This song is fucking great. One of the creepiest depictions of addiction I've come across.

FKA twigs featuring production from Arca from long before they were out of the closet. The music they made together (EP1&2, LP1) was the way I could express my femininity before I had fully accepted I was trans. They're such a great duo.

I'm trying to incorporate more beans into my diet and am finding it quite difficult to get my beans the way I want them to be. I'm curious to hear your guy's standard bean recipes. Do you guys use canned or dried beans? Stovetop or microwave? Any secret ingredients?

Here's what I'd call my standard bean procedure.

• First, I start with canned beans. Dried beans are a bit firmer it seems, but I don't feel like dried impacts the flavor enough to be worth the soak time.

• If I have it, I'll grate half of an onion into the beans. I don't like onion crunch.

• Microplane dried mushroom into it for extra protein and flavor

• Salt, pepper, granulated garlic, paprika and chili flakes. I don't really like how garlic powder works with the beans and don't feel the need for fresh garlic. Fresh ginger is really fire in it though. I add things on top of this usually for more flavor, but this is just my standard bean.

• Microwave for 3 minutes

I'd do more if it made a difference in flavor, but so far I can't seem to make anything really make the beans pop. What do y'all do?

I got out of video game piracy for a while, but I'm coming back. One thing I have been absolutely SHOCKED by is how finding PC game torrents is actually kind of difficult from my normal sources. Now it'd be one thing if I just wasn't seeing games, but for some reason Playstation and Switch have far more uploaders and seeders on the sites. This is something that would have been unthinkable when I was into piracy. But from a quick glance, it looks like the Switch has a bigger piracy scene than PCs do right now. This was so extreme I couldn't find a torrent for Minecraft past 1.12. I found a download, but not a torrent. Or I couldn't find any of the old versions of Five Nights At Freddy's on PC, but could find them on other platforms. Things I'd consider true PC staples of the past decade with absolutely nothing popping up in my normal sources.

I'm not asking where to find PC torrents (although I certainly wouldn't mind). Are consoles actually becoming more popular to pirate for?

Checked and there was no megathread to ask this question. I play Minecraft 1.6.4. So yeah, old version. I am able to get GREAT performance on this version, with no issues at any point, pinned at 60fps at any point. However, I can reboot the game and it will randomly be at 15fps. I have the game set to only take 3.5gs of RAM, it's set for 32 bit and is PLENTY for vanilla. However I will randomly reboot the game and it will be running like absolute shit. What do you guys think?

Well I've posted a few things about my family here, I don't really have a place to post elsewhere. My step son is special needs, and as a result has been developing at a slower pace than other children. This means that he's been pretty much completely uninterested in candy until this year. We'd go trick or treating because he enjoys walking around, but he never actually did anything with the candy. He was walking around just to say hi to the neighbors. But this year, he'll actually get to enjoy the candy collecting because he cares about it this year!

Also, an update to my mutual aid post yesterday. We got the drug tests covered for court, and realized he didn't have a Halloween costume. We went to the store and got him a costume from an anime he likes for $15. We wanted to make sure he didn't feel left out. We have two happy boys ready for Halloween this year, we really appreciate the help. He's adjusting really well so far.

That's it. If you haven't played Sleeping Dogs, do it. Easily one of the best games I've ever played. Great art direction, the best driving I've seen in an open world game, and combat that makes Arkham look incomplete.

Personally, I'm a scrambled egg person. I will mix my eggs without any seasoning in them. I will preheat my shallow cast iron pan with a ton of margarine and water, and let the water start bubbling. I will add the egg mixture into the water. The eggs will cook practically instantly, then after that it's just cooking off as much water as you want cooked off. I'll usually add cheese and green onions, but if I have them I will add crumbled potato chips. (taken from The Bear, great idea) Add salt and pepper at the end

I am not vegan. I don't eat meat everyday, but I'm not even a vegetarian. Being raised as an American with serious auto-immune issues have made me lean towards meat for my entire life. Meat replacements also simply don't work for how I cook, with me always treating the meat flavor as a key flavor that doesn't really have a replacement. I still believe this, I do not really see the value of converting non-vegan recipes to being vegan. Tofu only has the flavor of whatever it's cooked with, so anything meat forward like a pot roast simply aren't going to translate well. However, I'm still working on natively vegan recipes to try and develop food that won't disappoint. Also have to note, this is not made to be authentic. This is made to be more authentic than microwave ramen. I'm not Japanese or Chinese (not conflating the two because "asian", look into the history of ramen), nor am I trying to spend any real time on this. I'm just using ingredients I typically already have. Here's my first results. You can realistically make this in 15 minutes.

#TOOLS: 1 8 inch pot Microplane or fine grater Stove or microwave

#Ingredients:

• Salt

• Dried mushrooms, microplaned

Personally, I can't handle mushroom texture unless I cook them for HOURS. I'll use my microplane to grate these. You really have to do mushroom by flavor though. I used 3 mushrooms of different species for mine though

• 1 bit of ginger, microplaned

Do this to taste with because ginger is a different kind of spice. You could be able to eat pounds of ghost chilies, and that's cool, but ginger isn't capscacin or anything close. Personally? I cry if I eat jalapeno because of the heat, you generally don't want my opinion of capscacin, but love the numbing heat of ginger and szechuan chilies

• Garlic powder (prefer this over real garlic in this case)

Microplaning is way better than cutting in this moment. Why would you actually spend time cutting garlic when you're grating everything else?

• 1/2 cup of coconut aminos or soy sauce

Coconut aminos are a soy sauce alternative I was given as a gift when I learned I am allergic to soy. Thank you Sarah. Coconut aminos are similar to soy sauce, but have less of the extreme saltiness and umami of soy sauce, and leans more on the sweet side. I personally find this to be a better rounded flavor for ramen, and surprisingly find soy sauce way better to add to white people food.

• Green onion

• White pepper

• Smoked paprika

• Seasoned salt

• Canned corn, peas, and corn (can also use frozen)

• Noodles

• Sesame oil

Stovetop Instructions

1. Start boiling about 4 quarts of water. Grind your dried mushrooms, white pepper, and ginger into it. Also add garlic powder at this stage. You can also add some margarine at this step to give your aromatics fat to work with at the start. Let this sit for about 5 minutes to let the ginger and mushroom flavors to develop where they need to be.

2. Add coconut aminos/soy sauce in at this point. Taste for salt, then salt according to taste. Coconut aminos and soy sauce have such different levels of saltiness, so I can't even begin to give you guide wheels. However, I strongly recommend using seasoned salt for ramen instead of plain salt.

3. Add noodles at this point. I use Chinese noodles from the grocery store, 1 brick of the 2 in the pack. These will be done in 3 minutes

4. Start adding veggies. You can use fresh, but I find that there's very little value to using any of these things fresh. I had different cans for all of these, but I know there are frozen bags of peas corn and carrots. Frozen or canned veggies barely even need to be cooked though. Also, canned corn water is literally slurry.

5. Put in bowl after noodles are finished. Garnish with green onion, white pepper, sesame oil, and finely grated ginger if you want the fresh ginger heat.

Let me know what y'all think!

I am a stickler for launchers. I love the general stock Android feel, but also love those old school iPhone jailbreak levels of customization where it makes no fucking sense but you have the option to do it anyways just cause. The best launcher I ever found for my tastes was Evie. Extremely simple with no ads, bordering on the stock Android experience, with great quality of life features such as assignable gestures, adjustable icon size, icon packs, and notification count on apps you can turn on if you'd like. Unfortunately, the launcher stopped receiving updates in 2011. Some functionality is starting to be lost, like news and weather integration on the left of the home screen. I'm rocking a OnePlus 6t if that matters to anybody. What launchers are good now?