Generic Wine Puns

A serial killer - Douglas Frisbee - is sitting in his living room, watching his favourite crime podcast, elated as the episode is about him. He sits back, wine glass in hand, and listens to the information on his latest murder; his face grew in madenned celebration as he slit his victim's throat in the woods and left without a trace of evidence. However, something was wrong - very wrong.

"Reports confirm that this man is a deranged lunatic, known for killing dozens in Alpamine Park."

His face grew in shrivelled disgust, and his hatred for the host deepened as he carried on watching. How could they make him seem as if a generic lunatic? He is a cunning, malicious murderer intent on torturing his victims, not some heathen beast that needs to be slain.

He slams his fist down in fury, sending shattered glass spraying across his living room. The commotion had attracted his neighbour, whom he planned to kill next, yet he ignored the furious pounding on the door, and instead focused on the similarly ferocious rain smiting his window. A flash of lightning - momentarily blinding him - sent him back to his senses.

He sighed, watching on, as they discussed what sort of mental illness he had. The answer was simple; none! He was simply genius. He decided that when he saw the hosts next, his gun would contain two less bullets.

The neighbour, however, continued the maddening assault on his door, so he jumped on, wielding a silencer pistol, and shot his neighbour, blood smearing the floors. He would clean up later - this was not too busy of a street. Three less bullets, he corrected himself.

Douglas then reminded himself to stay tuned on the podcast, intent to discover more false information about him. He killed many yada yada, he is a deranged psycopath still at large - this is all stuff he has heard before. Nothing peaks his interest, and he yawns, stretching his arms, as no new information is found. They do not talk of his troubled childhood, the bullying that had led him to where he is now. But he does not mind.

Then, his bewildered face turns away from the screen. Police sirens, in his neighberhood! He had specifically found the street with the least crime for this very reason. He loaded his gun and hid behind the door, and the FBI charged into his home, sending splinters of wood through the door. Shots were exchanged, agents lay on the floor, and the sirens from outside blasted his ear drums. He was still alive. He ran away from the house and wondered how

Here's the issue I'm facing, and I'm unsure where try to go from here. It may just be down to waiting on more proton updates.

In some games that support controllers, when I launch through steam, they do no respond to the controller input. They sometimes show controller button prompts on-screen, sometimes not.
Games that work:

• Star Wars Jedi Fallen order
• Doom
• Ori and the Blind Forest
• Vampyr
• Rocket League

Games that Don't work:

• Witcher 3
• Styx, Master of Shadows

I've tried both my steam controller, ps5 dualsense, and ps4 dualshock. I've tried Steam Native and runtime. I've tried every permutation of having Steam input support enabled or disabled for Playstation controllers, and then on the games themselves, having steam input Forced On, Forced Off, or left to Global Defaults. I start games from steam Desktop, or from Big Picture Mode. I use controllers wired or bluetooth, or wireless through a dongle. Same results every time. sometimes when launching games, they'll take controller input long enough for me to skip splash screens and reach the title, and then they stop responding.

Out of curiosity, I tried launching these games from the file explorer, right click and use "open with wine, Windows program Loader". The games launch fine, and lo and behold, my controllers work PERFECTLY. Problem is, the default ~/.wine prefix doesn't have the save games that the steam proton prefix does. So I can't sync up save games and such this way. Also slower to launch, though I could just import these into Lutris I suppose.

It seems like, despite being disabled, the "steam input" thing that steam does through proton into games, doesnt' work for some of these. But even disabling it, to try to get native/regular controller input into the games still doesn't come through. So... no proton for these I suppose. Keyboard/mouse still works fine for any of them.

I'd like to play these things with proton, or at least through steam, but I may just have to try to manage savegames myself, and launch via Lutris or the file explorer, for any of these games that I REALLY want/need to use a controller for. Not sure if anyone else has experienced similar, or has some ideas of something to pursue for this. Also may be worth more bug reports and patience for Proton, especially with the steam deck coming out soon - which itself is a controller. Valve's GOT to get this worked out, otherwise there's going to be some very disappointed gamers (myself included)

Generally speaking, where can you find better value at similar prices, mostly at the entry level of a certain style. I guess this mostly applies to Old World Wine, e.g.

• generic DOCG Barolo vs. Langhe Nebbiolo from a reputable producer

• Store Brand CdP vs. reputable producer Cote du Rhone

• Negotiant AOC Village Burgundy vs. generic Bourgonge from bigger names

Also: Are there differences between regions and classifications that make for great value in one of the two?

IT’S FANTASTIC! I’m finally home.

I learned to cook with my father who had a very adventurous outlook on food. I now live in a very meat and potatoes household and its super frustrating for me. I love to cook, but these people are so vanilla they'll write off entire spices because they ate something once with it. The others won't eat anything foreign. Not even fucking tacos.

So I'm walking on eggshells here. Every once in a while I get the opportunity to cook something and rack my brain trying to find something agreeable. I settled on coq au vin, which I'll probably lie and call something else when I serve it.

Anyway, I'm wondering what kind of mild wine I should be looking for. We do drink wine, but we tend to be more the sweet wine entire bottle at a time group. I don't know anything about dry wines. I realize cooking with and drinking a glass of are two huge differences here, but I'm looking for something that will provide a nice flavor without being insanely overpowering. Is there a nice middle of the road wine? Obviously I don't want my chicken to be sweet, but I don't want to accidentally buy some connoisseur intense shit either.

Any kind of advice is very helpful. Thank you.

We're also looking for some authentic stroopwaffles from The Netherlands! They are available in America, but they aren't nearly as cheap or buttery. The freshly made generic grocery store stroopwaffles were out of this world. A dozen for 2/3 euro. From what I can remember we found them from Albert Heign.

We would love to help anyone with finding desired treats from our side of the pond!

Grocery prices in my area have skyrocketed. I have found that Costco’s prices have remained lower and I can always find good deals. We love Kirkland diapers and wipes, generic allergy medications, rotisserie chicken, wine and produce! We always shop their sales.

What are your favorite things to buy at Costco that save money?

Also, what have you found is NOT a good deal?

Which one is better in terms of quality and prices for usual grocery shopping 🛍

Greetings CA fam! It has been a while, hasn't it? God knows I should have posted earlier, especially with having so much time on my hands recently. Belated happy kwanza and a new year to you all. After receiving numerous requests, demands, threats, and bribes to post I figured I better pull my thumb out and deliver. Get ready, kids, it's gonna be a long one.

Day 8 of calling out from work. I've got health problems, drink problems, a rapidly shrinking bank balance, and stitches in my forehead. I have a lot of ground to cover, a lot's happened, but I'll try to keep it (relatively) concise, if not coherent. Where to begin?

I guess things start on the 1st of December. CAG came back from her boondoggle in San Diego. You'll be pleased to know I did not cave and pay for her to come back, it was actually her estranged, abusive, CA dad who got her out of there. More on him later.

Despite her sweet-sounding words and promises of changed behavior in San Diego my suspicions were confirmed when it didn't take long for the mask to drop. We were already arguing hours after she got back to mine because of her secret drinking (I spotted her when she triggered the porch camera), and by the weekend I'd already kicked her out. I'd warned her multiple times when she was in SD I wasn't going to put up with her narcissistic behaviors if she intended to come back, and if she carried on like she had I would happily throw her ass out again.

I woke up the day after we had a screaming match to find her bags packed on the porch and a sneering smirk on her face. I knew what was coming before it came so just ignored her while we smoked in silence, then dashed inside to drink and stash the booze before she could hide it in her belongings. Out comes the inevitable threat of her leaving. She'd been up for almost 4 hours before me and hadn't really unpacked since coming back from San Diego; if she really wanted to leave she had plenty of time to do so. I'd also noticed several 'essentials' she couldn't have forgotten in the house, so this was clearly just a ploy.

I don't know why she pulls this stunt, I really don't. Every time we have a major fight she will, at least once, do this: "if you don't x,y,z I will leave you!" trying to cow me into submission. Abandonment threats don't work on me. I'm not going to beg and plead that you stay, I'm going to get angry. She had an ex, Drew, who she claimed strangled her nearly to death when she threatened to leave him. Maybe she thinks

Do your worst!

I saw a youtube video recently about a woman getting diagnosed with Basic B*tch and I loved it. It was funny but also accurate AF. I don’t get why people are offended.

I’m a woman in my mid-30s so yes, I FUCKING LOVE a scented candle. Double points for scented candles with an inspirational quote or funny saying on it.

I love taking baths listening to generic shit like Enya and Dido.

I buy a shit ton of basic décor like coastal or Hamptons-inspired anything and have photos frames with “family” or “love” written on them all over my house. I make photo galleries on my wall of my kids and I think they are the most beautiful children on the planet, because I’m their mom and I’m fucking supposed to. I have string lights all over my patio area and 1,000 cushions on my bed.

In college I wore Ugg boots and velour tracksuits with slogans on my ass almost exclusively and now yoga pants and a messy bun in my hair is 80% of my day-to-day wardrobe. I love doing school-runs and running errands buying basic shit from department stores and meal-planning the fuck out of my week. I love taking my kids to dance and swimming and play-dates with other basic kids and I love that their life is stable and predictable.

I like watching re-runs of Friends and the Office and ugly cry at rom-coms. I get excited to wear matching PJS at Christmas and take my kids to pumpkin patches on Halloween. I live for that shit. I take 100 photos of my family a day and have albums for it all. Additional photos for major occasions like my kids first day at school. I will post 167 photos of them with their new sparkly schoolbag and won’t give a fuck who it annoys. I treat my dog like another baby and buy her diamante collars and a special bowl with her name on it.

I go on nights out with my other basic b*tch friends who love a bottomless brunch, laugh at the same memes and talk about our kids / husbands / jobs all night long, dance like drunk suburban women always dance and take selfies in the bathroom with random women we just met. I only have 3 poses that I do in photos and never ever mix it up. I over-use the word 'like' on a daily basis and tag my friends in shit with captions like “this is so us” all the time, just like I’m doing right now.

I don’t care if people assume I have no originality or individuality because I am secure enough to know it makes no fucking difference to my value as a person. I am comfortable with myself to know I have many aspects to my personality which I love and

How do you make the most of it (for black coffee)?

First thing to note is that making the best coffee requires the best possible bean. this is an amazing guide towards getting good beans. I'd recommend getting a lot of samplers to enjoy the diversity coffee can provide.

Next, the biggest upgrade you can make to your setup is a grinder. I personally like hand grinders since you can get better quality equipment (Steel burrs, for example) for a bit cheaper, and they are portable. There are plenty of grinders ranging from Hario to Comandante but the best entry level grinder so far is the Timemore C2, just get one, you won't regret making the investment.

Once you have all this, you need to weigh your beans, don't worry about getting a fancy scale, any generic scale with 0.1g accuracy will work just fine since the AeroPress is an immersion brewer. I use a $3 generic jewelery scale and it works pretty well. I use my old French Press with water level markings to measure water and pour.

Now, load the beans in your grinder in a 1:16 ratio (Coffee to Water in grams, standard recipe is 15g to 250ml) and adjust your grinder to 14 clicks (works best for me). Adjust it by putting on the arm, and rotating clockwise all the way till it can't go further, and then slowly count your clicks to 14 (sometimes 15, but this is the sweet spot for me).

You can then use the hoffmann recipe since it's the least-effort-to-highest-quality one out there, keeping with the AeroPress spirit of incredible ease and amazing results. There are world champion recipes out there as well, but they use WAY TOO MUCH COFFEE sometimes and it's good to experiment once in a while, but those aren't feasible for everyday use.

I stick to Hoffmann recipe because it's consistent and very easy to remember, there are very few 'steps' required to reach a delicious cup, and low risks since it's a standard method. Switch it up by trying 2 papers for an even cleaner brew, try different coffees and see what makes you happy.

I started from very dark, smoky-ashy tasting beans, to dark chocolaty-nutty ones, to floral-sweet ones and finally fruity and in-your-face wine flavoured ones. There's just so much to explore out there and the Aeropress is such a good instrument to experience all of it with minimal effort into brewing and cleanup. I can't say that I am snobby enough to taste all niche flavours in the coffee, bu

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

Since it is almost December 25, I thought it was time to talk about some Christian-themed bad history.

This tweet went semi-viral on Twitter in November, As of this writing it has 1,251 likes and 328 retweets.

To quote the Tweet:

>Christianity is a “religion”that was created by the Roman empire to justify slavery. The rulers used psychological warfare to give their citizens what they wanted, while at the same time making sure they followed the rules. Nothing has changed in the past 2000 years!

Now I see the idea that the Roman Empire created Christianity as some kind of conspiracy pop up now and then on Reddit and other parts of the internet, so I thought that this tweet gave me a good opportunity to explain why this idea is ridiculous:

It just doesn't make sense why Roman officials would take hostile action against Christianity if they wanted it to succeed as part of a conspiracy.

Exhibit A: the Neronian persecution. The consensus among historians of Ancient Rome is that Nero's persecution of Christians is historical^(1). According to the Roman historian and senator Tacitus, Nero had Christians in the city of Rome persecuted as scapegoats for the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD:

>But all human efforts, all the lavish gifts of the emperor, and the propitiations of the gods, did not banish the sinister belief that the conflagration was the result of an order. **Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judæa, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular. Accordingly, an arrest was first made of all who pleaded guilty; then, upon their information, an immense multitude was convicted, not so much of the crime of firing the city, as of hatred against mankind. Mockery of every sort was added to their deaths. Covered with the skins of beasts, they were torn by dogs and perished, or were nailed to crosses, or were doomed to the flames and burnt, to serve as a nightly illumination, when daylight had

The post that started it all - People who only buy super expensive branded groceries rather than Lidl/Aldi etc. own version. Why? by /u/Substantial-Gas-463.

In that post there were a lot of people who were saying that Kerrygold is obviously superior to most own brand butters, and that they prefer it to the own brand or other butters because they could taste the difference. There was too many comments to get to so I thought I would make this post to share the knowledge that they are in fact the exact same raw product, save people a bit of money when buying butter, give people more knowledge of the food industry, and to explain some of the underlying psychology about why you can taste the difference, even when there is no difference in the actual raw product that goes into it which is pretty interesting, and weaponised by Food Marketers to get us to buy their products.

How do you know this?

I used to work in a local Co-Op that produced Kerrygold, Aldi's Kilkeely, Bandon Butter, and some others that I have forgotten. These were all blocks of hard butter, not spreadable ones. It's more than likely that the same butter is used in the spreadable ones (I can't comment as I never made it) but oil is added to make it spreadable, changing the texture, consistency and taste (I actually made a mistake in some of the comments yesterday and said it was Kilkeely Gold).

The generic "Irish Creamery Butter" would arrive 1000kg's at a time from whatever creamery had turned the raw milk into butter to be packaged at our Co-Op in individual 25kg blocks. This would be unwrapped and fed through a machine to soften it, before passing to another machine to be wrapped individually for whatever brand we were fulfilling the order for on the day. The only difference was the packaging we wrapped it in, and how it looked. Kerrygold had to be a perfect rectangular block, perfectly wrapped, and would be thrown back in if the machine was millimetres off in wrapping it, others like Kilkeely could be smushed and battered looking and it would be fine to ship out.

Users /r/Irish_Unity32, /u/mervynskidmore, /u/Middle-Yoghurt, and /u/gk4p6q all shared the same stories from their own lives.

But the nutrional values on the wrapper are the same, they can't be the same product.

The Nutrional values are just an approximate sample of one product that was sent for testing at one time. Some pr

*LONG RANT* Really sorry if this type of post isn't allowed, I'm really not trying to tear into the mod author specifically, just needlessly talk trash about it, or anything. I've just spent the better part of two weeks trying to workaround, tweak, diagnose issues, and ultimately just finally fucking uninstall this goddamn hellspawn of a mod and it has been so absolutely tiring & infuriating.

I know some will read that and be like, "Hey it's just a game, just modding, take a break," and, oh, I have absolutely taken a break, because of this fucking goddamn mod.

"Weapons, Armor, Clothing and Clutter Fixes" sounds like some kind of bugfix mod, right? Going off the name alone, it seems like it will at most be tweaking item values like weight, dmg, value, etc. in a manner to be more in line with developer intent, right? Well, it definitely DOES do this for sure to lots of things, but oh my lord the amount of features, tweaks, balancing, and more done goes FAR BEYOND mere "FIXES".

First off, I need to give credit where credit is due. The author absolutely documents a lot of these changes on the mod page, not absolutely every single one, but the major important ones along with giving categorical changes. HOWEVER, this documentation is arguably not in the most appropriate (e.g. avg user is likely or assuredly to see/find it) of places, and it gets glossed over/covered by other elements of mod description/instruction/etc.

I'll give a rough summary of what this mod does below:

• fixes cosmetic issues (clipping, shading, color, etc.) for items
• fixes bugs with items (such as perks not applying to proper items, etc.)
• "balances" out weights, values, dmg, and more to be more "appropriate" or "lore friendly"
• adjusts item stats for certain classes to affect appearance in leveled lists and be appropriate to level
• allows circlets/masks with hoods

And much more, but it all essentially falls within those bounds. Sounds good, right? Well, some of it certainly is. BUT, let me point out a whole SHIT TON of things that really do seem to be just thrown in or changed based on someone's personal head canon, or without regard to how it affects real gameplay and is just needlessly "realistic".

The List:

1. "Gold" renamed to "Septims" across the board, full stop. First thing I noticed, first thing that annoyed me, and first thing I opened up xEdit to nuke to Oblivion. Sure, the current accepted currency of the continent is the Septim, but it

Pilot on me!!

We are a family of 5: 2 parents, 1 teenager, a toddler, and a baby. Husband and I both work... he has a full time job, I'm a freelancer with a near-full-time workload, but also we can only afford 3 days / week of daycare. I am a meticulous budgeter and careful about how we spend our money. And yet, we spend an average of $6k/month! I’d love to hear commiseration here… I don’t need tips for reducing our expenses. Just a space to whine and stomp about how much it costs to sustain a family.

Also, I am the first to acknowledge that we are very lucky to be able to afford this life, but I'm also here to just ask how the hell people who don't make $80k/year minimum do it. How are we supposed to save for college? For retirement? We're putting away what we can but man, it doesn't feel like enough. I paid off my student loans and then got pregnant... I can't imagine having student loans and kids at the same time.

Our big expenses:

• We live in a MCOL area in a high-tax US state in an old fixer-upper that we haven't done much fixing up on. Mortgage & taxes = $1300/mo. We do wind up with an average of $200/mo in maintenance... whether that's some big fix that averages out, or a routine thing like getting the furnace serviced. Utilities average $200/mo.
• One car we own outright, another is new this summer ($495/mo). I never thought I would buy a new car, but after reviewing how much we had sunk into the beater we were replacing and the crazy high price of used cars, it was the right move for us. We spend ~$120/mo on gas, $135/mo on insurance, and our monthly average for maintenance is $110.
• We spend >$1000 on groceries a month. We eat fresh, healthy (local when possible) food and that's not something we're willing to compromise on, though we've consciously tried to cut down on meat (down to one meal / week). We rarely buy processed food (except tortilla chips. lots of tortilla chips.) We've cut some of the more expensive things from our routine but rising prices have meant this category has not gone down. Also, teenagers eat a lot.
• Frickin daycare. Two little kids, 3 days a week in a home daycare program = $1360/mo.

Our frugality:

• Almost all of our little kids’ clothes are hand-me-downs. Our crib is a hand-me-down. Our carseats are hand-me-downs. We don't buy toys or clothes or baby stuff at all. I can't imagine having to pay for all of that.
• We eat out once / month max. Budget for takeout & restaurants is $60/mo.
• Most of our furn

They’re on standbi

A serial killer - Douglas Frisbee - is sitting in his living room, watching his favourite crime podcast, elated as the episode is about him. He sits back, wine glass in hand, and listens to the information on his latest murder; his face grew in madenned celebration as he slit his victim's throat in the woods and left without a trace of evidence. However, something was wrong - very wrong.

"Reports confirm that this man is a deranged lunatic, known for killing dozens in Alpamine Park."

His face grew in shrivelled disgust, and his hatred for the host deepened as he carried on watching. How could they make him seem as if a generic lunatic? He is a cunning, malicious murderer intent on torturing his victims, not some heathen beast that needs to be slain.

He slams his fist down in fury, sending shattered glass spraying across his living room. The commotion had attracted his neighbour, whom he planned to kill next, yet he ignored the furious pounding on the door, and instead focused on the similarly ferocious rain smiting his window. A flash of lightning - momentarily blinding him - sent him back to his senses.

He sighed, watching on, as they discussed what sort of mental illness he had. The answer was simple; none! He was simply genius. He decided that when he saw the hosts next, his gun would contain two less bullets.

The neighbour, however, continued the maddening assault on his door, so he jumped on, wielding a silencer pistol, and shot his neighbour, blood smearing the floors. He would clean up later - this was not too busy of a street. Three less bullets, he corrected himself.

Douglas then reminded himself to stay tuned on the podcast, intent to discover more false information about him. He killed many yada yada, he is a deranged psycopath still at large - this is all stuff he has heard before. Nothing peaks his interest, and he yawns, stretching his arms, as no new information is found. They do not talk of his troubled childhood, the bullying that had led him to where he is now. But he does not mind.

Then, his bewildered face turns away from the screen. Police sirens, in his neighberhood! He had specifically found the street with the least crime for this very reason. He loaded his gun and hid behind the door, and the FBI charged into his home, sending splinters of wood through the door. Shots were exchanged, agents lay on the floor, and the sirens from outside blasted his ear drums. He was still alive. He ran away from the house and wondered how

So, I am still working in the store and had about 3 years of experience. In this store branch people usually last about 9 months, or less.

After about one and a halve year I had to do most management and ordering on a 6 day work week for me since everyone quit due to way to many reasons. So me ordering everything we need, then I got this mail from some other manager who would manage the store I work in and she would do most tasks again.

So, trough all these red flags to the part that matters. I was ordering for fathers day the usual gifts we need and sold last year plus 10% and some generic gifts. Then this manager who hasn't even been to the store just minned off everything I was sure that I needed. So I wouldn't even get near what I needed, so me being annoyed I asked for what I was allowed to order for hollidays and got a list for each. Not nearly enough for any, by far. Talking about needing at least 30 boxes of bottles and only being allowed 5 of each. But hey, it wouldn't be here if I didn't comply to it.

Fast forward to Christmas last year. Even got less since the order was way too low and too late since I wasn't to order in advance. 3 days before Christmas I ran out of the main 3 Christmas wines that everyone wanted and was on discount. So I just gave customer service numbers out with the name of the manager (who wasn't even bothered to help, get someone to help or do anything). Then I got a call from the regio manager telling me I was right about the order but wrong to handle the way I did. That manager disappeared from the world somehow never to be seen again, and there still is a drop of 20% of the regulars.

Great example of someone who knows it better than the actual motivated employee.