Not talking about sit down big-deal dinner restaurant pizza, I'm talking about stuff I can just grab a slice or two quickly and walk out with. I don't think there's any walkable from DTSS but maybe a short drive or metro ride?
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Probably a lot of bridges, so I'd love some other ideas lol
Antiquity: Nilometer. +4 food. Must be built on desert floodplains navigable river. When built, floods no longer damage buildings along this river and have a higher chance of fertilizing it.
Exploration: Ponte Vecchio. Gold and water buildings gain +2 culture and +1 (more) gold adjacency to navigable rivers in this city. Trade routes from this city gain extra income (I don't know how the math would work). Acts as a bridge.
Modern: Three Gorges Dam. Must be built on a floodplains natural river. Cities within 6 tiles get +50% production toward buildings. (Yes this is a huge bonus but it's going to come when the game's basically over).
Bonus modern: George Washington Bridge (NYC/NJ). +1000 gold when built. Units take 35 turns to cross this bridge. :)
In this scenario let's say that hawaii and the NZ archipelago are pushed toward each other so they are, at the closest points, 1,000 miles apart (about 3x the distance between Hawaii island and Kauai, the westernmost major island).
Used short grain sweet rice and Koji rice. First two pictures before, last three after two weeks of fermenting and then one week of crashing in the fridge then siphoning.
Okay, goes down pretty smooth. No idea how strong it is but I'm guessing typical wine strength. A little more mild than I expected, not a ton of flavor, but no nasty sour/fungal notes either. I'll give it a 7 out of 10.
Since last year I've been doing a little project, every time I get a 6-pack of something, I keep one can and put it on a shelf in my closet. When the shelf's totally full (it can probably hold 50-60 cans) I"ll have the best variety pack ever, because I get a different thing every time. But I'm wondering... will canned beverages still be good after like... a year? of sitting on a room temperature shelf in a usually dark closet. Would buying bottled stuff be better? I can't imagine so, I'm sure bottle caps are leakier than sealed cans...
This is all kinds of drinks. Coke, diet coke, canned coffee, flavored seltzers (this is the majority!), fizzy lemonades, ginger beer, root beer, actual beer, canned cocktails... nothing with dairy since that'd definitely not stay out of the fridge, but pretty much anything else.
I am trying to get through my books more consistently but I get too distracted at home with all my other stuff & I need more excuses to go out anyway, so the last couple of months every weekend I go sit somewhere and read for a few hours either saturday or sunday morning. I feel like half the time I end up at Dupont circle or at a picnic table near Union Market, but I'm looking for some other nice ones. Bonus points for good non-chain cafes/lunch places that are open on the weekend nearby. Bonus for proximity to the northeastern part of the red line too, I'm in Silver Spring (I haven't found an outdoor spot with good vibes here, too much car noise/loud music in the main plazas, although a lot of the cafes here have good indoor-spot vibes)
I have made Cider and Mead before successfully, but I think Sake requires a bit more thinking through.
Starting material:
1 gallon fermenting carbuoy
2 lbs short grain sweet rice (similar to https://www.gosupps.com/media/catalog/product/7/1/71O3N7KH1KS.jpg)
1 container dried Koji Rice (this exact one https://chefshop.com/cdn/shop/files/Cold_Mountain_Dry_Rice_Koji_container.jpg?v=1759967022&width=1946)
Some yeast (a champagne yeast)
My steps, from what I've researched:
1: Soak all 2lbs of rice in room temp water for an hour, then rinse until clear. Discard the rinse water. Let the rice dry out in a strainer.
2: Put strainer over a pot. Bring the water to a boil. Then cover the strainer with a lid, lower heat to low, steam the rice for 20 minutes (until it's sticky but not gummy). Then let the rice cool down to lukewarm.
3: Add the rice and about 25% as much (by weight) of the koji rice and a healthy pinch of yeast to the fermenter.
4: Let 'er rip for 2 weeks, giving at least one shake a day so the koji can spread among all the grains
5: Filter and serve.
If it sucks, it's not a big loss of ingredients, but... it's a big loss of time! So I want to start off right.
relics on enemy cities with altars/temples, every time this belief is still available. If not, enemy cities with wonders, usually.
+1 spread charge for enhancer. Basically every time.
For the main founder belief it seems more situational, but I often end up taking the one that big boosts on enemy cities with wonders, or natural wonders. Although sometimes +production on your own cities can be good.
I've read like 8 random ones and want to start over and be more methodical. I realize that the series of Halo books are really like, five different series of novels... the "main series", the forerunner saga, kilo five, etc. But there's so many haha...
I can see a list of all of them here https://www.halopedia.org/Halo_novels
but besides "just IRL release order" I'm not sure where to go. Maybe IRL release order IS the way to go.
Just finished my first run. Only way I died was losing a dice roll with cardio grandpa and having a heart attack and falling down the silo stairs (I think that's what happened, anyway). I assume you can also blow up the bomb on yourself, but I never found the trigger.
Can you, or someone else, fuck the fuckwand? What is it even for ingame? Real important questions first.
If you get Poor Dante out of the EMTERR jail, can you kill him?
How do you blow up the bomb? I know its from a song, but how do you get the song?
What happens if you eat that "mint" in Dr. Gonza's office?
Can PSEUDOPOD actually go nuts and kill you?
Does it matter which thought you give up to imprint him? Maybe it changes his personality?
Can you get through the tram ride with all your friends surviving?
What happens to Violetta if you trade her? I let her escape
Can you find the interrator lady again (besides that date Hershel imagines up... at least I'm pretty sure she imagined it up)?
Can the "robbery" of goat eyes when you get the drugs for ramses end in killing him? We just talked him into taking being robbed in exchange for promising to go on a date with him - i didnt talk to him again the rest of the game lmao)
If you side with luz/go fascist, can you actually defect to the golem at the end of the game?
What the heck was Bagman's whole deal? Can you find out who he is? He (and copper lady) seems almost self-aware that he is in a tabletop-style game
Does the card game you play with the golem actually differ depending on what cards you pick?
I know you can't separate politics from DC obviously. But I'm looking for a history of the city's development itself, the construction of things, how neighborhoods changed, why things are built the way they are, etc. Not just the "national politics" of it all. Something like this and its sequels:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham:_A_History_of_New_York_City_to_1898
But for DC. Bonus points if its on audible, but I'll but a physical book I have to.
I'm going to throw some teabags, water, and half a lemon and peach into a big jar overnight (so maybe 10-12 hours steeping before I remove the bags), but not sure if it's the same "one bag per mug" as I would do for a reuglar mug.
I keep hearing towns are getting better and better, and you shouldn't make tons of cities anymore, and that 2-3 cities is a good number (plus lots of towns). But I often find it feels off if I don't end up with like, 5-6 cities by the middle of exploration, there are too many good spots to have just warehouse buildings and a few "whatever you specialize in" buildings. Especially in culture victory games where you end up "losign" a lot of tiles to making wonders
