u/Elegant-Winner-6521

Or at least, the most beginner friendly busted build?

First time I beat the game before I had any idea what synergies might work (I'm still a newb, but I have some idea now), I accidentally put together a throwable build. I had no idea what was happening but in a single run I went from barely being able to scrape a win against the Underking to obliterating Azra with a spare life still left.

My second win was the same, but this time I was able to see what was happening. I kept getting health-melting spammable weapons that I could chuck from the other side of the screen. No skill or risk required, literally no downsides.

I've been trying to find other ways to get that same boss-melting thrill but with more legitimate beat-em up tactics, and nothing seems to come close so far.

Looking around this sub it seems like throw-to-win as baby's first win is a common theme.

I can't help looking up what classes are strong/weak each season, and then looking at the builds, and deciding from that which offer the compromise of good but also fun. For example, I wanted to play paladin this season but then I read from all the reviews and breakdowns that it's really weak this season.

That said...does this stuff even largely matter unless you're pushing high pits? Does it actually feel weak or is that just what happens when you get to the far endgame and those differences in decimal point percentages stack up?

Basically I'm just trying to figure out if I'm stressing pointlessly about gameplay mechanics that don't apply to me anyway, or if these are huge discrepancies that will affect all players even at low to mid levels.

For example, in Hades 1/2 you could somewhat game the system because you knew it was going to give you a "boon" (basically a ritual) for each attack and movement option. You also knew it would only give you maybe 4 "gods" (ritual types) per run. With all of that knowledge, you knew if you saw a Zeus' dash boon but you wanted his main attack boon, you could just wait a couple of rounds until it showed up. You also knew if you kept avoiding taking an attack boon for other gods it would keep serving you attack boons until you got it.

Is it similar here? Wondering if anyone has done a write up on the pool mechanics.

Topic title sums it up basically. I see a lot of videos/recipes call for submerging in ice water to halt the blanching of vegetables or herbs, or to stop an egg poaching.

For a home cook, does it matter if it's icey or can it just be cold? I'm not throwing 40 eggs into water, I'm throwing maybe 3.

Basically I'm wondering if there's some extra wisdom here I'm missing.

Basically, my father needs to go into a care home after his second stroke, my mother's car has just been given a quote for £1600 to get it road legal, including some welding work. It's a 2009 Vauxhall Astra with 100k miles on the clock.

So she needs a car that is reliable but also something she's probably not going to do a ton of miles in. She doesn't drive other than this.

The way I see it, we have three basic choices here:

a) Repair the car. Strictly the cheapest out of pocket cost. Also the riskiest. It's an old banger even with the repair work.

b) buy a used car. The most expensive in the short term, probably looking at 6k plus for something reliable.

c) car lease. The most expensive long term, but the easiest, and potentially not much more expensive if it's going to be for two years.

Ordinarily, I would never consider car leasing, but it kind of struck me. We don't know if dad is going to live 6 months or 5 years as things stand. This would be the easiest, fuss-free thing to get her on the road.

If I'm way off base with my thinking here please let me know. I guess it's all been a lot.

In the original thread, I said I was going away on a camping trip to somewhere with a large group of 15-20 people with various dietary requirements, and I'd be cooking for them alone, and I'd have limited equipment.

I don't know if anyone remembers this thread but I have a pet peeve for when people present some kind of problem online and you don't find out what happened, so here's what happened:

I had a couple strokes of fortune first off: the site was way better equipped than I was expecting, with a full (and very decent) range, a bbq, some giant pots and plenty of prep space. It also transpired that 2 of the other people there were very competent cooks, one even a catering chef.

Finally while most people were vegan and some were lactose, most of the really awkward dietary problems were down to one person (who was lactose, coeliac and allergic to nightshades). That person agreed to bring their own food and eat whatever was safe to eat if it was available.

So on the first night we made a dahl with some tadka to make it extra spicy and a raita to make it cooler. There was a side salad too, kept that part very simple, some random spinach greens.

On the second night, we set up a taco bar with charred corn tortillas (GF), refried beans, fried tofu, street corn, red pickled onions, a guacamole, a coriander crema, a tomato salsa, sour cream and various hot sauces.

I just decided to make everything vegan to avoid headaches.

On the third night someone else cooked a risotto and pasta and some other random bits.

People brought their own lunch foods.

It all worked out in the end, nobody went hungry or got poisoned. Respect to the chefs out there who do this day in and day out for even more people.

This feels like a dumb unimportant question but this seems like the sub for specific cooking problems.

Whenever I've cooked chicken thighs and then want to slice it up, I run into this problem: it becomes a mess. I end up with uneven chunks of chicken with skin everywhere. I want nice neat looking slices.

I have several super sharp knives, so I think the issue is my technique. Does chicken have a grain? How do you do this without a) ruining the skin layer or b) crushing the thigh.

I went looking on youtube for this exact problem but couldnt find an example.

This feels like a dumb unimportant question but this seems like the sub for specific cooking problems.

Whenever I've cooked chicken thighs and then want to slice it up, I run into this problem: it becomes a mess. I end up with uneven chunks of chicken with skin everywhere. I want nice neat looking slices.

I have several super sharp knives, so I think the issue is my technique. Does chicken have a grain? How do you do this without a) ruining the skin layer or b) crushing the thigh.

I went looking on youtube for this exact problem but couldnt find an example.

Going camping with a large group soon and here's what I'm dealing with -

• most are probably vegan/vegetarian
• one is severely allergic to eggs and is coeliac
• one is intolerant to nightshades
• a couple would prefer meat
• hell no one has said they're lactose but may as well throw that in to be safe
• I'm expecting the typical thing where the site is "fully equipped", meaning a dull knife, some sad plastic tongs, same wafer thin pots and pans and an electric stove and firepit.

I think I can deal with the equipment issue by bringing some of my own, but what to cook? I was considering making some mexican food and precooking some things, that way everyone can choose what they want. I expect I'll be cooking one of the nights at least.

Some other ideas would be very appreciated.

Ingredients are miilk, eggs, butter, flour, salt, sugar, instant yeast.

I worked in the butter gradually and now im at the stage where its basically somewhere between pancake batter and very wet bread dough. Its somewhat cohesive, but very sticky and has no strength.

Recipes are telling me to put it in a stand mixer for 20 minutes - i dont have one of those. Is there a feasible way to hand mix this? If this was sourdough I would just give it a few folds every few half hour. Something tells me that wont exactly work here, maybe ill run out of time before the yeast ferments.

For whatever reason I had so many bills line up at the same time this month. Road tax, a car service, breakdown cover, switching insurance providers, a missed therapy payment. So on top of the usual 600-800 I have in credit to pay off each month I "suddenly" had to find another 2k on top of that.

In a previous life I would have scrambled, stressed and then had to do some creative avoidance and delaying to get together what is essentially a month's paycheck out of nowhere to keep up with this. People get angrier and more impatient, interest adds up, sleepless nights, rinsing your entire savings account to keep up with bills, living on beans on toast etc.

But a few years back I started to figure out how to budget partly from advice from this subreddit, and when I looked at my bank accounts today I realised I already had all that money set aside exactly for these reasons. Small monthly deposits for each thing (e.g. setting aside £30 a month for insurance and £50 a month for car repairs) had accumulated enough to pay for all of it very comfortably without anything being late and crucially without dipping into my emergency fund, holiday fund or anything else.

It's a good feeling!