Equally Ambiguously Gendered Spouse of "What is the Hivemind?"

[Rystil Arden]

True. You get hosts due to being an excellent telepath?

Yuppers. And also due to their being party members. "Come on man, just fail your will save!"

 

[Jdvn1]

Well here's how I figured: I eat about 4 meals a week, and I know that I eat one pound of pasta if my meal is pasta. Hence, if I theoretically only ate pasta, that leads to 4 pounds. The mass of my other meals is a mystery to me

So you assumed food is all the same mass? Doesn't pasta absorb water and get heavier when you cook it?

My favourite meals always involve lots of fun carbs. I think one of my best so far has been when I made a plate of sliced garlic bread topped with a gooey three-cheese combo, and a loaf of Italian-style bread with an olive-oil/cheese/thyme based dipping sauce. Then the main course was a Vermicelli with garlic-and-four-cheese alfredo topped with some melted mozzerella/romano/parmesan and served with Cranberry juice. Of course, that time it wasn't all for me.

Hm, sounds good and not too make. Should remember that.

I do a barbecue thing every six months or so, where I invite a ton of people to my house and we eat lots of food (I slow-cook pork for 12+ hours) and talk and joke around and goof off and play games and listen to music, etc, etc. You get the idea. Well, a few of my friends are vegetarians so I always try to make sure there's something for them, but I have a tough time thinking of vegetarian foods for them. I have an awesome salad, but I'd like more variety. Pasta is harder, I think, to serve at a gathering like that -- especially vermicelli. I could go for something with smaller pieces and it might work, though. That bread thing I could whip up pretty fast.

 

[Jdvn1]

Yuppers. And also due to their being party members. "Come on man, just fail your will save!"

I'd guess they don't like that... I know I wouldn't.

 

[Rystil Arden]

So you assumed food is all the same mass? Doesn't pasta absorb water and get heavier when you cook it?
Hm, sounds good and not too make. Should remember that.

I do a barbecue thing every six months or so, where I invite a ton of people to my house and we eat lots of food (I slow-cook pork for 12+ hours) and talk and joke around and goof off and play games and listen to music, etc, etc. You get the idea. Well, a few of my friends are vegetarians so I always try to make sure there's something for them, but I have a tough time thinking of vegetarian foods for them. I have an awesome salad, but I'd like more variety. Pasta is harder, I think, to serve at a gathering like that -- especially vermicelli. I could go for something with smaller pieces and it might work, though. That bread thing I could whip up pretty fast.

I'm sure my assumption was faulty. Making bad assumptions and then shrugging off the problems is what theoretical science is all about

As for the food, yeah, I've found its easy to make and quite delicious. If you want a pasta that has smaller pieces, there's always those sea shells. They are nice because if you stir them right in the sauce and grate/sprinkle the cheese on them correctly, you can get the cheese and sauce to melt and coalesce on the inside of the piece so that you pick up additional sauce and cheese inside the pasta whenever you bring a piece up to your mouth.

Being a vegetarian, and also not particularly enjoying salad as it is rather bland, I had to find some good stuff to eat. I imagine I have eaten so many different varieties of pasta that I can't remember them all. I just whip out all my spices and cheeses and sauce and decide randomly what I'm going to concoct

 

[Rystil Arden]

I'd guess they don't like that... I know I wouldn't.

Its not like I can control their actions though

 

[Jdvn1]

I'm sure my assumption was faulty. Making bad assumptions and then shrugging off the problems is what theoretical science is all about

Well, yes. Although when you use it in practice (I hope you don't just eat in theory), you might not want to assume too many things. You might end up unwell.

As for the food, yeah, I've found its easy to make and quite delicious. If you want a pasta that has smaller pieces, there's always those sea shells. They are nice because if you stir them right in the sauce and grate/sprinkle the cheese on them correctly, you can get the cheese and sauce to melt and coalesce on the inside of the piece so that you pick up additional sauce and cheese inside the pasta whenever you bring a piece up to your mouth.

That's what I was thinking, yeah. Or the bow ties.

Being a vegetarian, and also not particularly enjoying salad as it is rather bland, I had to find some good stuff to eat. I imagine I have eaten so many different varieties of pasta that I can't remember them all. I just whip out all my spices and cheeses and sauce and decide randomly what I'm going to concoct

Bland? Nono, bland is the last adjective you'd use for a good salad. A good salad always has at least one sort of surprise... maybe some orange, maybe some walnut, maybe a bitter lettuce to go with a sweet vinegrette... never bland. The one I usually have is a brocolli/cranberry salad. It's amazing in the weirdest way ever.

And your pasta method reminds me of macaroni and cheese. In Red Badge of Courage, the soldiers would get a huge bowl, fill it with pasta, add cheese, and that was their supper. The common way to eat pasta was very similar, adding whatever ingredients you had on hand.

 

[Jdvn1]

Its not like I can control their actions though

Riiight. When you get teleport or dim door, you'll use that to go from host to host, probably.

 

[Evilhalfling]

Read Huxley's Brave New World. Its all about that.

I tried, but I decedied that I have had my fill with disutopias - Orwell, Rand, Skinner, Kafica I made it partway though Huxley and gave up, his book is sitting on my return to the library pile now. Life of Pi makes more sense

Yes Im doing the catch up/post thing I should be current in 10 min or so.

 

[Jdvn1]

I tried, but I decedied that I have had my fill with disutopias - Orwell, Rand, Skinner, Kafica I made it partway though Huxley and gave up, his book is sitting on my return to the library pile now. Life of Pi makes more sense

Yes Im doing the catch up/post thing I should be current in 10 min or so.

Brave New World is particularly famous, I believe. It is rather weird, though.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Well, yes. Although when you use it in practice (I hope you don't just eat in theory), you might not want to assume too many things. You might end up unwell.
That's what I was thinking, yeah. Or the bow ties.
Bland? Nono, bland is the last adjective you'd use for a good salad. A good salad always has at least one sort of surprise... maybe some orange, maybe some walnut, maybe a bitter lettuce to go with a sweet vinegrette... never bland. The one I usually have is a brocolli/cranberry salad. It's amazing in the weirdest way ever.

And your pasta method reminds me of macaroni and cheese. In Red Badge of Courage, the soldiers would get a huge bowl, fill it with pasta, add cheese, and that was their supper. The common way to eat pasta was very similar, adding whatever ingredients you had on hand.

The bow ties are good for pasta salads, althoug they don't hold chunks as well.

As for the pasta method, I don't just throw everything in there; I have far too many different spices and cheeses and sauces to do that without making something chimerical. I just look around and then say, "Aha, we're going to slice up these plum tomatoes and add some red pepper, a pinch of basil and grate some romano and parmesan to mix in." or something like that.