Yeah, a guy recently said that they’d jump into Mint and I could’ve said that I started on that, too (a fucking decade ago, apparently), but I was considering to tell them they could start with $BETTER_DISTRO right away for so long, that I didn’t end up saying much at all. 🫠

Ah, no worries! Taste is hard to describe. 🫠

I’m not saying, that the taste isn’t strong enough for me. I’m saying that it actively adds a taste, which I can best describe as “hollow”. Falafel or hummus with cumin tastes worse to me than without…

Oh man, what the fuck. What I really don’t like about this is that you assume some sort of motivation when someone submits a PR. When they provide a feature implementation, a bug fix or a configuration change, you assume that the way things were before did not work for the contributor. That it was so problematic, that they invested quite a bit of time to scratch their own itch.

You simply can’t look at a PR in complete isolation and just evaluate whether its changes are positive or not. On some level, you’ll decide that, sure, if this user is better off with this change and it doesn’t break anything, then might as well merge it.
But there is no user here. It’s going to include pointless changes that just need to look plausible enough, so that this bot can bolster its credibility.

I can’t imagine the kids of today finding pogs particularly interesting, when they’ve got smartphones in their pockets. Maybe if you equip the pogs with an NFC chip that ties into some online game to give you monsters or items or such. But yeah, even that’s going to be a hard sell, unless the game happens to be Roblox or Fortnite.

The face being preferrable kind of makes sense to me, since cats will often socialize by rubbing their heads against each other…

No worries, I find plenty opportunities to remind myself of that. Currently playing a troll of Xom, because I’m dumb. And one time, the jackass teleports me into the middle of the fortress in Elf:2. Had to read 3 teleport scrolls, because they kept teleporting me just to different parts of the fortress, since I guess that fortress is quite large.

Apparently, I was too panicked to take a screenshot of that, but here’s another fun one from Xom’s teleportation shenanigans:

The most brutal part is that he always teleports you a variable number of times and you never know for sure, whether he’ll stop there, so I also have a version of that screenshot with --more-- at the bottom, where I still had hopes that he’d port me back out of there. He did not. 🫠

To be honest, the main reason I linked to that wiki page is that I had opened it to try to find out whether orbs of mayhem are still in the game. 🙃

Would not have surprised me, if they tweaked the design a bit with 0.34 and then gave them a different name, but at the same time, well, I did just describe that they have upsides and downsides, which is how the devs like to design things…

I mean, we’re not talking about a clean or fresh or citrussy taste of perfumed soap. We’re talking someone did the dishes with dish soap and didn’t properly rinse afterwards. That’s genuinely what I thought had happened when I learned of cilantro.

I mean, there can be multiple different gene variations. I have the soap thing and I can’t remember tasting anything other than soap, although admittedly I haven’t tried cilantro in isolation or in enough dishes to be able to tell for sure.

That would be a great scam. Just offer unparfumed soap and some of your customers will never know.

I mean, those customers would also be entirely unlikely to want anything with cilantro in it, but you know, I’m sure there’s someone you could fool.

Hmm, is that olive thing not a universal experience? I always figure the cooks are just too lazy to cut up the olives, which would help a lot.

Well, and what also helps is to combine the olives with lots of different veggies. Don’t just serve an olive-tomato salad, but rather throw in cucumber, bell pepper and garlic as well, along with maybe some beans, a bit of rosemary and thyme.

I guess, the cooks have a hearty salad like that in mind, but then start bargaining whether they could leave out one or two veggies.
And then they never figure out that, no, they cannot. You need a rich base flavour to compete with the olives, but then you want it to be light to balance out how heavy the olives are. Well, and a surefire way to get rich+light is just lots of different veggies.

I have a really weird one where shandy (beer mixed with lemonade) smells like rubber to me. Like when you rub a balloon really hard.

You guys can smell balloons being rubbed, right? 😅

I think, people are largely not aware that genetic differences can affect the taste so much, so they just assume that everyone experiences the same taste, just with different preferences for different tastes.

But yeah, when I learned that cumin is another candidate for genetic differences in taste perception, I also had to ask a friend to describe the taste, because I’ve never seen the taste described anywhere. For me, it just tastes extremely hollow, while it’s apparently a rather rich taste for other folks…

Damn, that’s a thicc case then. Probably a good idea, though, when you give it to a kid, especially a kid trapped in VR…

I’ve kind of stopped opening crystal doors until I’ve cleared at least another floor. I’m not sure, if you still get the same total XP when you do that, but just died a few too many times from crystal vaults…

For monster infighting, there’s also orbs of mayhem. But yeah, somewhat of a risky option. You can’t really control which monsters are affected and they can still decide to attack you, and the affected monsters get buffed. 😅

Is that a VR Etch A Sketch? I’m not sure, I understand the future either…

Yeah, I’m all for a place like that existing, but it really doesn’t need to exist in my timeline, which I might scroll while I’m on the bus or such…

Python goes brrr… 🫠