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I fucking loved TFA when I first saw it because it made me feel the way watching the original trilogy made me feel when I was a kid.

Unfortunately it's one of those movies that's held up less and less well for me as I've gotten some distance from it. Like, the vibe was good for me but there isn't really any substance there. I def don't hate it as much as a lot of people, and I REALLY have beef with a lot of the Star Wars fandom for their specific complaints about it, but also IMO it totally doesn't deserve to be on the same list with those other movies.

Every time I try to do this I burn my onions.

In I'm sure TOTALLY unrelated news I'm also getting screened for ADHD...

I have a few recipes that were clearly written or modified by someone using really old ground spices. Like I have a recipe for apple muffins that legitimately calls for two teaspoons of nutmeg.

I do like 4 rubs of a nutmeg on the microplane and it's perfect.

I love the instant pot especially for two things: Cooking beans and making broth.

I get a nicer texture from beans done in the instant pot than I do cooking them any other way. And I can knock out a big pot of chicken stock in like an hour. If you want it to be totally clear you have to let the pressure release naturally, but I don't care if it's cloudy because I'm just gonna turn it into something opaque anyway usually so I do a quick release so it's done faster.

I also used it to cook in summer before I got an induction burner, because my apartment's shitty electric stove dumps heat everywhere.

Upvoting because I viscerally hate this 😂

I'm also there -- hunting upgrades and doing shrines. But I'm kinda bored so I'm taking a Pikmin break.

Pikmin! I love me some Pikmin, I was so excited they finally ported it to Switch. I was legit keeping my Wii around not for any wii games, but for the sake of having a console that could run some of my favorite Gamecube games -- Pikmin, Wind Waker, Metroid Prime. Now all I need is for them to port Wind Waker and Metroid Prime 2 and I can get rid of the wii.

I dunno that I'd rank it worse than GoT myself but I did really hate that ending.

Honestly between Lost, BSG, and GoT I'm kinda burned on endings generally. I can't really think of a show that isn't a super short limited series that I'm like, that ending was great!

I liked most of Sunshine (I blame Alex Garland tbh) but the thing where it turned into a monster movie in the third act was very wtf.

Yeah the weird thing is I love the Expanse and also Tenet and my favorite book is Gnomon by Nick Harkaway, a book in which you literally have no idea wtf is going on until basically the last 10%. AND I studied a bunch of stuff about modern Chinese history and the cultural revolution in college so I have some background on the politics! Like, I SHOULD enjoy it, on paper. It's literally just the prose that's ruining it for me.

I actually really hope the TV show is good because I think I'd actually really enjoy it presented in a different format. Maybe I should try an audiobook.

A lot of nerds seem super pissed at Star Trek: Picard because it's "not Trek" and "too dark" but I actually like it because it's like "ummm this is colonialism actually???" and I have a tough time watching most older Trek because it is in fact colonialism actually.

My other unpopular scifi opinion is I hate Becky Chambers books with the fire of a thousand suns. Like I don't just not like them, they actually make me angry with how twee they are.

In general I feel that way about any "cozy" books, I also ragequit The House in the Cerulean Sea.