Yeah, remember when I said all the synopsis I’ve read are unclear at best?
Like, what is happening? Is this supposed to be the future or an alternate universe with completely different laws of physics? What happened to make the world like this and why does it make everything you described there happen?
Death Stranding is kafkaesque.
It was a world like ours.
Then the process of death stopped working as it supposed to. Which came to everyone surprise. Because (1) everyone discovered that death was a process the same why something like gravity is. And (2) it completely changed one day.
The game takes place in the aftermath. The rules humanity lives by are exotic to say the least. But one can live by it. You play as a government courier trying to reconnect the pockets of human lives that still exist.
Also you personal life is written by Hideo Kojima. From your family, to your friends, to everyone you will meet. This does not help.
Today I learned who Hideo Kojima is. Turns out that, with the exception of Cyberpunk 2077 (which he has an acting credit for), I’ve never played any games that he had anything to do with.
I was born in the 1970s. I have never liked, and do not currently, like anything Madonna has ever done.
Turkey is a nasty meat. No respectable chef features a turkey cut as meat dish. Also, what’s the reason that turkey had to be eaten with gravy or some sort of sauce?
For the reasons you mentioned you don’t like it. Its hardly and unpopular opinion.
Any meat can be “nasty” if it’s prepared incorrectly. Turkey can be, and most often is delicious. I’d be curious as to why you’ve reached that conclusion. The worst turkey I’ve ever had was dry. Most likely due to being cut while it was too hot or recently removed from the oven, all that steam comes out drying the meat out, making it chewy or needing some (as you mentioned) sauce or gravy, or just a glass of some liquid/beverage to wash it down. If a turkey is allowed to sit for some minutes after being removed from the oven (having it covered may help, but the skin may suffice) it can retain its juices.
I’d guess chefs don’t (typically) feature it as a meat dish because it’s considered a seasonal or Thanksgiving dish (here in the US) and either that or ham for Christmas. But either can be used for either holiday.
On the subject of needing a sauce… Well, if you’re thinking of gravy… That can help if the meat is dry. But assuming the ‘cook’ didn’t goof and waited, you wouldn’t need any “sauce”. Gravy typically goes on or with the mashed potatoes usually served alongside turkey. But, gravy doesn’t hurt turkey if it’s moist anyway. That’d be up to the person eating.
Turkey is dry and mostly tasteless. Nearly any other bird would make a better substitute, but we continue to include this heavily engineered fowl into Thanksgiving every year, even though the first Thanksgiving had nothing to do with it, because it’s a societal custom and humans have real trouble letting arbitrary rituals go. Thanksgiving turkey takes a ridiculous amount of preparation just to be somewhat palatable. Even deli slices of turkey are barely worth their addition. Every year the internet is flooded with stories of people who dislike turkey, dislike a majority of Thanksgiving food, and dislike the family gathering aspect of the holiday. But, because it involves a day off, it gives a boost to the profits of corporations, and us damn white people just can’t let go of a tradition that legitimizes our social supremacy in this country, we just keep on torturing ourselves with this stupid holiday year after year ad nauseam.
This went from food to… Not food. But this isn’t a day for arguing.
People insist on carrying turkey legs around Renn Faires for the same reason. It’s just a day to remember that sometimes family is more important than politics, infighting, and other disagreeable issues. Probably particularly important things this year.
Except it’s really not. That’s used as a way to guilt-trip people into attending these veritable hostage situations because of blood relations. Most blood families suck. We don’t need to tell ourselves to use a falsely-celebrated holiday with terrible food as a means of gathering as a family, assuming we even want to do that in the first place. If you can’t do that in the first place on any given day, if you need this “celebration” in order to justify coming together again, it’s already failed.
In fairness to Thanksgiving, Christmas is worse.
well, this is the unpopular opinion thread so I guess it’s fitting.
it must suck being held hostage by family members who can’t cook, but that doesn’t apply to everyone.
it’s significantly easier to get time off work/studying for christmas/thanksgiving/etc than it is to arrange a random day when everyone is free. nobody is forcing you to spend time with family, but for the people that want to, it’s incredibly helpful to have those dates set aside every year
That tells me 2 things: 1) The availability of free time among the working class in this country as opposed to other developed countries is staggeringly inadequate; and 2) Family members are already not close enough with each other to make it work, or make it worth making it work, under those conditions to begin with.
i don’t think it’s that deep, i just think it’s nice to have time where you know everyone will be free to spend time together
Sociologically speaking @Heisenberg does have a point, the way we live and the way we have let enterprises structure the time we spend at work and at play leaves working class people with far less free time than is healthy.
It is very tragic, we could be working less for greater benefit to us as people but since it makes the 15cm line go down five millimeters then the powers that be rarely allow it.
All that is true, but what does it have to do with common holidays being convenient times to see loved ones?
We went from heisenberg feeling guilt tripped into participating, to spods saying those events are helpful, to heisenberg complaining about workers’ rights.
There are different times for a family to gather. Better a holiday than a funeral.
It is sad that the only days most people can really be with their families are designated holidays. and it still goes back to Heisenberg because those holidays are given out on the schedule that banks used to use to portion time-off for their workers.
The convenience is an illusion you see, we think that because we have these holiday periods that means we shouldn’t have more or work for less in a week overall. Holidays are a compromise between our business class overlords and the rest of us, we said we wanted holidays but they got the upper hand and orientated our holidays around banking calendars.
We should be grateful we have holidays but it should never stop us from realising that we can also have it better than we do right now and that we can make them play ever more by our own rules.
My unpopular opinion is that I really hate Gambit from the X-Men. Don’t even ask me why because I don’t even know myself. I just have a visceral reaction to seeing him, like a primal impulse in my brain triggers.
Again, I’m not saying Heisenberg is wrong, but that it has nothing to do with what spods said. What are you arguing when we all agree on it? It’s like saying water is wet.