Piers

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[–] Piers 3 points 1 year ago

I bought both of mine. For next to nothing from a charity shop. Also they're TVs.

[–] Piers 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thi k that's the wrong timestamp. I had to skip ahead to about 38 minutes I think.

[–] Piers 3 points 1 year ago

I found Jerry's writing to be exactly as it was. I no longer have a taste for it.

[–] Piers 5 points 1 year ago

The last two panels are supposed to be the same text.

[–] Piers 1 points 1 year ago

So you do enjoy the nicest foods more. You just don't enjoy them proportionally more relative to how much more expensive they are?

[–] Piers 1 points 1 year ago

I think it probably makes more sense to relate it to the cost of something else rather than an actual dollar amount (as that will always change over time.) IE. If a meal out costs more than three visits or McDonald's or whatever it may be. FWIW, the Amendei Porcelana bars are about £12 and the Grenada co about half that.

[–] Piers 6 points 1 year ago
[–] Piers 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think anyone is arguing that because there is an option to install via Steam that people should stop downloading directly from Godot's website though. Both of those things can exist beside one another.

[–] Piers 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm curious, do you think it's more that you notice a difference but it doesn't add much for you or that side by side you couldn't tell which bite came was ordinary good quality food and which was exceptional or special if you were told?

[–] Piers 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

As others have noted proper good quality fresh truffle is really worth it (unlike all the "it's no nicer than regular food but we've served it on a statue, covered it in gold leaf and sprinkled salt onto it off the top of a bald man's head" fancy food you can spend a fortune on.) Freshly shaved truffle is like if Willy Wonka decided to turn his hand to making the perfect savoury food experience. It smells like the most satisfying food ever and then the instant your teeth slightly penetrate the surface of the shaving it somehow seems to instantly fill every space in your head with that scent at double the intensity and your whole mouth is awash with a uniquly rich and warm flavour.

I love single origin chocolate and was once gifted a bar of Amedei Porcelana (sometimes called "the most expensive chocolate in the world.") It was, unsurprisingly, a perfectly executed bar of chocolate. Texture, balance of sugar to cocoa etc were all flawless. The flavour was delicate and perfectly balanced. It was like the most refined expression of the exact central archetype of what chocolate should taste like. I really enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone who would like to experience the most perfectly chocolatey chocolate. Personally I found that while it was a flawless execution of a straight down the middle chocolate and I am very glad to have had it, I prefer a bit more character and so my favourite bar is still the Grenada Chocolate Co 71% (which slaps you in the face with big juicy tropical fruit flavour and is overall not quite as refined as Amedai Porcelana.) Though I've not had the chance to eat either in several years so I suppose it's possible they may have changed since...

[–] Piers 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Truffle is one of the few rarified expensive things that I've had that is genuinely incredibly more tasty than anything like it. It's one of my favourite foods but I have not had many opportunities to eat it.

[–] Piers 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Because if you want professional game developers to exist then you have to be welcoming to them when they are just aspiring game developers. Kids who play lots of games and want to have a fiddle around with tools for making games are much more likely to do so if there is a way to access them that they are familiar with and already associate with gaming.

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