Yeah, I prefer to go by weight too, it's just cleaner and more accurate/consistent. It's a pain in the butt finding by-weight recipes though.
I haven't had particularly good luck with a lot of these. Waffle irons can cook just about anything you squish into them, but they're not necessarily the best tool for the job. Bread especially doesn't do well, those pretzels are now dense, tough, and unpleasantly chewy.
That bugged me too! I think the idea is that Richard (and most of Pied Piper) are all engineers/developers, so it doesn't even occur to them that there might be a problem, much less that it could be solved with better UX. That's just not on their radar.
No, it never even came close to being done. The development team walked after Gavin hacked into the Pied Piper beta and accidentally compromised his entire system.
Endframe was basically dead in the water until Gavin found out about Pied Piper's unpopularity, and Action Jack's idea for a middle-out box.
Yeah, a lot of the late-90s ultraviolent comics haven't aged particularly well.
I think it comes down to age. You kind of had to be a teenager to get into late-90s gonzo comic violence because so many of those titles were written from the perspective of being frustrated with characters like Superman for never using their powers effectively.
They were enormously cathartic when I was a kid. Seeing Stormwatch actually be willing to use their powers in imaginative and destructive ways was much more satisfying than watching Superman be stymied by yet another bank robbery because he doesn't want to risk hurting anybody (in spite of the fact that he can literally travel at light speed).
Issue 16 came out this month, so it seems to be releasing steadily again.
Love this recipe from King Arthur Flour: Chocolate Cream Pie
I haven't personally tried this one, but every other recipe I've tried from ChefSteps has been amazing: Pecan Pie
Different kind of proving ground, I think. Tyrion is further down the road than Dany in terms of ruling people, so he learned a lot of the lessons Dany has just learned back in season 2.
Tyrion's story is more of an internal journey. It's less about where he is and what he's doing than it is about his struggle to find self worth. A lot of his behaviors are fueled by the inadequacies he feels because he's a dwarf, so he's constantly seeking legitimacy, appreciation, and acceptance. He couldn't get any of those in King's Landing, no matter what he did, but he's an unknown quantity in Mereen. There's room for him to be an independent person.
I think it was a smart use of a great actor. Heaping on new characters that nobody cares about while not paying off old characters' stories is a mistake George RR Martin made in the books.
The show in general has done a great job of paring down these characters into more manageable and pointed roles.
Plus, come on, they didn't misuse McShane. They got to use McShane, a very popular, successful, expensive actor, for one episode.
Nah, she's not evil. She's learning that she needs to be ruthless to rule, otherwise she can't defend her people. That's been her whole big arc since conquering Mereen.
I think Dany's fated to learn by experience, again and again, until she's a good enough ruler to repel the white walkers. That prophecy from season 2 has largely panned out now, and the jist of it has always been that Dany needs the experiences of the east before she can conquer Westeros.
With that in mind, I think she's done with Slaver's Bay. It's taught her everything she can learn, so it's time to move on. She might return, but I think Mereen is meant to be Tyrion's proving ground, not her's.
The next part of the prophecy is, "To reach the light you must pass under The Shadow" (paraphrased). The Shadow is this weird, blighted region that makes up the farthest eastern portion of the eastern continent. It's supposed to be lousy with magic, and a few people theorize that it may even connect the eastern continent to Westeros.
Yeah, that's always driven me nuts about George RR Martin as an author. He's just so ridiculously opaque about everything, even things that the audience has long-since put together.
Theon being castrated is probably the most egregious example. It's hyper-obvious in the books, but treated like a tantalizing unknown. Meanwhile the show just out and says it, because they actually have to practice economic storytelling.
It's like he has a fear of paying things off.
The Syrio = Jaquen theory has always had its appeal, everybody liked Syrio and he was one of the few seemingly good characters in the series. That said, he needs to be dead. His death was an enormous part of developing Arya's character, cementing a little bit of selflessness in her core as she descended into a world of thieves and outlaws. If Syrio turned out to be alive after all this time then the series will have descended into telenovela-level melodrama.
Not that I'd put it past Martin to do so. He just may never tell us.
I tend to go by writers, so anything by Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, Matt Fraction, or Ed Brubaker is worth your time.
Warren Ellis - He rebooted Moon Knight last year and turned it into one of the creepiest, coolest, most atmospheric comics around (for the duration of his 12 issue run, anyway).
Garth Ennis - Wrote the definitive take on the Punisher with his Punisher MAX series.
Matt Fraction - Relaunched Iron Fist with Ed Brubaker in The Immortal Iron Fist, which somehow condensed every Bruce Lee movie ever into 14 issues (after issue 14 it nosedives). Rebooted Iron Man as well, and his run was so good that Shane Black cannibalized it for Iron Man 3.
Ed Brubaker - Iron Fist, see above. Also did the definitive modern run of Captain America, Movie Cap is pretty much just Brubaker's Cap slightly retrofitted for the screen.
Dan Abnett's run on Nova is also amazing. It kickstarted the entire Marvel Cosmic line, which eventually resulted in the Guardians of the Galaxy movie.
Right you are! I missed last month's issue, so I read the latest issues back to back and apparently screwed up my numbering.
I came on board after the first two TPBs were released, so I don't have a good sense for the numbering. Woden's POV issue was great too, he's the most nuanced and well-developed teen villain I've ever seen!
ChefSteps all the way. Fantastic recipes (never had a bad one), gorgeously-produced, and none of that weird artifice that a lot of Youtubers do where they're imitating TV cooking shows.
Cupcake Jemma is done in a more standard format, but the lady is amazing at what she does and her recipes are very accessible.
Cooking with Dog is always fun.
Peaceful Cuisine is, similar to ChefSteps, really gorgeously-produced. It's all vegan recipes too, if that's your thing.
Home Cooking Adventure has a lot of beautiful videos, but baffling music choices. Active youtubers have access to a library of free-to-use music from youtube, and they just seem to go with whatever.
Bruno Albouze is a weird guy with a lot of over-the-top production, but he's an undeniably great chef.
And my most recent pick-up is Hey! It's Mosogourmet!! which is a Japanese channel that's kind of ASMR-y, but I can't figure out what they're actually trying to do. They seem to swing back and forth between original recipes and boxed kits.
Cheers!
If you like QC I think you'll also really like Sakana. It's the same kind of slice-of-life webcomic about young 20-somethings, but set in a fish market in Tokyo. It's fun, funny, and has really charming artwork.
I also really like Junior Scientist Power Hour, which is a journal comic by Abby Howard. It's not a narrative, but it's funny and relatable.
Let's Speak English is also a lot of fun. Mary Cagle in general makes really readable, accessible comics that are goofy fun.
I was born in Denmark, so my first comics were those Belgian/Francophone comics that are everywhere in europe. Primarily Asterix, but also a little Lucky Luke.
Weirdly, I didn't find out about Tintin or Tif & Tondu until I was an adult, but I love their art styles.
Looks interesting! I was obsessed with making pizza in college, my personal favorite recipe is this one from NYT: http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1016230-robertas-pizza-dough



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