Hahaha well then what better experience can you have with an ebb and flow like that? That’s beyond living it up, and more like riding the storm 😆

Ten seconds? I think Mother Nature can understand if you wanna live it up a little bit more you know?

Well I haven’t tried it with the silicone gaskets I ordered, but I tried another used-but-not-utterly-destroyed rubber gasket from a friend’s moka pot and it seems to work fine

Haha it’s not something I use often for sure. I hope your next comments actually answer the question though. Thanks for your input, I’ll be noting that coffee doesn’t come with ink

Thanks, happy to learn it’s recoverable

I suspected that the filter was broken because the family mentioned that it never came off before. It also has a little bit of play when I put it back in. Another comment said it’s designed to come out though so I think it’s fine. Thanks for your comment

Thank you, noting all of this

Silicone over rubber, gotcha. Thank you

The funnel is fine, it was the only part that didn’t look damaged so I didn’t think to include it. The safety valve also looks fine, just a little dirty. Thank you for your input.

Thanks for confirming my suspicion with the filter

Sounds simple enough, thank you. I thought it would be a bigger job because they mentioned that the filter in the picture never came off before, but it doesn’t have any signs of breakage. I appreciate the input.

Hahaha unfortunately Circuit de la Sarthe is my absolute limit when it comes to track length, though even on the Mulsanne Straight I end up spacing out. It’s like a mini break

Sim racing isn’t necessarily too quirky or obscure but I do it to maintain some sort of maybe possibly ADHD. Doing laps around a track really helps with getting myself used to focusing.

It’s especially helpful because each lap around a race track tends to be only 1 - 2 minutes, which is a relatively easy amount of time to keep focus at any one point in time, but keeping it up for consecutive laps and remaining consistent as time builds up in small increments is a different kind of joy to me.

Yeeeeeeeeees!

If you use your sword to stab your shield, you’ll create an axe with spinning blades

I know everyone’s on Baldur’s Gate 3 lately but I just finished Death Stranding and I teared up. What a game, what a story, what an experience. Highly recommended to anyone looking for something atmospheric and unique. Making deliveries may sound boring but I found that if you just take your time and really let it take over your mind, it’s so easy to get lost in it all.

Monster Hunter. I must have spent over 1,800 hrs. on the two latest series. I can’t exactly turn my brain off with this game but nothing makes me more comfortable than having a Lance or Charge Blade in my hands.

Damn that’s just over 1 and a half pints

For me, it feels great to do a few laps in a racing sim like Assetto Corsa Competizione after a long day. Even something more arcade-y like Forza feels good to me.

If I don’t feel like like driving at the end of my day though I’d probably hop on Monster Hunter or a story-based single player game.

I haven’t played a lot of games like this but from all of the games I’ve played in the past 20-ish years, this one shot up to near the top of my list. I must have dropped at least 200 hours on this game on my first playthrough, just appreciating every little detail there was and doing all of the side quests.

The gameplay itself is already amazing, but to me what really shone was the brilliant, brilliant writing. I have never read such intensely hued writing in a video game.