[ChristianRasmussen]

@DoctorEldritch I can not wait until we have New Years discount, because not all discounts are the same and I like high % 😎

[DoctorEldritch]

@ChristianRasmussen "all discounts are equal, but some discounts are more equal than others" 😉

While we're waiting for that, what's your take on the remastered Warhammer 40K Dawn of War that was just released yesterday?

People seem to like it so far, and those who got the original Dawn of War get a permament 30% (I think) discount. I got the original, but on a CD, not in Steam, so I am not sure I qualify 😅

[ChristianRasmussen]

@DoctorEldritch I have all of them and played it a lot when it was first out, before II and !!! came out and changed the gameplay. I do not see how much is remastered. it is just the "Definitive Edition" meaning that you get the main game with all the expansions.

I really like the game playstyle from Dawn of War (i) more the II or III.

[DoctorEldritch]

Originally Posted by ChristianRasmussen

I do not see how much is remastered.

I think it's mostly the graphics and making it run smoothly on modern devices. Though I heard that fans did not like that in the updated trailer, the devs removed an iconic Space Marine battle scream. The outrage from the fans was so severe that the devs brought it back.

Though another improvement may be the stability of the game, which is important for modders who like to bring the game closer to the tabletop version with mods that add to the base game, like giant Titan-class units. Reportedly, the Definitive Edition may be able to support massive armies: it only slowed down to an unplayable framerate with over 10K Ork Boyz on the map, and crashed with over 47K of them. So reasonably massive armies from many sides should hopefully be playable there.

Same, I liked Dawn of War 1 most, with the base building and various units. In DoW 2, they removed the base and focused on small squads, which is not bad in itself, but it felt like a completely different game. And in DoW 3, I really did not like that cartoonish art style.

[Telomina]

@DoctorEldritch Oh, those flowers look interesting! I don't recall seeing them in salads.

I do not approve of the concept of kimbap, with the sesam oil being in the rice, on the nori, and it overall feeling a bit more like the school lunch you don't like instead of a fancy treat. However, I once made a kimbap roll myself, just to culture my mother a bit (hehe), and that one was actually good. Pretty sure I didn't use sesam oil in the rice that day. But in general I really dislike them.

Perhaps drying would give better results, but I find it to be a hassle, especially to do it "well enough".

Ah, see, avoiding chilli is what I should do, but after living in China and Korea life simply does not feel fun enough without chilli. I haven't heard of brine pickling before.. I should look into it a bit more.

[DoctorEldritch]

@Telomina Nasturtiums are not really common salad ingredients here for some reason, but they can both taste and look good in them:



If you want to try your hand at making one, here is where I took that picture from, but if you Google it, you'll likely find several salad recipes with them.

Ah, I did not realise that sesame oil was such a critical ingredient for kimbap, I learned something new today, thank you for that 😊 I myself do not mind it much, but I can see how kimbaps would not appeal if you do not like it.

I guess it may depend on how warm it is or how much sun you get. We dry a fair amount of herbs like mint, basil or dill, it is usually simple enough. But chrysanthemum leaves may be different, if they look sad after freezing and have a lot of water in them, then drying them may not be as simple as those herbs.

Honestly, I wish I could eat more spicy foods. Having lived in Asia myself, I had a bit of a hard time sometimes there when I needed to find food that I could actually eat comfortably. I don't know what it is, but above a certain level of spiciness, somewhere between "mild hot" and "hot", if I eat something too spicy, I get hiccups that do not stop for a while. It is quite annoying, and I don't know what to do with it, really. I tried easing myself into it to no result, so at this point, I more or less came to terms that spicy food will not be a part of my life experience. Sad, but what can you do 😅

Brine is a solution of water and salt (though using soy sauce as a salt basis is also possible). If you want to get technical about it, then if you use brine, the end result would be fermented rather than pickled, but I do not follow terminology too closely and when I say "pickles", I mean using either vinegar or brine. I apologise for the confusion. That being said, the difference is somewhat more substantial than just the right terminology:

[Telomina]

@DoctorEldritch
oh, that's so interesting about the "salad flower".

Hiccups is a symptom from spicy food I havent heard of before :o

I have histamine intolerance, so I shouldn't have pickled nor fermented. But something tells me that my quick-pickled version is still safest (I need to finish it within a few days). I nowadays have histamine breaking DAO enzymes at home, but I think its best to not challenge my aided system too much, and tend to also stay with the more safe options these days. Well, besides the chilli.

[DoctorEldritch]

@Telomina Apparently, there are quite a few edible flowers. I tried mostly nasturtiums or pumpkin blossoms, but there are many more out there. Experiment field aplenty for an ambitious salatier 😉

Really? I thought it was somewhat common, there is even a scientific explanation for it: allegedly, it is the capsaicin found in spicy food that's causing this reaction.

Better safe than sorry, with histamine intolerance, it would indeed be best to avoid fermented or pickled food. Sorry to hear that you have it. My guess is that if it's just a few days, then probably not enough bacteria will grow in that time, and it may be safer, as you say. Though I am by no means a nutritionist, so what do I know? At least you can eat chilli fine, unlike me 😅

[Telomina]

Oh. Yes I should make it a mission for next year to try all the flowers in salads!

Oh, no. I cant eat chilli fine. I just decided to spare you all the details of how it expresses itself 😅

[DoctorEldritch]

@Telomina That's a good New Year's Resolution 😉

Ah. Thank you for your consideration 😅