Good evening.
I'm corrently reading 'De Re Coquinaria', and although I understand a lot of it, I still find things that confuse me. The first entry (conditum paradoxum) of the first book (epimeles), for example, has kept me awake in agony for some days now. The author is listing amounts of ingredients to be added:
" Tum mittes piperis uncias IV iam triti, masticis scrupulos III, folii et croci dragmae singulae, dactilorum ossibus torridis quinque, isdemque dactilis vino mollitis, intercedente prius suffusione vini de suo modo ac numero, ut tritura lenis habeatur "
What I don't understand is why dragmae singulae and ossibus torridis are not accusative. Please, someone help me get some sleep.
Here is the source I'm using: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/apicius/apicius1.shtml
Here is Vehling's translation: " THEN ADD 4 OZS. OF CRUSHED PEPPER [2], 3 SCRUPLES OF MASTICH, A DRACHM EACH OF [nard or laurel] LEAVES AND SAFFRON, 5 DRACHMS OF ROASTED DATE STONES CRUSHED AND PREVIOUSLY SOAKED IN WINE TO SOFTEN THEM. "
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29728/29728-h/29728-h.htm#bki_chi
Sorry if I got something wrong while posting this, first time.
Soak chick-peas, lentils and peas, crush barley and cook with the legumes, when well cooked add plenty of oil. Now cut greens, leeks, coriander, dill, fennel, beets, mallows, cabbage strunks, all soft and green and very finely cut, and put in a pot. The cabbage cook separately; also crush fennel seed, plenty of it, origany, silfium /modern asafoetida/, and lovage, and add liquamen /fish sauce/ to taste, pour this over the porridge, stir, and use some finely chopped cabbage stems to sprinkle on top.
Hello all!
I highly recommend this website for all you historical cooking fanatics - it's not run by me but I have been following it for years. It lists recipes from antiquity (like Roman barley soup), thought the Middle Ages up to modern times. The recipes are presented in three versions: the original text, a translation in modern English, and an adaptation for the modern kitchen. It has some interesting background info for most of the recipes.
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TL;DR: too much immunity, necramech minibosses are the most atrocious examples, too much aggro range,.
Too much immunity: Status, CC, viral for some reason. I knew viral was the best but pointing out viral like that just feels lazy. I've still been mashing charge attacks at it and it still works. All this does is make my less powerful builds suck even more. Also, these are slapped onto common enemies, not even minibosses. Imagine if every enemy above a grineer trooper had immunity to something, the game would be a lot worse.
Necramechs: I could make a whole post about these. Iron skin that reflects (almost) all damage, slow field that I can't see, nullifying for some reason, irritating weak point, and that burst attack that just deletes my warframe, all with ZERO telegraphing. And multiple necramechs. There's always unfair/unfun bullshit going on. Pick 2, delete the rest. (admittedly i've gotten a lot better at fighting these but they still feel cheap as fuck).
Aggro range: Makes all the open world activities that were already boring the third time around that much more unenjoyable. There have always been lancers interrupting my fishing, but they didn't spawn specifically to scream at me or shoot at me and the objective from 10 minutes out until now. Seriously, you'd think the infested hivemind and corpus/grineer commanders would know that sending one guy isn't worth it if I'm just minding my damn business.
I don't usually like mindless bitching without at least some suggestion to make it better so I'll say this: the nox and void sabotage minibosses are good examples of fun enemies that can't be disintegraded quite as easily as the average crewman. They can take a bunch of hits if attacked incorrectly, but they aren't immune to anything. I wouldn't even mind seeing a bunch of those at once because they're fair. I think DE should use those examples.
edit: i’ve actually changed my mind about the idea about the idea that immunity just makes less powerful build suck. it doesn’t necessarily but my main concern is that i don’t want future (common) enemies designed with complete immunity to anything.
What the title says.
https://twitter.com/elizameryl/status/1293335134264012800
A bakery manager tells de Blasio that his business is suffering from reduced foot traffic in Chinatown: “We’re all hurting.”
“That’s very unfortunate,” responds the mayor as he turns his back on the young man.
@NYCMayor “brushed me off,” said the bakery manager. And added de Blasio was only in Chinatown today for a “photo op mission.”
