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What's your favourite podcast at the moment?
  • Couple ouvert est pas pire mais j'en ai pas écouté beaucoup.

    J'avais beaucoup aimé la série sur la sudation du pharmachien, c'est sur l'app de podcast de radio-canada, j'avais binge ça en genre 2 jours.

    C'est les seuls autres qui me viennent en tête!

  • What's your favourite podcast at the moment?
  • I enjoy Adam Ragusea's podcast. It is a bit all over the place sometimes, but it's mostly about cooking related stuff?

    French speakers should check out Mike Ward sous écoute. It's just Québec comedians* getting drunk in front of a crowd. I really enjoy it.

    Darknet diaries have been named a few times already, but I will also list it, it's just that good haha.

    * Google tells me humorist is a word in english but im not sure? It's mostly people doing comedy, not necessarily movies etc.

  • Is the purpose of life to be happy?
  • I personally think the purpose of life is to reproduce. Everything we are is just because it made us better at surviving and multiplying. We are merely animals.

    I dont think we need to have kids just because that's what we exist for. We're intelligent enough to go against our basic instincts if we wish. In that optic, we all need to find our own purpose!

  • Nintendo is shutting down online play on 3DS and Wii U in April 2024 | VGC
  • Sometimes most people with the knowledge are gone, the people left need to keep things relatively up to date for security reasons, but the legacy systems aren't as nice, so it takes time and is generally unfun to do. Sometimes a new law in Europe goes live and you should be able to add a pop-up somewhere, but when you follow the docs on how to update stuff, it doesn't even work for a myriad of reasons. It's not like maintaining a software for 12 years really, which a ton of businesses do successfully. When you're just keeping something alive that works and almost never crashes, you get to a point where doing mandated new updates gets harder and harder. And now with the shops gone, there's even less of a money incentive to keep the thing going :(

  • What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?
  • I like learning about random ass hobbies without ever indulging in them.

    I watch an ungodly amount of aquarium / terrarium videos, lurk a ton of aquascaping communities. I owned a betta fish in an empty bowl when I was 12 and that's it. (poor fish)

    I read all you could know about book binding fanfiction, never done it.

    I read a hundred pages long horse breeding guide for the game black desert online and I have no idea why. I only played the game for a month, spent most of it reading a google doc about horse. I'm not even sure I owned a horse in the game.

    Sometimes I try the hobby, for example mini painting, and don't have the patience for it. But I still watch some random dudes on youtube paint for hours and sometimes they don't even talk!

    No idea why I am like this

  • This still baffles me, but I guess it's good for federation?
  • While I agree with you, I'd really love the possibility of block whole instances, just for me. I don't want my instance from defederating from much, but I'd like for example to block all the porn without having to find myself some christian lemmy instance to move to lol

  • What's some really unpopular opinion you have?
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    I boil the pasta in sugared cacao water, this might be the most important step as it turns the pasta brown. Yellow pasta looks unappetizing if you skip this step.

    Then you make a ganache using your favourite chocolate. For me it's toblerone, I find the little nougat bits add a cool texture. I melt it in a bowl over the boiling pasta and mix with cream, it is very efficient! Everything should be ready to mix at the same time!

    You can cover and bake with marshmallows until they're brown. But don't use the broiler or they'll catch fire.

  • What's some really unpopular opinion you have?
  • Holidays and special occasions are sometimes tough, with family shoving food in my face, but I just exercise extra hard afterward, lol.

    I think that's the best way to go about it, eating like a monk literally all the time is much harder than eating well the majority of the time, at least for me lol.

    The guilt is an enemy as well, I'm the type to go "well, I've broken my diet strike, might as well eat a sundae" in a sort of self hate spiral that makes no sense. If I allow myself to indulge in expected moments I feel much better. Like, literally everyone around the table at christmas goes like, "I ate way too much", I shouldn't feel bad for feeling the same haha

  • Tell me about your favourite jrpg and why it is your favourite!

    Mine is Xenoblade X. For all its flaws, I have never found a more fun world to explore. You spend hours exploring the map on foot, and then once you get your mech, it's like the game completely changes scale in a way I've never experienced since.

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    Favourite no cooking recipes for raspberries?

    I don't like the taste of cooked raspberries, but I have a ton of raspberry plants. Here's a few things I have tried this year:

    Raspberry yogourt, just mixed some plain greek yogourt with strawberries

    Raspberry sorbet, this one didn't go well, spent all day beating the sorbet every hour only for it to freeze solid during the night.

    Pectin raspberry jam using some pectin packet from the store

    Raspberry salad dressing! Probably my favourite. Pass the raspberries through a sieve to remove the seeds, then mix with an acid, either lemon or balsamic vinegar. Add some good quality olive oil, a bit of dijon mustard, and it is delicious.

    I did another salad dressing similar to the previous one, but with goat cheese mixed in. It tasted great, but it turned the whole thing bubble pink, which was honestly quite off putting on a salad.

    Some sort of raspberry mousse by mounting leftover egg whites from making mayonnaise into stiff peaks and then beating raspberries into it

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