the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

fun fact: Dragon Quest XI is the first dragon quest (if you don't count X) that was actually developed by (square) enix

all the previous games were developed by other studios--the first several actually by Chunsoft of mystery dungeon fame
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@starseeker @Kaffe@chitter.xyz oh that might be why we hardly heard any of them last night
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@Kaffe@chitter.xyz they are in some US states

i remember going home from alabama to georgia around the two big firework times (summer and new years), we'd always go past this enormous fireworks store right on the alabama side of the border, and people would come from georgia to buy fireworks because they're not legal to sell in georgia but they are in alabama
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@manifold yeah we don't know a lot about raspberry pis but i imagine there's a lot of options for stuff like that out there!
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@manifold oh dear. Good luck finding one--don't forget the possibility of a cheap USB-SATA bridge and a SATA disk. Might find one cheaper that way?
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@relee A little salt might affect that? Honestly we've never made pasta without salt

but actually a fair bit of salt does get absorbed into the pasta! You can definitely notice the different taste between low-salt and high-salt
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@relee "as salty as the sea" is what we've heard from quite a few people, some of whom were professional chefs, so i'd say that's probably about right

i mean pasta doesn't technically *need* salt at all but it's tastier with some salt in it
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@socks we know that fangamer and theyetee are both instances of that, pretty sure there are others too
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@ziphi It looks *excellent*, though I do miss placeholder fox a little bit. placeholder fox was cute.
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@Taris that's a good thing, puppies aren't malicious at all
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there's an oft-repeated bit of advice that says you should always put enough salt in your pasta water to make it "as salty as the sea"

turns out, if you actually do that by putting the stoichiometric amount of salt equal to what there is in seawater, you end up with pasta that's inedibly salty

but! the acceptable range of saltiness for pasta cooking includes the point where adding more salt doesn't much change the taste because you're already overloading the salt receptors on your tongue. so the proper amount of salt in the water *tastes* about the same saltiness as seawater
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@Austin_Dern why *was* it so slow, anyway? you could easily get much faster data transmission off a tape drive in the 80s
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@Austin_Dern we're mildly amused that our parking spot (or at least the one we park in most often, we don't pay the extra money for a reserved spot) is number 317, and the LM317 is a very classic (although not very good) linear regulator
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@Austin_Dern that's a perfectly normal thing to get mildly happy about
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@Austin_Dern they're like kinder eggs
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@Austin_Dern what's ASFR?
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@kat we've tried to play that a few times but kept falling off from it for various reasons

should go back to it sometime
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@bunposting Pretty sure this isn't a bunny but i appreciate them anyway
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@Kaffe@chitter.xyz i have no idea what game this is but the red suit just makes me think miles edgeworth
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@Kaffe@chitter.xyz ...is your player character miles edgeworth
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