Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Kolsykol]

Uhh, as far as I know, the US's cuisine is all just bastardizations/reimaginings of other place's cuisines, usually with better ingredients but less authenticity or disputed origins with European countries.

Love me a good hamburger though. Even better if it's a bison burger!

In fairness the US is a pretty young country, and that's also how food generally works.
A while back ago for example some people tried to claim that Swedish meatballs are actually Turkish, but they mistook their history for Kåldolmar ( cabbage rolls ) which are a reinterpretation of Turkish Dolma.
But Kåldolmar are still different from Dolma and we consider it our own.

But even with meatballs pretty much all countries have/ had their own version of it, I mean good luck hunting down the original meatball xD.
So I don't really think that US cuisine is less valid because how it has developed is the same as it has around the world really.

Yeah.. but this is me when I see a fantasia..



Dumping it would be a waste..

Now you are a Neko.

[Soge01]

In fairness the US is a pretty young country, and that's also how food generally works.
A while back ago for example some people tried to claim that Swedish meatballs are actually Turkish, but they mistook their history for Kåldolmar ( cabbage rolls ) which are a reinterpretation of Turkish Dolma.
But Kåldolmar are still different from Dolma and we consider it our own.

But even with meatballs pretty much all countries have/ had their own version of it, I mean good luck hunting down the original meatball xD.
So I don't really think that US cuisine is less valid because how it has developed is the same as it has around the world really.



Now you are a Neko.

Drink it and return to Lala~ :3

[VelKallor]

But even with meatballs pretty much all countries have/ had their own version of it, I mean good luck hunting down the original meatball xD.

Warleader Na'Kal "Breen!! You imported Breen from homeworld"

G'Kar: (chuckling) "It isnt actually Breen..."

Na'Kal: "But the smell..the taste..."

G'Kar: "Its an Earth food, they call it Swedish meatballs. Its a strange thing, but every sentient race has their own version of Swedish meatballs. I suspect its one of the universe's great mysteries, which will either never be explained, or which would drive you mad if you ever learned the truth..."

- Babylon 5.

[MilkieTea]

Got the Skallic and Lost Allagan sets, got all three cards (yes, yes, I know, no Im a loooong way from that card mount lol ) got the doggo and the disembodied head, all the earrings.

I used to think that a moogle was a flying dumpling..now? Nah, theyre okay.

I truthfully only wanted the top from the skallic set ahah >-<. And i got it! (Now I have to level a healer so I can use it...)

[MilkieTea]

Drink it and return to Lala~ :3

https://youtu.be/rwf89ufeU3c

[ItMe]

Yoooooo! I just learned that earlier this month R-Type Final 2 released!!!
I've just bought it and oh man is it juicy!

I don't know if I'm making this post in an attempt to plug it or if I'm doing it just because I'm super excited and have nowhere to channel this love, so forgive me if it's a little sporadic.

I got into the series when they hit the Wii Shop Channel, so long after the franchise ended with R-Type Final on the PS2 (though I suppose it did have that odd tactics games that came out of nowhere on the PSP). I've since been able to gather and play about half of them and understand how this franchise came to be one of the cornerstones of the shmup genre.

And would you look at that, this new company (Granzella) behind R-Type Final 2 is actually make up of people that split off of the original studio (irem) behind R-Type. It looks like a fair number of the people who initially made R-Type split off from irem because they weren't happy when irem decided to basically stop making games and focus on... pachinko and slot machines... (ugh)

The announcement they were working on R-Type Final 2 came out on April 1st. I thought it was just a joke, chuckled, and move on. But it turns out while I wasn't paying attention they raised over a million bucks through kickstarter and this baby has been in development for 3-4 years.
It's not been too widely advertised so I only stumbled back on it by chance.
But now it's here!
And damn it's really rad!
And none of my friends are into shmups so I have no one to talk to about this AAAAAAAAH!

[MilkieTea]

PSA: dont screw your sleeping schedule up. You’ll regret it.

Sincerely,
a tired AF lala who cant sleep for longer than 5 hours without his body deciding to wake up. RIP.

[Theodric]

PSA: dont screw your sleeping schedule up. You’ll regret it.

Solid advice!

My own sleeping pattern never really recovered after my first two jobs - one revolved around working night shifts in a supermarket as a cashier and the other was in the security sector and involved active patrols in the dead of night. I've pretty much been stuck as a night owl ever since and once you get into the habit of staying up late, it's hard not to continue doing it.

[JRat]

For an of topic thread you all sure do talk a lot about Final Fantasy.


Okay the forums are trolling me.. when I posted i only saw 5 pages.. now its 17..

[Vyrerus]

For an of topic thread you all sure do talk a lot about Final Fantasy.


Okay the forums are trolling me.. when I posted i only saw 5 pages.. now its 17..

Maybe we should rename it the, "Trying to go off topic" thread :P