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The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace holds the brew that is true.

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A funny thing about video games is that a lot of what passes for "difficulty" is really just being obtuse about what's expected of the player, which means I can often walk into a boss fight or whatnot that's considered very challenging by the fandom and no-hit it on my second try, not because I have any aptitude (I don't), or because I practice (I don't), but because I've been doing this for thirty-five years, and on the first try I recognised this exact gimmick from some random-ass Super Nintendo game from 1997 and thus already knew the counterplay.

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casualdehyde implies the existence of competitivedehyde

formaldehyde implies the existence of casualdehyde

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It will like Italians, penguins, and the paintings of Nicholas Roerich?

Superintelligence will have biases we can't even imagine

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the rainbow is a well-known symbol of gay pride that originated in the late 1970s in san francisco, when the gay community promised to never again destroy the earth by flood

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If you want to start from zero at cooking, A Man, A Can, A Plan by David Joachim is a fun introduction where almost all the recipes have 3-8 ingredients with instructions of "mix these canned goods together and toss them with this other thing." You will soon see six ways you could develop on any recipe, like adding (more) spices, using fresh instead of canned ingredients, or using more ingredients.

Another approach is mastering one (1) recipe. You will then see how many recipes are just variations on it. If you can make fried rice, you can make biryani or jambalaya.

Other hobbies/crafts have the same issue. I have often seen woodworkers say, "Why would you pay thousands of dollars for that? You can make it at home for $200 worth of materials," without adding, "if you already have a $10,000 wood shop and 20 years of experience with it." The cooking way you build from zero to the full shop is buying a new spice once per month until you have a full spice rack. That is your new spice to learn this month. (My local library has a monthly Spice Club cooking club to help folks learn and diversify.)

Some hobbies/crafts do not have this. My mother crochets award-winning afghans, but making them still takes $50-100 in yarn and 40+ hours. Given minimal value for labor and materials, these are all $500 blankets, and there are not many ways to bring that cost down without getting a very different product.

the really crazy thing about cooking is that once you practice it enough (for all the gamers reading this: "grind enough exp") your threshold for wuat counts as a low effort / depression / I Dont Really Want To Cook meal rises steadily and you can feel yourself becoming the kind of person whose "chill dinner" takes 1h45 and involves three pans

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@shitifindon‘s face when I showed him this was spectacular

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did i tell u guys i got into an argument on twitter bc i said foxes are dogs and someone tried to bring up their actual fuckin. classification or whatever and i just said “foxes are dogs cause they are fluffye” and they kept arguing with me. the entire time i was like “you will not survive the immigration to tumblr you are lucky we are not there right now”

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The wisdom of the ancients kinda sucks compared to what we got now

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My favorite Soviet era joke: Three Russian men were sent by their company to attend a convention in Moscow. All 3 shared a hotel room. Two of them cracked open a bottle of vodka, but the third just wanted to sleep. The two drinkers got louder and louder as the bottle emptied, telling each other political jokes. The third was kept awake, and got angry.

He went outside for a smoke. On his way back to his room, he stopped at the desk and said 'Please send a pot of tea up to room 23.'

The two drunks were still being loud. The third man went in, looked at them, then leaned over to the light socket 'Comrade Major, please send some tea to my room.'

The other men thought this was hilarious...until there was a knock on the door, and a waiter with a pot of tea. They became completely silent, and the third man fell asleep.

When he woke up in the morning, he was alone. He went to the front desk, and asked where his roommates were.

'Well, the KGB came this morning and took them away.'

The man was horrified 'why did they spare me?!?'

"The comrade major thought the tea joke was very funny."

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Annika Caswell a student from the Wimbledon School of Art wardrobe department, dressed as Catherine Parr, next to her portrait attributed to Master John, c. 1545 in the National Portrait Gallery, London. * The students are recreating portraits dating from the Tudor period to the 19th century which have been inspiration for their lavish costumes . (Photo by Rebecca Naden - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)

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My coworker said he was having a bad day and I said 'it can't be that bad you haven't started howling like a sad dog yet' and he let out the saddest most pathetic little howl I've ever heard and I was like 'damn ok do you need to have a break?'

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I recommend at least half of Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman, better known as the author of The Princess Bride. The book is divided into two sections. The latter half is roughly "fun movie production and celebrity stories from being a screenwriter on-set." The first half is an extended argument against the auteur theory of filmmaking on the basis that too many cooks are in the kitchen. Even the most obsessed and controlling director is in an environment where many other people are contributing, compromises will be made with reality, and further changes will be made in post-production.

The linked story is the tiniest microcosm of that. It explores how and why one detail went from being perfectly correct in the first draft to elaborately and intentionally wrong by the final version, even making the argument that the movie is better for it. (And it includes some great research and journalism.)

(Another fun story of movies changing is "How Star Wars was saved in the edit," which makes the case that Star Wars as filmed by George Lucas wasn't that great but Star Wars as edited by Maria Lucas was a huge hit. Some filmmakers are great idea people who need others to refine and execute those ideas. As opposed to "the studio destroyed my vision.")

“The bird in Charlie’s Angels is, I believe, the wrongest bird in the history of cinema — and one of the weirdest and most inexplicable flubs in any movie I can remember. It is elaborately, even ornately wrong.” (I was slack-jawed by the end of this.)

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Half of Tumblr has gender dysphoria, which is basically the same thing.

The average person really would maybe be better off defaulting to something like "Men are women and women are men, don't worry about it."