u/lolgaleo

From my experience, every time I've cooked instant noodles (Sapporo Ichiban, Maruchan, Shin, Top Ramen) it adds a certain off-taste to the broth that is so pervasive I haven't been able to ignore it as of late. I really, really want to know if there is a way to get around it.

At first, I thought it might have been an issue with the flavor packets that come with the dry noodles, so I started using Better Than Bouillon roasted chicken broth paste and got something I liked in terms of broth. But when I've added the noodles, let them cook, and tasted the broth afterwards, I was shocked with this cheap taste that was identical to how the noodles would smell straight out of the bag.

I've tried rinsing the noodles thoroughly and cooking them in different water from the broth to varying results, but I was wondering if anyone had their own solutions for dealing with the "instant noodle taste".

Okay, so, this may come off as me being impatient, but I started learning C# about two weeks ago. Prior to that, I had no coding knowledge whatsoever. I'm trying to code one of a Unity game using BepInEx + Harmony0. I am actually losing my mind and I am not kidding. I REALLY want to get working on this project, but it seems like as much as I try and downsize my goals, I STILL end up completely lost, going in circles on Google or asking people questions and getting answers I don't understand.

I crammed those first two weeks completing both of Sololearn's C# courses, and studying BepInEx/Harmony0 documentation, talking with other modders, and dipping my toes into Unity gamedev to try and understand the basics. I'm usually a fast learner. But this is driving me crazy.

I guess my question is, how do you guys keep your heads from exploding while studying this stuff? It feels like every single line of code I try to write in Visual Studio ends halfway through with me trying to get ChatGPT to explain things for me or pulling my hair out in front of a Microsoft C# syntax guide page. Every guide I look at, it's like they're writing in a different language. I look at a sentence explaining how to do a certain thing and it all just goes straight through me without being absorbed. I can't tell if it's burnout or if I'm just too dumb for this stuff.

Edit: Thank you guys for the tough love! I tend to get really caught up in what I think I "should" be able to do over what's actually realistic. Definitely going to slow down a lot.

Have there been any comprehensive tutorials on this yet? I found one guide from a couple of weeks back involving the experimental proton version of the game, but I couldn't seem to figure out how to get that to work even following the steps.