#dregde and fill

[thessalian]

Thess vs Finishing Shit Up

I finished up the Iron Rig DLC for Dregde yesterday. By which I mean, "completed all tasks and all storyline and got 100% completion even if it meant I had to turn off Passive Mode because I have been at 100% completion for that fucking game since before it even had passive mode and I was not ruining it now".

For those of you who haven't got that far yet, here's a couple of tips that I wish I'd known before all the messing about.

Don't throw away all of the black glop that ends up on your ship from time to time. Put some in your storage (even numbers). You will need it.

Do not feed all the fish you catch to the generator. Put some in your storage and let them rot all the way. You will need that too.

If you are lacking in black glop and have cleared every source of said black glop from the map, talk to the Foreman. Doing so will generate more black glop for you to clean up (and collect on your ship).

The reason you need all this stuff is to get the very last fish (number 230 in the encyclopaedia). A Thing will happen when you hand in all the new samples from all four base game zones. You will know it when you see it. When that Thing happens, you will be able to catch Fish 230 if you go under the rig and use the Aberrated Bait you can make with all that rot and black splotch. You will need a fair bit of it because it can take awhile.

Yes, I know the encyclopaedia entry and hover text description is blank for Fish 230. If you want to read it, generate some more glop and deliberately gather as much black splotch as you can, because it's the best way to get to red-level panic and that's when you can read the description. Don't worry - Fish 230 doesn't rot.

You also cannot sell it. If you want your inventory / storage space back, just throw it away.

(Oh, and if you want to do the black-splotch thing for red-level panic? Switch to passive mode. It's a good hack but it will generate a monster. But evading that monster is an achievement so maybe do that on normal mode at least once.)

Exotic bait is a must too, if you're going for full completion. You'll need five containers of it, minimum. Aberrated bait? Well, if you're struggling to catch aberrations, just make as much of it as humanly possible and have fun filling in those particularly irritating entries in the encyclopaedia.

There you go - everything I had to Google for. If you don't play Dredge ... well, maybe this will tempt you into it. And it should - the game's kind of awesome.

So that's one incomplete game down (and it barely counts because I did finish it but then there was DLC). Now all I've got are Horizon Forbidden West and BG3. No, I have not completed a full playthrough yet. Stuff kept getting in the way. Maybe if I'm lucky and I'll be finished the one that's currently somewhere mid act-2 before October rolls around. Because October? October is a month, lemme tell you. TLOVM S3 comes out in October, and that's going to eat chunks out of several weeks because of how Amazon releases episodes of that. The Silent Hill 2 remake comes out on the 8th, and then there's Veilguard on the 31st.

(I should at least try that one. For perfumery, if nothing else.)

Don't talk to me about November either. Arcane S2 comes out first week of November. I don't think I'll be so buried in Thedas that I miss that.

This honestly makes me glad that the Sandman S2 release date seems to have been put back to ... well, they're guessing 2025 sometime. Well, that and hearing Esme Creed-Miles be Cassandra de Rolo at approximately the same time as seeing her do Delirium of the Endless would probably be a bit of tonal whiplash for me.

You know, the people who give nerds shit for "not being mature enough" or some shit should take note. Like, one of the big things about adulthood is the ability to schedule, and to organise one's time. No one organises their time like a nerd looking down the barrel of several release dates for favoured things all coming in the same month.

[jthurlow]

Jupiter Island's Golf Course Dredge and Fill? Stuart Daily News, 1937

Jupiter Island’s Golf Course Dredge and Fill? Stuart Daily News, 1937

Photo of Jupiter Island, The Stuart Daily News, 1937, courtesy Knight A. Kiplinger.

My brother, Todd Thurlow, created a new “Time Capsule Flight” to give us historic perspective into my last blog post asking a question about an aerial photograph on page 3 of a 1937 Stuart Daily News, special edition, featuring Jupiter Island’s Golf…

[e-bakes-blog1]

UBE CHEESE BUCHI

Buchi is one of the best Filipino dessert of all time. Classic buchi is filled with red bean paste, but my own recipe of buchi is filled with ube halaya and cheese. This is a must try!!

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cup of glutinous rice flour (for the first mix)

1 cup of hot water

1/4 cup sugar

1/4 cup glutinous rice (additional)

1 tbsp of vegetable oil

Filling:

Ube halaya

Cheese

1/2 cup of sesame seeds

Procedure:

In a bowl, pour the hot water and the sugar. Mix it until the sugar is completely dissolved.

In another bowl, combine glutinous rice flour and gradually add the water and sugar mixture. Mix until it becomes smooth.

Add the glutinous flour. Mix until it reaches dough-like consistency.

Pour in the vegetable oil.

Knead the dough for 2-5 minutes.

After kneading, cover the dough with any cloth or cling wrap and let it rest for 5 minutes.

Prepare the filling: ube halaya and cheese. The amount depends on you.

After 5 minutes, scoop a 1 tbsp of the dough and form it into a ball. Flatten the dough and place the filling on the center. Seal it by pressing and rolling between your hands.

Dregde in sesame seeds. And that’s it! The dough is ready to be cooked!

Heat oil in a shallow pot and put the buchi balls one by one. Make sure to turn the heat on low.

Cook it until it becomes golden brown or until the buchi balls start to float.

Remove it from the pot and drain the excess oil.

That’s it!! Ube Cheese Buchi is ready!!