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Post by tzor » Wed Oct 19, 2011 6:07 pm

I don't think it was in Cyberpunk 2020 either. It was a part of the main core books under the section for revenue income generation of the character.
OK I'm having a problem beause many "game" sites are prohibited from work ... but could that have been a "career term" in "Dark Conspiracy" ... I'm starting to grab straws here.
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Post by sabs » Wed Oct 19, 2011 6:13 pm

Maybe it was twillight 2000. it sounds familiar, but I can't place it. And my googlefu appears too weak.
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Post by Prak » Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:58 pm

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's Cyberpunk. You're not getting a year from me, though, because I'm too lazy to go look.
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Post by Meikle641 » Mon Oct 24, 2011 3:09 am

So, I seem to have a problem with beer. I don't mind the taste of some brands, but the gas I'm getting from them is beyond excessive. I've been woken up from a sound sleep from the pain from gas pressure. Repeatedly.
Is this due to some weird sort of condition? Could taking beano or something help?
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Post by Doom » Mon Oct 24, 2011 4:14 am

Are you taking aspirin as well? If so, don't combine aspirin and beer, and I imagine there are a few other common drugs that generate a similar effect.

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Post by Meikle641 » Mon Oct 24, 2011 10:54 pm

I do take Aleve (naproxen sodium), so I guess it may have still been in my system at the time. Could be right. Before that it was Ibuprofen.
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Post by Maj » Tue Oct 25, 2011 1:44 am

Meikle: If it's gas, then a more complete digestive enzyme than Beano might help. Look for one with amylase in it. It breaks down those long chain carbohydrates.
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Post by Meikle641 » Tue Oct 25, 2011 2:15 am

Try ifranview. I use it to resize pictures regularly, and occasionally to convert.
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Post by Maj » Tue Oct 25, 2011 3:40 am

Perfect. Thank you muchly.
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Post by Maj » Thu Oct 27, 2011 8:20 pm

What the hell is wrong with American rice flour? I usually buy my rice flour at an Asian market because they have awesome prices on "weird" stuff like that, and I had no idea that it's fabulously great.
The last couple of times I've bought rice flour, to save time and gas I've bought it at the grocery store I was already in, and it's this grainy, gritty crap that makes your food turn into grainy, gritty crap.
Yesterday I was web-surfing recipes and came across mention of the fact that you shouldn't use too much rice flour in your recipes because it's much too grainy and will affect the texture of the food. This suggests to me that the shittiness of rice flour is more widespread than I thought.
What the hell??! Why can't Americans squish grains of rice properly? It's fucking up my brownies (I will never buy American rice flour again).
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Post by Count Arioch the 28th » Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:48 pm

I don't have a solution, but I wonder if it has to do with the fact that American bread is shitty too? I wonder if Americans just don't know how to properly cook grain at all...
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Post by shadzar » Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:56 pm

not many people buy rice flour as opposed to wheat flour, so check the dates on what you buy. it might be older and improperly stored so it dries out in a regular grocery store, or the product was not rotated, and not ordered often so the newer could have been bought up and the older that has been there a while is what you got.
also in the case of flours and such that are on the bottom shelf, remember the floor waxer gets real close, so those chemicals and the "exhaust" from that can easily seep into the flours and affect the taste, etc.
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Post by Koumei » Fri Oct 28, 2011 8:53 am

> Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I don't have a solution, but I wonder if it has to do with the fact that American bread is shitty too? I wonder if Americans just don't know how to properly cook grain at all...

When my mother, step-dad and youngest sister all visited America recently*, they noticed that the bread tastes very weird because of the amount of sugar put in it. Which isn't really something I can picture.
So the reason your bread is shitty is probably that. Over here we make bread the proper way: throwing basing dough in the air, and it instantly bakes in the few seconds it is exposed to Australian heat. If no animals steal it or infest it by the time you catch it, it's yours.
That's the normal way, right?
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Post by tzor » Fri Oct 28, 2011 3:58 pm

> Koumei wrote:Even if Americans don't know what non-iced tea is.

What's non-iced tea? Is that when you leave hot tea in your cup and suddenly realize that you never finished your cup of formerly hot tea an hour later?
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Post by sabs » Fri Oct 28, 2011 4:03 pm

That doesn't work in Australia. It's so hot that it will actually boil if you leave your cup of tea in the sun.
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Post by Maj » Fri Oct 28, 2011 8:52 pm

> Koumei wrote:they noticed that the bread tastes very weird because of the amount of sugar put in it

When my family traveled to Europe, we all made the observation that American bread is... lousy (except real sourdough). I'm attributing it to all the stuff on the label that we put in it, and the length of time we allow it to sit on the shelf (After all, we put all the stuff in it so we can leave it laying around).
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Post by Prak » Fri Oct 28, 2011 10:10 pm

Here's a handy solution to bad american bread, people:
1- Make it your damned self (it just takes time and planning)
2- Buy it from a real bakery, that makes it daily (even, god forbid, the place I work, Panera).
The optimal option depends on what bakeries you have around you, and how much attention you're willing to pay to making bread (protip: get a recipe that's laid out by weights, rahter than volume, and use a scale. Baking is chemistry.)
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Post by fectin » Sat Oct 29, 2011 3:16 am

Hell, even just step up to nicer bread. There is a huge difference between wonderbread and e.g. Nature's Own, and if you're willing to shell out for it, the boutiquey ones are that much better again. It's never going to be as good as fresh baked, but nothing gets you nothing.
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Post by Count Arioch the 28th » Sat Oct 29, 2011 3:17 am

I miss my breadmaker. You could just throw the ingredients in before work in the morning, and when you got back there was a fresh tasty loaf of good bread just waiting for you...
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Post by Stahlseele » Sat Oct 29, 2011 9:23 pm

My cousin had to go to America for Work related Reasons for about 2 weeks once . .
He grew up, like me, in a Bakers House-Hold.
First thing he did when he came from the airport in germany?
Went to our Grandma and asked for a good slice of bread . . .
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Post by Daiba » Sun Oct 30, 2011 9:19 am

Since we're on the topic of making bread, does anyone know of a good way to get those tiny bugs out of flour?
All of the commercial bread in Southern China is sweet, fluffy, and full of crap like red bean paste or dried, shredded pork. I'm trying to source a breadmaker (no ovens in the kitchens here), but the only flour that isn't sold in 50 kg bags is so full of tiny brown and black insects that I'm not sure it's worth it. I never knew I could miss a PB&J or a grilled cheese so much.
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Post by Prak » Sun Oct 30, 2011 10:10 am

I went to a costume contest today and forgot to bring my spirit gum just in case my horn stubs fell off, which, of course, one did. running to the store, I found no spirit gum, so I bought nail glue instead. Worked great, but I've had a headache in the area of application for roughly ten hours. How concerned should I be?
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Post by Juton » Sun Oct 30, 2011 3:32 pm

My old DM banned Warlocks in his 3.5 game, despite allowing all manners of abusive rules interpretations. One of the reasons he gave is that a Warlock can summon swarms at will, I countered with that not being overpowered because the Warlock can't control a swarm after he summons it. The DM responds with 'that's stupid', he'd allow a Warlock to control his swarms, this (and other things) making them OP, thus he bans them.
Would this count as a Reverse-Oberoni fallacy? Taking something that is relatively balanced then banning it because you house ruled it into brokeness.
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Post by CatharzGodfoot » Sun Oct 30, 2011 8:57 pm

> Daiba wrote:Since we're on the topic of making bread, does anyone know of a good way to get those tiny bugs out of flour?

A sifter, but I'm not sure that I'd have the stomach for it.
Probably won't help you, but these days Target's fancy breads from their in-store bakery are actually pretty damn' good. Not that cheap, though.
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Post by Daiba » Tue Nov 01, 2011 7:17 am

> CatharzGodfoot wrote:A sifter, but I'm not sure that I'd have the stomach for it.

I guess I'll try to get a sifter shipped over from the states...it does sound like a pretty distasteful task, but I don't have a lot of other options. Thanks.
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