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[–] toofpic 22 points 4 months ago (7 children)

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Disco Elysium
Don't Starve
Dirt
Dishonored
Deus ex
Darkest Dungeon
Deadbolt
Dungeon of endless
Dwarf Fortress
Dying Light

A well-rounded list with some great time-sinkers in it!

[–] toofpic 9 points 4 months ago

You're probably right, but there are other reasons. I don't have any statistics to support my point, but looking at a (comparatively) low level of food waste in Russia, I could come up with some ideas why (based on 37 years living there):

  • It's generally frowned upon if you throw away a lot of food. Probably because most of the population didn't have much on their table. And especially in Saint-Petersburg (Leningrad) which was blockaded, and where starvation was a real thing. My grandmother survived that, and she would always remind me of the struggle when I left something on my plate.
  • Most of the population lives in cities, and even if a poor family is living in some shitty town far away from everything, the conditions can be bad, but not "dirt floor" bad, and everyone has a fridge.
  • I never had to do that, and it was more of a Soviet Union thing, but in a winter, people used to hang out a bag of meat or something like that outside their kitchen window, because freezers were tiny, and that was the way to keep stuff from spoiling if you were lucky buying something cheap in bulk. I didn't see that for many years, but I'm from a big city and maybe it didn't get that much nicer elsewhere.
[–] toofpic 11 points 4 months ago

I was thinking that I could as well live in Germany, until this moment. Seriously.

[–] toofpic 2 points 4 months ago

About the craziness - yes absolutely. In most other places, you use a thing until nobody would use it, or sell it online. And here, people are just: "nah.."
Well, better for us. I also have a shitton of good stuff, including half of my clothes (I'm lucky to have size M, so a lot of stuff fits). Second hand stores look weird now: "Whoa, you need to pay for that?"

[–] toofpic 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

You're in a random spot somewhere in the universe. Where's "up"?

[–] toofpic 1 points 4 months ago

You have to tell it INTO your computer. They hear it like that, it will work

[–] toofpic 109 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I do that all the time. A thing is a thing, and it can be your thing now. I only try to ask myself two things:

  1. Do I really need that?
  2. Is it in a good condition? I have a lot of used stuff at home, so if I took something half-broken, it would look like a dumpster already.

Sidenote: I live in Denmark, where people overconsume, and then get rid of stuff which is still in good condition.

[–] toofpic -1 points 4 months ago

Okay, okay, oil doesn't help me at all, what am I doing!

[–] toofpic -4 points 4 months ago (8 children)

You can add some oil so pasta won't also stick when you have cold leftovers. I add both oil and salt in the very beginning, because there's no reason to not do that, and I have a feeling of the right amount compared to the amount of water.
And I stir once, about a minute after putting the pasta in, because something tends to stick to the bottom in the very beginning. Afterwards, it's just not necessary.

[–] toofpic 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is called "schizophasia" - when a word soup in your head suddenly starts making sense

[–] toofpic 38 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You should have mentioned Oreo, so the bot would write: "Oh, we love it!.."

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