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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • If you’d like to stop Steam from automatically updating a game, select “Only update this game when I launch it” from the game’s Library page > Properties > Updates.

    So I think in addition to disabling auto-updates you have to play in offline mode once an update happens, or launch outside of Steam. at least, with Skyrim the script extender directly launched the exe so Steam’s “update on launch” wouldn’t happen, and I’m not quite sure what the correct way to do that for Cyberpunk is. 🤔








  • Again, I think there’s a certain crowd of internet users who are familiar with fun domain names and enjoy playing in that space. My example is particularly innocuous (a club of people who love stone megaliths in the UK). I also think the fun and playful names aren’t difficult to tell from phishing sites, but maybe I have a gut instinct developed from exposure to the folks who do use playful domains.

    My point is that thinking these quirky links look dangerous is specific to a certain social or generational group, and it wouldn’t hurt for them to keep an open mind about URLs/TLDs.

    (Adding an icon to remote fediverse instance links is a nice idea too.)




  • The story felt much more impactful to me than BotW. I was so glad they did give us a bit of linear story at the beginning, rather than starting us in the sky with none of the lead-up. I also made sure to watch the memory cutscenes in order, and basically binged the last 3 in a row because I was too excited to space them out more. And, the final battle + ending was exciting and cinematic.

    There’s definitely critiques that can be made after the fact, but in the moment I was emotionally invested in a way that BotW never reached for me.







  • The note at the end about the new system working as a URL system for user profiles is interesting, because around the time the change was announced I saw some people theorizing that the change is rolling out because Discord wants to implement some kind of profile page. pure speculation, but it’ll be interesting to see what they do when the rollout is complete.

    on that note, someone I know got the pop-up to change their username about a day before I did, and they weren’t able to choose my username – and when I got the pop-up, it auto-suggested my previous username. so it seems there is a pre-reservation system that does a reasonable job of letting people with already-unique usernames keep those.



  • Honestly we put way more effort into marinating our chicken than the actual sauce (caveat: we’re very white, and this is all picked up from reading). Meat’s expensive and Aldi’s chicken quality is… not great, but marinating it helps out a lot.

    For 6 pounds of chopped chicken breast, we do the following:

    • first marinade: 5 tbsp lemon juice, 1 tbsp salt, 1 tbsp chili powder, 1 tbsp paprika
    • smoosh all around, let sit in the fridge for ~30 min
    • second marinade: 1.5 cups plain Greek yogurt (this could probably be reduced to ~1 cup too), 6 tbsp ginger garlic paste (we load up on big jugs from our local Indian market, so much easier than making from scratch), 5 tbsp oil, 3/4 tsp turmeric, 2 tbsp garam masala, and 1 tbsp fenugreek (also from our Indian market, bought whole then ground in batches)
    • smoosh all around, keep chicken in the marinade the rest of the week while using it up.

    It’s a decent amount of effort, but only doing it once a week helps. And whenever we get lazy and have to eat our chicken without marinating it because we forgot… it’s SO much drier and less flavorful.

    (For the sauce we just use Aldi’s jarred butter chicken / korma / tikka masala. Korma is the best, the others are mediocre. They super rarely have jarred madras curry in the limited time section and that is amazing, imo actually spicy. Tragic they don’t sell it as regular stock.)