Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Making an otherwise simple change in a game made by a big company.

There are tons of things that could be done relatively "easy peasy" when it comes to correcting an error in the code or making a change to a number or even adding a thing. What makes it difficult is red tape. You've got assigned tasks to do that probably don't include making that simple fix or adding that thing or changing that number. If it's just 1 dude in his garage working at a hobby project, it could get done in 10 minutes if he wanted to do it.

Of course this assumes things aren't done in a way that make doing something that might be easy even harder simply because you don't have many options to do the things you want within the system you've made without dismantling part of it and getting into a whole mess of other shit to make the "simple" change. Sometimes it be like that, too.

TheKracken ,

Perfect example is changing text in a game (maybe 10 mins) vs adding emoji to text in a game ( weeks?) does the text engine support emoji. Do we need to add support for all arbitrary images? How big can the emoji be? So many issues come out of "simple" requests.

GnomeKat ,
@GnomeKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

red tape

I just make the change and put it in for review and then move on with my life... most the time its not turned away if its a good change. Even if there wasn't any task or discussion before hand, and if it's small enough I can just do it quick then I won't be disappointed if people want it done a different way. At least for me it feels like people like it when I just make a decision and solve the problem instead of bogging them down with discussing everything before hand

But yeah lots of times "simple" changes are not actually simple in the system as it already exists.. and that can be frustrating but thats software..

8ender ,

Removing the tamper seal on a bottle of ketchup

TheKracken ,

Use your teeth.

Lemminary ,

Or pierce it with a knife and carefully remove the halves. I hate accidentally bruising my gums.

Spaghetti_Hitchens ,

Based on my recent failings: apparently hitting a little white ball into a hole.

PhlubbaDubba ,

I don't know if I should be making a golf joke or a billiards joke

Anticorp ,

If you're hitting a white ball into the hole in billiards, then you're doing it wrong.

Anticorp ,

Golf is a beautiful walk in the park, ruined by a tiny white ball.

Anticorp ,

Playing baseball with any level of skill.

Dozzi92 ,
@Dozzi92@lemmy.world avatar

It's funny but even catching a well hit fly ball, if you haven't done it before it's going over your head.

Decoy321 ,

Boooooooo.

fruitycoder ,

"Reading the room" some people are really good in certain circumstances but when things are just off it goes off the rails.

As a person with no natural aptitude for it its actually tiring for me and I have to be on my A game to do it right

tacosplease ,

Manual on a bike

Ollie on a skateboard

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

Who's this Ollie I keep hearing about?

Pat_Riot ,
@Pat_Riot@lemmy.today avatar

He's a little jumpy

southsamurai ,
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

Lemon meringue pie

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Merangue is the perfect food to make when you're angry as hell.

pastermil ,

Wouldn't that only make one angrier?

AlllRightyThen ,
@AlllRightyThen@kbin.social avatar

Do you mean merang-rier?

RBWells ,

Lemon Merangry pie.

Meringue is easy if you have an electric mixer. Difficult if you don't. Make sure the eggs are not cold and use the cream of tartar, mix by hand and then with the mixer.

ArtieShaw ,

One thing I learned about meringue is that the slightest bit of fat will turn it into frosting.

Even a mixing bowl/whip that has been sitting in an open kitchen may have accumulated enough aerosolized cooking oil to effect the outcome. I've never failed after washing the utensils and then being scrupulous about broken yolks.

southsamurai ,
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

Preach. I keep my kitchen as clean as possible, and it's still so easy to miss something that will mess up the meringue, or even the curd.

The crust is at least foolproof lol. I'd been making pies long before I decided I wanted to tackle meringue.

leaky_shower_thought ,
  • popular sayings like: "get well", "do not be sad", "do not be poor~"

    • following up with this, communication will always present a bump or two. it's not easy to get [all] your points across.
  • karaage, IMO. "oh it's just fried chicken". fried-dry-chicken is the easy part.

  • it always looks easy when pros do it: you see it with that teacher solving that algebra problem, or that guy doing that guitar hero/osu/rhythm game song, models and their drips, mukbang/oogui, porn

viking ,
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

The trick to fried juicy chicken is tapioca flour. Chicken itself doesn't need much time to be cooked through, but a regular batter of flour coating takes forever to get nice and crunchy. By the time you get it right, the meat is overcooked.

Tapioca (or cornstarch, if you must) gets a really nice color and crunch in no time, so you can just eyeball it and it's gonna be good.

leaky_shower_thought ,

Thanks for the tip, I'll try this next time!

theherk ,

“Get well” is completely different than the other two. It is rarely if ever used as an imperative. It is more like “(I hope you) get well”. Well wishes are good.

AgentGrimstone ,

I was never able to center clay on a pottery wheel.

udon ,

Squeezing lemons

Anticorp ,

That's easy. Keeping the seeds out of the juice takes some extra work.

udon ,

That's probably why they don't say "easy peasy take seeds ouf of lemon juice squeezy"

pantyhosewimp ,

Heh. Squeezing lemon quarters is easy. Squeezing limes quarters requires a vice grip.

Ejh3k ,

Seeing In The Loop and not watching it

harsh3466 ,

Cooking eggs

frightful_hobgoblin ,

Cooking lemons

Feathercrown ,

We're approaching lemon meringue, which is one of the most difficult difficult lemon difficult baked goods

AFKBRBChocolate ,

Eggs are one of the easier things to cook - what way are you trying to cook them?

yukichigai ,
@yukichigai@kbin.social avatar

Rolled Japanese style, aka tamagoyaki. That is really difficult.

Over easy is as easy as the name though.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

Okay, sure, there are ways to cook them that are harder, but the vast majority of the ways people eat eggs are pretty simple. Basted is a way to cook them that comes out a lot like poached, but it's more foolproof - it's my wife's favorite.

SgtAStrawberry ,

Scrambled. I have managed to fail that one, it did not scrambled or cook.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

Someone else gave elaborate instructions for scrambling that would work well. I usually just melt some butter over medium heat, crack the egg into it, wait like 30 to 60 seconds, stir it up with a spatula, wait another minute or two, then turn/stir the hunks so that any runny parts are against the pan and give it maybe another minute.

SgtAStrawberry ,

Well I had a heated pan on high and I cracked an egg into it... and then I kept having a raw egg floating around in the pan. After poking at it for some time it started cooking and after more poking it did scramble, so I did succeed in the end but I also managed to fail the cooking part of it.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

You don't want the pan too hot, and you need a fat. Otherwise you were probably about right.

SgtAStrawberry ,

Thank you

southsamurai ,
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

I feel you, but the truth is that they're easy to cook. It's just that they're also easy to cook badly.

Get pan heating. Medium high. If there's a number scale from 1 to 10, go about 5 or 6.

Plenty of lubricant (oil, butter, whatever), ready to go. One pat of butter to the side

Crack eggs in a bowl.

Add pepper to taste.

Scramble eggs in bowl with fork.

When pan is hot, which is when you can hold your hand about six inches over the pan and feel it, add lubricant of choice. Just enough to cover the bottom of the pan.

Give eggs one last stir with fork, then pour in.

Count to six slowly. Then gently move the eggs around with. A spatula, spoon, or whatever is handy and won't burn.

Once you've got chunks of eggs, stop. Count to six them move them around again.

Add in extra pat of butter. Let it start to melt, then gently move the chunks around until most of the liquid is now a jiggly mass with a tiny amount of liquid making the surface shiny.

Cut off the heat. Sprinkle with a pinch of salt or two. Put it all on a plate if it's just for one person, in a bowl or individual plates for a bigger table.

That's it. Bare minimum scramble. You can get fancier, but that's a choice.

The reason most eggs people make suck is too much heat for too long. They get rubbery. Lower heat, gentle scrambling, then let the heat that's in the eggs finish the last bit of cooking on the plate or serving bowl. You'll get fucking excellent eggs. Might take a few tries to really nail things to perfection, but the methodology will work to make yummy eggs before that.

Seriously, eggs don't need to be in the pan long. A minute or so for a big batch as long as you're moving the curds that form is plenty most of the time. When it isn't, it'll be because it's a huge batch rather than just big.

Same principle applies to over easy, over hard, and sunny side up, but flipping those is a skill that takes practice. But use lower heat and you'll fuck up less. Trust me, if you leave things less done than you think is done, there is plenty of heat there to finish the job and they'll be safe to eat even if not pasteurized. I promise. Carry over cooking is a thing.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

One of the most foolproof ways to cook eggs, in my opinion, is basted. Probably easier than scrambled even.

  • Heat butter in a pan over medium heat until the bubbles are subsiding.
  • Crack eggs into pan, spaced as far apart as possible.
  • When the bottoms are looking mostly white, add about 1/3 cup of water around them.
  • Reduce heat to medium low and cover (a glass lid is very helpful here). The steam is going to cook the tops while the pan cooks the bottoms. You don't have to do anything but watch them.
  • When the top of the yolks look hazy white, they're done. You can touch the whites with a fork to make sure they aren't running.
  • I like to take them out with a spatula and set the spatula on a paper towel for a second to soak up any water before putting them on the plate.
  • Add salt and pepper if you want.

They come out kind of like over-medium or poached.

quinkin ,

Putting the lid on to finish sunny side up works even without adding water. If you don't have a lid for your pan a piece of baking paper over the top of the pan works.

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