I played a heavily praised indie game expecting it to change my life and spent the first hour waiting for the magic. When I returned months later with no expectations, I had a lovely time. Hype had turned a perfectly goo...
- games-worth-playing
- games
- better
- lower
I'm in a rental and tired of borrowing a screwdriver every time a cabinet handle loosens. At the same time, I don't want a giant toolbox for projects I'm not allowed to do. So far my list is a screwdriver with interchang...
- adulting
- what
- basic
- tools
The edges of my brownies set into dense fudge, while the center stays sticky enough to look underbaked. I'm using a deep square tin and following the recipe's stated time. A toothpick test is confusing because fudgy brow...
- baking
- brownies
- fudgy
- edge
The local supermarket moved the pasta, coffee and breakfast cereal to completely different aisles. I assume there was a business reason, but regular customers now wander around looking mildly betrayed. Is rearranging a s...
- ask-anything
- grocery
- stores
- rearrange
I keep choosing beginner projects that are either trivial calculators or enormous applications that take months and never finish. I want something with files, user input, error handling and maybe one external API, but sm...
- programming-help
- choosing
- project
- small
I keep burning minced garlic while waiting for diced onions to soften. The recipes say ‘cook onion and garlic until translucent’ as though they have identical cooking times. Mine definitely don't: the garlic turns brown...
- practical-cooking
- keeping
- garlic
- burning
Our entryway is narrow, and I want a slim bench where we can sit to put on shoes and hide a couple of baskets underneath. Plywood seems easier than solid wood with my basic tools: circular saw, drill and clamps. The benc...
- diy-projects
- building
- narrow
- entry
We'll move between several cities by train during a two-week trip. Booking every ticket now would secure seats but make each day feel rigid; buying on arrival would keep us free to linger but might cost more or leave poo...
- travel-planning
- prebook
- intercity
- ticket
I can look at a printed city map and remember roughly where neighborhoods sit relative to one another. A phone map gives much better turn-by-turn instructions, yet I keep zooming in and out without building the same ment...
- ask-anything
- printed
- maps
- feel
Our game night has a player who knows every strategy game on the shelf and another who has barely played anything beyond party games. If we choose something deep, the newcomer is overwhelmed; choose something too light,...
- board-games
- choosing
- games
- group