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  • Canopyflyer@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous today?English
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    22 days ago

    I’m a Gen X’er… Not sure if the Lemmy’s word limit on posts would allow me to list it all.

    So here are a few:

    Drank from the garden hose? Check

    Rode in a car without seat belts? As a toddler? As a baby? Check

    Rode my bike all over town with no helmet? Had an accident that put me in a coma for 48hrs because of not wearing a helmet? Check

    Harvested tobacco on my grandparents farm? Check (Anyone who has done this by hand, working with those stakes knows the risks.)

    I started skydiving in the early 90’s. My mother was absolutely appalled and constantly berated me about how “dangerous” it is to jump out of an airplane.

    The truth of the matter was I was far safer in free fall than I was during most of my adolescence.

  • Canopyflyer@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Elon brings out the AGIEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Fellow X’er here. My wife and I have worked with a financial consultant for the last 20 years. From the get go she said not to count on SS at all.

    We have always considered all that money we paid into it to be just… Gone. That’s pretty much a reality now.

    I hope the billionaires enjoy what our money buys for them. It will probably be another politician.

  • Canopyflyer@lemmy.worldtoDungeons and Dragons@lemmy.world•Those of you who made the switch to 2024 rules, how's it going?
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    2 months ago

    My Friday night group started playing 2024 rules a couple of months ago. Also made the change from Roll20 to Foundry VTT, so it’s been a little bit of a learning curve for the group.

    I absolutely love Weapon Mastery. It’s a mechanic that is long over due. Haven’t been playing long enough to say what could be done better about it, as so far it’s been pretty good across the classes. I play a Rogue Soul Knife and having Vex, in order to get Sneak Attack damage every turn is really effective. Plus, as a Rogue I can use tactics more individualized for my character.

    The lack of flanking giving advantage was annoying… At first. With that said, it has forced the party to actually engage in tactics that didn’t just involve lining up in a row.

    So far so good… Just waiting for everything to go behind multiple paywalls due to Hasbro having a bad quarter. I really tried pushing my group to go to Pathfinder after the License dust up, but was overridden. My group is more important to me than the stupidity of Hasbro, so 2024 is what we play.

  • Canopyflyer@lemmy.worldtoDungeons and Dragons@lemmy.world•What dnd character concepts do you wish you could get to play?
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    4 months ago

    Commoner Adventurer: All stats are 10. You start the campaign at level 0, no class. Throughout the campaign, the characters attain a class based on their actions.

    Wrong class for the race: Halfling Barbarians, Half-Orc Wizard, etc. This can be a lot of fun, as instead of having an optimized character that can deal a lot of damage, you have to think through things and come up with strategies. I personally have always liked playing characters that are small that have to use their wits to survive in combat. Oh, I like playing a tank once in a while. Currently, I’m in two different sessions. In one, I’m playing a Dragonborn Cleric that has served as the melee support for the party’s paladin. The other session I’m playing a halfling rogue Soul Knife that rides the barbarian into battle. I have a lot more fun with the Rogue.

  • Canopyflyer@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•I hate cast iron so I am in favour of this.English
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    4 months ago

    The polymerized coating on cast iron is stripped almost immediately with anything acidic. It’s basic chemistry.

    Put some fat in the pan… You mean exactly what I do with my stainless steel?

    Also cooking the way you describe builds up carbon, which is carcinogenic.

    What needs to die is the emotional attachment people have to a technology that has its place, just not for every day cooking.

    My grill Pan and Dutch ovens are cast iron. But they are Enameled making them a lot more useful. ,

  • Canopyflyer@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•I hate cast iron so I am in favour of this.English
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    4 months ago

    Cooking has been a hobby of mine for decades now. I have gone through a lot of phases in cooking, especially early on.

    I have used cast iron, carbon steel, stainless steel, and a dubious flirtation with all aluminum.

    16 years on now and this is what I reach for 100% of the time:

    Skillet/sautee: cladded stainless. Both standard side and high sided.

    Dutch Oven: Enameled cast iron.

    Pots Pans: Cladded stainless steel. For smaller 1qt to 2qt I like All Clads D5 for its heat retention. Larger than that I like the D3 for its lighter weight

    Grill Pan: cast iron. Hate the excessive weight though

    Non-stick: Ceramic coated aluminum. What ever Americas Test Kitchen recommends that year. I consider these disposable items. I stopped using TEFLON a long time ago.

    I used cast iron skillets for several years. I found them to be finicky. Heat retention was stupidly high and that’s not always a good thing. Excessively heavy and god forbid you attempt any sort of tomato based sauce or anything acidic for that matter. Circumstances forced me to use stainless steel and I just found it matches my needs in a kitchen much better than cast iron. It gets used, it gets cleaned and I put it away. No having to have the vaginal juices of a thousand virgins on hand to make sure it doesn’t destroy the next egg I try to cook.

    I consider cast iron skillets like safety razors. They had their day, but continue on because of a dedicated set of die hard users. Nothing wrong with that, just not my thing.

    The above goes for carbon steel as well, although it usually isn’t nearly as heavy.