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Sam Lin

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  1. Next time lightly pan fry/griddle the bread after you spread the mayo - the proteins in the mayo give it a great crust. (grilled cheese trick)
  2. Saw this, went shopping, looks like release has been bumped to Nov30 (checked Amazon/Kindle as well as Google Play Books).
  3. Are snakes not much issue out there? That photo in flip flops scares the hell out of me, both from snake and from ankle sprain risk. Hilariously moody dog.
  4. Some of/most of the Logitech Master devices can use their own Unifying Receiver instead of a BT dongle - you could use that to cover your one ancient PC, and use BT on your newer one(s). The unifying receiver works really well in my experience: distance, RF noisy environments, many devices, they just work.
  5. 10/10 points for style and execution.
  6. Please make a detailed post when you do - I can get beef cheeks but I have zero clue how to prepare them, and am intrigued.
  7. Can your son start a metal detector thread somewhere?
  8. Russia just blasted one of their old satellites, in what appears to be a test of an anti-sat missile, and created yet another massive space debris cloud: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/debris-from-a-satellite-shot-down-by-the-russians-appears-to-threaten-the-iss/
  9. Been 10 years since I lived there, so take these all with a grain of salt, though recent Google reviews still seem like my memory: The Waldhorn is a cool German restaurant down in Pineville: https://g.page/waldhornrestaurant?share The Peach Tree is a farm over the border in SC that has wonderful fresh fruit, worth calling to see what is in season now. Summer is peaches, now should be apples? Great ice cream. If it's cold enough, they do hothouse strawberries that are ugly but are the best tasting strawberries I've had anywhere. Colder the weather, better the strawberry. If they have strawberries, reserve a gallon and make the drive: https://goo.gl/maps/CeguH9Mg6CRn2czD7 Cuisine Malaya downtown used to be fantastic for Malaysian, the chefs were southern Chinese and also made fantastic Chinese dishes off-menu whenever I was craving something. They've since changed name to Malaya Kitchen: https://goo.gl/maps/NRb3Ez6hqBFRd8cc7 Unfortunately, my fav Korean restaurant in town just closed, the owners finally retired.
  10. Can you pawn it off on the Seattle team?
  11. He means you need to wear this t-shirt, so they know you're super serious.
  12. So, uh, which airport is closest to the Canary Islands? Asking for a friend.
  13. Related to the Carrera discussion a few pages back, just saw this neat visual comparison of the generations:
  14. New map is awful. I thought i hated the last new map, this takes it to 11. Map got even bigger, and in what they call an attempt to reduce third party battles, they used high mountain features to block rotation except through the canyons in between. The mountains are so high Valkyrie can't go over them on a redeploy. So instead you're funneled down very distinct chokepoints every time the ring closes. Gatekeeping is the new normal, and the map leaves you very few options to avoid a choke point and go around another way. Running around forever between points of interest feels very Battlefield/Warzone, and is why I don't play those games. They added the gravity cannons to help get around the massive map, which just feels like yet another gimmick trying to band-aid shitty map design. Then with the new larger map they made points of interest larger as well, so loot just feels more spread out. Often have to check multiple buildings just to find a gun, since each building only contains a little loot. On top of that, everyone hates the slow looting and the huge amount of running between locations, so instead they just hot drop a few areas every game. Think Skull Town on steroids - instead of third party battles, every drop is 5+ teams, 2 of which have no gun and are running around punching everything that moves. With this map, a sniper is damn near mandatory for any team. Very long sightlines in most areas of the map. Points of interest (building areas) are much more vertical - some have 3 or 4 layers now, where previous maps largely stopped at 2/2.5. Does change the game dynamic, also makes some characters with vertical ability much more useful (Pathfinder, Valkyrie, Horizon), while making other characters basically worthless. Some of the new vertical areas feel totally useless and add nothing to gameplay nor to the map "feel." Great to find a new level only to realize there was zero reason to go there, no loot, no good exit, and you're now trapped. They disabled map rotation and are making everyone play only the new map for the first week, then it will rotate half the time. I'm playing very little until the rotation comes back. ----- New CAR is like an R99 but less recoil, it's a way OP laser. Watch some streaming footage of Ottr wrecking servers with it and you'll see. It needs a nerf, badly. Also, no idea why they did the gimmick of it taking either light or heavy ammo and light or heavy mags. Unclear what game dynamic this was supposed to improve. Once they nerf the CAR it'll be just another R99 and Volt. ----- Hostile wildlife is largely a gimmick. You come upon spider eggs or predator nests (clearly marked on the map), and if you clear all the wildlife you get some crafting credits. Killed wildlife also drops basic loot. The loot and the crafting credits aren't worth the time spent on killing the wildlife, especially when all your firing is drawing enemy teams in to kill you, and the wildlife loot isn't anything special. Have been a few humorous moments where a heated battle gets decided when a bunch of wildlife decides to join the party and wreck a team. ----- That said, I just saw some blurb where Apex is now the top streamed Battle Royale on Twitch, so they must be doing something right...
  15. Counterpoint: moules frites. On a sidewalk cafe somewhere in southern France, in the company of someone way more attractive than you.
  16. This - it's to prevent someone checking in a bomb and then hopping in the car and going home.
  17. It isn't usually the cost of the paint, it's the cost of the painting. Metallics, bright colors, mattes, pearls are just more difficult to spray, or have more coats, or special processing, OR just require a longer time and waste purging to clean up and change over to/from. All that is money.
  18. Hard to understate how much the camera is improved, both on the hardware (sensor size as well as being many generations newer), and on the software side, Tensor processor with realtime HDR even for video. If you use the camera AT ALL, pay the 150 for the difference, it's a small price for the performance jump. Yes be aware of the size difference.
  19. Every comparison I've read says the E63 is the better driver's car, which is opposite of what I'd expect.
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