I have the gamecube one and the og xbox one. They feel better than the gc ones and about the same as the og xbox one.

My ass… ehyahahaha.

I don’t have a proper gc controller but I do have the retrofighter gc. For perfect dark and goldeneye, the “modern” layout on the 8bitdo controller feels really odd. I was not able to get comfortable with any of the layouts. Then again, its been years since I played around on a console and not been able to tweak the individual mapping so it could just be me.

For racing games and platformers they are great.

I work 7-4 with an hour at lunch.

For things like squash, zucchini, and especially eggplant, I like to cut them, salt both sides, and put them in the fridge for like an hour. Then come back to them, pat them dry, THEN add your oil/fat before grilling them. On eggplant in particular, it seems to cut the bitterness. On all of them. It makes them brown faster without getting soggy.

How did you prep the shrimp, they look amazing.

Honestly you can do probably 90% of this on a stove with a griddle pan. I grabbed a big flat cast iron flat griddle and I use it for most of my indoor stove cooking or when I am only making a smaller meal. Yeah, its not a substitute for charcoal or a smoker but for most of your “grilled” meals, you can get 80-90% as good as proper grilled. Its my preferred way to do steaks full stop. Nothing gets a good crust on a steak like a reverse sear on ripping hot flat cast iron.

Hash browns alone make it worth it!

I made roasted veggies after the chicken came off the flat top. Purple onions, rainbow bell peppers, zucchini, and poblano peppers. My wife made lemon roasted golden potatos and the garlic yogurt sauce to go with it.

If you buy dried bean and Lentils you won’t have to pay for shit, its a byproduct.

You also have to remember that since oil is a commodity price driven item, the producers don’t want to overproduce, that means they plan 5-10 years out on speculative demand so there is a lag of up to years before they can expand production in some cases. No one wants to spend billions of dollars increasing production capacity only for the price to fall down on its face again and burn up your investment.

A LOT of the production capacity in Corpus Christie is also about to get shut off since they (the refineries) have essentially fucked their own ability to get water required to refine the oil. The whole region is about to drain itself dry and the state isn’t doing shit to stop it.

I posted this in another thread the other day but it bears repeating.

It’s not even really about the refineries not getting any oil supply. Refineries are setup to use SPECIFIC oil feedstock chemistries, if you try to substitute that oil for a different type (light sweet vs heavy sour or mid mid, etc) the process either doesn’t work, or it wastes a significant chunk. To convert a refinery to use a different feedstock, it takes a significant amount of engineering time, then you have to effectively SHUT DOWN the whole unit, redo parts of the equipment, then run it back up, test it, and tweak the process variables. Refineries plan this years out and it takes 6+ months to do if nothing goes wrong. Then, they are basically locked into that new feedstock again.

Doing any kind of supply shock like this is dumb for any number of reasons. It’s even dumber when the critical components to rework the refineries is in shorter supply because people keep blowing up the existing equipment. Lead times on some of this stuff is in the 20+ month range duing normal times.

There will not be an easy adjustment, the 10-20% loss in supply figure is misleading at best. This is going to impact everything that uses oil, plastic, fertilizer, lubricants, valves, electronics, etc and its not going to be a 10-20% impact…

The job market also dictates some of this. In my area and with my degree, one of the only industries I could find work in was in support for equipment used in oil and gas production. I had previously worked in the petrochem industry, robotics, and hvac, but when we had our first kid, I opted to take my current job beccause the extra pay allows my wife to stay home with our kids, for me to be closer to home, and to make environmental choices in my personal life.

Ethically, I know the industry I work in is problematic but I also know of 10 other manufacturers who make the same equipment we do, so I sell myself on my contrbution by acknowledging that the operators would just get another brand’s stuff that may not be made as well and could have real repurcussions if something went wrong. It may be delusional but this equipment existed before I was here, and will continue to be made after I’m gone.

I don’t like spatchcocking a Chicken or breaking down a whole Turkey, its a really crunchy and visceral process. Prepping crawfish or crab then boiling them is also offputting but once prepped and ready to eat, I’m not as grossed out unless I really think about it. I have found myself working to eat less meat in general for ethical/moral reasons as I have gotten older though.

Yep, that fixed it for me too. I had never enabled it and it was in the default mode of when necessary or something like that. Switching it to off loaded everything normally.

You must not use good pepper corns then if you can’t tell the difference between pepper and dead beetles.

Then you are Angus Young (old)

I go with the flow.

You’re good, just trying to prepare you for the spirited debate lol

To make it worse, I was working full time at the time. It was the only way I could get to the next course in the schedule since certain classes were only offered in certain semesters so if I had missed that window, I would have been set back a year. It was awful.