Adventures in vegan cuisine

Today, I ate a vegetable I'd never ate. Something called "Bok Choy". More or less some sort of vaguely cabbage-like thing. Pretty good. I stir-fried it with some bean sprouts and a couple of spices, then added a bit of soy sauce toward the end. Rather simple fare, but I enjoyed it. I actually was improvising a little from the recipe in the vegan cookbook I had; I used a couple of ingredients not in the recipe and didn't use a couple in the recipe.

Speaking of which, I did something I'd been leaning toward for a long while and finally really went vegan. Mostly.

This is the first time I've actually cooked in this house.

Memo to myself: wash the dishes after I wake up tomorrow.

Dresden Codak, Dreamlike Comic

Continuing in my apparent tradition of posting in intermittent spurts, I'd like to recommend to you fine readers the Dresden Codak webcomic. I enjoy it for its sheer expansiveness of imagination and lustrous art, casually and offhandedly combining advanced physics with whimsy or fantastical adventures. The individual comics range from entertainingly silly to wistful.

There're very few webcomics that feature a fight between two WWII-era German physicists where one of them escapes by employing the very principle he discovered, or lines such as "My heart is nothing more than an engine forged from the remnants of a dead star. You know that." The usual mood is like a strange dream.

It is cousin to A Lesson Is Learned But the Damage is Irreversible. The two even link to each other.

Does anime get off easy just because it's anime?

Do any of you ever find yourselves tolerating subject matters in anime you might not tolerate in other works? I'm speaking of the more squirm-inducing conventions of the more borderline (or not so borderline) skeevy works.

Is it the conventions that makes a difference? Or the distancing from real-life that being drawn rather than actual actors gives it? Or is it all unacceptable to you regardless?

Skills & Stunts setup plus second log

Note for lediva:
Skills are ranked by descriptors. The ladder is as such:

Mythic
Epic
Fantastic
Superb
Great
Good
Fair
Average
Mediocre
Poor
Terrible


We decided to have the characters' top skill be Great. So, everyone has a Great skill, then two Good skills, then three Fair skills, then four Average skills (Average serves as the base of the "skill pyramid").

Average is actually a decently useful rank to have skills at, as it's the baseline difficulty for many things. Higher skill ranks're useful for tasks with added complications as well as tasks where you'll be directly opposing other people. But Aspects and some Stunts can be used to augment your skills.

As for Stunts, we discuss that down in the log beneath.

( The second log begins: )