professional to be safe -- not ER-level, but calling your doctor's office.
Siad was accused by many women around this time, but I will say that this immediately brought to mind a Der Spiegel investigation about a woman whose disappearance years ago was potentially linked to Siad that was published a little over a month before his death. https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-mystery-of-michele-a-missing-woman-from-germany-reappears-in-the-epstein-files-a-835c0c91-620c-4fd0-ac49-9870fe160108
That definition would capture things like crackers and pasta even when they're basically just made from flour, water and a bit of salt, yet would not include processed meat like hot dogs.
It is genuinely hard to define "ultraprocessed foods" with more than a rough heuristic. The one I tend to see that's most effective is "if you were to start with the raw components in your kitchen, could you make it at home, and how much work would it be to do so?" where processed foods can be made at home through effort and ultra processed foods cannot be practically made at home, but even that definition has a lot of edge cases and asterisks. It's something that's hard to define even just for research purposes, let alone legislative.
Not that I don't think it's worth trying to reform our food system, nor that minimizing ultraprocessed foods wouldn't be a part of that. I feel like that can only really be done by looking first at the ways that corporate fuckery has messed up our food system, though, and any reform that doesn't address that is doomed to fail.
Any genres in mind? Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a pretty fun one, IMO. I like Idle Fantasy for its vaguely RuneScape feel (though it's largely text-based, so don't expect much graphics) while letting you queue actions up for hours of letting the game run idly. 2048 is classic. Luanti (similar to Minecraft) is available on mobile but such a huge battery drain I haven't played it much TBH. And UnCiv will let you play a game similar to Civilization. I have all those on e/OS (de-Googled Android fork) and as I recall they are all open-source and ad free.
I feel like I link this video at any opportunity, but Climate Town does have a really good explainer video on the entire mess with the Colorado River basin here, including the incentives behind growing alfalfa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XusyNT_k-1c
Shout out to the one bell pepper like
This is a slightly embarrassing question, but I've never actually done cold stratification. Do I just put them in in a bag, or do they need some kind of moisture and/or growth medium, or?
Moths are just goth butterflies, LBR. (Rosy maple moths are pastel goths.)
Moths do have more of a tendency to slip into the house and be a pest, but I find them pretty straightforward to catch with a cup and relocate outside. I keep my pantry food in sealed containers to avoid uninvited critters eating it before I can, and the vaaaast majority of moths don't eat clothes (plus even the few who do primarily dine on animal fibers, which leaves my plant-fiber wardrobe alone), so they don't really have much ability to cause me any real grief beyond my desire for them not to fly in my face and also my desire not to hurt them by accident.
I am extremely flattered by this; thank you so much. You've made my day here.