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  • “West African” Peanut Stew, which is an Americanized version of various groundnut stews/maafe, is super nutritious and cheap. It is quick if you put in 1hr in advance to make like 3kg of soup, ~8 servings, for ~10 bucks. I think it’d freeze OK too.

    Look up a recipe, but basically: 1 onion, garlic, 6c broth (vegetable in your case), 2lbs sweet potatoes (maybe 3lbs if vegetarian), 1 bunch greens (collards, kale, mustard greens, whichever you have/like/are ceapest), can diced tomatoes, peanut butter, 2-3tbsp vinegar, optional spices (cumin, turmeric, bay leaves, chili powder, paprika, cayenne pepper/red pepper flakes, oregano, minced ginger, msg, etc), optional garnishes: peanuts, cilantro.

    Sautee 1 diced onion in a pot until translucent, add garlic and spices & sautee 30s more, add 6c broth, 2lbs cubed sweet potatoes, chopped greens, can of diced tomatoes. Bring to a boil and simmer for 20mins. Take off the heat and add 1c peanut butter and 2tbsp of vinegar (recommend adding 1tbsp at a time and tasting so as not to add too much), stir to combine. Serve.

    I add 1lb chicken to mine and it makes like 3kgs of soup. Calorie dense, nutritious, very tasty. I also add a small amount of soy sauce, fish sauce, and/or worcesteshire when adding the liquid - imo this mimics some of the fermented sauces used in West African foods. Apple cider vinegar added at same time as the peanut butter really improves the dish. Salt and pepper throughout cooking, of course - but even without spices this is a tasty soup. Spices do help though.



  • I apply both of these to all movies in tandem. A movie can be both “enjoyable to watch” and “having artistic merit” to varying degrees.

    I really dislike when critics and audiences are unable to separate them. There are real, professional critics who seem to only judge movies by how much they enjoyed them, and I think that’s fucked because they laud a lot of “bad” movies. Then there’s others who seem to care exclusively about the perceived level of artistry - and usually they only like movies with a narrow range of themes and tones.


  • Both apparently Hispanic and from South Texas. Makes you wonder if their names got leaked to throw them under the bus.

    While that’s possible, I don’t think it is the most likely. There are so many Hispanic/Latino far-right/white-nationalist/neo-nazi types. They see themselves as either white or “one of the good ones” and are super racist toward other PoC.

    This type that I’m referring to is big into the bootstraps mentality/hustle culture, probably voted for Trump (twice), and agrees with both the social & economic agenda of the Republican party on the whole if not every specific thing. They don’t think that they or their family would be targeted because they did everything “right”, “worked hard”, and are willing to brutalize and demean their fellow Latinos to prove it.

    It’s way more common than you’d hope. Other minority groups exhibit this, too - I have a black in-law like this, I know hispanic folks like this. It’s sad, and fucked up, but it’s the same sort of fascist mentality that a lot of people are prone to. You just tend to expect it from the dominant ethnic group and not from marginalized groups.



  • Commoners have 4hp. So, for reference, 4 successful baby scratches drops an average, normal person to zero HP and they are rendered unconscious and have about a 40% chance of death if they don’t receive medical aid.

    But STR/DEX would be 1 bc 0 is not possible. Would have a -5 to hit - so 30% on an AC10 unarmored commoner.

    I think this means you have a 0.3% chance of permadeath in an encounter with a baby if they only make 4 attacks and you don’t hit back and they don’t keep scratching your unconscious body.

    If they attack you 10 times (1 minute of scratching w/ 6 sec turns), there is a 20% chance they land 4 scratches on you and you have a 40% chance to permadie once downed - so 8% chance of permadeath in one 10 turn encounter with a baby with the same stipulations as above.










  • Villeneuve has said he is only going to make Dune and Dune Messiah as films.

    Dune is what has been done so far (parts 1 and 2)

    Dune Messiah explores the aftermath of Paul Atreides supplanting the Emperor after the events of Dune.

    Children of Dune gets weird

    God Emperor of Dune is batshit. Leto’s kid is a 30000yo sandworm who talks to at least 5 characters about how he doesn’t have a dick

    Heretics is where the bene gesserit are now just space dominatrixes because frank herbert’s mind had been fried by acid & coke and he was REALLY horny

    Chapterhouse has live dogs that have been genetically engineered to be chairs called chairdogs