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Scrambled eggs are fucking god tier

I don't really care for runny yolks myself. I prefer them cooked through a bit, at least, though I don't mind it that much if its mixed in with other stuff, I cant stand slurping up egg yolk by itself.

Scrambled eggs > all other eggs

I honestly find the smell and taste of eggs in general rather offputting.

I think drinking straight milk is gross, not sure why. I have no problem finishing off a bowl of cereal or cookie-dipping. but I feel kinda disgusted drinking JUST milk.

[QUOTE=slapdown3;52861344]I think drinking straight milk is gross, not sure why. I have no problem finishing off a bowl of cereal or cookie-dipping. but I feel kinda disgusted drinking JUST milk.[/QUOTE] You haven't had hokkaido milk yet

British food isn't as bad as everyone claims it. First, Britain's got pretty ubiquotous food. British food is fucking everywhere and you don't even notice it originated from this miserable Isle. Cheddar cheese is the world's number one cheese Probably owing to being the first industrialised country, Britain invented the chocolate bar, and the phrase "american as apple pie" is somewhat ironic given that style of apple pie is seven hundred years old. Looking things up, I was genuinely suprised by the number of cakes I took for granted everywhere that originated here. But we do still have our own treasures; The Pasty of the southwest, Yorkshire pudding, Haggis, The Linconshire and Cumberland, Shepards pie,The Iron brew and the Deep fried Mars bar. The native curries are presumably just as delicious as Indian curry, but ten times safer. Our hotpot variation that you can only find here, our pies, a specific cut of bacon, I think some people really like marmalade but it just ain't my jam. You can't find good restraunts for english food. Most pubs that do food modernize it and most restraunts go french. So the traditional food isn't really accessible to most tourists, it's at home or at the [I]right[/I] okace you can't find. But most brits don't care for good food. The populace is happy with cheap frozen meals and low quality takeaways. That doesn't mean we don't have good native food, it just means we don't put cultural importance on food. When people rag on brit food, in general, I feel the need to point out the problems in their assertion. If people rag on specific food, like fish'n chips or what is marketed as pizza in some takeaways, that's totally fine. But britain does have great native food, it just isn't accessible. And now to conclude my oddly British rant from someone who wasn't even born here: French food is horribly overrated. It fucking puzzles me how people act like it's the queen of cuisine, and how the french'll take mealtime super seriously and'll probably do multiple courses in a regimented way in even a school cafeteria . Granted I've not tried everything french, but what I've had hasn't been great* . I [I]despise[/I] that any restaurants at least masquerading to have class here'll sell french food and provide un-anglicized french menus as a mark of sophistication. Of all the countries in Europe the Brit's will pick [I]that[/I] one to idolize for food. Italy,Spain,Poland, Denmark except for the salted sweets because that's a fucking retarded idea, if we're not going to dedicate Britain's best restaurants to British food, then could we at least have something that isn't french. [I](*correction: there was a pastry dish that was very delicious, which I ate in lithuania, but was apparently french, it looked like a marshmellow)[/I] All that stereotypical English dislike of the french in modern times is probably the fault of the brits envying the french for having food that their own restaurants chose to emulate, and the associated high culture with that. But that's not my point; Brit food is overlooked and french food too idolized.

[QUOTE=The Jack;52861604] [I](*correction: there was a pastry dish that was very delicious, which I ate in lithuania, but was apparently french, it looked like a marshmellow)[/I] All that stereotypical English dislike of the french in modern times is probably the fault of the brits envying the french for having food that their own restaurants chose to emulate, and the associated high culture with that. But that's not my point; Brit food is overlooked and french food too idolized.[/QUOTE] When people say Brit food is terrible, most of them are thinking of pub food, fish n chips, bangers and mash, faggots, its what the world knows when you say, 'name me british cuisine!' UK has great seafood, portsmouth and Brighton had really good prawns and oysters. But sadly, what's popular may not be what's good, just like how most people think American food are just burgers, German food are just all sausages, and russian food are just borscht. French food ain't overrated, french food forms the basis of western cuisine. The idea of a kitchen brigade is formed out of french style of cooking, western desserts, pastries, bread, meats and seafood pretty much came out of haute cuisine, and since the royal families are all related back then, they all have very similar influences from french cuisine. The cuts of vegetables also came from french cuisine, which we all learned from culinary school. British fine food are all largely influenced by the french because you guys WERE FUCKING NEIGHBOURS. Its clear that the cross channel relations influenced much of your cuisine. Plus, french food has a whole fucking variety. You want richer and heavy food? In the North. You want lighter and more Mediterranean style? In the south. You want german influence? You go to the borders of Germany, Strasbourg.

[QUOTE=The Jack;52861604]The Iron brew [/QUOTE] Pro-tip: when referring to 'British treasures', maybe you shouldn't refer to something that isn't British. Irn-Bru was first produced by Americans in New York.

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;52861776]Pro-tip: when referring to 'British treasures', maybe you shouldn't refer to something that isn't British. Irn-Bru was first produced by Americans in New York.[/QUOTE] irn-bru is Scottish and that's a fact come to Glasgow and say if you disagree to my face

St. Anger was more interesting than the Black Album

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;52861730] British fine food are all largely influenced by the french because you guys WERE FUCKING NEIGHBOURS. Its clear that the cross channel relations influenced much of your cuisine. .[/QUOTE] I don't mind influence, it's when you eat in a restraunt and the menu's in french that the wankery begins. You'd think with the whole better-empire thing, we'd have pirated the world of everything worth cooking, and that foreign and exotic things would be quaint, but then we have the OH ITS FRENCH moment, and we're back to "let's not cook british dishes because why do good national dishes when they have a bad reputation and our neighbours have a good one." I think I reserve a special hatred for how bad french sounds when it's mixed with english, because they always put effort into sounding french, silly hand gestures mandatory. I mean it'd sound horrible if you were speaking french with the french and then, In the most british voice you could muster, started talking about the lager selection. Maybe it's a Germanic/romance incompatibility, but I could swear the English talk french in a way that says "Look how good I am at french, I am sophisticated!" when, for every other language, we're happy to butcher their words into ours just like everyone else. This isn't to bag on anyone from france, or the french language, but I really dislike British francophilia, sometimes I they might even sound like they're trying to sound Ironic and/or if they're patronizing. On a related note, I had a friend who's persona was one of the negative gay stereotypes and to him, coffee shops, and the ability to pronounce the Italian names of coffee, were real sources of pride for him, he really wanted to appear cultured, and always wanted to drag me to the coffee shop. He was somewhat condescending everytime I reminded him that I didn't like coffee. Italian wankery seems to exist for coffee, but shamefully not for Pizza, something that really needs to be improved. If we could entirely replace our british Pizza with Italian pizza, the world'd be a better place. Ah this is a topic so verging on racism that I feel the need to make a disclaimer. I really like food. It's my favorite thing. A surprisingly large portion of my "list of things to do if I won the lottery I don't enter" are food related. It just saddens me that Brit culture gets in the way of good food. But also I hate cooking so... I'm probably the problem.

Simply putting the newest Touhou game on Steam isn't exactly the best way to get new people. IMHO, I think it'd be far more productive if ZUN were to work with western game developers in regards to getting HD remakes of the older Windows games (my personal pick would go to PCB). That way, we could have better artwork, arranged music and most importantly, online and local multiplayer. [sp]bonus points if Microsoft involves themselves with Touhou remakes because there's really no reason to not throw in XBPA[/sp]

[QUOTE=AtomicSans;52860924]Scrambled eggs are disgusting, period. The only acceptable method of eggs is fried with yolks cooked through.[/QUOTE] What is wrong with you

The "tactical" nuke killstreak in Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer had to have been one of the stupidest design choices of all time. What in christ were they thinking?

[QUOTE=xZippy;52869960]The "tactical" nuke killstreak in Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer had to have been one of the stupidest design choices of all time. What in christ were they thinking?[/QUOTE] i'm gonna be honest, it was super intense/badass when someone got a nuke even if its a ridiculous design choice

[QUOTE=xZippy;52869960]The "tactical" nuke killstreak in Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer had to have been one of the stupidest design choices of all time. What in christ were they thinking?[/QUOTE] I really enjoyed the nuke, actually. It was very much the ultimate win-condition and achievement to strive for in the game and it was monumentally intense to go for one. Some of my best memories with the game were getting them.

[QUOTE=Duck M.;52870696]I really enjoyed the nuke, actually. It was very much the ultimate win-condition and achievement to strive for in the game and it was monumentally intense to go for one. Some of my best memories with the game were getting them.[/QUOTE] Kind of sucks that the new games don't have that anymore, or an equivalent.

[QUOTE=maddogsamurai;52870951]Kind of sucks that the new games don't have that anymore, or an equivalent.[/QUOTE] they normally do, just not something that instantly ends the game

People who cry out that gaming is dead because of the actions of the greedy corporations behind larger studios need to get a better perspective on the industry as a whole. There are more options than just buying whatever comes out of these big name studios. Support the people who not only care about their title but respect the audience they're giving it to instead.

[QUOTE=MacD11;52873836]People who cry out that gaming is dead because of the actions of the greedy corporations behind larger studios need to get a better perspective on the industry as a whole. There are more options than just buying whatever comes out of these big name studios. Support the people who not only care about their title but respect the audience they're giving it to instead.[/QUOTE] But then small studios get bought by bigger studios, they get eviscerated and then are closed

[QUOTE=SebiWarrior;52873887]But then small studios get bought by bigger studios, they get eviscerated and then are closed[/QUOTE] That's on the smaller studio for accepting big gaming's money now then, isn't it? It's just everybody has a price being brought into practice, and believe me, who these days doesn't, if it means a comfortable retirement? In such a case I can't blame them for thinking about themselves first, especially with times as uncertain as they are these days.

[QUOTE=Bathtub;52870580]i'm gonna be honest, it was super intense/badass when someone got a nuke even if its a ridiculous design choice[/QUOTE] If someone got the nuke in a legit way it was fine. But my god, you'd think Infinity Ward would use their brains and think about the aimbotters ending games.

Renting is a good way to save money on new releases. It seems to me that rentals are really undermined given that we live in a era where we can pirate games for things we want without suckering into buyer's remorse. Sure it means that PC games will get the shaft if you use Gamefly, but really its up to you on what you want to do. No due dates either; you can keep it as long as you want and decide to keep it forever at 30-40% off, or send it back for the next one. Plus when we live in a world where games can be $60+ because microtransactions, this is a nice feature if you want to give a game a spin.

[QUOTE=maddogsamurai;52874655]Renting is a good way to save money on new releases. It seems to me that rentals are really undermined given that we live in a era where we can pirate games for things we want without suckering into buyer's remorse. Sure it means that PC games will get the shaft if you use Gamefly, but really its up to you on what you want to do. No due dates either; you can keep it as long as you want and decide to keep it forever at 30-40% off, or send it back for the next one. Plus when we live in a world where games can be $60+ because microtransactions, this is a nice feature if you want to give a game a spin.[/QUOTE] Depends on the renting service, the one I use near my house (because it's literally just driving two miles in one direction to a self-serve vending machine and back, then I've got the disc and I'm ready to go, no waiting involved) still charges over time until you reach $60. However, with them being a vending machine, they also start just selling games at lower and lower prices in order to offload them to free up space, and for people like me who don't mind waiting, that's sometimes a better option. Dark Souls 3, for example, dropped to $5, while the rent price was still $3. I guess renting is still good for people who [I]do[/I] mind waiting, but my backlog is big enough to where it's not really worth it to me.

I think people should be more forgiving of public figures when they do something wrong. One thing I kind of find disturbing is the idolization of public figures. Not just celebrities, but game developers, youtubers, and so on. It's like people forget that public figures are people, and as a result, have flaws and will do things that are wrong or will annoy you. And then when it comes out that some youtuber did something that was just kind of dickish, people act both shocked and immediately go from adoring this person to them being [I]dead[/I] to them. People act [I]betrayed.[/I] It's so fucked up to actually believe that random actors, or just guys who make [I]youtube videos,[/I] are these perfect human beings that can do no wrong. Like they're a superhero. That's what a [I]child[/I] does. Like the McElroy Bros are getting praised by Tumblr right now as the 'Only non-problematic youtubers', but I [I]guarantee[/I] you they have bones in their closet too. Because, y'know, they're human beings, presumably. I like them but I feel like it's inevitable with that much worship that someone, somewhere, will go "Actually Griffin McElroy was a big dick to me once" or "Actually Justin McElroy has a shitty political opinion" and oUT COME THE PITCHFORKS [I]MOTHERFUCKER[/I] I'm not saying you can't be mad at someone for doing something shitty but take it down a notch and maybe don't condemn them as an irredeemable monster?

[QUOTE=Vodkavia;52877821]I have the opposite opinion, people are often way too lenient towards public figures, far more than regular people.[/QUOTE] You're not wrong but it's also important to keep in mind that public figures also do face a ridiculous amount of criticism and harsh opinions as well. In the past they were fairly insulated from this but in modern times, with the internet and social media and such, they see a lot more of the horrific things said about them as well. So while people definitely shouldn't be overly lenient towards public figures they should also keep in mind that being too harsh (ie: people who consistently fail to realize that it's another human being they're talking to on the other side of the screen) can have the opposite effect.

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;52858155]he likes his scrambled eggs with a really disgusting texture though, so he's dead to me[/QUOTE] Holy fuck I just logged on to come here and say that french scrambled eggs are gross.

I thought Max Payne 3 was OK. Fight me.

I think that the recent wave of open world games showcases why maybe open world may not be the best choice. I'd rather have more hub based gameplay like in games like Deus Ex and Vampire the Masquerade.