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packbat · 1mo
fave chitin facts?
ooh good question! i actually, oddly, don't have many chitin facts on-hand. i know about arthropods but not always about chitin as thoroughly. that said, i learned just now from research (wikipedia) that mammals and plants both have immune responses to chitin, and you can use that to get your crops to like, trigger their immune responses to insects ahead of time!
packbat · 4mo
what's something y'all can do now that would amaze y'all's kid selves?
oh my gosh this is an AMAZING question.
i think, honestly, it'd probably be the breadth and depth of knowledge i can infodump, but maybe also the fact that i stream to an audience and do let's play-y type content - the longer-form stream playthrough thing was really only starting when i was a kid but i'd really just be amazed then to see myself as someone who can present to an audience like all the funny youtube ppl we followed at the time
packbat · 5mo
do you think y'all'll ever play bass on stream?
packbat · 5mo
y'all ever try contract bridge, the card game?
packbat · 5mo
zucchini bread (y/n)?
packbat · 5mo
Speaking of eggs, do y'all find the "trans egg" concept relatable?
Honestly, yeah! I did some extremely obvious-in-retrospect trans stuff, including using my very high pitched voice pre-puberty to "trick people" on tf2 into thinking i was a girl (haha i totally wasn't i swear).
I think people run away with it a bit much sometimes, but I also think people have... Gotten their hackles up about it maybe a little too hard in retaliation? I dunno. But it's useful for me to talk about my past behavior for sure.
A Mystery Pixie · 5mo
What is the best way to prepare and eat eggs?
Look, I had Retrospring randomly give me this question and I don't have an answer to it - there's no single best way.
But my favorites, I have several:
I like omelettes a little! I'm still learning to make them, but it's fun. I just like cheese and maybe bacon on mine, but I want to simultaneously make a pair of omelettes for me and my fiancé(e) sometime and load theirs with veg.
Fried - over hard only. No runny yolks for me.
Boiled - Hard, unless it's a seasoned egg in some delicious ramen. Then I'll accept that gelled sort of between soft and hard boil.
Scrambled - Soft, over low heat, with no added milk, butter, or cheese. Just the egg, consistently stirred and scraped to disallow it to form any big or dry clumps, left just a little bit runny at the end. It's delicious and fluffy.
A Mystery Pixie · 5mo
Why are you so thiccc and Breedable?
A Mystery Pixie · 5mo
Why so smol and adorable?
packbat · 6mo
If it were the 1980s, y'all were computer programmers making a videogame, and y'all didn't have a dedicated composer, what out-of-copyright piece of sheet music would y'all steal to use in the game?
packbat · 6mo
y'all ever read World War Z by Max Brooks? we recently found a 5-disc audiobook of it in our room - it was a pretty neat epistolary novel from what we remember, all transcripts of interviews.
i have not!! i have heard of it - primarily through the movie of the same name, but also on its own as a book. i think we essentially heard of it at exactly the time at which we were utterly sick (lol) of zombie fiction, but i think nowadays it probably will hit right so i should maybe grab an audiobook myself!
packbat · 7mo
okay so: y'all remember our question from like August about what y'all's hypothetical portable game console would be like? and y'all were talking about, like, a two-screen console that can split into two halves connected by a cable? what resolution are the screens?
(this is the most Packbat question we have asked in a while)
A Mystery Pixie · 7mo
opinions on clowns? (in fiction, irl... whatever gets your question answering juices going)