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Beveren_Rabbit posted...

it takes about 26 hours to make ramen

You didn't ask but I typed it out anyway.

Ramen typically has 4 components: the noodles, the broth, the toppings and the tare (seasoning sauce). Let's take a "tonkotsu" (pork broth) ramen as an example.

The noodles are handmade. They are the quickest thing to come together and require the least amount of ingredients, but they're also the hardest part to get right. There is very little margin for error and a considerable amount of craft. Usually there's a special noodle making machine required, and this is expensive to buy and maintain. Any ramen shop worth its salt is making its own noodles.

The broth for tonkotsu is a pork bone stock made over 2-3 days, sometimes a week. You can use a lot of pork bones, but for the really authentic kind you need pigs trotters. The bones are cleaned and blanched and then the boil has to be kept at a high rolling boil for the entirety of the time you're making it. You can't stick it in a slow cooker and forget about it - in order to get the creamy consistency required you need to keep it very very hot and you need to keep topping it up with water. This means it has to be manned regularly.

The toppings usually includes pork chashu, which is a slow braised roll of pork in particular liquids. This is usually finished with a blowtorch to get the perfect char. The braise might take 8 hours or so. Other toppings including soft boiled marinated eggs, kelp seaweed, mushrooms, etc. You can have a lot of things here, and a ramen shop will treat and prepare each of these toppings carefully.

The tare is going to be some complex ultra reduction of soy sauce, chilli, mirin and dashi stock. Blackened garlic is often used. A lot of ingredients will get used to make a very small amount of sauce.

So you prepare all of this, and the final step is to combine it all together with just the right timing. You need everything hot but you don't want the noodles to overcook or the toppings to lose their freshness. You can't pre-prepare ramen bowls. If it sits in the bowl for too long the entire thing is ruined. So all of these things you spent days preparing now has to come together and be served at just the right temperature in a 30 second window.

That's one ramen bowl. Every ramen bowl is prepared something like this, regardless of the type of ramen or ingredients used.

If you try to do this at home, it ends up being expensive and needlessly fussy. So if you want a real bowl of ramen, the only way to have it is to go out and eat it somewhere.

I have made authentic ramen before, and let me tell you - you're getting the best deal of your life at a ramen shop compared to basically any other type of food.

I'm serious. Pizza, chilli, sushi, mexican, indian, whatever - these are all laughably simply and quick to prepare by comparison.

There is more or less no other food that is so time consuming and work heavy and time-sensitive as ramen.

Now if you can't taste the difference or don't care then that's cool, nobody can tell you what's good or not. I'm just saying, if you understood the amount of work and craft that goes into a single ramen bowl you would be thinking "my god, only $10 for this?"

pegusus123456 posted...

From what I've heard of One Piece, you left off a 0.

I'm a big fan of the show and I'd say the general gist is this:

0-10 - wtf am I even watching?
10-30 - ah ok there's a plot, kinda
30-60 ok I'm starting to dig these characters
60-140 - what is even going on
140- 300 - ok this got quite political and deep all of a sudden
300- 500 - this is the greatest show of all time
600+ ok it literally doesnt matter anymore because I'm never quitting

Revisited posted...

This is another good'un, two in a row!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/8f521ddf.jpg

https://xkcd.com/2727/

The anime version of this:

One Piece is great once you get past the first 30 episodes or so, trust me bro

I heard Tim Henson (zoomer guitarist) talk about "boomer bends", referring to bending notes in guitar solos, and now I can never unhear it.

Not what you asked but Iunno

It's a natural feeling. Not an entirely rational one, but one that everyone feels from time to time.

It's like when you follow a sport and watch all the league matches, and then the superbowl or world cup rolls around and suddenly every layperson you know is an expert despite having never watched a game in the last 4 years. It's annoying.

Glob posted...

Have you considered not buying a car?

Believe me, if I could walk/cycle to work and everything I wanted to do was near enough, I would not own a car at all.

Hyena_Of_Ice posted...

The used car dealership

You're not wrong. I used to work at a Mercedes dealership. The new car guys were all pretty slick and smarmy, but the used guys were all grotty liars.

Foppe posted...

...how often do you buy cars?

Hopefully as infrequently as possible. I never got into the 3-year turnaround perma car loan life so it's just been buy a banger, run it into the ground, buy the next banger.

Last car purchase was 2018.

I'm just spoiled.

Pre-pandemic I found a listing for a VW passat estate for $1500. There was literally nothing wrong with it. It was basically perfect. Turns out the lady was getting a divorce and that was his car. I didn't ask too many questions. I got a dream car for fuck all, and I drove that thing into the ground over the next 6 years. Loved that car. Cost me nothing. Super comfortable. Nothing will compare.

AND THEN

Say you do want the car, and you've made peace with the money you're going to be spending. Well now you have a choice: do you go private and take all that risk into your hands, or do you deal with the hell that is a car dealership?

Is there any more wretched a hive of scum and villainy than a car dealership? No, no there is not. I used to work at one, the people there are actually worse than you know.

What was the purpose of these codes? Were they for developers play-testing?

Like there's just no way around it. Say you want something decent.

You can buy it outright and lose the least amount of money over time, if you happen to have I dunno, $20k sitting around that you don't want to spend on anything that will actually grow your wealth.

Or you can get a loan and lose thousands of dollars over years for an "asset" that is just a money pit that is losing value all the time.

That's the best case scenario. Another scenario with a pretty high probability is that your car develops some major fault that requires scrapping or a major overhaul and now it's tens of thousands down the drain.

The less risky option is you get a car lease, and also the most expensive option. And I hope you don't actually like driving or using your car much.

So then if you're fiscally conscious you decide to go with an absolute banger. You buy it outright. You deal with having a shitty driving experience every day, you absorb the frequent mechanics bills knowing that it's technically less money than you would be paying on a loan. Every day sucks this way, but at least you saved some money.

Whatever option you choose you're going to be paying it off for years, and the excitement over your new car might last 3-6 months. After that you're just putting $300 dollars into the ether every month for this thing you've grown bitter about.

God damn I hate buying new cars. Hate hate hate

That was physically uncomfortable to watch

God's blessing on this wonderful world

Aloc posted...

188 cm and I know what it is.

Nah. Every aussie rule's footie player I've ever seen in person is like 6ft5.

solosnake posted...

actually seems to be a lot of NBA players now days whose primary motivation is the money

I think it's one thing to be in the league and make decisions based on financial incentives once you're there - I'm speaking more about the idea of money being the motivator to become a professional athlete.

Super privileged thing to be able to say, but the stuff in supermarkets hardly even seems like the same species of plant.

Just had some sorrel from a garden and it tasted like someone had squeezed a lemon over the top of it. Can't believe ordinary green salad leaves can be so delicious

This I think https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9dc8b9a5.png

What's that meme about hot sauce, something about how hot sauce makers have to call it deathblast thunder pants and there's gotta be skulls and whatnot on the label

See this indie platformer from 10 years ago? Well now it's only $15, marked down from $25! What a steal hah hah hahh aaaaaa

Fenriswolf posted...

Elon might be interested

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1781387457193230338

Remember when elon went banning and deleting accounts that did little more than call him a goober

Man is such a lil bitch

Megadeth - better solos, some better songs, less good singing, lots of crap thrown in

I'd like to see hard stats on this. I mean I fully believe it, but a survey doesn't mean much.

Glob posted...

Were not all American, dude. Its pretty normal where I grew up for people to be drinking beer regularly from the age of 13 or 14.

I'm scottish, and even though we have a drinking culture and I started at 16, I can't say I really enjoyed beer until my early 20s.

Anyway, no need to take it too on the nose. I'm just using examples of how lifestyles change as you age.

Also not true. I do not work an office job and I dont think Ive ever averaged less than 15k steps per day unless I was injured. Usually its significantly higher than that.

For people who drive to work at an office, less than 3k is typical. I've had days wfh where I've had less than 1k steps.

Again, you don't need to take this all super personally. I'm talking trends here, not every person on earth.

I understand this in theory and I probably used to do this, but I haven't bought a new phone, let-alone an Apple product - in like 10 years.

Refurbed products tend to come in crappy little padded envelopes or whatever. I prefer it this way.

Glob posted...

If Im honest, I dont really have to think about what Im spending and budget at all. Its a fortunate position to be in.

I'm really guilty of lifestyle creep, I've been in the position before where I felt no better off while earning a 6 figure salary than earning $20k a year. So I'm trying to get on top of that.

Or basically, just budget for everything, including vanity stuff?

I.e. every month you drip a small amount of money into different piles for the most innucuous of things. I have a pile for new gym clothes, a pile for new headphones I'll probably need in 2 years, another pile for a new phone I'll need in 3 years, a pile for gifts, etc.

Each of these piled gets topped up by a small amount each month (in some cases, just $10), so when I want to buy something in that category I've got a little fund to draw from.

I've started doing this and it's been really helpful (mostly because my banking app let's me). Means that ad hoc purchases never really feel ad hoc.

Waddlez posted...

They get fatigued quickly from raising them up. Even if I'm not holding anything. Not the shoulder blade. The joint or rotator cuff maybe?

You have poor mobility and you don't do this often so it's an uncomfortable and unfamiliar position for you.

Guide posted...

I can't believe that. I'm taking my health more seriously than ever, but the calories no longer disappear into what was formerly a nuclear reactor of a metabolism.

https://tinyurl.com/22y65vv9
The data suggest that our metabolisms dont really start to decline again until after age 60. The slowdown is gradual, only 0.7% a year. But a person in their 90s needs 26% fewer calories each day than someone in midlife.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/surprising-findings-about-metabolism-and-age-202110082613
Adulthood (20 to 60 years): Total and basal expenditure and fat-free mass were all stable from ages 20 to 60, regardless of sex. Adjusted TEE and RMR remained stable even during pregnancy, and any increase in unadjusted energy expenditure during pregnancy was accounted for by the increase in body mass. The point at which adjusted TEE started to decline was age 63, and for adjusted BMR was age 46.5 (although the researchers indicate a small number of BMR measurements reduced their confidence in this estimate).

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abe5017

There's a lot of reasons why you find it harder to lose weight now that you're older (aside from the other things I mentioned, maybe you just have more fat cells now), but it's almost certainly not because your basal metabolic rate has significantly changed.

BDSMKane posted...

Im trying to understand the situation. So was the assailant armed? If so, with what? The cop who fired, I saw in the body cam he fired three shots at the suspect. So one of them missed, hit the wall, went through, and killed the girl on the other side? Im not sure Ive ever given a cop the benefit of the doubtbut if he was trying to stop an armed assailant and didnt know there was anyone on the other side of the wallI dont know.

Im still down for disarming the average cop, but if the one with the rifle was part of a tactical response unitthat wouldnt help much. This definitely isnt your average case of reckless cop shoots kid though. Without the freeze frame pointing out the dressing room wall, Im not sure I would have noticed it. Then again, from the body cam dialogue, the cop did seem too eager to lead the charge with the rifle, so Im not quite sure what was going on.

Who was he and why did he have the rifle?

You're overcomplicating this. In his head he was rambo and the person he was shooting was the Taliban about to unload a deluge of terrorism. The rest is just collateral damage that they sincerely "regret".

Aloc posted...

Rugby players aren't good athletes lmao

What rugby players are you talking about? Maybe in small time american leagues, sure

Second point - we're probably just going to end up discussing what "athletic" even means, because the demands of different sports have different needs for physical ability, and people tend to inherently value certain kinds of athleticism over others in these discussions.

I bet the source of this argument is really just that NFL requires people to be very fast and powerful but not a whole lot in terms of cardio endurance.

Compare that to Aussie rules football, a sport you may never even have heard of. These guys need to be as tall as basketball players, as fast as soccer players, able to take hits like rugby players and they need to do all this while running (not jogging, running) 10kms every game. They may well be some of the greatest athletes in general fitness of any sport, and its a sport that is barely known outside of australia.

Ultimately, athleticism is hyper specific, and doesn't always carry over to other sports. I'm not sure why you'd think rugby players could go to the NFL when it already took them a decade or more to just learn how to play rugby at the top level.

Aloc posted...

Lots of strongmen are guys who couldn't make it in the NBA or NFL. Brian Shaw literally played d2 basketball lmao. And he's like top 3 in history for that sport. It's a nobody cares sport.

I wasn't talking about strongmen, I was talking about John Haack, a powerlifter. But that's by the by.

I'll probably end up saying this again in this post but why the fixation on money? You'd have to be an idiot to chase a career in sports if money is your primary motivation, you'd have better odds winning a lottery.

Consider what's actually involved to become even an elite athlete. You will end up spending 15-20 years of hyperspecific training just to become moderately good, and if you're lucky you'll be able to quit your main source of income to focus on your sport and just get by with a mediocre salary. That is 99.99% of athletes in every sport, including football.

Basically I'm saying your entire premise here is wrong. People aren't going into sports and just choosing the one they think will give them the biggest multi-million dollar contract. They're choosing sports based on what they enjoy doing and what they're gifted at.

Usain Bolt is rich and fuck and Sha'Carri Richardson is getting 10s of millions from Nike.

Extraordinarily rare it's not even funny. Go onto the world athletics website and scroll through the list of fastest ever 100m times. By the time you get to page two you're looking at people who still have to hold down a day job.

But I'm sure you'd see a lot more guys breaking the 10 second barrier if track paid. Tons of NFL guys have pretty good 100m dash times.

Lionel Messi was a top athlete in the world at one point. Yes.

There are less people that play certain sports. Hence they make less money. Rugby is full of unathletic stiffs.

See Zammit and his 28 inch vertical.

Zammit is a generational talent for rugby. Below average athlete by football standards.

There's also lots of incredible athletes in rugby.

While we are cherry picking examples, Tom Brady was famously unathletic.

Why are you drawing a straight line between earnings and athletic ability?

The strongest man on earth is a pharmacist. Most track athletes have secondary jobs. Most female athletes who are the greatest even in the biggest sports make hardly any money.

By your own definition, Lionel Messi today as a semi-retired man in his 30s playing for a baby league is a greater athlete than Patrick Mahomes.

It's not athletic ability that determines earnings. It's marketability and public interest.

Glob posted...

Yeah, recovery time and metabolism have been affected by age for me, but that doesnt really contradict TCs view.

While we're at it, research shows that metabolism doesn't change much at all as you age from your 20s to your 60s.

It's everything else that changes. Your diet, your lifestyle, your habits. When you were 20 you were broke, worked a hospitality job and found the taste of beer icky.

When you're 35 you buy all the snacks you want, you work an office job and get in less than 3000 steps a day and you finish off each evening with a crisp pale ale.

Finally (and often, the only actual reason), time. Maybe you were putting on weight your entire adult life, very slowly. 2lbs a year. You never noticed it was so gradual. Well 15 years have gone past now and you're 30lbs heavier. Go figure.

Mizznox posted...

Gambling would fall under the broader "gaming" term. The NBA's official release is titled "Jontay Porter banned from NBA for violating league's gaming rules."

https://www.nba.com/news/jontay-porter-banned-from-nba

So it sounds like he was basically insider trading.

That bill burr clip comes immediately to mind, and he was right.

Sufferedphoenix posted...

No posture is definitely a factor. I have a boring job so I'm hunched over looking at my phone a lot and I feel it. Only takes a few minutes of leaning back in a desk chair and letting my head fall all the way back for some relief though.

What you're feeling there is the benefit of movement. It's not that pulling your shoulders back and sitting up straight is good for your back. It's that moving is good for your spine.

If you say still in that upright shoulders back position all day, you'd feel relief by hunching forward too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUSyMqDUkv8

Evidence based physio crowd: "Your next posture is your best posture".

TheSavageDragon posted...

Spoken like somebody with an office job

If you're shifting boxes all day or something then yeah, no brainer why your back is sore.

But there is a real pandemic of people who do exactly zero movement at all who are pretty sure that having a sore back all the time at 32 is just what ageing looks like.

Like sub-7 year old kids.

They just straight up push their heads around, smother them entire and grab their heads, ignoring all the clear "leave me alone" body signs

vycebrand2 posted...

Look I'm 50. I've had a farm since my mid 20's. I've been stepped on and knocked over multiple times. I've broken ribs on both side in the front and both sides of my back. I've loaded 120 50# bags of feed off a flatbed truck every 2 weeks for 20 something years. I've carried thousands of 8 foot 4x4 over many a acre. I've thrown many a hay bale. I've also have had shingles on my back and neck. My pain is from working hard all my life mostly. It's really not that I'm old.

this topic ain't aimed at you

KanWan posted...

https://youtu.be/Lq85Aj1p5pQ?si=cjdmayGuX-4lx-be

I cant remember what interview it was.. or what forum publication it was.. but iirc this was about some real life war instead of high fantasy

Wouldnt be surprised if the lyrics werent about Normandy

but it definitely contains those cheesy keyboards and that classic 80s singing

I dont think there is a way to separate a very niche section of music from the time period it was born in.. its not like rock that has evolved to include different conventions from different eras

if you asked me to write a power metal song on guitar for example, Id know exactly what to look for

same with death metal I suppose

but if you ask me to write a thrash metal tune, thats a little bit harder

Yeah, even in this example it's the usual talk of destruction, darkness, freezing winds, no one left alive, etc. Pretty much every megadeth tune is about this, lol

Jiek_Fafn posted...

Everyone always told me "You'll see. You'll start falling apart at 30, 35, 40, etc." I'm still waiting on it. Besides when I was specifically training for things, I'm all around in the best shape of my life.

If you follow the typical life path of an elder millenial, gen Xer or boomer then sure - you will fall apart. Because just doing less each year and decade will cause such an incredible amount of atrophy that you'll find basic every day tasks unmanageable by the time you reach 40.

It's such a huge lie that people tell themselves, like it's somehow normal to not be able to move around in a basic way before even half your life is over.

Assuming you're a fairly typical poster here and you're someone in your mid-30s and you're able-bodied and uninjured, but you have back pain.

Nor is it sore because of your posture. Humans requiring a specific posture to stand or sit at is nonsense.

It's sore because it's weak. It's tired. it's sore like your forearms get sore when you carry all the shopping inside in one trip. You have a weak back, so any time you use it at all it gets sore.

The reason your back was sore from gardening or carrying boxes or doing any activity isn't because you're past your prime and that's just normal for someone in your grand old age. It's just because you don't do any activity and now you've done activity and it's sore. That's the same kind of sore you get when you do some squats and your legs are sore. You did something you're not used to. It's no different for your back.

If you want to fix your chronic back pain, try training it. Do some deadlifts. Do some rows. Lift some stuff occasionally. Your back pain will largely go away. Ta-da.

Beveren_Rabbit posted...

I wonder what like being a mod at this very moment. They must have some inside scoop about what Fandom wants. What's it like knowing that in a few days you're going to have to pull on the trigger on almost every user you have grown to known in the past decade. Sure you may not have gotten along with all of them, but they were still people you shared a laugh with . These were people that were there with you when Breaking Bad was still airing, when Super Smash Brothers Brawl got announced, and for many other precious moments. how can you honestly be okay with yourself for having to send your own brothers and sisters into purgatory for Fandom's Scorched Earth initiative? you are tasked with eradicating the current userbase to get rid of any board culture so the new userbase can create a new standard of strict gaming discussion.

Mods are community volunteers, not employees or slaves. I think you're slightly overselling their involvement in this.

Half baked showerthought incoming

Take power metal (for some reason I've been listening to this quite a lot the past week. It's pretty great to workout to).

The thing is, it's not enough for it to sound like power metal. The individual components of a fast blast beat and soaring melodic guitar solos and bach-counterpoint and some guy belting out the lead vocals in a tenor range should be enough for it to technically qualify, but that's basically never what happens.

No, it's absolutely necessary for every song's lyrics to be about fighting dragons, storming castles or fighting some other fantasy enemy. Everyone who plays this genre has to have a really big head of hair. The album art and band logos all have to involve skeletons and spiky bits and flames. Pretty much every single one. There's an entire feel to this genre and the feel is self-insert RPG fantasy lore.

I'm trying to imagine this genre of music but it's just some regular low-key dudes singing about, I dunno, having a bad day at the office or something. I can't really picture it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVYG1mu8Lg8

TL;DW - everything you used to get is now worse by design, because we are all chumps.

Like Uber eats offering you "priority delivery" at a premium, which just means...the driver won't make stops on the way to deliver your food...you know, like how food delivery always used to work.

Subscription services and tier systems are just a way of making things actively worse for you so that you have to pay more to get what used to be offered. All because what was the revolutionary new subscription service model is now just monopolies in a terrifying new format.

All you need to do is think about it from the perspective of obeying stakeholders and advertisers. They don't want politics, hornyposting, or really even communities forming at all. They just want people who will click on ads.

It's the same trap that basically every website is falling into - youtube, reddit, etc.