I hope this is some sort of Chris Hansen operation.
If not, OP I'd reccomend you take screenshots of any text/DMs you have with folks that reach out in case you want to prosecute them later.
I hope this is some sort of Chris Hansen operation.
If not, OP I'd reccomend you take screenshots of any text/DMs you have with folks that reach out in case you want to prosecute them later.
Yeah I've been playing a lot of that one lately. Sorta Vampire Survivors plus Asteroids.
Totally!
First, I feel like the look it has rn makes very happy because it feel like a little video game.
Second, from my understanding there is a way of doing contrast where you take brightness and create an S curve centered on the median brightness value so that you don't shift the median you just expand from it. Can look a bit more natural that basic contrast.
My personal favorite unacknowledged outfit:
No charge?!? Do they use affiliate links or something?
Are we getting better at packing bits into the same bandwidth or just increasing bandwidth?
Does this man listen to the clown music??
Super fun! Scrambled together a pretty solid Guy Feiri costume in the morning, volunteered at mutual aid org I like a lot, then went out dancing with some friends from that org.
Anyone got tips for no shit November this year?
It's also Chan Zen.
This was a shootout for my daily drinker puerh. I would never have been able to decide without drinking both at the same time.
Tea & Water
Tea 1: 2003 Tian Di Ren "7572" (9g in my 120ml gaiwan)
Tea 2: 15 Years Aged Golden Melon Ripe (7g in my 100ml gaiwan)
Water Temp: 203-205F
Tasting Notes
Dry Smell:
(1) Sweet Wood
(2) Bright Punchy Wood
Wet Smell (Post Rinses):
(1) Minty hay, fresh plants by a creek
(2) Deeper minty hay, chocolate
Brews: (*) Indicates that I liked that tea more for that brew.
- Two flash rinses so I start further into the teas.
- Steep 1. [flash, flash]
- (1) Orange/Tan: Light wood
- (2)* Dark Brown: Rich chocolate wood
- Steep 2. [12s, flash]
- (1) Dark Red: Bright honey pencil in nature
- (2)* Dark Brown: Honey pencil
- Steep 3. [18s, flash]
- (1)* Red Orange: Writing in my notebook by a pond
- (2) Dark Brown: Rich body, lower aromatics
- Steep 4. [28s, 15s]
- (1)* Elegant Red: Honey, creek, pencil
- (2) Dark Brown: Pencil, deep
- Steep 5. [35s, 25s]
- (1)* Elegant Red: Playing outside on a rubber tire swing
- (2) Elegant Red: Nice pencil
- Steep 6. [55s, 40s]
- (1)* Elegant Red: Mint, mulch, nostalgia
- (2) Lighter Elegant Red: Nice pencil, metallic/slight bitter mouth feel
Qi: After drinking both of these teas I feel the familiar lazy feeling I get after drinking more puerh than is needed. There was a moment around brew 3 that I felt quite nice and energized and motivated in a comfortable way, but now I am passed that. I just want to laze around and consume any content that is at least mildly interesting.
Overall: At the start I enjoyed tea 2 more because it was stronger. However, it seemed to extract quicker and with less complexity and joy in the aromatics. So, tea 1 slowly pulled ahead and stayed ahead as the brews continued. Tea 1 was cozier and more inviting, had better staying power, and brought me to more enjoyable places.
Price Notes: Both teas come to about $0.21/g. That makes a 10g day of tea only $2.10.
Both teas had more brews in them. I am just too affected at the moment to keep brewing.
Little red cup is all fair trade tea! This is the only fair trade Puerh I've found so far, and it is quite good!
Leaf smell:
Dry: Chocolate, Fish, Graham Crackers
Wet: Brown Sugar, dry erase marker
Tasting notes:
- First brew was light and leaned towards dry erase marker with a bit of chocolatey richness.
- After that brews either tasted quite chocolate with a syrupy background or quite brown sugar esk with a steamed milk background.
- Each brew got a bit sweeter
- I pushed brew 6 kinda hard and got a really sweet brown sugar taste.
Tea high: very balanced. Decent energy, but very smooth. Not relaxing, but in some sense I do feel a bit calmer than when I started my session.
Price notes: I got the 3.75oz canister for $16.75. That comes to 15¢/g. So this session of ~5-6g was 75-90¢. That's a fine price for a very solid puerh.
Overall: This will likely become my go to puerh. It is fair trade, tasty, and a nice price. It doesn't have my favorite flavors of leather and wood, but it more than makes up for that by being fair trade. I can have puerh from worse paid workers here and there as a treat.
This is it next to a rotifer.
I'm almost done with a microbes /w music video and I just cannot find any leads on this fella. I'm not so versed in microscopy though. I found this guy in a stream. I got a good amount of soil and moss in the sample. There also happens to be an invasive snail population in that stream called a mud snail.
I could try to upload a video somewhere of it if any of y'all think that would help.
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