#philip lem

[delafiseaseses]

What are your thoughts on Samuel Cooke?

Ooo this is a good question. Samuel Cooke's an interestin' bloke.

As we all know, Cooke is very anti-NCR, its even how he ended up in prison. As Cooke describes it 'I was blowing up supply caravans along the 15 freeway. The NCR got wise to my ambush spots, picked me up and threw me in a cage.' (this makes the fact the geniuses in the NCR Prison system put him in proximity to dynamite ridiculous in a way that proves 'ow incompitent the NCR am).

And Cooke is 100% correct in this statement which serves as his motivation:

"Their "republic" is a joke. They're a bunch of tyrants led by an even greater tyrant, that idiot Kimball. They think they have the right to annex every inch of dirt in the West and force their system on every man, woman, and child."

His revolution at the NCRCF, unfortunately, certainly hasn't helped the people of the Mojave: The Primm Escaped Convicts, the Deathclaws infesting the Quarry, the NCRCF Powder Gang which is just a Raider Gang.

Now, I'm not gonna blame Samuel for this, I don't know which parta the Gangers raided the Quarry, I know Cooke probably did some raiding to survive until he found Vault 19, but most of the shit that's happened is other men's faults, not Cooke's.

In fact, Cooke himself seems overall scornful of Raiders as he describes the Fiends as "Like raiders, but worse - these guys are messed up on every damn chem there is. You can spot them by the horned skulls they wear as hats." and prior to his conviction he presumably was only attackin' NCR Military Supply Caravans.

No credit will be given to Cooke in the default Vault 19 ending, the direction he's heading if y'don't interact wi' Vault 19 "Armed with a wide array of improvised explosives and stolen weapons, the Vault 19 Powder Gang tormented the Mojave Wasteland for years. Citizens of the NCR were favorite targets, and they always suffered the worst fates" in that case he ends up just as much a Raider as Eddie, and the specification that they go after Citizens of the NCR and give them 'the worst fates' that's fucked up. Cooke knows not everyone in the NCR Lands is a willing citizen, but I guess the strain of keepin' the gang t'gether and fed made him lose that awareness in that timeline.

Cooke is needed for the gang to stay together too as the 'Cooke Dead' ending says "With Cooke dead, the Powder Gangers at Vault 19 fell apart. Those who weren't destroyed by the Courier fled into the hills or attempted to work their way back through the Mojave Wasteland. Few survived." so without him it all ends badly for those loyal to him.

The Lem Surrender endin' of Vault 19 isn't particularly relevant, as the guys turn 'emselves in, probably will never be released from prison an' Cooke leaves, never to be heard from again (probably runs out of luck an' dies to a Deathclaw or somethin').

Then we have the Khans endin' for Vault 19, where they join wi' the Khans. Its a sensible tactic, though it doesn't change no matter what else y'do with the Khans (also Lem can be convinced t' do it too, but that's also not important).

Cooke's logic is simple an' understandable "There aren't enough of us here to make a real impact on the NCR, and the Khans probably hate the NCR more than we do. Strength in numbers, they say." this also provides an explanation f'why Cooke ends up just a Raider otherwise. He never thinks to ally himself with Mojave-based factions, but its possible he thinks that they wouldn't accept him and his men due to the Raiders that use the Powder Gang and Escaped Convict names.

So, in the end it says "After the majority of the Vault 19 Powder Gangers joined the Great Khans, the weaker members scattered throughout the Mojave Wasteland. Though a few managed to erase their pasts, most never survived the journey." deeply unfortunate for those weaker members. You could write an interestin' story from the perspective of someone in that situation, actually... hmm, maybe another time.

However, sadly, this means that Cooke's revolution, no matter what, never gets off the ground. The Prison Break actively hurt the Mojave and Cooke's legacy to most who know of him would likely be "Guy behind the NCRCF Outbreak" rather than "Anti-NCR Revolutionary". Samuel Cooke was right, but circumstances beyond him meant his revolution never made it.

Also, he killed Philip Lem for understandable reasons, but I'm not gonna let that slide. He could've let Lem leave like he leaves if y'side wi' Lem. Like "Didn't have a choice. He was confusing the men, and I need to control them or we're just a bunch of disorganized idiots." is not an excuse, Cooke.

[roastedpriv]

I love the fact that Philip Dick didn't believe Lem was a real person. Like. That's the weirdest beef you can have with someone

[boredtechnologist]

DMA's "Lemmings" for the Philip's CD-i console

[yougetsu]

Books & B-T

Books/stories that might have inspired B-T lyrics or albums:

Salome by Oscar Wilde Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare Hamlet by Shakespeare Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson Neuromancer by William Gibson Solaris by Stanisław Lem Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Lewis Carroll Season in Hell Arthur Rimbaud The Stranger by Albert Camus Fantomas by Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau The Fall of Icarus by Ovid Dada Manifesto by Hugo Ball The Surrealist Manifesto by André Breton The Rosicrucian manifestos The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman JoJo's Bizarre Adventure by Hirohiko Araki Hearts by Kumi Himeno The Soul of the Night by Chet Raymo Vita Mechanicalis by Inagaki Taruho Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo

Books mentioned by Acchan:

Villain by Shuichi Yoshida A Collection of Crime Stories by Shuichi Yoshida Ikari by Shuichi Yoshida Kokuhou by Shuichi Yoshida Kokoro by Natsume Soseki Audition by Ryu Murakami Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami The World Five Minutes From Now by Ryu Murakami No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai Hakyoku by Tono Haruka Kairyou by Tono Haruka Neko Nari by Numata Mahokaru Shibireru by Numata Mahokaru Kugatsu ga Eien ni Tsuzukeba by Numata Mahokaru Yurigokoro by Numata Mahokaru On Decadence by Sakaguchi Ango Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima  Death Spirits by Yutaka Haniya Living Tips by Itsuki Hiroyuki Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino Shiki by Fuyumi Ono Bride of Deimos written by Etsuko Ikeda & illustrated by Yuho Ashibe The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky Night on the Galactic Railroad by Kenji Miyazawa Gedou no uta by Daisuke Watanabe Tokkou no shima by Satō Shūhō

Other authors mentioned by Acchan:

Junji Ito Randi Taguchi Ryunosuke Akutagawa Yasunari Kawabata Natsuhiko Kyogoku Ayatsuji Yukito Sakuraba Kazuki Nobuyuki Fukumoto Hermann Hesse Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sources:

nopperabou.net Jrockarchive This is not greatest site Buck-Tick Zone Vk BT group Book list gathered by fans (twt) FT bulletins Ongaku to hito interviews Kurumi chan no Heya (FM COCOLO) B-T profiles through the years I've saved Personal scans & magazines

Feel free to add more books/novels/mangas <3

[undeadcourier]

Top 10 F:NV Side Quests/Unmarked Quests You Don't Want To Miss

These are specifically quests that I think are particularly entertaining, offer unique role-playing opportunities, and/or provide interesting insights into the game's npcs—and which I think are pretty easy to miss. For that reason, I haven't included any companion quests or some of the more prominent side quests.

1. The White Wash - Discover why the NCR sharecroppers aren't getting their full allotment of water and what happened to Corporal White. My recommendation: bring Arcade.

2. Silus Treatment - Help Lieutenant Boyd at Camp McCarran in her interrogation of Silus, a Legion Centurion. My recommendation: do this with Speech 50 or Intelligence 8.

3. Someone to Watch Over Me - Help Crandon keep North Vegas Square safe from squatters/Greasers; discover what happened to Alice Hostetler and advise her with regard to her family problems.

4. Aba Daba Honeymoon - Help Diane and Jack of the Great Khans with their chem trade. You can learn the special unarmed move, Khan Trick, by completing this quest.

5. Why Can't We Be Friends? - Either facilitate an alliance between Samuel Cooke and the Powder Gangers of Vault 19 and the Great Khans, or destroy the caves for Philip Lem and convince him to either join the Khans or turn himself and the Powder Gangers in to the NCR.

6. I Fought the Law - Help Eddie deal with some problems the Powder Gangers have had since taking the NCRCF.

7. A Final Plan for Esteban - Retrieve Esteban's body from the Fiends for his widow, Private Morales, who is stuck at Camp McCarran. My recommendation: speak to the NCR troopers stationed nearby the Fiend base before and after retrieving the bodies.

8. Malleable Mini Boomer Minds - Make friends with the kids at Nellis. My recommendation: bring a rocket souvenir or dino toy (distinct from a dinky souvenir).

9. Rotface's Loose Lips - Get the hot goss from Rotface in Freeside. My recommendation: talk to him at least 30 times so you don't miss anything juicy.

10. Thought for the Day - Have your fortune told by the Forecaster beneath the 188 Trading Post.

[lloke]

I was tagged by @nohoperadio for this meme about 10 books or categories-of-books you're planning to read this year... their list is full of Actual Literature and mine isn't going to be nearly as impressive, but here it is anyway...

So I use Goodreads (link - feel free to friend me) and have a gigantic to-read list, which I've tried to manage by breaking it up into various categories/genres, ordering each list according to an obscure algorithm and then rotating through the categories in an overly complicated system that changes every few months... but without some kind of system to tell me what to read next I think I would just be paralyzed by indecision because there are too many books that I want to read Right Now. But anyway that means my reading is pretty planned out and I do have a pretty good idea of what I'm going to be reading this year.

I read mostly SFF and one subgenre I've been very into lately is "stuff with interesting aliens" and one book that's currently near the top of that list is The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, which as I understand it is a book about aliens and religion, both topics that I'm interested in. So I'm looking forward to that one.

Another category which is sometimes a subgenre of the above is books (usually SF but occasionally fantasy) which depict a society that Does Gender Differently, especially in the sense of having some kind of non-binary gender system. Sometimes I become an insane completionist about things, and this is one of those things.... it's just fun seeing how many different tri-gender (or whatever) systems writers can come up with, even when the books themselves are otherwise terrible. I've now read most of the well-known stuff in this subgenre and have been venturing into the increasingly obscure... one that I'll probably get to this year is called Eifelheim by Michael Flynn, which apparently also involves both religious themes and aliens with three sexes? Hey, sign me up.

In the general category of "stuff by authors I like and want to read more of" some I've got coming up are Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K. Dick, The Truth and Other Stories by Stanisław Lem, Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin.... also some more Asimov and Heinlein, which I'm a little embarrassed about as I have been given to understand that all Real SF Fans already read all that "golden age" stuff when they were 12 and haven't glanced at it since.

Also: more silly Sherlock Holmes fanfics pastiches, of which I've already read way too many. I usually go for the ones that bring in SFF elements (the crackier the better) or that sound like they might have h/c in them lol. Coming up in the near future is Lindsay Faye's Observations by Gaslight.

In the nonfiction category, the next on the list is Buddhisms: An Introduction by John S. Strong, which I picked out just by searching around for a good introductory book on the topic. That's how I tend to approach nonfiction reading, by starting with a general overview of whatever topic I'm interested in to get some background on the "scholarly consensus" before delving into books on more specific subtopics or scholars presenting their own idiosyncratic view or "bold new theory" or whatever. Mostly I've been reading about religion lately; I kind of want to get back into math and science stuff which I liked as a kid and did well at in school, but everything I learned is so rusty now... and I dunno, I like the idea of being the sort of person who actually understands relativity theory or whatever but realistically I'm probably not actually smart enough for it lol.

I guess that's roughly ten things. Tagging (only if they want to obviously) @ipsomaniac @paradigm-adrift and/or anyone else who feels like doing it.

[thirdity]

This is the paradox of "where should you most expect to find God?" A: "in the least likely place." [...] So my writing — itself part of the "gutter" and, as Lem says, "piling trash upon trash" — may serve as the sort of gadfly kind of thing that Socrates considered himself to act as. My writing is a very unlikely place to expect to encounter the holy, the Koinos, the message-processing, Ubik-like ultimate entity.

Philip K. Dick, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

[taumont]

My list of books I wish to have read by the end of the year:

Quiet Days in Clichy -- Henry Miller

La petite vertu -- James Hadley Chase

Breakfast of Champions -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Call at Corazon -- Paul Bowles

Solaris -- Stanislaw Lem

Slaughterhouse-Five -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Savage Detectives -- Roberto Bolano

La Boutique Obscure: 124 Dreams -- Georges Perec

Mon corps pour me guérir: décodage psychobiologique des maladies -- Christian Flèche

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living -- Joseph Campbell

Speak, Memory -- Vladimir Nabokov

Supreme Influence: Change Your Life with the Power of the Language You Use -- Niurka

The Journey and the Guide: A practical course in Enlightment -- Maitreyabandhu

Egon Schiele: Drawings and Water-colours -- Egon Schiele, Erwin Mitsch

Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears -- Pema Chodron

Rumi Revealed: Selected Poems from the Divan of Shams -- Rassouli

Confessions of an Art Addict -- Peggy Guggenheim

The Executioner's Song -- Norman Mailer

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead -- Olga Tokarczuk

Flights -- Olga Tokarczuk

America -- Jean Baudrillard

Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays -- Durga Chew-Bose

I Had Nowhere to Go -- Jonas Mekas

Francesca Woodman -- Marco Pierini

Yves Klein -- Hannah Weitmeier

Dune (Dune #1) -- Frank Herbert

Oreillers d'herbes -- Natsume Soseki

Les Choses humaines -- Karine Tuil

The Energy of Slaves: Poems -- Leonard Cohen

Selected Writings - Antonin Artaud

The Sisters Brothers -- Patrick deWitt

Pastoralia -- George Saunders

Signs Preceding the End of the World -- Yuri Herrera

Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley -- Peter Guralnick

Break, Blow, Burn -- Camille Paglia

Voyage au bout de la nuit -- Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Philip K. Dick: In His Own Words -- Philip K. Dick

Autobiography of a Yogi -- Paramahansa Yogananda

A Confederacy of Dunces -- John Kennedy Toole

Babel -- Patti Smith

Keith Haring Journals -- Keith Haring

Foam of the Daze -- Boris Vian

Inherent Vice -- Thomas Pynchon

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 -- Goran Olsso

Le Diable au Corps -- Raymond Radiguet

Bluets -- Maggie Nelson

Girl, Woman, Other -- Bernardine Evaristo

Devenir un ange -- Francesca Woodman

Faithfull: An Autobiography -- Marianne Faithfull

The Master and Margarita -- Mikhail Bulgakov

Eve's Hollywood - Eve Babitz

In Watermelon Sugar -- Richard Brautigan

[909th]

Are you reading anything lately?

i’ve been on a bit of a scifi kick bc i finished reading solaris and it absolutely destroyed me so really anything by stanisław lem or philip k dick or william gibson i can get my hands on i’ll read. i’m on ubik by pkd rn and it’s a bit confusing and really none of the characters are likeable so far but the setting does intrigue me so i’m sticking w it… also i got a copy of lies and sorcery by elsa morante which i’m excited for but it’s long so i’m saving it until i can just lock in and devour it. i have a copy of the betrothed by alessandro manzoni which is in the same situation lol. in terms of nonfiction though i’ve been meaning to read john barrow’s pi in the sky which is this weird little book about the connection between math and theology which is something i’ve been curious about for awhile. i’m sure there’s some stuff i’m forgetting but that’s my tbr for the next couple months :)

[delafiseaseses]

Created this Graph of Powder Gangers

I shall also write what this says with some further elaboration under a 'Read More'.

We start at Cooke's Prison Break. At which point the Powder Gangers split into 3 factions: The NCRCF Powder Gang, The Bison Steve Escaped Convicts and The Vault 19 Powder Gang (originally simply 'Cooke's Faction' before reaching Vault 19).

We'll now go over all these factions, starting with the Bison Steve Escaped Convicts.

Leader: Escaped Convict Leader.

Several Unnamed Convicts (both called 'Escaped Convicts' and just 'Convicts')

This faction is unaffiliated with any other Powder Gang and does not have any implied affiliates who use Powder Gang Reputation.

Next we'll go over the Vault 19 Powder Gang

At Vault 19

Leader: Samuel Cooke

Opposition: Philip Lem

Several unnamed members labelled 'Escaped Convicts'

This group does not use Powder Ganger Reputation.

At Whittaker Farmstead

A few unnamed Powder Gangers who use Powder Ganger Reputation.

These gangers are explicitly linked to Samuel Cooke only in a cut note and by proximity to Vault 19.

Now we have the big one. The NCRCF Powder Gang. The main faction of Powder Gangers. All members use Powder Ganger Reputation.

At NCRCF

Leader: Eddie

Second in Command: Scrambler (could also be called 'Main Bodyguard' or maybe 'Enforcer')

"Doctor": Hannigan (6 months training as a medic)

Trader: Carter

Front Door Guard: Dawes

The NCRCF is also home to the unaffiliated non-member ex-inmate Meyers, at one point Meyers would've had his own small group of 'Deputies' if he was put in-charge of Primm (there is still some reference to them in dialogue).

Joe Cobb's Gang, which could also be called Joe Cobb's Crew.

Leader: Joe Cobb

5 other members

A raiding party of the NCRCF. They charge 'tolls' to travelers on I-15, some of Joe Cobb's gang (though Ringo says they attacked without warning).

Boxcars' Crew which could also be called 'The Nipton Crew'

Possible Leader: Boxcars

Other Members: Oliver Swanick, Legion Captives, Legion Crucified

The ill-fated Nipton party. Called 'my crew' by Boxcars. Use Powder Ganger Reputation.

Tricked into a deathtrap by the Legion and corrupt Nipton Mayor Joseph B. Steyn. Oliver runs into Radscorpions and if you save the Captives they run into Ghouls. So, its safe to say that this crew has been disbanded.

Other NCRCF Gangers

The unnamed Gangers found at Powder Ganger Camp North, East and West.

The Gangers around NCRCF (such as on I-15, I don't think the ones currently around the sacked caravan are Joe Cobb's Gang due to their lack of participation in the Goodsprings Raid).

The Primm Powder Ganger Ambushers.

Now for the Chavez Splinter Faction which could also be called 'Chavez' Crew' or the 'Camp North Splinter Faction'.

At Powder Ganger Camp North

Leader: Chavez

3 other members

Chavez refuses to respect Eddie's authority, so Eddie orders him dead. On the the matter of the other members of this splinter faction Eddie says "Chavez is the ringleader. Without him, his crew will fall apart, and I don't give a shit about those guys."

Now we go onto the Unknown Affiliation Powder Gangers who have no direct hints as to which faction they're a part of.

First we have Hawkins, named in-game simply as Powder Ganger he is found dead by Quarry Junction, implied to have killed a Deathclaw before he was killed by them. He was presumably killed a fair bit after the Gangers stormed and claimed Quarry Junctions Dynamite, which means he was either a loner, a member of the NCRCF Faction who went too far north or a member of Vault 19 who went back that direction.

Now we have the Hunter's Farm Powder Gangers

Located in proximity to Whittaker Farmstead and Vault 19, they nevertheless have no content cut or in-game that directly ties them to the Vault 19 Powder Gang and they use Powder Ganger Rep, meaning its possible they're a far-northern NCRCF Crew.

So, yeah, I think that's about everythin'. If I missed anythin' do tell me. I tried t' be very extensive.

[watchingcbeams]

Compiled a bunch of reading lists/recommendations in my notes

Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees by Michael Bishop

In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman

Camp Concentration by Thomas Disch

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

Engines of Logic: Mathematicians and the Origin of the Computer by Martin Davis

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

Polemics by Alain Badiou

Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns by Kent Beck

Speedboat by Renata Adler

The Dynamics of Creation by Gregory Bateson

The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics by Leonard Susskind

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Hard to Be a God by the Strugatsky Brothers

The Invincible by Stanisław Lem

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’brien

Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

Far Away and Long Ago by W.H. Hudson

The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

The Stone Leopard by Colin Forbes

The Dream Master by Roger Zelazny

The Exile Waiting by Vonda McIntyre

Valis by Philip K. Dick

Nova by Samuel Delany

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe

Martian Time Slip by Philip K. Dick

Ubik by Philip K. Dick

Lancelot by Walker Percy

Rabbit, Run by John Updike

Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan

Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov

A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design by Frank Wilczek

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Bicycling Science (MIT Press) by David Gordon Wilson

Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini

Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients by Jeremy R. Smith

How to Be Alone: Essays by Jonathan Frazen 

On Beauty by Umberto Eco

On Ugliness by Umberto Eco

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

South Wind by Norman Douglas

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow

The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet by Rainer Zitelmann

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm by Lewis Dartnell

The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder

The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It by Kelly McGonigal

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

This Will Make You Smarter by John Brockman (Editor)

Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society by Jim Manzi

Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward Tufte

Wonderland by Joyce Carol Oates

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Childhood; Boyhood; Youth by Leo Tolstoy

Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Run Rabbit by John Updike

House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré

Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brien

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The Coalwood Way by Homer Hickam

Hail and Farewell by George Moore

The American by Henry James

Victory by Joseph Conrad

Collected Poems by Robert Lowell

Collected Poems by W.H. Auden

Guerrillas by V.S. Naipaul

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Sanctuary by William Faulkner

The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood

The Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens

The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

Victory by Joseph Conrad

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings

The Open Boat by Stephen Crane

The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Alexander Jessup

The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett

The Red and the Black by Stendhal

The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France

The Overstory by Richard Powers

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Possession by A.S. Byatt

The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse

De Facto Inclusions of Italo Calvino: The Baron in the Trees; The Nonexistent Knight; The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino

The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham

The Oxford Book of English Verse

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

The Oath by John Lescroart

Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete Poetical Works

Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust

Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

[elementalgod-aj]

Anthro Allies Remastered (Part 4)

Part Two of the mammals

Lagomorphs

Sprint (Rabbit hybrid)

Gregory ( Continental Giant/Flemish Giant)

Eira (Snowshoe Hare)

Jack/Seac (Hare/ Jackrabbit)

Chica (Pika)

Ignatius (Volcano Rabbit)

Rodents

Zuke (Grasshopper Mouse), Peak (House/Field Mouse), Duke (Pack rat), Sneak (Black/Brown Rat), Poke (Spiny Mouse), Mesh (Maned Rat). Bound (Jerboa), Branch (Birch Mouse), Squeak (Mouse-Like Hamster), Cheeks (Hamster), Leap (Gerbil), Flirt (Vole), Ermentrude (Bamboo Rat/African Mole rat), Root (Zokor), Cliff (Lemming), Kastur (Muskrat)

Engi (Beaver), Kicks (Kangaroo rat), Go-4 (Gophers), Pouch ( Pocket mouse)

Rookie (Guinea Pig), Virtue (Capybara), Buster (New World Porcupine), Patricia/Thorn (Old World Porcupine), Cookie (Chinchilla), O.T. (Nutria), Bare (Naked Mole Rat), Dwojra (Blesmol Mole Rat)

Wrilly (Grey Squirrel), Maple (Red Squirrel), Danny (Chipmunks), Glide (Flying Squirrel), Philip (Marmot/Groundhog), Maisie (Prairie Dog), Areca (Palm Squirrel), Bling (Oriental Giant Squirrel), Nobby (Dormouse), Mount (Mountain beaver)

Fisk (Spring Hare), Screwy (Scaly tail), Twinge (Flying Mouse)

Scandentia

Felicity (Large Treeshrew)

Banxs (Pen Tailed Treeshrew)

Dermoptera

Galan (Philippine Colugo/Flying Lemur)

Flag (Sunda Colugo/Flying Lemur)

Primates

Anomy (Unspecified Monkey)

Ina (Unspecified Monkey) Belongs to @mabelcococups

Richie (Lemur)

Tara (Tarsier)

Manga (Old and New World Monkey)

Samosa (Ape)

Wicked (Human/Fae)

Forge (Human/ Shapeshifter)

Quilia (Human/Fire creature)

Xuitra (Human/Ice Creature)

Mystery (Mutant Human)

Historia (Mutant Human)

Mada/Adam (Clone Human)

Emey (Human)

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Máy sấy thực phẩm phổ biến: So sánh và chọn lựa

So sánh các loại máy sấy thực phẩm phổ biến trên thị trường năm 2024

Trong thời đại hiện nay, khi cuộc sống ngày càng bận rộn, nhu cầu sử dụng máy sấy thực phẩm để bảo quản và chế biến thức ăn trở nên phổ biến hơn bao giờ hết. Với nhiều công dụng như sấy khô, làm mứt, ướp gia vị, hay đơn giản là bảo quản thực phẩm lâu hơn, máy sấy thực phẩm là thiết bị không thể thiếu trong nhiều gia đình và cả các cơ sở sản xuất.

Tuy nhiên, với hàng loạt các mẫu mã và chủng loại trên thị trường, việc lựa chọn một chiếc máy sấy thực phẩm phù hợp không phải là điều dễ dàng. Bài viết này sẽ cung cấp cho bạn một cái nhìn tổng quan về các loại máy sấy thực phẩm, từ đó giúp bạn c�� thể chọn mua được sản phẩm phù hợp với nhu cầu và ngân sách của mình.

1. Tổng quan về máy sấy thực phẩm

Máy sấy thực phẩm là thiết bị sử dụng để loại bỏ độ ẩm trong thực phẩm, giúp bảo quản và kéo dài thời hạn sử dụng của chúng. Nguyên lý hoạt động của máy sấy thực phẩm là làm nóng không khí và thổi qua thực phẩm, làm bốc hơi nước, và sau đó làm lạnh không khí để thực phẩm khô ráo và giữ được hương vị.

Máy sấy thực phẩm có nhiều ứng dụng trong cuộc sống hàng ngày, từ việc sấy khô trái cây, rau củ, đến làm mứt, ướp gia vị, hay thậm chí là sấy khô thịt, cá cho các món ăn đặc biệt. Với khả năng bảo quản thực phẩm lâu dài, máy sấy thực phẩm giúp tiết kiệm chi phí và thời gian mua sắm, đồng thời mang đến sự tiện lợi cho người sử dụng.

2. Máy sấy thực phẩm gia đình

2.1. Máy sấy mini để bàn

Máy sấy mini để bàn là loại máy sấy thực phẩm có kích thước nhỏ gọn, thường có công suất từ 200-500W, phù hợp với nhu cầu sử dụng của 2-4 người. Với thiết kế đơn giản, máy sấy mini thường có giá thành rẻ, dao động trong khoảng 1-3 triệu đồng.

Một số thương hiệu phổ biến sản xuất máy sấy mini để bàn có thể kể đến như: Philips, Magic Bullet, Aroma Housewares, và Gourmia. Các model của Philips như HD9408/21 và HD9419/90 là những lựa chọn phổ biến với giá cả phải chăng và hiệu quả sấy tốt. Magic Bullet cũng có dòng máy sấy mini với model MB1001R, trong khi Aroma Housewares có model AFS-218 với thiết kế bắt mắt.

2.2. Máy sấy gia đình cỡ vừa

Máy sấy gia đình cỡ vừa là loại máy sấy có công suất lớn hơn, thường từ 500-1000W, phù hợp với gia đình có từ 4-6 thành viên. Với kích thước lớn hơn, máy sấy cỡ vừa có thể sấy được nhiều thực phẩm cùng lúc và có giá thành dao động trong khoảng 3-7 triệu đồng.

Các thương hiệu nổi tiếng sản xuất máy sấy gia đình cỡ vừa bao gồm: Nesco, Excalibur, và Presto. Nesco có dòng máy sấy Gardenmaster nổi tiếng với model FD-1040, có khả năng điều chỉnh nhiệt độ và thời gian sấy linh hoạt. Excalibur cũng có model EXC10EL với 10 khay sấy và hệ thống làm khô bằng quạt đối lưu. Còn Presto có model 06301 Dehydro với thiết kế nhỏ gọn và giá cả phải chăng.

3. Máy sấy công nghiệp

3.1. Máy sấy công nghiệp cỡ nhỏ

Máy sấy công nghiệp cỡ nhỏ là loại máy sấy có công suất từ 1000-3000W, thường được sử dụng trong các hộ kinh doanh nhỏ hoặc các cửa hàng thực phẩm. Với khả năng sấy nhanh và hiệu quả, máy sấy công nghiệp cỡ nhỏ có giá thành từ 7-15 triệu đồng.

Một số ứng dụng thực tế của máy sấy công nghiệp cỡ nhỏ bao gồm: sấy khô nguyên liệu cho sản xuất bánh kẹo, sấy rau quả cho các nhà hàng, hay sấy khô cá, tôm, thịt cho các cơ sở chế biến thực phẩm. Các thương hiệu uy tín sản xuất máy sấy công nghiệp cỡ nhỏ có thể kể đến như: Waring, LEM, và STX International.

3.2. Máy sấy công nghiệp cỡ lớn

Máy sấy công nghiệp cỡ lớn là loại máy sấy có công suất trên 3000W, thường được sử dụng trong các nhà máy, xí nghiệp sản xuất thực phẩm. Với khả năng sấy một lượng lớn thực phẩm cùng lúc, máy sấy công nghiệp cỡ lớn có giá thành trên 15 triệu đồng.

Các model máy sấy công nghiệp cỡ lớn phổ biến bao gồm: LEM 1153365, STX International STX-100, và Waring Commercial WFD1000. Những máy sấy này có thiết kế lớn, nhiều khay sấy, và có thể điều chỉnh nhiệt độ và thời gian sấy linh hoạt để phù hợp với nhiều loại thực phẩm khác nhau.

4. So sánh ưu nhược điểm

4.1. Máy sấy gia đình

Ưu điểm: Máy sấy gia đình có giá thành rẻ, dễ sử dụng, và tiết kiệm điện năng. Với kích thước nhỏ gọn, máy sấy gia đình phù hợp với không gian bếp của nhiều gia đình.

Nhược điểm: Công suất nhỏ, thời gian sấy lâu, và không phù hợp với nhu cầu sấy số lượng lớn thực phẩm. Máy sấy gia đình thường chỉ phù hợp với gia đình có 4-6 thành viên.

4.2. Máy sấy công nghiệp

Ưu điểm: Máy sấy công nghiệp có công suất lớn, sấy nhanh và đồng đều, phù hợp với nhu cầu sản xuất quy mô lớn. Máy sấy công nghiệp có thể điều chỉnh nhiệt độ và thời gian sấy linh hoạt, đáp ứng nhiều loại thực phẩm khác nhau.

Nhược điểm: Giá thành cao, tốn điện năng, và cần không gian lớn để lắp đặt. Máy sấy công nghiệp thường chỉ phù hợp với các cơ sở sản xuất, nhà hàng, hoặc các hộ kinh doanh thực phẩm.

5. Tiêu chí chọn mua máy sấy phù hợp

Để chọn mua được một chiếc máy sấy thực phẩm phù hợp, bạn nên cân nhắc các yếu tố sau:

Nhu cầu sử dụng: Xác định nhu cầu sấy thực phẩm của gia đình hoặc cơ sở sản xuất. Nếu nhu cầu sấy lớn, bạn nên chọn máy sấy công nghiệp. Ngược lại, nếu nhu cầu sấy nhỏ, máy sấy gia đình là lựa chọn tiết kiệm và phù hợp.

Không gian lắp đặt: Xem xét không gian bếp hoặc khu vực sản xuất để chọn máy sấy có kích thước phù hợp. Máy sấy gia đình thường nhỏ gọn hơn so với máy sấy công nghiệp.

Ngân sách: Cân nhắc ngân sách sẵn có để chọn mua máy sấy phù hợp. Máy sấy gia đình có giá thành rẻ hơn so với máy sấy công nghiệp.

Thương hiệu uy tín: Chọn mua máy sấy của các thương hiệu uy tín để đảm bảo chất lượng và độ bền của sản phẩm. Các thương hiệu nổi tiếng thường có dịch vụ bảo hành và hỗ trợ khách hàng tốt hơn.

Hy vọng với những thông tin trên, bạn có thể lựa chọn được một chiếc máy sấy thực phẩm phù hợp với nhu cầu và ngân sách của mình. Chúc bạn có những trải nghiệm thú vị với thiết bị tiện ích này!

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Philip Lowe, Bullock’s predecessor, once copped flak for saying people might need to get a flatmate or move back in with parents to cope with higher housing costs. (He later said the comments had been taken out of context.)

Bullock went somewhat down a similar path. The RBA has estimated for some time that “around 5%” of owner-occupiers on variable-rate loans would be in relative strife after consecutive rate hikes.

On Thursday, the governor repeated that number for those borrowers “in a particularly challenging situation” where income is not keeping up with “essential spending and scheduled mortgage repayments”.

While households were getting by via cutting back on essentials, shifting to lower-quality goods and services, dipping into savings or working more hours, Bullock said that won’t always be enough.

“Some may ultimately make the difficult decision to sell their homes,” she said, noting lower-income borrowers were “over-represented in the group of people who are really struggling”.

Selling would, of course, be bad news for those involved. Bullock’s general gist, though, was that letting inflation stay higher for longer would deliver a worse fate for society’s battlers.

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Sad truth but a truth nonetheless: far too many Australians assumed interest rates would stay near zero for another 10 years. They were wrong.

If you were one of the thousands of lemmings who asked a bank for a jumbo loan at a VARIABLE rate - without doing the math to ensure you could manage repayments if rates went back to their historical average of 4-6% - That's on you - you fucked up.

Yes, the banks should have prevented you from taking the loan, but we all know banks are crooks, don't we class?

Don't take a VARIABLE RATE loan that you can't repay if INTEREST RATES GO HIGHER. Pretty fucking simple.

If these "high interest rates" (which are actually normal, not high) are sticking around and you can't afford that - yea, you might need to sell your house.

That's actually the best outcome for everyone because distressed sales signals to the rest of the economy that the price of housing is off the fucking tracks and needs to be reset - which is also a sad truth.

Distressed sales help to reduce the inflated price of housing - and that's kind of the RBA's job isn't it?

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Books read in / Libros leídos en 2023

1. A Christmas Carol and Other Stories / Canción de Navidad y otros cuentos (Charles Dickens) 2. Foundation and Earth / Fundación y Tierra (Isaac Asimov) 3. Exhalation / Exhalación (Ted Chiang) 4. Litenverse / Aventuras en el Litenverso (Nino Cipri)* 5. The Descent of Monsters / El descenso de los monstruos (Neon Yang) 6. Scale Bright / Escamas de luz (Benjanun Sriduangkaew) 7. Carcoma (Layla Martínez) 8. Of sorrow and such / De conjuros y otras penas (Angela Slatter) 9. Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales / Cuentos de Hadas de Angela Carter (Angela Carter) 10. The Once and Future Witches / Las brujas del ayer y del mañana (Alix E. Harrow) 11. The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday / El gurja y el Señor de los Martes (Saad Z. Hossain) 12. Complete Poetry I / Poesía completa I (Federico García Lorca) 13. The Fall of Hyperion / La caída de Hyperion (Dan Simmons) 14. Lavinia (Ursula K. Le Guin) 15. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) 16. Fables / Fábulas (Jean de La Fontaine) 17. The Mythology of Plants II: Special Botany / Mitología de las Plantas II: Botánica Especial (Angelo de Gubernatis) 18. Solaris (Stanisław Lem) 19. Spear / Lanza (Nicola Griffith) 20. The Wheel of Time III: The Dragon Reborn / La rueda del tiempo III: El dragón renacido (Robert Jordan) 21. The Ascent to Godhood / El ascenso a lo divino (Neon Yang) 22. Wuthering Heights / Cumbres borrascosas (Emily Brontë) 23. Collected Stories vol. 3 / Cuentos completos 3 (Philip K. Dick) 24. Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth / Leyendas y folklore irlandeses (WIlliam B. Yeats) 25. The Philosopher Kings / Los reyes filósofos (Jo Walton) 26. Noches de Navidad (VV. AA.) 27. Sacred Fire / Fuego sagrado (Nnedi Okorafor)

* This book includes: Finna & Defekt.