southsamurai

Amen to that!

Nudity isn’t inherently erotic. Nor is a guy shoving a lamp up his ass.

You can even have outright sex, and it isn’t inherently erotic, just tends to be viewed that way because most people do connect the two.

Oglaf is a great example because it uses sexual imagery as a tool for humor, rather than to stir arousal. Yeah, there’s tits and dicks, but you’ll find the same in a decent sauna where it also isn’t sexual unless you make it that way.

The particular strip you’re talking about isn’t made to turn people on, it’s you get laughs. If people DO get turned on by a cartoon ass get to rammed by an object, that’s okay, but it doesn’t make the strip itself erotic.

Back when I smoked, I couldn’t pick up the smell of chicken. I always thought it was just bland, but it was that I didn’t get enough of the smell. Scent is a big part of perceived taste (as opposed to the actual detection that happens on the tongue only), and food has been so much better overall since I quit.

Since chicken, particularly breast meat, doesn’t have a very strong smell, it’s easy to not notice it even when one’s nose isn’t inhibited by something

Great post :)

I can’t say I agree in detail, but I don’t disagree completely either.

I’d say that it depends on brand, preparation, and then personal taste (as in the variability of human taste as a sense, not preferences) as to whether a given substitute is going to be better, acceptable, or worse.

Texture wise, I’d agree that the usual options are on par. Slightly different, but not in a bad way. Juiciness, in my experience, is iffy. Definitely not as greasy; but for some dishes, that missing fat is a significant detriment. Flavor is more like texture; any given person is going to interpret the chemicals on their tongue slightly differently.

I think where the substitutes often fail for the most part is the smell, not the actual on-tongue taste. Even though most chicken meat isn’t going to smell a lot, it is there, and the nose is very important to perceived flavor. I’ve yet to smell any chicken substitutes that smell right at all, though none have smelled bad. Soups and stews that aren’t very chicken centric, that won’t matter. But other stuff, it can and will.

Something like chicken noodle soup though? That’s a hell no lol. You can’t currently get anything that will make a stock that actually tastes right. I’m not saying you can’t make good soup with chicken substitutes, just that it’s a totally different taste. Enough so that calling it by the same name would be a joke.

Where chicken substitutes shine is nugget size dishes that don’t rely on the chicken fats and soluble components for the flavor. I’ve had some sesame substitute that was as good or better than chicken. Stuff like that, with sauces, or even straight up breaded nuggets, that’s where even if the substitutes didn’t taste of anything at all, they’d be just fine.

Now me? I tend to be of the mind that for most dishes, you’re better off just abandoning the original meat based recipe entirely and just cook things that make veggies shine on their own.

!writingprompts@literature.cafe :)

Yeah, I suspect that’s what I’ll end up doing. But for now, dual boot ftw?

It’s one of those things where screwing around with an otherwise stable system just seems pointless unless I don’t have a choice.

Mad rant props!

For real though, flatpak exists partially for exactly your use case. Simple to use, won’t break shit, and pretty much available everywhere.

You’re kinda lucky in a way. Linux in all its flavors have steadily improved over the years. Even when win10 came out and I jumped ship for all but a few niche uses, it was a higher learning curve, and came with much disappointment in what I couldn’t do that I had been able to on win 7 (which was my favorite version of Windows overall).

Now, while I still have my win 7 drive for the two things I can’t get working on linux reliably, I can do everything else. I also have a win10 partition on my laptop for one single piece of software because it’s easier to just keep it for the rare usage than try to figure out how to get it working (is Amazon’s shitty kindle author program, and since I only crank out a book every three years or so [and only one that I’ve felt like selling there], it just isn’t worth fucking with for that tiny amount of extra space.

Linux, right now, is the best it’s ever been. It’s also on par with windows. Enough so that I can’t see myself ever going back. At some point, win7 won’t work on new hardware, and I’ll have to jank a musicbee install on linux, and tackle the character sheet generator that I use formy absurdly over crunchy home brew TTRPG that I’ve yet to find a replacement for that isn’t a compromise.

Anyway, I suspect that in a year or two, you’ll be in a similar space. You’ll have figured out the bullshit, abandoned windows habits, and actually be satisfied with your distro of choice.

Truth? If I had spent as much time on linux back in the nineties, I would likely have has equal difficulty adapting to windows if things had been in reverse.

Dude, I am so fucking tired

Yeah, it’s a thing. There’s been a few folks like that on lemmy in particular. They end up getting noticed, then get run off after a while.

Yeah, in this case it’s more who is posting than the content of the post. No proof beyond noticing similarities in the writing, word choices, etc; but that’s why I down voted.

Anywhere but lemmy, this wouldn’t be unpopular ;)

I don’t agree with the opinion, having recently been forced to do shit on Windows 11 and ran into so many issues because of microsoft that it was infuriating. Since Microsoft insists on baking in their bullshit and making it hassle to navigate around, I say that that is also a flaw in windows.

But I used to mostly like windows. Win7 in particular fit my needs as well or better at the time than mu current distro of choice does now.

I will add the caveat that before proton, that was less true because gaming sucked on linux for me before proton happened. But almost everything else was better, so I sucked it up for daily driving and only used win7 for gaming and music management/listening.

Now, I only use my win7 install for musicbee. I mean, I do use it for other things while it’s booted up, but I dunno if solitaire is a relevant use for this discussion lol.

I’ll also say that, depending on distro, linux can be a pain in the ass to some degree or another, even after the learning curve is handled. Not worse than windows, just in slightly different ways (wifi issues in particular can be a bitch to handle)