*hands Dogberry a big, steaming mug of hot dark chocolate, peppermint, and marshmallows* Here's how to make it: - 1 cup milk (or non-dairy milk) - 1 tbsp unsweetened Cocoa Powder - 1/2 crushed candy cane (or peppermint candy) - 1/2 cup mini marshmallows (or less for taste) - 1/4 cup 75% Dark Chocolate (roughly broken apart) - 1/4 tsp vanilla extract - 1 pinch salt, to taste Instructions: 1. Place the milk, cocoa powder, candy cane and mini marshmallows in a saucepan over medium-low heat. Whisk constantly until warm but not boiling. 2. Add Dark Chocolate and whisk constantly until the chocolate is melted and incorporated with milk. 3. Whisk in vanilla extract and a pinch of salt. Then, pour into your mug. 4. Garnish the top with marshmallows and sugar cane (if you desire). Serve immediately. 'Tis the season.
I am playing Dark Souls 1 and reached the Bed of Chaos. Plz send help. I hate Lost Izalith and the BoC. I walked in there and got two-shot- in Havel's gear. I hate this fight. I'd rather fight O + S on NG+ until I can solo them, than have to do this again. I am REALLY thinking of just calling it quits. But I really LIKE NG+. HELP!
Dark Souls? I've heard a lot about how difficult it is. I don't dare try it because I'll probably be losing a hundred percent of the time. I'm not much of a gamer but here is a generally useful rule: When things get super, super hard with something you are doing, stop and take a break. Go outside, take a walk, or whatever small thing requires little brain work and pleases you. Then your mind will open up and when you get back to it, you'll suddenly do better. I don't play games but I write computer programs and my God, do things get hard sometimes. I'd sit for hours just trying to solve some seemingly unsolvable problem and then, I'll go away, come back, and the solution will just magically appear in my mind. It works. Others experience this too. I don't know why but I'd sure love to hear the scientific explanation. Maybe this will be useful advise for the rest of your Dark Souls adventures
Dark souls is very difficult, but rewarding. If you ever want to try it, I can give you tips and encouragement. Thank you so much for the advice. It's very helpful and I appreciate it. I have heard this too when it comes to writing, and would also like an explanation. I think it's because our brains are running in the background and when we leave it alone to think, it fixes things?
Me? Dark Souls? Probably not. I recently played MegaMan Battle Network (a childhood favorite of mine) and found it frustratingly difficult at times. It's a PG game rated for everyone... I had to cheat at the end to beat it because it was way too hard. So, yeah, I was never and I am still no good at video games, haha. I better stay out of Dark Souls for the sake of my sanity. By the way, I better correct some badly chosen words here: By that I meant that I don't play games often. I do play them. I have a DSi XL right next to me. It has the Battle Network games installed and I am slowly working on beating them. But very, very slowly. Usually when I don't have anything better to do.
I totally understand and haha, I have done that before. I don't like games where you CAN run out of healing items at the final boss. (Final Fantasy games!) Yeah, choose sanity. It's a good choice. And I get that. I honestly play games way too much. I honestly think your approach is healthier than mine. Anyway, what kind of games are the Battle Networks?
They're just Gameboy Advance games developed in 2001, so around a year after I was born. I didn't have a Gameboy though and watched the TV show instead, which was an adaptation the games received because they did well enough in the market. I loved the show. It's probably among the first ones I watched and it is part of my earliest memories. I would ask my dad to record it on VHS tapes so I could re-watch the episodes at night over and over. I remember being smart enough to rewind the tapes on my own. But I never actually played the games for a multitude of reasons. So I decided to start playing them back in the summer. Progress is slow as I said but I did clear the first game 3 weeks ago. I'll clear all six of them eventually. It's nice to do so. The story in the games is really different than the TV show, so it's a whole new experience!
I know just what you mean, ps102. I learned my first computer language at a very young age, in the early 80s (God, was it that long ago? I feel so old now). Over the years, I mastered ... let's see: Basic, Visual Basic, HTML, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, COBOL, SQL, VBA (a language for writing macros for Excel and other Office programs), and others. I'm only scratching the surface; there were other languages and tools I simply never learned, like Java or C#. I think I know why it works, because it happens to me too when I write a story or do work. It's all to do with creativity. At work, I use my creative side to solve accounts-related problems (mostly in Excel). When I write a story, I use my creative side to think up problems for my characters, and then think how to get them out. When you play Dark Souls (or whatever game), you use your creativity to think up ways to defeat the bosses, or at least save your character from certain death. But creativity-based tasks are not something people can simply work through. Inspiration and insight don't just 'happen' on a schedule. People's brains are not like a conveyor belt in a factory, where you pull the lever and a new idea comes along. That's why flexibility is important in creativity-based tasks, whether they be writing, accounting, programming ... or playing a game. This is one of the errors laymen make about writing, by the way. They think that writers can simply sit in front of a keyboard or a sheet of paper and *BOOM* - magic happens. Some writers also make the same mistake: "If only I concentrate enough, I can write 2K/5K/however many words a day." Well ... some writers can do that, but some can't ... and the number of words doesn't really matter if it's garbage, or if they're just "Badger badger badger" etc. *shudder* If you want good writing, you have to be patient. The same thing happens with programming, accounting, etc. -- or playing a game. You won't "beat that boss" by brute force, like this: "Does this work? No. Dammit. Reload. Let's try ... ugh. Dead again. Reload. Maybe if we ... gah! Reload. Once again ... aaaggghhh! You stupid...!!!" <mashes keys; stares at screen, which says: "You have died. Would you like to try again?"; quits; bursts into tears ( ); slams fist on table> "Why??!?! Why! Won't! This! Stupid! Thing! F***ING! WORK!!! Aaaaagggghhhh!!!" Yes, that's right. Whether the problem was related to programming, engineering, accounting, or gaming ... I've been there. Many, many times. But I have never, ever, bought the T-shirt.
Power has been out for hours and it's really cloudy outside. Hmmm... What to do? My phone's battery will run out too. Those books I ordered never arrived either. Also, sorry for never replying to you @Rath Darkblade. I saw your reply but forgot and just noticed it again now! It happens occasionally. I'll see someone's post (or email, or text) get distracted by something, and forget.
It's been so cold here I've been wearing a sweater indoors. The grocery store also keeps running out of certain products I buy.
I used a portable electric radiator last year and where the cord twisted, it started melting. Luckily, I noticed the smell and unplugged the heater and avoided a fire. If you get one, be careful.
I've been using a convection heater for the past 3 years, and I love it. It has a temperature control, and I can also use it to cool my office room or study. It's fairly powerful (up to 2000 watts), so it needs more electricity than a 500 watt heater, which means it costs a bit. But a 500 watt heater probably won't heat as well. Alternatively, we can all go out and chop some wood for the fire
Man, I pulled an actual all-nighter last night. Still feeling the effects. I'm getting too old for this shit.
*hands Naomasa298 some tea and sympathy* What did you work on, if you don't mind sharing? (Possibly your WIP, but what is it about?)
Okay, so... I almost missed a deadline. My submission portal said: submit by 18:00. The university is in the UK so you'd think this is UK time. Spoiler alert, it wasn't UK time. It was whatever time the computer is configured with. My computer was configured with EET. I thought I had two hours when I, in fact, had 20 minutes left to submit! How did I notice it 20 minutes before? Because somehow, that portal deadline momentarily showed 18:00 EET, which when I saw, I had the biggest jumpscare of my life. I had the assignment mostly ready so I just submitted it very quickly but if I hadn't noticed it, I would 100% have been more lax about it. The funny thing is that it doesn't show 18:00 EET now. It just shows 18:00. This is the most confusing thing I have ever seen. It was so confusing that I didn't even know if it was actually EET after I saw it. I had to call the help department to confirm. They didn't know. Then they made me call the IT department. THEY DIDN'T KNOW EITHER!!! Well if nobody knows, how am I supposed to know? The only reason I even knew was because the system decided to behave itself. I smell bad design. Thankfully, I still submitted on time, but this could have gone seriously wrong. I almost flushed so much work down the toilet. But at long last, I submitted that one assignment that has been torturing me for months. So there is a happy ending, after all.
That is true... but I'm in Greece right now so... that might create more trouble. Ordinarily, I submit at least a day before, but I had some troubles that kept me from studying basically the whole semester. I don't think I'll score highly in that module. Then again, that's what I said for the first assessment, and I got 70% in the end. But that one was a literature review and I've got a much better skill for writing than I do for designing user experience, which is what this one was about.
Good luck, ps102! I'm sorry to hear about your jumpscare. I had a similar experience a long, long time ago, when I was in university (and dinosaurs walked the earth, also known as the era of Windows 95). I had my work all finished, printed, and filled out, but I was at home and had to catch the bus to university. And it was less than an hour before the due time. I quickly changed, packed a quick lunch, and rushed for the bus. Being a university student doesn't make you exactly flush with cash. I got to the campus with less than 15 minutes to spare, ran across the campus through two massive buildings, then into the IT building, up two flights of stairs, and finally -- work into the pigeonhole. (And I still had two whole minutes to play with! Huzzah!) After that, I always tried to finish the work a bit earlier. (Spoiler: it didn't always happen)
