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  • Plasma deck is weird. You think chips are amazing, because 50 chips is 25 mult, but it also doubles the stake requirements. So then you hit Violet Vessel on green stake and need to scrape together 1.2M and your chips just don’t scale.

    Bull is pretty good when combined with something like Rocket to boost your economy, but most chip jokers are constant or some weak scaling like Castle or Wee Joker. But even with really good mult scaling, that flat 25x25 of a foil joker is tempting…


  • HoimotoComic Strips@lemmy.worldWater into Wine
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    It’s not untrue that it boils off, but dilution is the bigger factor by a wide margin. When I use wine to deglaze, it will be 100ml. That is then turned into 2 or 3 liters of sauce, so a dilution of 1:20, 1:30. Or, expressed in percentages, 3-5% of the sauce would be wine if none of it evaporated - 14% alcohol would be reduced to less than 0.5% just by dilution.

    To get a similar reduction from evaporation, you’d need to boil off 95% of the alcohol, assuming none of the water is also evaporated, which it will at the temperature of deglazing. I don’t know the exact ratios here, but even a 75% net alcohol evaporation (which I think is generous) would leave you with a 3.5% alcohol (light beer) before dilution.

    Relevant Adam Ragusea video.

    Edit: the table he shows has 95% actual alcohol loss for a 2.5 hours simmer, but every other method (where you’d “burn it off”) is below 25%, so that’s definitely a noticeble amount of alcohol left in, especially when you start with something like a brandy.


  • HoimotoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldTrust the process!
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    Yeah, that’s not even rare! I’ve cooked my chicken medium-rare by accident, it was edible, kinda nice actually. I think medium-well is the sweet spot for chicken, but I could see someone going for a medium even. I wouldn’t really recommend medium-rare to anyone, pretty sure I dodged a bullet that time.



  • I have seen this, but with “Y”, “N” instead. That was the way the database stored it and the way the UI displayed it, but everything inbetween converted to boolean instead, because there was logic depending on those choices. It wasn’t that bad, all things considered, just a weird quirk in the system. I think there was another system that did just use those strings plain (like WHERE foo = 'Y' in stored procedures), but nothing I had to work with. We just mapped “Y” to true when reading the query results and were done with it.

    (And before anyone asks, yes, we considered any other value false. If anyone complained that their “Yes”, “y” or empty was seen as false, we told them they used it wrong. They always accepted that, though they didn’t necessarily learn from it.)



  • HoimotoGreentext@sh.itjust.worksAnon goes on a first date
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    Anime is pretty broad. It’s like saying Hollywood has a troubled history with how it depicts women, so film buffs are creepy weirdos.

    I think the troubled history isn’t even an issue with anime, but more with weeb culture in the West in the 90s and 00s. When the community is male-dominated, there will be fewer good representations of women in the popular consciousness.

    Anime is a lot more mainstream these days and millions of girls and women watch anime tailored specifically to them or general audience anime that makes sure not to lose half its potential viewership. When I’m walking around at an anime convention, the crowd seems split pretty even. Lots of independent women artists selling their fanart too. So to say that being a weeb is indicative of a flawed view of women is an outdated and baseless viewpoint.


  • Hoimotomemes@lemmy.world"I'm fine"
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    I learned it by looking up a guide on how to win at the Mahjong minigame in Yakuza 0. The guide existed. It was a crash course on how to play Riichi Mahjong.

    I also played a lot of Mahjong Soul after that. It’s a little easier to open a website than having to walk over to the Mahjong parlor every time, but a lot less atmospheric.


  • HoimotoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldGuilty as charged
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    I’m running CF.Lumen on Android which lets me turn the color all the way down to 1000k and I’m still so used to it that it’s only “kind of” orange to me. Most people can’t help but comment on it when they see it though. The default “night light” on Android is so weak, I don’t even know why they bother including the intensity slider. It slides from “no effect” to “barely noticeable”. Is there anyone who sets it to anything but full power?

    I also go full red-scale after midnight, which is noticeable even to me. Web designers, please check your UI with a grayscale filter to make sure every element has a decent contrast with its surroundings. In the meantime, I can easily switch back to 1000k when the red is hindering me.


  • Hoimotomemes@lemmy.world"I'm fine"
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    I spent 40 hours in the Mahjong parlor, waiting for my businesses to drop off their monthly profits so I could invest it again. It is an accurate depiction of being a crime boss, dammit!



  • I’ve always found it interesting that affirmation is seen as the secular alternative to swearing on the Bible, when it’s actually some branches of Christianity that are most vehemently opposed to swearing oaths. I don’t know where swearing on the Bible even came from if the Bible is so clear about it. Did the church ever condone it or was this something thought up by vaguely religious politicky types who wanted a serious promise no-take-backsies style and didn’t ask the cleric if it was alright?







  • I just remembered that this video is where I got the idea from and came to edit my comment to link it! It should be possible to build something like that in 2025, no? Why is every microwave I see in stores the exact same microwave my parents bought 30 years ago but in black?


  • Interesting, I can see why it failed though. TCP’s ideal situation is that you buy a microwaveable item with a TCP code on the box, pop it in your TCP enabled microwave, punch in the code and done. But those items will still need instructions for people without TCP microwaves, so those aren’t really my problem anyway. I want to know how long I should microwave my leftover pasta (plastic container, 300g, from the fridge). TCP would have me… go to a website and look up the right code in a table? I could probably find the right settings for a regular microwave in much the same way and that way I might actually learn something useful instead of an opaque 4-digit code.