Looks like they might not be terrible. They use a tiny amount of gochujang, though. I’d expect pasta sauce to use a lot more. I suppose he could be making a massive batch of cookies.

I will search that! Sounds cool. Why are there no giant mud dauber horror movies I wonder?

Wait… gochujang is Korean spicy red pepper paste. Gemini suggested turning it into cookies?

Sounds to me like it created more problems than it solved.

I code Csound. It’s still sort-of being maintained, but otherwise the community is super dead. It’s a shame because it’s very versatile and fun, but realistically there are quite a few more modern alternatives for coding sound synthesis these days.

That’s cool. Mud daubers are extremely chill and will only sting you as an absolutely last resort. They also are great at keeping the spider population down. Which I’m a little torn on because I love spiders since they eat mosquitoes, and mosquitoes can fuck off and die afaic.

Honestly, I don’t remember the story of XII very well. It’s been almost twenty years since I played it, and I’m only ~15 hours in, now. The best thing I can say about it is that it’s not the pandering nonsense of the XIII games. Which is a huge relief. Really though, the plots of FF have always been a bit nonsense, but at least adhered to some kind of internal logic. FFXIII and its sequels just didn’t even try to be coherent.

The combat in all of them is fantastic, though. Particularly Lightning Returns. Such a unique, challenging, and fun combat system in the most incomprehensibly insane story of any FF.

Final Fantasy XII. It runs and looks great at 720p, 60Hz. It’s the last Final Fantasy I really enjoyed. I finished all three XIII games out of some misguided loyalty to the franchise, but I hated almost everything about them, and I haven’t played an FF game since.

XII is about as good as I remember so far. The plot isn’t the utter nonsense of the XIII games, and the combat is really deep. I’ve never played the Zodiac Age version, either, so at least part of the game is new to me. Not that I remember much since the last time I played it was a month before its initial release in 2006 when it leaked and got torrented. Wild times.

Imagine my surprise when I just now typed in fark.com and saw that it’s still there and it looks exactly like it did 25 years ago. Mind blown! I might even go back.

OK, well, that’s nice in a city. I’d love to see them try and get a tram up the mountain here, though.

It’s mostly street food here in Korea. Which tends to be very easy to make, yes.

What about electric public transit? EV buses are becoming quite popular in Korea.

You Must Build a Boat is an RPG/match 3 hybrid with no shady shit. Pay once. Own the game. It’s pretty fun.

The censoring of “shits” seems unnecessary.

At least we got Weird Al’s version out of it. Which is literally about how annoying and overplayed the OG was. Except it wasn’t even the OG. Apparently Billy Ray’s version is a cover. Which I saw recently on some list of songs you don’t know are covers.

Ouch! Hard disagree on REM. There was really nothing like them in the 80s. Yeah, they can be hit-and-miss, but I love most everything they did up to Green, and the later albums are like 50% great. Unfortunately, their greatest hits seem to end up being stuff like Everybody Hurts and Shiny Happy People.

I can see that. TBF to ID, Thunder is the only song of theirs I know.

I have heard that. Unfortunately my only exposure to them are their biggest hits.

I have somehow miraculously avoided exposure to both of those bands. The only song I know by either of them is Yellow, and I actually thought that one was alright twenty-ish years ago.

Surprised at the lack of Maroon 5 or Imagine Dragons in here. Fucking milquetoast “rock”. Sugar and Thunder immediately come to mind as two songs I’d rather didn’t exist.

Haha! Poor Joanna Newsom. Fantastic musician and songwriter, but yeah, her voice takes some getting used to. Or not.