Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

Nicknames... so does anybody else need a nickname?

@Th3solution well it ain’t short nor that catchy but @Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy coined MrGameplayKing for me as I do love to harp on about the virtues of gameplay over pretty much every other aspect of gaming. I quite like it actually 🤫

@colonelkilgore The first Colonel who is also a King!

@Th3solution 😎/🥸

@Gadjo this is such a one sided juxtaposition and rightfully so. But what makes you think that people in the UK aren't exploited? Let me reassure you, we are. We don't have access to free oranges either.

I don't agree with the route capitalism has taken, people aged under 50 have a generally worse quality of life than the older generation. Most of the population fail to see the fruits of the '6th biggest economy in the world'. Yet here we are.

You will tar us with the same brush, but the reality is most of the people I know just want a nice meal and roof over their heads. And that's harder for most people now than twenty years ago.

@Gadjo in what way am I defending anything? I don't agree with our past in numerous ways. Capitalism is just that, capitalising on anything. That anything is currently the younger generation who have a significantly worse chance of a decent life than those before them.

Your father would have potentially had a better chance of a fair pension in the UK. But speaking from my personal point of view my own pension was reduced to pennies in 2008 and even now 13 years later still isn't the same. Geopolitics is insane and is routinely unfair, regional politics is were we suffer. Having millions in poverty isn't benefitting from colonial era policies.

@Th3solution Just to drag this back to yesterday, my thanks to @mookysam for correctly identifying the logo of the Double R Diner, taken from Twin Peaks. I stuck it on there for the first music quiz I made, after sharing a love of the show with @Kidfried who'd helpfully pointed out the accidental connection between my username's initials and the surreal show's setting.

In other words, I'd trademark it if I could, but David Lynch might... well, he might lynch me!

@RogerRoger I really enjoyed seeing that logo in your YouTube vids. It's a great watermark.

I was eating cheesecake just now. Talking about the RR dinner made me think of cherry pie. And now I finally know the difference between a cake and a pie (they're the same thing in my language). I learnt something!

@Kidfried Ah, but which is better? Cake or pie?

I dunno I do like a good scotch @RogerRoger... And the name was just a mish-mash of random words so for all I know it could be after some tipple lol

@RogerRoger Pie. 😁 I also recommend Twin Peaks if its ever on somewhere @Th3solution!

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Foxy sounds like a codename for an elite spy or assassin, who may happen to enjoy a fine scotch at a casino while scouting her mark. I've watched far too much James Bond!

@Gadjo You're not mucking up anything, and you're welcome here. Don't need to make excuses for yourself.

Life can be hard and stressful, and often it is difficult to express yourself online in a way that everybody will understand you. My advice to you is not to worry about it too much. Just continue being you, that's fine.

From your posts you sound a bit distressed by the way. Are you going through a lot of stuff right now, and are you alright? Or am I reading too much into things.

@mookysam You're thinking of Foxy Brown! What a character that is.

@RogerRoger I don't know if I have an opinion on those words actually. It's as if you're asking if I like fussili or penne better. They have a different shape sure, but wich one I like better is more dependent how well they were made than either of them having an inherent quality that I always appreciate over the other one.

I need to think about this more.

@Kidfried Yeah, I realised after I asked that I was being cruel. Like you, people ask me which pasta I'd prefer and, providing I trust the chef, my immediate reaction is to think "...but it's all just pasta, right?" so I'm sorry for giving your brain some homework!

At least we know where @mookysam stands!

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy My broadband provider gave me a router with a password made up of three random, hyphenated words. Do we now all know your Wi-Fi password, perchance?

...?! You know too much @RogerRoger! As does @mookysam!!! Next you two'll be blurting out the location of my super secret assassin lair!!!

... I've nothing to contribute to the twin peaks conversation beyond I watched two episodes (after my daughter bugged me to watch it) and honestly I found 'em pretty boring and the dropped the whole thing lol

@Kidfried Ah, I must have heard about her a long time ago. It's a good name! I liked Pam Grier in Jackie Brown.

@RogerRoger Pasta is an odd one for me, because I don't like spaghetti, but love rigatoni and penne. And don't get me started on tagliatelle. 🤢 Apparently shape impacts how well a sauce clings to it too.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Whoops, do I need to look into hiring some protection?

@Kidfried @RogerRoger As a connoisseur of desserts, I can say that cake is objectively better. But a good pie is certainly better than a bad cake. Cakes can easily be too dry and not have the right frosting-to-cake ratio and then the whole thing is a mess. Also, it depends on the pie. A good cherry pie or lemon meringue pie can trump a standard chocolate cake.

But I never thought about it, but “cheesecake” is really more of a pie, so I see the confusion there. 🤔

@Th3solution Now I'm confused. Lemon mergingue PIE? Isn't the definition of pie that it has to be covered on the top as well?

So I guess the difference between pie and cake is whether it has some kind of filling, that has a different texture than the outside? But then my cheesecake doesn't make sense.

Maybe we just have to conclude that this language of yours has some problems, and we're all better off calling all of them "taart".

@Kidfried A pie is just typically something with a pastry case and sometimes things are called cakes that are really pies and vice-versa. Does Dutch have a separate word for savoury pies?

@Kidfried Lol, not sure if it’s a language thing or a culture thing, but either way I agree — it doesn’t always make sense. 😂

But yes, I would consider cheesecake more like a tart; cake has a flour-based breaded feel to the base and typically covered with frosting on top and often layers of it also on the inside. Cakes come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, one variant being called a “cupcake” which just fits in your hand and can be consumed in a few bites. Pie does have a crust at the bottom (like cheesecake does), is circular and made in a specific pie pan and typically has a filling with a crust on the top. Lemon meringue pie is more of a tart and has a crust at the bottom but not on top, rather has a nice fluffy meringue on top.

The more I try to explain the difference, the more I realize it doesn’t always make sense! 😂