I am not jewish, no one in my family is jewish, but my mom knows jewish friends, and I have dine research on the Jewish,we got into an argument about kashrut and I just wanted to clear things up with a group of people who are more well versed in this than me or my mother. So, a recipe we are planning to cook calls for kosher salt, I said that that is just coarse salt, my older sister said it's not. I then countered by saying that kashrut says nothing about salt. My sister then argued that orthodox jewish don't use any salt other than kosher salt. I then countered with information from a scholarly peer reviewed journal that kosher salt is an American term from the 20th century for large grain salt called so because it is used for the koshering process on meat because it's larger grain size allows you to more easilly pick it up, and it supposedly is better at drawing out the blood. My mother countered that no that is not the case. We argued back and forth for a few minutes, and then my mother came up with the bold claim that "anything that is kosher is originally jewish." I argued that that is simply not true and that kosher salt is just coarse salt and that a lot of salt other than kosher salt is kosher certified. We went on for a while and she eventually told that I just have to have faith that anything kosher is jewish. I am deeply atheist and scientifically minded so this of course set me off, so I asked "Why?! Why have faith when you have true certifiable facts to go off?!"( TLDR do orthodox jewish only use kosher certified products? Is kosher salt originally jewish? Are all things labeled kosher jewish? Is there a difference between kosher salt and kosher certified salt?

My wife wanted to have the family over and BBQ for mothers day. I'm not an idiot so I got her a couple pieces of jewelry aswel.
I did all the invites, yard work, trash, dog poop, most of the cleaning, and the grilling. Gave her her present in private because because that's what she prefers. I don't see my family very often so it was nice to drink beers with them. Anyways it all seemed to go fine. But at the end f the night my wife pulls me aside and tell me she is upset my mom had gotten her a big pot for a tree my mom had also given her. My wife is feeling pressure to take care of this tree (we really just leave it outside). I told her I'd be happy to talk to my mom about this tree not being for us, or I could accidentally drop some salt on it (half joking). She wanted me to take care of the tree but I refused since I've always advocated for having less plans (my house is full of plants my wife brings in, I gave up trying to fight that). My mom had also bought it a thing from Sephora.
She then mentions this Amazon list she had sent months ago and starts telling me I don't listed since I didn't get things from that list. I try to tell her to look at all the work I did to make this BBQ but I guess I forgot about the wish list from forever ago.
Anyways she tells me I'm inconsiderate, don't listed, and ruined her day and now won't talk to me. I'm currently sitting by myself feeding the baby while she sleeps. I'm feeling awful, should I go get a card and some flowers? I'm hoping that might turn things around a bit.
All I've asked for father's day is a nice steak for me to cook myself, a beer, a couple hours of peace, and no pictures for those couple hours. I know most everyone dgaf about father's day but I think I can get away with this.
EDIT: Tulips did the trick. Thank you all for anything said, it made me feel better.

So I've been making my lasagna since highschool and I recognize that it's not very traditional. It still tastes good, it's just a bit of a shock eating my lasagna compared to others, at least to me because I'm kind of hyperaware of when my food doesn't taste exactly the same.
Here's the recipe:
For the sauce: Brown and season two pounds of ground beef in a large sauce pot with olive oil then drain the grease
Add in a 4.1 pound bottle of ragu chunky spaghetti sauce (sometimes more).
Diced fajita mix from Walmart (onions, green and red bell peppers
Sliced smoked beef sausage link
1 8oz brick of cream cheese, sliced and added into the sauce last

I cook it all on medium to low heat until the sauce is orange and the noodles are done boiling

Preheat Oven to 450°F
While in making the sauce, I preboil a pot of salt water then add in my lasagna noodles until they're soft, stirring occasionally to keep them from sticking too much

When they're done, I drain the water and move onto layering

I do a thin sauce layer in a deep casserole dish then three strips of lasagna noodles. After the initial layer, I add about a cup of sauce each layer.
( ex: sauce>noodle>sauce>noodle)
I go until the casserole dish is almost done. The last layer is sauce and cheese. For the cheese I use Italian blend and mozzarella.

I cover with aluminum foil and then cook it for ~40 minutes, checking periodically. Once I'm sure it's done, I let it sit for 30 minutes uncovered to cook and settle.

I know ricotta is usually used, but my dad didn't like ricotta so I never used it when making my lasagna before moving out. I also don't like an excessive amount of cheese (too many burnt grilled cheese sandwiches 🤢)

Hey y'all.
So I've been watching a lot of those digital horror flash game videos recently and remembered one that me and my brother found a while ago. I think we found it somewhere between 2021 and mid 2022. If you know anything about those digital horror flash games, I know it was before the whole subgenre got popular and I'm like 70% sure it was before the Lacey Games series started (definitely before it got popular). Know that when I refer to the media here as a game, I'm talking about a video where someone's playing a fake game.
It was this animation channel that had this old flash game theme to it, but the art style was very cutesy. It was kinda pastel goth-like with creepy elements to it but it also had more like frills and sparkles to it. I think it might've also been anime-inspired but take that with a grain of salt, I just know it was cartoony. It was also very cluttered, there was usually a ton of little things on screen at a time framing the focus of the shot. I'm pretty sure the whole channel was dedicated to these animations, but it might've just been a smaller series on a bigger channel.
The videos had a story to them but I can't really remember it. The main character was your typical girly optimistic pink-haired girl, but she had this dark side to her I think? I don't know if she actually did anything really evil but I think she just had this kinda hidden evil vibe to her. There was another girl who might've been her love interest but I am NOT sure of that. She was this frankenstein creature with red hair I think? It might've been split dyed with another color to it, maybe white or blue or black. But she was chill and cool and might've smoked? I don't know. I think she also did the trope of falling apart randomly, like frankenstein monsters do. I think there was also a scientist guy but I do not remember. I think part of the story was about the main girl having missing memories or something.
There's three videos I remember from it, but only two of them I'm sure existed. I'll start with the one I'm not sure of because it's short. I think it was about the pink girl confessing her love to the frankenstein girl on a school rooftop, but getting there and realizing someone else was already confessing their love to her. So later on she pushes that person off the roof. I don't know if this was a real video or if I'm getting it mixed up with something else since it's a pretty common trope.
The two that I'm sure existed were a surgery game and a little mermaid story game. The surgery game had the pink haired girl being a doctor or nurse and taking care of patients, but it'd get really gory. I think she might've operated on her mother at some point but now that I'm thinking about it, I don't know if that really happened. She might've also operated on the frankenstein girl and stitched her up. I remember her tools including a candle for cauterizing wounds and maybe melting body parts? and scissors for cutting people open. It was animated VERY similarly to how those old surgery games used to play. The end of the video had the story moving forward, but I'm not sure what actually happened.
The little mermaid story game was a video where I think the characters dressed up and acted out a version of the little mermaid. It might've been original designs but I'm not sure. The game played like a storybook where you would click to move on the story and occasionally have to play a small simple mini-game like spot the difference or find the hidden object. I remember the story got very dark though and instead of an actual little mermaid story, it was about a mermaid being captured and held inside an aquarium for royalty or rich people. I think they were planning to eat the mermaid but the chef grew attached to the mermaid and didn't want to kill them. I don't remember what happened after though, but I think at the end either the mermaid ate the chef or the chef was forced to cook the mermaid. I'm not sure about that though.
Sorry this post is so long but I wanted to add every detail I could remember. I'd love it if anyone could help me find this channel, it was super interesting and I want to rewatch these old videos and see if any new ones came out. Thanks!

"Great days and glorious victory! My name is Spifflemonk and welcome to my Letsplay! Today I am back from my medically mandated break from playing human videogames after a rather... cathartic experience with a game called Teardown. Subnautica, even among humans, is labeled as a notorious experience with... mixed reception for its sequel. A survival crafting game apparently. I have experience with those so presumably the gameplay loop should be predictable enough. So... Let's go in!"
Spiffle starts the game, going for standard Survival Mode, with aspects of food and water mechanics alongside health and oxygen. The game loads very, very fast with Spiffles overpowered computer, and the introduction sequence begins. The camera pans to the panicked sight of the payer character moving down a ladder followed by a sight of a starship above exploding.
"Oh dear... oh dear! They weren't kidding about survival! Do I even survive this or am I a ghost or something..."
The pod rattles, the screen shakes, a fire extinguisher falls from its mounting. Velocity causes the pod to dislodge a panel from a wall and it flies around the cabin. The panel flies into the player's screen, making it go black.
"Oh... well okay then. I uh... well."
Spiffles' character awakens and panics at the buttons securing him to the seat. Spiffle quickly figures out that fire in this game is in fact bad, and grabs the fire extinguisher, putting the fire out. The game's introduction plays, showing his PDA, the game's inventory UI.
"Oh! I have seen these things in real life when visiting human stations! Do all humans have these?"
Spiffle starts exploring the escape pod, noting all of the damage to the radio beacon and the wiring panel.
"Hmm... craft the repair tool... Well... For later I suppose. Now how do i-AH, the ladder!"
Spiffle clicks on the ladder and goes through the animation. The character exits and dramatically stands. Spiffle looks around. His face visibly pales as he looks in every direction, finding the only thing nearby that looks 'safe’ or like 'land' is the destroyed ship in the distance.
"Water... it's... water... everywhere! How big is this game's map!? Structural hull failure... zero human lifesigns detected. That's.. not nice. Well... Here we go!"
Spiffle jumps into the water. His mood changes, the underwater environment significantly different than above ground. The water is absolutely teeming with life and color, as Spiff swims towards a reef to stare at some coral. Spiff gets distracted and starts chasing a fish, specifically a Peeper, and grabs it.
"Oh! Good god! THAT'S how humans catch fish!? That's very... inefficient! What is this thing? Can I eat it? I know I'm supposed to take care of my food and water, so how do I eat it?"
Spiffle wanders about for a while, gathering resources and exploring his general location, eventually getting back to the pod. He had gathered up a decent amount of stuff while he was swimming around and accessed the Fabricator to see what was available.
"Ah! I see, the fabricator cooks things too. Uhm... cooked fish thing and... these transparent fish give me water bottles? Okay then! Well. Sorted for food anyway. Let's see. Copper wire, batteries. A Scanner? Does that mean I can like, scan things and tell what they are? And... Oxygen tank? Oh hell yes. I'll build that then."
Spiffle goes through the process of building a few things, checking out how the game's crafting system works, and spending more time collecting resources. He quickly realizes how much work he has to do and finally finishes making a Scanner.
"Okay then well... I can see how much time is going to be spent collecting resources so i'm going to edit all of that out and keep you all in the loop on all the fun parts instead."
Spiffle continues playing, inserting a creative, albeit mildly annoying fanciful scene transition in between resource loops. He comes to a cave looking for salt to make more equipment, when he encounters the first hostile enemy of the game: The Crashfish. He does not notice it at first, the strange sloppy noise it makes as its pod opens, the beast makes a terrible gurgly noise and charges straight at him.
"What is that noi-AH! OY! OI! OIIII what are you what are-!"
Spiffle is cut off as the fish explodes, causing him to lose half his health. He quickly surfaces and takes a breath.
"Okay then... OKAY... THAT... makes absolutely no sense from an evolutionary perspective... but okay then. Avoid those. What even was that? I can't even scan it because it was moving so fast! Gods... exploding fish."
Spiffle shakes his head and resumes his hunt for resources, eventually finding enough for a repair tool. He makes the repair of the pods' broken wiring and looks around a bit more, noting some of the details in the game.
"Hard to believe these games are over eight hundred years old! I keep getting requests to play 'them gud ol' gamez' instead of any new releases. Maybe I'll get to those eventually. I have quite the backlog though."
Spiffle quickly tabs out and shows the huge list of human made games on his list that he has been gifted or purchased himself. The list includes Space Marine, Starship Troopers, Spyro Trilogy, Crash Bandicoot, and so... so many more.
"I am also told about this thing called 'anime', whatever that is. Maybe I should look into that. Anyway..."
Spiffle shrugs for now and resumes playing, swimming around for a bit before finally deciding to use his scanner. He gets the first scan - the Acid Mushroom - and painstakingly reads the supplied article. He then goes on a scanning frenzy, scanning each thing he can find, comically chasing after various fish and objects, trying to scan them then taking an irritatingly long time to read the article aloud.
He gets to the point where he encounters his first real hostile enemy and tries to scan it. The stalker, of course, doesn't appreciate that, and attacks.
"Oooh what's this thing? Oh lovely, it's a big one. Can I scan it? The... Stalker? Oh okay is it friend-OW! NONONONO go away!"
Spiffle panics and scans it while running away from it, trying to swim backwards. He's so focused on scanning it he can't run far enough away that he gets ambushed by another Stalker nearby and manages to scan it just as he gets hit with his first Death in the game.
"Oh.... o...kay. Well... it seems things aren't as friendly as expected. I'm going to guess there's more things like that around. So... I'm just going to finish working on repairs and equipment then I'll take those things on."
Spiffle reads the article on the Stalker he scanned and spends more time collecting resources, scanning local entities and building the rest of the gear he has. Fins, high capacity O2 tank, rebreather and some more food and water which he stores in floating containers for later. He starts to explore a bit farther in search of fragments to scan and finds a Sand Shark, as well as a biome resembling a desert-like area. He encounters his first piece of the wrecked ship here.
"Oh! Hello! Pieces of wreckage! What are these for now do you suppose? Can I disassemble these for resources or-Oh! Is that a door? Oh! I'm supposed to go in here and look for things? How do I get in? Oh I can't. I need a laser cutter. Is one of those here? Need more fragments I guess..."
Spiffle gives up trying to enter and goes up for air, then returns to the floor to hunt for fragments. He eventually unlocks the Bioreactor, pieces of the Scanner room, a couple fragments of the Seaglide and Seamoth. He comes across the first cave entrance to the Mushroom Caves Biome.
"Oh... oh my. That's... deep. Good thing I unlocked the Seamoth thing. Its a miniature submarine I think. I can use that. But that's... kinda scary. I can't see the bottom. I kinda see just... purple. Mostly purple. But it scares me that I can't see the bottom."
Spiffle hangs around the cave entrance for a bit before a call for Oxygen forces him to the surface. He swims back down to the cave entrance and then hangs around a bit longer before once again resurfacing, heading for some new things to scan. It is however at this point that Spiffles exploration is cut short.
"EMERGENCY - SEISMIC READINGS SUGGEST A QUANTUM DETONATION HAS OCCURRED IN THE AURORA'S DRIVE CORE. THE CENTRAL DARK MATTER REACTOR WILL REACH A SUPERCRITICAL STATE IN -"
The computer aboard the PDA shakes Spiff out of his daze and he quickly rushes to the surface and looks at the ship.
"Wait wait wait what's that!? What's going on!? I see the ship? The Aurora! That's what its name is? Whats a Dark Matter reactor and wha-"
The computer continues its countdown muffled by Spiffs panicked squealing and he has a front-row seat to one of the most spectacular explosions in the history of gaming - the Aurora's Reactor Detonation.
It happens. The world goes dead silent for a short moment, and one can see Spiffles heart visibly stop beating. Then explosion as the Aurora lets out its magnificent blast. As the shockwave expands outwards, Spiffs skin visibly turns a paler shade of blue, and his eyes go wide. The sound of a geiger counter follows, leaving him breathless and pale as the world suddenly goes dead quiet again. The sound of the geiger counter ominously leaving him shaken even more than he already is.
"FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE - THE RADIATION SUIT HAS BEEN ADDED TO YOUR BLUEPRINTS."
Spiffle stays completely silent, bobbing in the water for a solid few minutes, staring in shocked wonder at what he just witnessed. He regains his composure for a few short moments and returns to his scanning venture, but one can easily see he isn't in the right mind after that. He returns to the seabed, at the entrance to the mushroom caves and dives again. He does this several more times, popping up to the surface, looking at the shipwreck, then diving at the entrance again. Finally, after much hesitation, he dives one last time.
"Screw it. it's just a game right?"
He smiles at the camera with a shrug and swims far below the surface, into one of the caves. As he enters the cavern his jaw drops at the sight of a massive underwater cavern filled with gigantic glowing pink mushrooms. The Mushroom caves as they are known. He spots something in the distance, entranced, forgetting his oxygen situation. He cant get far however and a terrifying shriek of some unknown entity shakes him out of his stupor.
"What in the red dawn was that noise!?"
Spiff can't finish asking his invisible audience what's going on as he strays too close to a mushroom, occupied by a Crab Snake, a gigantic sea worm. He is grabbed from behind, spun around and he visibly panics as the giant worm digs its enormous tusks into Spiffles character. Spiffle immediately freaks out, a combination of both the terrifying shriek emitted by the creature and the shock of being attacked makes poor Spiffle jump out of his seat and duck under the table.
"GOWAYGOWAYGOWAGOWAYGOWAY!!!"
The worm comes back and finishes Spiff off before his oxygen runs out. Spiff's character respawns but the footage continues, a slight whimper can be heard in the background as Spiff hides under the desk. This carries on for a few minutes, and his head very slowly appears above the desk. He gingerly puts himself back in his seat and breathes heavily for a bit. When he finally gains control, he tabs out of the game and takes a look at the wiki for Subnautica. He returns a few moments later and stares at the camera in that strange haunting glare he's become so famous for.
"WHY DO YOU STUPID DEVELOPERS NOT PUT GUNS IN THE GAME IF YOU HAVE SHIT LIKE THAT!? ARE YOU INSANE!?"
He grabs the camera and shakes it violently as he rants at it, questioning why there are guns in every other human game he has played and not THIS specific game, especially considering how there are 'giant water snake monsters that eat your face' in a game with no guns. He rants for a good minute or two then plays his outro.
TOP COMMENT: "Are you absolutely sure after Teardown, Factorio and Project ZOMBOID, you should be playing Subnautica? I mean seriously, try something less... psychologically terrifying. It's known as Thalassophobia Simulator for a reason."
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"Great days and glorious victory! My name is Spifflemonk and I still don't understand why we have giant worm monsters but we have no guns!"
Spiffle stares at the camera with an expression that can only be summarized as 'Seriously bruh?' and resumes his last playthrough. He becomes confused at the lack of stuff in his inventory.
"Why is my... Why do I not ha-Oh right... I was eaten. When you die your inventory is wiped... I need to build more tools then."
Spiffle starts some silly music, an alien version of Benny Hill to a montage of him collecting resources, occasionally ranting at various oddities and questioning game logic. He restores all of his tools then goes hunting for a Vehicle Bay fragment so he can build the Seamoth. He continues to scan what he can, developing something of an obsession with the task, then painstakingly reading every word about it to try and understand it. It is at this point Spiffle, during his explorations finds another derelict chunk of ship near the desert region, encountering his first Sand Shark.
"What... What is this? Oh... careful Spiff. This one looks angrier than the last one you found. Wh-What in oblivion!?"
Spiffles attention is once again diverted by the appearance of a Reefback Leviathan and its signature low drone. This one appears to be a fully grown adult.
"You-you... You've got to be... You gotta be fucking kidding me. A Juhara Eelfish!? WHAT IS THAT DOING IN A HUMAN VIDEOGAME!!!??"
Spiffle squeaks in shock as he sees a creature that is an absolute spitting image of a large oceanic dwelling sea creature, which is both the games and his native homeworlds version of a Whale. The Reefback has some dissimilarities, but its close enough to the real thing that Spiffle is genuinely shocked. He quickly pauses the game, opening various wikipedia articles, then displays a full picture of both Subnautica in game Reefback, and the Juhara-Kal-Rehar, colloquially known as a Juhara Eelfish, a shockingly similar creature that lives in his homeworlds oceans.
The only difference between them is the color of the exterior chitin shell. The Reefback has a blue/purple shell, the Juhara Eelfish's chitin has a red/green shell.
"WHEN was this game made!?"
Spiff checks, the current Earth-date is the year 2886. Humanity only entered the galactic community in 2752. Subnautica was released in 2018.
"HOW.... How is that even possible!? You didn't even know the galaxy existed until only a few decades ago, yet you almost PERFECTLY matched the appearance of one of our homeworlds native species! How is this even possible!? Okay. If the name matches then I have to call bullshit."
Spiffle approaches and scans it, then reads the data article.
"A... Reefback Leviathan? Oh thank God... Now let's see... A herbivorous creature that... that likely got so large due to the fact that its predators went extinct. Well... that's... okay... A hard chitinous shell of multiple layers, a microcosm of different creatures and flora growing from its back, hence the name. Hmmm..."
Spiffle gets that cold, empty stare on his face and glares menacingly at the camera. The screen goes black, then returns, seeing Spiffle nursing a beverage of some kind while wrapped in a blanket.
"I realized something... Call it a message from the Ancestors or a Divine revelation. But I have a funny feeling this isn't going to be the last time I see a creature from the galaxy represented in human media. I hope to the Gods that doesn't happen... the concept of this situation is nothing short of terrifying. In any case, I'm sorry about that. Lets.... let's continue."
Spiffle resumes where he left off, doing his usual routine of scanning, then obsessively reading. Eventually he unlocks the Vehicle Bay, and returns home to his pod where the situation with resources is growing obscene with at least fifty floating resource containers hovering around the area.
"Alright... A Vehicle Bay... This means I can build things like the Seamoth now. This will be nice. Right, I shall for the sake of my audience skip the resource collection mechanic that's here and focus on the actual result. I shan't waste my time either though. MONTAGE!"
Spiff yells excitedly and a montage to that same odd Benny Hill type music plays out, with him collecting the resources he needs to build both machines. Most of it is already in the floating containers strewn about. With a few visits to the fabricator, he compiles the Power Cell, Titanium Ingot and Lubricant he needs to make the Vehicle Bay. He deploys it and chases it to the surface just away from the pod in the deeper end of the shallows.
"Right... Not too hard. Let's see then, how do-Ah. Get on it and... The Seamoth. Cost of two glass, one titanium ingot, a powercell, lead and lubricant. Right."
He quickly gathers and makes everything he needs for the Seamoth, then stands on the platform ready to go. He chooses the Seamoths recipe and the sequence starts. His eyes light up as drones start flying around the platform, then begin assembling atom by atom, the small, adorable minisub known as the Seamoth. It finishes the process and flops into the water with a splash.
"My gods look at this thing! It's so cute!"
Spiffle explores the sub for a little while and hops inside it, testing the controls and playing around with it a bit to see what it can do.
"Hm... Maximum Depth, 200 meters? So if I go below that does it implode or something? I need to be careful of that. OH dammit I remember! I have to make that Radiation Suit don't I? I shall do so now!"
Spiffle seems to have found a new resolve, quickly gathering resources together and making both a Seaglide and radiation suit in short order.
"Does this thing have any weapons? How do I repair-Oh... Repair tool? That makes it easier I suppose. Now... Where do I go now? Is there anything I can do?"
Spiffle stumbles about in the blind for a few minutes, trying to figure out his next course of action beyond simply wandering aimlessly while scanning things. He gets back in the pod and fixes the radio beacon. His face visibly contorts into an expression of irritation when he hears his rescue is in 9999 hours. He resolves to come back every now and then to check the radio. He decides to gather more resources to make up for building the seamoth and comes back a bit later. He finds a radio transmission when he returns.
"RADIO: ▀▖┗▛Nine new biological subjects designated. Mode ▄▖▜▚┣: hunting/analyzing.
Sharing subject locations with other agents."
"What... in the Nine Hells was THAT!? Why was it in such an odd voice? What was that language? What were those letters!? Somethings going on here... SO now what? I have the radiation suit. i guess... go into the Aurora? Oh no, I'm not going in there unprepared! Lemme make some tools and spare batteries, then i'll go in. I need... Oh... I need more fragments is what I need."
Spiffle resumes his fragment hunt, looking around for fragments of various tools. He uses the Seamoth to traverse around.
"WHEEE!!!"
Spiff seems more than just a bit happy as he trundles around in the Seamoth, using his speed to launch himself out of the water. He splashes about a bit, testing the limits of the craft and trying to see what holes he can squeeze himself into or out of and how deep he can go.
"Okay okay. time to get to serious work. Now... I need to find... A Laser Cutter and a... STASIS RIFLE?! Wait... rifle? That means GUN! I NEED A GUN!!"
Spiffle charges forward towards the desert biome where he found the Reefback and resumes his search for things to scan. It is now he comes across a Reginald.
"What... IS this fish? Wait, let me just..."
He gets out of the Seamoth and scans it.
"Huh... Reginald. That's a... fish? It's so cute! Wait, come back friend!"
Spiffle spends an unreasonable amount of time trying to catch a Reginald. When he finally catches one he gets back in the Seamoth and heads towards the aurora, new friend in tow. He trundles over to the side of the crashed ship and scans some random stuff here and there, finding fragments to a few small items, including a few he needs such as a Powercell Charger for the Seamoth’s battery. He gets close to the front of the ship and the haunting, evil noise of Subnautica's most iconic killer suddenly echoes through the gloomy water.
"What... Was that? Is it another worm thing? Please don't let it be one of those..."
Spiffle wanders around the side for a bit longer. An ominous shadow looms in the background, catching his eye. He ignores it for the moment and simply carries on, eventually arriving at the entrance to the ship. Through the mangled steel and fire he squeezes into the front of the ship and looks around. The environment ominously rattles and his screen shakes as the ships structure isn't exactly stable. The howl of the creature in the shadows makes Spiff even more uncomfortable.
"I... Do NOT like this. I really dont."
Spiff parks the Seamoth where he can see a ramp leading up, and gets out. He is immediately accosted by Cave Crawlers and uses his knife to defend himself, poorly, but he gets rid of the three or four around him.
"WARNING: SCANS SHOW THE DIGESTIVE TRACTS OF INDIGENOUS LIFE FORMS CONTAIN HUMAN TISSUE."
Spiffs face turns an even paler shade of blue and he swallows visibly as if he's trying not to vomit.
"Yeuch... I can scan this thing and read it later. I don't want to be here any longer than I have to."
Spiff scans and follows the path to the interior, uses his fire extinguisher to put out some fires in the area and gets inside. The ship rumbles as he wanders around and gets into one of the rooms. He finds the poster of the P.R.A.W.N. Suit.
"Ooh! A poster thing? Can I take it or? I can! PRAWN Suit eh? Can I actually use that thing?"
Spiff takes the poster, scans some furniture and collects a PDA. Spiff continues down the corridor and retrieves his Propulsion Cannon from his inventory and uses it to pick up some furniture in the way.
"I am SO glad I got this thing from scanning the area before I came here. This is super useful! I wonder if it has other uses..."
He gets to the door and looks at his databank.
"Hmm... Here it is! Code for the door is 1454. Right."
Spiff moves through, repairing a door to get the Seamoth Depth Upgrade Module. He continues and clears a fire to enter the main reactor. His inner loot goblin shines through and grabs the Cyclops engine efficiency module before he starts work on repairs, scanning the breach and starting work. It doesn't take him long, but he gets issues with a Bleeder that lives in the waters. He scans one then finishes repairs. Foolishly, he uses the propulsion cannon and shoots the bleeder at one of the reactors, undoing his work. He looks at the damage he caused and repairs it.
"Well... what was I expecting... Why did I do that? It's a CANNON... why did I aim it at the reactor exactly? So stupid..."
Spiff finishes and heads to the PRAWN Bay, and looks around at the damage. He spots the prawn suits and starts scanning, grabbing a storage module upgrade from a console and starts extinguishing flames so he can scan. He runs out of fire extinguisher juice though.
"Blast! Can I still scan these if they're on fire?"
Spiff walks around, finding cheeky angles he can use and scans the debris, finding all four fragments he needs. He heads upstairs and goes through the rooms and everything he can find. He gets into the Galley and sees the Kitty in a Space Helmet Poster.
"What the- 'Keep Calm'? What in the blue balls is this? It's.... cute! What is this creature!? Can I keep this? I can!"
Spiffle excitedly grabs the poster and moves on. He goes through cabins, picks up PDAs and collects the Natural Selection 2 poster, the Prawn suit in the sea poster and the collectible arcade toy in the locked cabin. Lacking the code to the Captain's cabin, he returns to the prawn bay and tries swimming around, eventually finding a passage in the hull debris to the rest of the ship. He moves through in silence, recovers the black box data and exits the ship. He removes debris, grabs the local wildlife with the cannon and tosses them into fires or the water with glee.
"BEGONE BEAST!!! Ha! Right... uhh... where did i park? Oh, there it is. Should I go home? I wonder if there are any fragments I can use around here?"
Spiff exits, finding Liefpod 4 floating upside down on the surface of the water. He collects the PDA data and a new blueprint. Then, as he gets in the seamoth, the horrifying roar of the Reaper Leviathan suddenly sounds. Spiff is thrown into a panic, screams in terror and tries desperately to get away. The beast appears with jaw chomping and claws clawing at the poor Seamoth. The entire time Spiffle is screeching like a bird with a broken leg, his entire body now an almost ghostly white out of absolute terror.
"GOWAYGOWAYGOWAYGOWAYGODNONNONOGOWAYGOWAY!!!"
Spiffle manages to get out of its grip and in a panic charges away towards his lifepod and continues to scream, breathing hard between screams. He gets to the pod and then hides under his desk, continuing to scream. His channel outro plays.
TOP COMMENT: (This has been translated from Eridani) "I am starting to believe this whole sojourn was a very BAD idea. Do you humans have those kinds of beasts on your homeworld? How did you ever survive them?!"
RESPONSE: LOL no we never had Reapers. The only Leviathan Class creatures we have on our planet are Whales. And they're mostly peaceful plankton eaters. Mostly.
RESPONSE: (Translated from Eridani) "Seriously? I think I find it more terrifying that these creatures are made up in your minds. What kind of nightmares do you people have to be able to create this level of fiction!?"
RESPONSE: Do. Not. Ask. This is only Subnautica - we have FAR worse.
Spiffles response: "You're going to make me play these 'far worse', aren't you?"
RESPONSE: "Damn right we are! :)"
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"Great days and glorious victory! My name is Spifflemnonk and welcome back to Subnautica!"
Spiffle looks visibly stronger, his usual lanky appearance now looking like he's been working out like a Gym Bro. One can see muscles on muscles and Spiff seems to have an abnormal amount of energy.
"I am now relaxed. It is now time to get eaten by giant scary sea monsters. And yes, before you ask, I have successfully finished fully soundproofing my office. And also yes, I am indeed expecting a new addition to the brood... THANKS DAMN HUMANS! You and your damn musical magic nonsense..."
Spiffle starts the game and is swimming outside the pod next to the Seamoth. The first thing he does is repair the seamoth from the damage incurred by the Reaper, and recounts what hes been up to, checking inventory and equipment. He heads to the radio and gets a new transmission.
RADIO - "This is Avery Quinn of trading ship Sunbeam. Aurora, do you read? Over.'
'Nothing but vacuum. These Alterra ships. They run low on engine grease, they send an SOS; you offer to help, they don't pick up.'
'Aurora, we're out on the far side of the system, it's going to take more than a week to reach your position, do you still need our assistance? Over.'
'I'll try them again tomorrow. Damn charter's going to have us wasting our profit margin running errands for Alterra.'
'See what the long-range scanner picks up in the meantime."
"Oh? Oh lovely! There ARE people in this game! I wonder when they will be here? Meh, I have things to build, so I'll keep an eye."
Spiffle resolves himself to start building a base, trying to find a good spot. He finds the Mushroom Forest Biome and starts gathering resources to ferry them around. He installs the Depth Module and the Storage module to the Seamoth, then builds the Moon Pool. The Mushroom Biome becomes one of his favorite spots and a close encounter with a JellyRay cements it.
"Those creatures are beautiful! Look! JellyRay! Its glowing blue and pretty! I love that! Oh... I have a new radio message. I need to listen to that then."
Spiff returns to the pod and listens to the message.
RADIO - "Aurora, this is Sunbeam again. We just picked up a massive debris field at your location.'
'I didn't know how bad... How many of you... I didn't know.'
'We are now en route to your location. We're going to bring you home. Sunbeam out.'
'What else can I say? The only time I parked a rig this big on a rock that small was in VR, and I blew it'
'Oh, it's a bad option alright, but so are all the others."
Spiff smiles and carries on working, parking the Seamoth inside after powering everything up.
"So lovely! But... Is that a win condition? I know human games by now I have played enough of them. Is that a win condition? Get rescued? I dunno..."
Spiffle carries on building for a little and gets a storage system up, spending a few in-game days transporting resources to his new base. He returned to the pod and played a new radio message, again from the Sunbeam.
RADIO - "This is Sunbeam. Y'know, Aurora, we're from a little trans-gov on the far side of Andromeda, and we have a saying there.'
'There's no bad without the good, no good without the bad.'
'Sounds like you tasted a bunch of the former, but that only means you're overdue a whole lot of the latter.'
'Might just be we're it.'
'We're scanning for somewhere to park, we'll be in touch when we find it. Sunbeam out."
"Ohh... That... that's a lovely saying! What was that uh... There's no bad without the good, no good without the bad. I like that! I think i'll have that framed on my wall! Now lets see.. i ca- I CAN GIVE THE SEAMOTH A NAME? OOHHHhh okay, okay.. I can customize the color too! I think I'll just do this..."
Spiff leaves the name as 'Seamoth' for now, changing the color to a mix of purple for the main, and blue for the trim and name color. His two favorite colors. Spiffle does a little more work, acquiring the last fragments for the Cyclops and starts gathering together the resources necessary to build it.
"Hmmm.. Cyclops... Personal large scale submarine capable of carrying other vehicles! Ooohhh I want to build that! I need to fetch the Vehicle Bay though. Im almost done moving house!"
Spiff returns and packs up the last of his resources, then gets another radio message.
RADIO - "Aurora, we're approaching the planet now, and we have a landing site for you that's... well, it's better than the alternatives.'
'We've sent you the coordinates.'
'It'll take us a couple of days to align our orbit, we should be able to establish direct contact with you during that time, then we're coming in to get you.'
'Cross your fingers the weather holds, and don't leave us waiting. Sunbeam out."
Spiffle gets a new beacon on his HUD. Sunbeam Landing Site.
"What!? Is this game over If I'm there!? Okay... well. At least it's no longer terrifying! I'll get the Seamoth and go for the beacon then. I hope it's okay... Strange... this... doesn't feel like the end, you know? But if it is then it is."
Spiff heads home, deploys the Vehicle Bay and deposits his gear and resources. He heads towards the location, occasionally squealing 'WHEEE!!' as he uses the Seamoth to jump out of the water like a dolphin. However, he miscalculates and the Seamoth jumps up, out and sustains a bit of damage as it hits a rock formation close to the surface. He gets out, repairs it and looks at the camera.
"Why no I didn't just damage my Seamoth by having too much fun. I don't know what you are talking about. Hehe."
Spiffle smirks at the camera with a glare and carries on. Eventually, he encounters the largest of the Islands in the world.
"Wh... WHAT. This has been here the whole time!? Is this an island? Who cares! LAND! Sweet land!"
Spiffle now notices the timer and hops onto the island from his Seamoth. He walks up to the landing zone and stops dead in his tracks at the sight of the massive al;ien structure known as the Quarantine Enforcement Platform. In essence, a giant alien cannon.
"What... the *beep* is THAT?"
Spiffles' editing has gotten better, his editor learning how to censor Spiffles foul language, in both English AND Eridani. He moves closer to the building, scanning the broken tablet and the Forcefield Controls.
"What is this? I mean it's clearly alien... What do the codex entries say... 'possible to reconstruct the device' Oh... hmm.. I can make more of these then. 'Matches no known technologies... functions like a lock'. Okay then so... Standard video game logic I guess. That's nice! So A purple tablet will unlock the gate there. What are those?"
Spiff moves towards the Cairns marking the way into the island, pathways leading up the mountainside. He follows them, finding a Purple Tablet in the process on one of the pathways.
"Oh! Lovely! That saves me resources and a trip I guess. This pathway keeps going though. hmm... Welp, we still have thirty minutes, so let's go."
Spiff explores the pathway, getting lost a bit before finally figuring that following the large cables is a good idea. He comes across the Teleportation Arch and scans it, in between dodging the Cave Crawlers.
"Right, let's see... Alien Arch... not much to speak of here. Maybe this thing will be useful later I guess. Likely.... Hmmm..."
Spiffle continues exploring and eventually finds himself back at the forcefield with another twenty minutes to go.
"Screw it, let's go."
Spiff activates the forcefield platform and the animation of the key being placed plays out. He moves into the building, activating both data platforms and acquiring two Ion Cubes for later, scanning everything he thinks he can scan. He enters the Moonpool in the bay and gets two more Ion Cubes, plus data on a rifle and a Doomsday Device. He ignores it for now, acquiring one more purple tablet and accessing the control room.
"Right... what's in here? Hmm... Energy Core, right. I shall scan that and... press button?"
Spiff presses the button. An animation plays where a device locks his characters hand in place, viciously stabs it with a pointy metal bit and then releases it.
"OH GODS what the hell! Why is that?! That's just nasty!"
"THE TERMINAL IS BROADCASTING A MESSAGE. TRANSLATION READS: 'Warning, infected individuals may not disable the weapon. This planet is under quarantine.'"
"Quarantine! What? Infected? I-Hold on...."
Spiffle gets his scanner out and performs a self-scan. It is only now he notices something very bad has happened.
"I-infected!? Wait, what!?"
"SELF-SCAN COMPLETE - DETECTING STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT BACTERIAL LEVELS. NO ADVERSE EFFECTS DETECTED. BE VIGILANT FOR SYMPTOMS."
"Oh brilliant! Does that mean I can't leave? I KNEW IT! Wait... weapon!? This is a weapon!?"
Spiffle panics and runs out of the facility as fast as he can and waits the last few minutes for the Sunbeam to arrive. Sure enough, it does. In the last 30 seconds, the Sunbeam plays a message.
RADIO - "Survivor, we see you!
'Man, I don't know how you held out down there.'
The sunbeams message plays, and Spiffle gasps in terror from the sound of the gun platform starting up and starting to move around.
RADIO - "We've broken atmosphere and we're descending towards the landing site.'
'Is that a building down there?! What do you mean you can't identify it?"
The weapon powers up and turns, aiming itself high at the sky.
RADIO - "Hold on, no turning back now.'
'Positions everyone, touching down in 10, 9, 8-'
The weapon charges up and a loud vicious hum can be heard echoing through the valley.
RADIO - "It's coming from the building?! Change course, set thrusters to (full)-"
The radio goes to static, the weapon fires and the Sunbeam is vaporized instantly by a massive blast of bright green light. The sunbeam disappears, its hull structure completely disintegrated. Spiffle sits in stunned silence as the platform returns to a stable position, shuts down, and everything goes quiet.
"Well... Okay then... That was... horrifying. I guess thats all we have time for! Hehe! Oh dear..."
Spiffle looks a bit defeated as he sits back in his seat.
"S-see you next time! I guess... Holy shit..."
Channel Outro plays.
TOP COMMENT: "Are you okay? You seem a little bit too disturbed by that. Its fine though, compared to what happens in the Rise Of The Ancients Mod, this is tame! Lol! I love that mod!"
Spiffles Response: "Please don't make me play that mod..."
((Authors note - due to how bastardingly huge Subnautica is, this will be a multi part series. Other Spiff stories will come inbetween. Hope you enjoy!))

I've spent several hours throughout the past week researching Gachas and nowhere did I find a single post or comment anywhere that accurately explains everything in the same place, so I'm going to do my best to explain things as best as I can so nobody else will have to research it much either. However, I don't think I know absolutely EVERYTHING about Gachas and might be incorrect on a few points but I'll edit this if anyone can point out where I'm wrong.
Taming: Gachas are tamed passively by dropping items down in front of them, I've heard that you can feed it anything but I haven't tested that myself. When you drop the items, the Gacha will walk towards it (unless it's sitting and it's close enough for it to pick it up) and pick it up, then eat it slowly. According to Dododex it tames better with structures/tools than normal materials. I may have done something wrong but i tried using greenhouse windows in stacks of 10 each (as recommended) to tame them with full effectiveness, but to no avail it always lost effectiveness and still took an incredibly long time to tame. Meanwhile, my brother tamed 4 or 5 just using stone in stacks of 20 with the same effectiveness (like 4%). So in other words, don't use this as a taming guide.
The level of the Gacha doesn't matter as much as it does for most creatures, the most important stat on them is crafting skill, which boosts the production of their crystals (drop rate and the quality of the crystals (normal, primitive, ramshackle, apprentice)). The only reason you might want a high level Gacha is to get a head start on crafting skill or high weight, so you can focus all it's levels into crafting skill and it's still able to hold a significant amount of items at once. From what I've heard, a good base stat of crafting skill on a newly tamed high level Gacha is around 130-135%, but anything beyond that is considered rare.
Crafting Skill: As I already said, it increases the frequency at which crystals drop from the Gacha, I don't know if this means that crystals grow more from eating, or if it means it'll eat the same amount, just more often than normal. All of my Gachas get 1.5% crafting skill per level up, so I'd assume that all tamed Gachas get that amount per level up.
I have seen many people recommend 160% crafting skill for Gachas that you want only the standard crystals that drop materials, and 260% for the leveled crystals (primitive, ramshackle, apprentice). I haven't seen anyone explain why so I can only speculate that beyond 160%, the chances of getting a higher level crystal than the standard ones is just too high to make an efficient material farm, as you would get leveled crystals too often. I have several at 160% and they work very well for materials.
Possible Drops: It would probably be easier to check the wiki for this, but I'll list them anyway. All Gachas get 6 different possible materials they can produce, and of those 6 are 3 common materials, 2 uncommon materials, and 1 rare/very rare materials. When wild they will drop a random one of those 6 resources, but when tamed you can choose whichever one of the 6 resources you want by choosing "Production" in the creature's radial menu (you can also set the production to random, newly tamed Gacha's are set to random by default).
Common Materials:

• Fiber
• Flint
• Fragmented Green Gem (equivalent of Green Gem)
• Corrupted Wood (equivalent of Fungal Wood, essentially equivalent to normal Wood with a few extra uses)
• Raw Salt
• Sand
• Stone
• Thatch

Uncommon Materials:

• Blue Crystalized Sap (equivalent of Blue Gem)
• Clay
• Congealed Gas Ball
• Crystal
• Oil
• Silica Pearls
• Silk

Rare Materials:

• Black Pearls
• Metal
• Obsidian
• Organic Polymer
• Red Crystalized Sap (equivalent of Red Gem)
• Sap
• Sulfur

Very Rare Materials:

• Element DustIf you're looking to tame a Gacha and want to find one with the materials you want, I'd recommend getting very close to the crystal before you pick it up, and check it's level. If there are several Gachas in an area then it can be hard to find one with the right materials you want just by mindlessly picking up every crystal you find. If you check the level and then open the crystal one at a time, and then see the Gacha of that level nearby, it should be easier to find the one you're looking for. It's also important to pay attention to what materials a single Gacha can drop. The first time I tried to tame a Gacha, I thought I found one that dropped both Organic Polymer and Black Pearls. However, if you look at this list above, you can see that both of those are "Rare Materials" and a single Gacha can only have 1 Rare Material as a possible drop.Depending on the material, Gachas drop a different amount, but I'll get into that in another section.Gachas can drop leveled crystals that can give a variety of different tools/armor as well as some structures. Leveled crystals only have 3 different rarities; Primitive, Ramshackle, Apprentice. So if you came here wondering how to get Ascendant Gacha Crystals, I'm sorry to inform you that as they may have existed years ago, they don't now. Leveled crystals are easily identified by white/green/blue particles floating upward from them. I am not typing out every item that can be dropped by leveled crystals so here is a link where you can check it yourself on the wiki: https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/Gacha_Crystal_(Extinction)?so=searchThe?so=searchThe) crystals can drop almost all stone/metal/fabricated tools and weapons, including torches and canteens but not including harpoon launchers. They also drop chitin/flak/riot armor as well as heavy miner's helmets, and for structures they only drop a few different thing such as dinosaur gates/gateways of wood/stone/metal as well as wooden tree platforms (I do not believe behemoth gates are possible).As far as I have observed, Primitive crystals drop Primitive/Ramshackle equipment. Ramshackle crystals drop Ramshackle/Apprentice/Journeyman equipment. Apprentice crystals drop Journeyman/Mastercraft equipment, and I don't believe Ascendant is possible but maybe it is. There is a good chance that I'm somewhat incorrect about the information above, I tested it several times myself but accidentally deleted the note so I'm mostly relying on memory now.

Snow Owl Pellets: Gachas pick up items near them when wild and tamed, including feces and snow owl pellets. They eat feces as more of a last resort option but they eat snow owl pellets almost immediately after obtaining them, granting them a buff. The buff can be identified by yellow, green, blue and red particles swirling over the Gacha's back. Based on my own observation, the buff lasts until the Gacha produces a crystal, even if the Gacha has nothing to eat in it's inventory, meaning the buff will be "on hold" until it can eat. It's important to note that eating snow owl pellets does produce a crystal at all, like it would it if it ate a material like stone. This means if a Snow Owl is directly in front of a Gacha with the buff and nothing in it's inventory, every time the Snow Owl regurgitates a pellet, the Gacha will pick it up and hold it in it's inventory without eating it, allowing you to farm snow owl pellets while afk for later use. Now I will finally get into what the buff actually does.
The buff from the snow owl pellet forces the Gacha to eat until it produces a crystal (again, as long as it has something consumable in it's inventory), the crystal is also forced to produce the maximum amount of the material it can make, assuming the Gacha is in a good mood (I'll explain mood in the next section). I believe the snow owl pellet buff also makes the Gacha more likely to drop leveled crystals, but it didn't seem to impact my pursuit of materials so I wouldn't worry about it if you just want to farm something like metal for example.
Mood: Gachas have good and bad mood which affect their crystal production. The mood is mainly affected by the gender of other Gachas in the vicinity, but mood can also be lowered by taking damage. The mood is dependent on if there is another Gacha of the same gender withing a certain distance.
For example: If you have a male Gacha and female Gacha next to each other, they'll both be in a good mood. If you have 2 male Gachas next to each other, they'll both be in a bad mood. If you have 8 Gachas in a small area, 7 are female and 1 is male, the females will be in a bad mood and the male will be in a good mood. The mood is dependent on if there is another Gacha of the same gender withing a certain distance.
About the distance, I've seen people give several different numbers but it seems that the actual distance that same-gendered Gachas need to be apart is 14 foundations. Now I'll get into what mood actually does.
Bad mood is caused by being too close to another Gacha of the same gender, or taking damage. It causes the Gacha to not only produce crystals slower, but the yield of each crystal will be significantly less. I'm not sure how it affects leveled crystals but as bad mood as basically the counterpart of a snow owl pellet buff, I'd assume it lowers the drop rate of leveled crystals. They also refuse to pick up items, rending the snow owl pellet farming method I mentioned irrelevant. I don't believe they eat snow owl pellets while in a bad mood, and I'm also pretty sure that the bad mood cancels the buff until they're back in a good mood. I'm not sure how long bad mood lasts from taking damage, but after a Gacha is separated (at least 14 foundations) from all other Gachas of the same gender, it remains in a bad mood for a time unless an opposite-gendered Gacha is close to it. Bad mood is easily identified by purple/black particles on its back, similar to the snow owl pellet buff. It will also refuse to look at you if "Ally Looking" is enabled.
Good mood enables the Gacha to produce crystals normally without issues (as long as it has enough to eat) and utilize the snow owl pellet buff. It also will pick up any item near them. It is identified by no lights on its back, and if "Ally Looking" is enabled, it'll look at you.
Gacha Crystal Material Quantity: A Gacha Crystal will drop a different quantity of materials based on its mood and the snow owl pellet buff. This seems to pertain to the rarity of the material (common, uncommon, rare, very rare). I play on single player settings as I'm always playing alone or with my brother, so I don't know if the quantity is different than default for me.
I recently was out of Red Gems and Crystal, and although Crystal was easy enough to find, I couldn't find Red Gems anywhere except one location. So instead of searching around everywhere I decided to check what materials all my Gachas can produce and found that I have one for both Red Crystalized Sap and Crystal, as well as some other materials I was lacking such as Organic Polymer and Metal. So i threw down a male that produced Red Crystalized Sap and a female that produced Crystal and loaded them up with stuff to eat and all my saved snow owl pellets. I kept getting 30 Red Crystalized Sap with the buff and 60 Crystal, also with the buff. But once the buff ran out i was getting around 14-27 Red Crystalized Sap and double that of Crystal. If you refer to the list in the "Possible Drops" section, you can see that Red Crystalized Sap is Rare, whereas Crystal is Uncommon. I also farmed Organic Polymer and Metal with the Gachas and got 30 from each crystal with the snow owl pellet buff.
Upon further testing I have determined the maximum quantity of materials from a Gacha Crystal based on their rarity: (Keep in mind this is with single player settings, I don't know if Gacha Crystal yield is affected by this or other settings. Also keep in mind I don't actually have a Gacha that drops element dust, which is the only Very Rare Material.)
Common: x120 Uncommon: x60 Rare: x30 Very Rare (Element Dust): x15
I can't confirm this but it appears that a Gacha in a good mood without the snow owl pellet buff would produce between 35-100% of its maximum yield per crystal, and a Gacha in a bad mood would produce below 35%.
Breeding: Gachas do not drop eggs after mating and instead have a gestation timer like mammals do. Once the baby has been born, it will pick up items on the ground, allowing you to give it more food than it can hold which can prevent starvation much easier than you can for most creatures, however a Maewing would render this technique useless. I haven't tested this myself, nor was I able to find any information on it but I don't think they can eat everything an adult can, for food at least. They can eat meat and berries (this I can confirm), and I've seen people use rare mushrooms as they provide more food for the baby than meat or berries, but make sure rare mushrooms are the only item in their inventory, or else they might eat other items first.
You can check what a Gacha can produce ("Production" in the radial menu) even in the baby stage, allowing you to easily determine if raising it to an adult is even worthwhile. If not then you can just.... you know. The possible materials are unaffected by the parents and are entirely random. However, one small disadvantage to breeding Gachas is that Element Dust can only be a possible drop for wild-born Gachas. So if you're trying to get one that drops Element Dust, don't waste your time breeding Gachas and just go tame wild ones. You can use the technique I suggested to find one with Element Dust (Check the level the Gacha that dropped the crystal before you pick it up, open the crystal and if you get Element Dust, tame the Gacha of the same level as the one that dropped the crystal).
When imprinting the Gacha, it will not gain more Crafting Skill. The only way to increase this is through level ups or breeding Gachas with high Crafting Skill, I am unaware if Crafting Skill can be increased through mutations but I personally don't think it would be worth the effort even if it is possible.
What to Feed Gachas: This is undoubtedly my favorite thing about Gachas, as I'm the type of player who does not throw out ANYTHING no matter what game I'm playing, so having a good way to transmute junk that I'm unhealthily attached to into resources I need is amazing.
I have thrown everything from Rockwell Recipes to Slingshots in Gachas and they have not turned down a single thing. Sick of dropping stone tools and cloth armor every time you kill something? A Gacha will eat it. Tired of throwing out all your spoiled meat from feeding troughs? A Gacha will eat it. Have a full fault of hide and now you throw out every bit of it you get? A Gacha will eat it. Maybe you have too many Rex Bone Helmet Skins? Sadly a Gacha won't eat it... just kidding yes they will! These things will eat all your garbage you get after you take a newly raised creature out to kill Rexes for XP. All those skins you get every time you respawn, they'll eat those too. With a Gacha, everything has a purpose now, even those Smithy Blueprints you get from every Blue Supply Drop.
Below I'll list the things Gachas will eat in order (1 being most preferred and 10 being least preferred):

1. Stone (stacks of 20 until gone)
2. Structures, Ammo (stacks of 20 until gone), Armor, Weapons, Tools, Blueprints
3. Food items such as raw meat (not Raw Prime Meat/Raw Prime Fish Meat), Spoiled Meat, berries, seeds, cooked meat, crops, mushrooms, etc. (These will be eaten in stacks of 20 until there is no stack of 20 in the Gacha, even if there are 2 stacks of 17, they will be left untouched until later.)
4. Other materials such as Chitin, Hide, Thatch, Wood, Fiber, Oil (Oil produced by sea creatures is included), etc. (These will be eaten in stacks of 20 until there is no stack of 20 in the Gacha, even if there are 2 stacks of 17, they will be left untouched until later.)
5. The least wanted things such as incomplete stacks from tier 3 and 4, Rockwell Recipes, Skins, Feces, possibly more. At this point it will also eat Raw Prime Meat, as it considers it an incomplete stack since it can't eat it in groups of 20.

Keep in mind I have not tested every item, it would take a long time and probably be more trouble than it's worth. I would assume other minerals such as Crystal and Obsidian as well as Metal would be in tier 1 with Stone, but I haven't tested them nor do I want to, besides Stone would be undoubtedly easier. I have found that the easiest way to get stuff to feed Gachas is just to keep all the random junk you'd normally throw out, I already listed them but I'll list them again:

• Spoiled Meat
• Stim Berries
• Excess items of which you have a full vault
• Trophies if you don't care for them
• Tools/Weapons/Armor not worth grinding (such as stone tools, stone arrows, cloth armor, slingshots, etc.)
• Rockwell Recipes
• Inferior Blueprints (Blueprints that are worse than your best ones and you either throw out or leave in a row of bookshelves that are labeled "Trash") as well as blueprints for structures and normal items
• Skins (mostly Rex Bone Helmet Skins you get from alphas as well as Fireworks Flare Gun Skins from killing deep sea creatures)
• All that extra meat you get from every hunt, as well the berries you'll never use

What I Do: I just have a single Gacha set to produce Metal sitting off my deck but right next to it, with 2 Snow Owls leaning over the Gacha but standing on the deck. Everyday when I log off, I take everything out of the Gacha and put it into a Snow Owl so it won't eat it while I can't collect the crystals. So when I log on, I take it out of the Snow Owl and put it back in the Gacha, since the Snow Owls are leaning over the Gacha, they puke the snow owl pellets right in front of it so it just picks it up (it's in a good mood due to being the only Gacha around).
Then I go on my daily routine (gather kibble eggs and get a few cave drops nearby) and come back and there's a couple crystals on the ground giving me free Metal to put straight in the forge. I also filter the meat in the main feeding trough and the Hyaenodon next to it and give the Gacha about 1900 Spoiled Meat. Every time I go out on my Rock Drake or other tame, I dump all the stone tools and arrows and other garbage (my Chitin and Hide vaults are full constantly and now Stone, Thatch, Wood keep hitting the max every other day) into the Gacha as well, there's always stuff left at the end of the day because I get so much absolutely useless junk that the Gacha seems to believe is food. Occasionally on a slow day it might run out, so I just go to an oil drill or gas collector and grab everything and take it straight back to the Gacha. Every day I get at least 900 Metal in the forge (raw, not ingots).
Other Notes:

1. I've seen a lot of people say that mate boosted Gachas produce crystals more, this is not the case. The only good thing about keeping a male and female Gacha next to each other is it allows you to fit twice as many Gachas in an area without them having bad mood.
2. When a Gacha is set to produce Organic Polymer the best option is to not open the crystal, and instead put it inside a storage container and only open it once you need Polymer, due to the eventual spoilage of Organic Polymer.
3. Gachas will pick up Feces if a creature defecates close enough to them, but Feces is only eaten as a last resort option compared to most available items.
4. If you always have a folder in your inventory with your less used items like a Canteen and Sickle and probably same ammo, then it's best to be aware when you transfer all items straight into the Gacha. Sometimes the "Transfer All" button will take things out of your folder as well, resulting in you accidentally feeding the Gacha your own tools (I have lost over 5 Ascendant Sickles and well over 10 stacks of Shotgun Ammo to this). However this seems to usually only happen when you log on for the first time after opening the game. I should know better at this point but I literally just sacrificed 20 Shotgun Ammo today so I'm gonna start dumping everything out of my folder and into my private vault at the end of every day.
5. I don't think the item that Gachas eat impacts the crystal growth, except tools/weapons/armors/structures seem to equal a group of 20 items (i.e. one mouthful).
6. Since snow owl pellets spoil after 14 days (default settings), if you don't have anything in your Gacha for it to eat and you're just using it to collect pellets for later use, I'd recommend taking all of them and dumping them into a Dung Beetle at the end of every day. Dung Beetles increase the spoil time of all feces, including snow owl pellets. If you don't have a Dung Beetle, crop plots work as well, although it will be tedious to place down enough crop plots for a large amount of snow owl pellets as each one has an inventory of only 10 slots.
7. Again, I'd just like to point out that you cannot get Element Dust as a Production option on a bred Gacha.
8. If you go out for a long time while your Gacha is making crystals, just keep in mind that they only last 15 minutes (default rates).

Anyway that's all I can think of right now, yet I have the feeling I forgot to mention 47097894703 things. If there's anything anyone can confirm or point out, or anything that I should add then please let me know. I'd like for this Gacha essay to help a few people figure out what to do so they don't have to scour the internet for a week. If people actually care about this post then I'll make a detailed post about an optimal Gacha Crystal farm.

If you don't want to buy fractionated coconut oil to make and use mayonnaise, and don't like the taste of mayo made with olive oil (Seriously it's so gross), this is an amazing alternative that was used for the same purpose in the 19th and early 20th centuries, before liquid oils were commercially available and before mayonnaise was sold in grocery stores.
It's called "boiled dressing" and you can use it as you would mayonnaise in all of the same applications.
https://www.thespruceeats.com/southern-boiled-salad-dressing-3060337

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon dry mustard
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 1/8 tablespoon freshly ground black pepper
• 1/2 cup cold water
• 2 egg yolks (beaten)
• 3 tablespoons cider vinegar
• 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 2 to 4 tablespoons heavy cream

Steps to Make It

1. Set the bottom of a double boiler with about an inch of water over medium heat and bring to a boil.
2. While the water heats, sift the dry mustard, sugar, salt, flour into the top of a double boiler or into a stainless steel bowl which can be placed over the boiling water. Add the pepper.
3. Gradually pour the cold water into the dry mixture while whisking constantly. When the mixture is well blended, whisk in the beaten egg yolks and vinegar.
4. Place the pan or bowl over the boiling water and cook, whisking, until the mixture is thickened. This takes just a few minutes.
5. Remove from the heat and whisk in the butter until melted and well combined. Whisk in the heavy cream until you have the correct consistency for your salad.

First post here, after lurking for a while and reading. Might be a bit long but bear with me!
So I've reached that point of the night where I am going to go sleep, and I can't afford time-wise to head down another rabbit-hole, and wish to tackle this matter first thing in the morning. My question is about glycine and its presence in plain ol' jelly. Obviously I imagine there would be a substantial amount of glycine present in a packet of jelly, which are typically 80g here.
So I post this with the question of would it be helpful or aid in the beneficial processes of glycine? Is there enough in there? What exactly is enough?
I should have also prefaced this post with the fact that in late 2015, I embarked on a weight loss journey and lost 70kg/150lbs in 7 months. Went from 145kg/320lbs all the way down to 73kg/160lbs at my slimmest, at least that was the lowest I was weighed at. Didn't lose much muscle and at all and was able to put on muscle extremely/weirdly fast in the gym and on my legs from football/soccer.
[Note: I did add a lot more foods in once I thought that my weight loss was sufficient, similar to a clean TCD essentially. I've been through it all food and diet-wise, from 1 year vegan to carnivore, keto, banting etc. so shoot any questions my way. Wanting to try the low BCAA stuff from tomorrow, as I kind of went off the rails a bit very gradually from 2020 till about the end of last year. It always catches up! Already dropped from126kg to 112kg in around two months of pure TCD, which goes to show I guess that my metabolism isn't too screwed up seemingly but looking for a challenge and interested to try this out. Looking to drop around an extra 25-30kg or so doing low BCAA as I am quite happy being at around 80-85kg and transitioning back to a modified TCD style way of life.]
What I ended up doing food-wise during the weight loss period, with great discipline, was as follows:
-No alcohol, or sodas, or indeed junk food obviously. Although I'm not apposed to a coke these days as I have come to realise that you also have to enjoy things sometimes, would rather have a coke any day than some fries in seed oil. Totally opposite ends of the spectrum in the grand scheme of things (coke/sodas here are like Mexican coke, no corn syrup etc.)
-Morning/Lunch: 2-4 seasonal plums (they were extremely small and I just felt that I 'needed' it for some reason or another). Never really been a breakfast or lunch person so some juicy plums were right up my ally.
Wouldn't have meals per say for breakfast or lunch but if I was hungry for a snack any time of day (day or night) I would have biltong, which is a South African dried meat snack which is cured in salt, brown vinegar and other spices, with coriander being most prominent, and chilli, cloves etc. depending on which type you want.
-Dinner: This is where I ate most of my food, every night was either 300g+ beef or venison with just the right amount of butter. Would also alternate with 500g ostrich sausage and a pork+venison sausage mix when I felt like it. I would also ALWAYS have a plain sweet potato or two (depending on size and hunger) every single night, which was odd because I don't really like them anymore. I find them too sweet. This is exactly why I ate them plain too lol!
After dinner though, this is where the premise of the post comes full circle, I would say 5 nights out of the 7 at least every week, I would have a full bowl of jelly. I kind of viewed that as my way of keeping sanity, and it felt good eating it.
Now the question is, do you guys think that the glycine in the jelly helped in any way? My weight stayed off very easily too for a good few years, and it's not like I was skimping on the protein, which is why I am intrigued to try the low BCAA approach and see my results. I am more curious about how rapidly and efficiently I lost my weight more than anything, because I have a sneaky suspicion the glycine in the jelly for sure helped accelerate the weight loss. What I'm getting at is.. Is jelly potentially the way forward? Or is this an anomaly? Obviously low PUFA, although at the time it was admittedly not intentional, helped immensely, which is why I had a 'aha!' moment stumbling across this sub at the end of last year. It's absolutely the biggest factor, because when I was working the kitchen and let myself go a little bit, I was consuming canola oil and deep fried goods, and boy oh boy did the weight pile on quickly. I never made the connection at the time, although I did go down a rabbit hole of seed oils, and stayed far away from them thereafter when cooking at home, although I have transitioned as of last November to absolutely no seed oils at all, ie when out for dinner etc. (where all the intake was stemming from)

I'd always been the type of person to never let dough rise for a long time, I'd always try to find recipes that could be made in a single evening. Or at most overnight. Most of my making tasted good, but it didn't exactly stand out.
But a few months ago I accidentally forgot about some pizza dough for 3 days in the fridge, yet it was some of the best dough I've ever had. It had an incredible texture to it, browned perfectly, and tasted amazing.
Since then, I've been trying it with other doughs and longer times. It works for most breads (not egg or sugary ones as much), naan, pizza, yeast doughnuts, and more. Just today I tried the result of rising pizza dough in the fridge for 6 days, and it tasted unreal, far better than any pizza place I've ever been to, fancy Italian ones included. It's hard to explain the taste, yeasty and almost cheesy, but not in a gross way. Sort of like parm cheese. The crust is good enough that it's enjoyable to even just cook leftover dough like bread and eat it without any toppings other than olive oil.
I learned a few things. Kenji's basic NY pizza dough works very well. You should cut the yeast slightly. It only works with saltier doughs, low salt ones don't taste quite right. Smell it before cooking, it can go off occasionally, so you need to be on the lookout for that. And storing it in a plastic zip lock bag with a bit of olive oil works well.
If you haven't tried a long rise in the fridge, you really need to, it changes everything.

I'm not talking just about beating animals up, I'm talking pouring salt on snails and frogs, cooking sea creatures alive, cramming birds and rodents in tiny cages, declawing cats, not killing the animal as quick and painlessly as possible when doing it for food, all that stuff. At least vertebrates, arthropods, and mollusks can feel pain, and we can't be sure with many other clades, so it should be punishable to inflict pain in or neglect any kind of animal. I'm tired of scrolling through reels and seeing videos of people boiling clearly live fish and crustaceans, for example, and when some people point out the obvious abuse in the comments, a big majority laughs at them and says that they don't feel pain or that they were going to be eaten anyways. Like, at least kill your food quickly before cooking it, you're not only making so the animal doesn't feel the excruciating pain of having their body slowly boil to death, but by throwing the whole body into the pot without cleaning it first, you're also cooking shit and piss inside the guts, and that's just distusting.
I am not a vegan, but I do believe the law should apply to all animals, not just horses, cats, dogs, etc.

After a shocking double elimination, Kanae was happy to survive and as much as she liked Emily she understood why she left but thought Donya should have been up instead of her. Paula said she was happy with the 3 ladies she had with her on the blue team but said tomorrow they had to win the challenge as she was tired of punishments and Nikki agreed they were getting to caught up in service due to the constant punishments so it was time to win a challenge so they could relax tomorrow. Nick was not happy at being put up as he felt like Anthony and Adam always voted the same was as Van, and asked Anthony if he genuinely thought he had been the 2nd worst tonight and Anthony just said it was tough but he thought Adam ran his course better. Chef Ramsay welcomed back the final 8 and said after last night's awful teamwork during charity night he had a challenge that would force the chefs to communicate as it was the relay challenge where the Chefs would have to cook 5 dishes from the Hells Kitchen Menu in half an hour with a Chef from each team leaving every 5 minutes. Adam was confused by the math on this but Ramsay informed them that the twist was that after 1 chef was left in the kitchen, he would pass on to another and then 2 would be left in the kitchen at the end.
Van was confident in this challenge as the red team's communication was a lot better than the blue teams and they started their dishes off strongly and the red team also started well despite miscommunication over who was starting which dish as both Nikki and Donya started the chicken which was stopped by Paula. Adam and Nikki left the kitchen first and were followed by Anthony and Kanae and finally Van and Donya left to leave Paula and Nick. Paula relaid instructions strongly to Donya when she returned while Nick and Van forgot about last nights issues to leave good instructions. Finally Kanae and Nikki finished the blue teams dishes but Nikki realized the wellingtons were not ready while Anthony and Adam finishing the red teams courses got flustered and forgot the sauce for the duck and ended up dumping the sauce on the dish at the last second. The first dish presented was the wellingtons and while Ramsay felt like the red team's could have done with a minute more in the oven, the blue team's was completely rare and had fallen apart so awarded the point to the red team. Next up was the snapper and both teams nailed the snapper to both get a point to leave the red team up 2:1 but Nikki was confident in the last 3 dishes her and Kanae plated. The blue team's duck dish was perfect while Anthony dumping the sauce on at the last minute made it look like someone had shat on the plate and to add to it, the vegetables were splattered so the blue team tied 2:2 with Adam saying they quacked under the pressure there. The penultimate dish was the chicken and despite both dishes looking a bit clumsy they tasted delicious to leave it down to the battle of the salmon. The blue team had slighly overcooked cauliflowers but the blue team had raw cauliflower and a badly seared salmon to give the blue team victory!
The ladies were finally getting out of here and got to enjoy a day of go karting as well as lunch and Paula said she'd rather have a beach or spa day but will take anything that's not a punishment. The losing red team had to prepare 200 coconuts for a special for tonight and Nick was a bit disappointed in Adam and Anthony's performance as the last 2 standing as him and Van did a great job while Anthony knew the salmon and the duck was his fault but wasn't going to let one bad day get to him and was determined to have a great service tonight. Van and Nick had a pep talk before service about how no matter what, the 4 of them were going to win tonight and hopefully get black jackets, with TEAM RED bonding before service.
Adam was running the appetizers station and said risottos and pastas should never be an issue for him, and Nick was quick to help Adam on the tartares and salads as Adam's first risottos and carbonaras came out perfect. Adam did start to get a bit behind on the high risotto orders and ended up serving one undercooked with Ramsay noting he keeps cooking risotto off the stove which is going to take longer! Adam did fight back on risotto but then got a bit behind on carbonara and called 1 minutes then 2 minutes but he did fight back and with Van serving nice scallops the red team did finish appetizers with Ramsay saying that was a great start and to keep it up. Nick on meat and Van on fish timed very well with Anthony on garnish with Van saying he is not being taken down by the fish station for the 3rd time in hells kitchen as his turbot and salmon, as well as Nick's duck and wellingtons flew out for the first 6 top and Nick said as much as him and Van had issues they both kicked ass in service. Anthony was asked for the all day on ribeyes from Nick but ended up behind on mashed potato and when Ramsay told him the next order, Anthony forgot it straightaway but after being told to get his shit together by Van, he managed to repeat the order to push the next entrees out. Van did end up pushing the time back on turbot and was noted by Ramsay to not be multitasking appetizers and entrees well but Van did fight back and with Nick's final ribeyes flying out, the red team completed a great service with Ramsay praising the performance of Nick!
Nikki was on appetizers for the blue team and felt like after their reward they were in good spirits and had a strong start on risottos but Donya on the fish station served overcooked scallops and Ramsay said it was because her pans aren't hot enough so the scallops are boiling and Donya admitted she was freaking out a bit tonight but knew she had it as she bounced back on scallops. Nikki though dragged on carbonara due to adding too much stock to it and ended up having to start over due to breaking the carbonara and she was struggling to stay organized as she then served an undercooked risotto! Nikki knew she had to fight back herself and did manage to complete appetizers with Donya, thanks to Kanae's help but they were behind the red team on entrees. Paula on garnish said she was going to push Kanae and Donya to their best service yet to beat the boys tonight but Donya served raw snapper and Ramsay wondered why the fuck Donya wasn't checking her food before sending it out to which Donya had no answer. Donya did fight back and Kanae served perfect lamb but a 6 top halfway through entrees of 2 ribeyes, 1 wellington, 1 duck, 1 salmon and 1 turbot was instantly causing problems as Kanae served 2 overcooked ribeyes to completely kill the table and Ramsay said they had to start again as he wasn't fucking about tonight! Paula then served salty mashed potato and Nikki said this was insane that even Paula was fucking up tonight and Paula was now behind on mashed potato but Kanae said it was time to be a leader and get everyone fired up to complete this table. Kanae though served lamb sauce instead of duck sauce and when Kanae bounced back, Ramsay realized that Donya hadn't bothered to fire 2 new turbot and served 2 old turbot which had gone dry and disgusting and Kanae didn't know what the fuck was going on as they had been stuck on this same table forever. When Donya's refire turbot came out RAW, Chef Ramsay had had enough and told Adam to stay on desserts and got Nick, Anthony and Van to come in from the red kitchen to help not only complete this table but the rest of service. Paula said this was completely humiliating and felt like the red team was enjoying this far too much and Donya's station was a disaster as she had no idea what was even fired and Van said he knew the fish station was a bitch so wasn't going to rub salt in the wound and with Van's help, Donya did fight back and the blue team did finally finish service.
Chef Ramsay congratulated the red team but said that that one 6 top from the blue team was one of the most painful things he had ever witnessed and to come up with 2 nominees for elimination. Nikki started by saying that Paula wasn't going up so it was obviously between herself, Kanae and Donya who was going up and Donya said if anyone wanted to put her up she wouldn't blame them but felt like she had been stronger than both of them overall. Kanae said her service wasn't perfect but she worked her ass off to help Nikki on appetizers and was ready on entrees at the end to which Paula agreed and nominated Donya and Nikki. Ramsay said the 2 nominees were fair enough but there was someone else he had to hear from and called Kanae forward as well. The 3 ladies all gave strong pleas to stay but after sending Nikki back in line, Chef Ramsay eliminated DONYA for getting completely lost tonight and needing help from someone on the opposing team on her station but praised her fight and passion as well as a strong performance all season. Adam said he was surprised to see Donya go as he considered her a front runner at one point but said one service could see you out of here and Nikki was happy to survive with black jackets around the corner and said it was time to scratch the 5 year itch of not getting a black jacket in season 19.
Vote HERE for the 2 chefs you don't want to see get a black jacket!
https://strawpoll.com/GJn47oQ73yz
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lZdCZ5yphKY-xzgCoYI23gLu5dxegS4eB5BC-Slk9ac/edit#gid=0

hi, my name is calypso and i use he/it pronouns. i'd like to be known that way and i don't wanna hear any homophobic shit, thank you. im 17 years old and my life has always been a living hell and when i say that, i mean it. i don't think anyone will read all of this and thats fine, i just wanna leave my story here, in case of dying. i was born into a completely rotten, dissfuncional family, with mother, older sister and my father. (my sister had a different father) since i was little, my older sister was extremely jealous of me, since my mother paid me attention, yet my mother used to beat my sister up terribly. often my sister ended up bloody in the corner of our living room. i was getting quite spoiled until i was around the age of 5 - thats when it all started. my father always said im mental, sick, retarted and my parents always got into heated arguments. around that age, i started to get verbally abused by my father. my father abused heavy drugs, cigs and alcohol, ever since i can remember. one day, my mother got really sick and had to stay in hospital for couple months, (she had some issue with her kidneys) so i ended up alone with my sister and father. they kidnapped me into germany, cut off contact with my mother, kept me locked in an apartment - i havent seen my mother for 7 months. in that appartment, terrible things happened - my father killed a guy infront of me, brought in people and beat them up, forced me to watch everything and even fucked with my underaged sister, right infront of me. thats also where first psychical abuse from my father and sister started (i was 6) - i was forced to kneel on shattered glass for hours, eat straight up salt, i was getting waterboarded, beaten up until i passed out, food and water restricted, burned, cut, etc. it went like this for nearly 2 years every single day, even after we returned home. when we came back from germany, my mother was completely changed - from a carring, sweet mother (at least towards me) she went to a cold, emotionless woman, who neglected me. my sister and father beat me up and my mother just stood there, watching it happen. my father got my sister pregnant at a very young age - thankfully, she got abortion but just the thought of it makes me sick. the day my mother and my sister left to the abortion clinic, my father raped me. i was 8, home alone with him and he was very pissed that my mother forced my sister to abort his baby - so he used me. it was absolutely terrible and i remember that i didnt understand what was happening. i was neglected, never taught about sex, consent or sexual assault - hell, i was too young to be supposed to know that. since i grew up watching my father doing this to people around me, i thought its normal, so i just let him do it to me. i never told anyone from our family. novody knows that it happened that day. thankfully, my mother got fed up with his shit and asked for divorce. my father kicked us out of our house, with nothing, my sister staying with him - my father and my sister started dating eachother. me and my mother ended up on the streets, with absolutely nothing and no one. thankfully, we found shelter home and thats where we lived for next 2 years. shelter home was fun, i made friends, there was this club for kids to play in - i liked it in here. i never got along with anyone in school - i was always too loud, too weird, too sensitive. i was getting bullied whole elementary school, whole 9 years - it was terrible. i was nearly 9, when one day i had to wash my hair but there was no warm water left, since there was restricted water for every room in the shelter home. so, my mother got an idea - she will heat up water on the stove and wash me in it. she sat me into the bathtub, left me there and went to heat up water until it was boiling hot. she took it fight of the stove, boiling hot and without cooling it down, she dumped it on me. i still remember the pure agony i felt, the pain, the smell, my scream. i never felt this much pain before. my mother just stood there for good 5 minutes, watching me scream and cry in pure pain - thankfully, other people from the home came running in and started helping me. it was too late tho, the skin on my scalp bassicaly cooked off and blisters covered my upper body. at first, my mother refused to take me to the hospital - she was scared that she will go to jail. so, she took me to hospital 3 days later, when i was already running fever and infection. the hospital stuff failed - they only checked my body but never my scalp. my mother lied to the doctors and said that i did it myself, that i dumped boiling soup onto myself by accident. she threatend to kill me if i ever speak up about the thruth and i believed her for years. thankfully, i went to the hospital again for new dressing and thats when they finally noticed my rotting burned scalp - surgery right away. they bassically had to peel the skin off my scalp, along with my hair of course - it was terrible. i underwent 3 surgeries like this and spend 3 months in hospital. i was bald for 2 years, since my hair roots got completely damaged - i was getting bullied terribly. at that time, my 2 years long anorexia started. my mother never brought it up again, she disscarded every single hospital paper and evidence and refused to apologise or talk about it. i was 10 when i found out i have a grandma from my father's side. my whole life, i only knew grandma from my mother's side and she is a terrible lady - always drunk and abusive. turned out that i was getting restricted from seeing my granny, cause my mother hated her. my mother only reached out to her when we hit rock bottom and had nowhere to go, since they kicked my mother out of the foster house, after the thing she did to me. we lived with my granny for few months and its been the best months of my life. my granny is completely different than her son (my father) - she's so loving, gentle and motherly. she bassicaly raised me and healed a tiny part of me. soon, me and my mother found a little flat and moved in alone - it was very small, just one room with everything in it. we lived like this for over a year. i never grew up rich, quite the opposite but these years with my mother were terrible when it came to money. she was working as a cleaning woman in some school and it didnt make good money. we moved houses 3 times, until we started living in the same house as my uncle (my father's brother) thats when the shit storm started again - he forced me into the contact with my father. after 4 years, i met him again and my daddy issues acted. he promised he changed and he even looked and acted like him and i believed him. soon, i became daddy's girl and our relationship was amazing. we traveled together, he bought me so many stuff, its been fun. my mother simply didnt give a fuck about what im doing. yes, i met my sister too and she looked like she changed too. for the first time in ny life, they both seemed to love me and we had so much fun. (at that time, they stopped dating) i was young and naive, mentally ill, slowly healing from anorexia - i needed my dad more than ever. our relationship started to get bad real quick tho and we just silently let it go. surprisingly, he never yelled or hit me, it just wasnt working. (how surprising) at the age 12 i also got sexually assaulted again. i was back at the shelter house, there was this little reunion of the kids that grew up there and there was this boy i never met before. he was 14, i was 12. we talked a little, he dragged me into this closed of area and assaulted me in there. i don't remember his face, his name or what exactly he did to my body - i just know i ended up naked on the floor of the playing area for kids. again - i never told anyone. when i realised what happened, it was already too late, so i stayed silent. around that time, my mother got a new job as a baker, that gave us better money. i think i was 13 when she first met her new boyfriend at her job. our money situation got a bit better thanks to him and he really helped me. at the start, it was bitter - older man in my house, living with him right away.. it took me nearly 2 years to get used to him fully. around 12-13, my mental health slowly started to get bad. i had this friend that meant terribly much to me - we were absolutely same, spend every day together, her family loved me and i loved them. she was my best friend forever and i gave her everything i had, to the point where i was living just for her. she was a manipulative whore, changing boyfriends every week, manipulating me, bullying me and you can say abusing me. she tied me to her bed and made fun of me for hours, she verbally abused me, hit me, forced me to cut of everyone in my life - she was a monster. when i was close to the age of 13, i tried to kill myself and nearly suceeded - i tried to kill myself because of that friend and everything that happened to me in last few months. i ended up in hospital, alive and got sent into the mental hospital for 3 months. it was a torture - i got restrained to the bed daily, given hard medication, verbally abused and everything got even worse in there. that hospital made everything drop for me. in those 3 moths, nobody came visit properly. my mother was there once and my friend too. when i got out, i started struggling heavily with self harm and silent suicide attempts. then, around the age of 14, i came out as trans to that friend and she dumped my ass. i remember that it absolutely broke me, completely made me fall apart and die inside. that day, i got drunk for the first time and fell asleep on train tracks - if there wasnt my guy friend, i wouldnt be here anymore. he brought me to my granny and she let me stay few nights - my mother never found out, thank god, she didnt care at all. i got help, diagnosis, medication and i've been trying ever since. i got into 3 relationships - two were abusive, toxic and cheating and one just simply didnt click. i had 6 different therapist and nobody was able to help me. i tried 10+ different types of medication and nothing helped. i tried everything - working out, journaling, meditation, every trick in the book - nothing. i was 15, ending in my elementary school and going to highschool. i never got to go to my dream highschool, since around the date of doing entrance exams, i was send into the mental hospital again, for few weeks, cause doctors didnt know what to do with me. i ended up in a school that i hated and thaz school hated me back - from teachers to students, everyone. i was getting bullied for being different and not fitting in. i remember throwing up from anxiety every morning, crying and fainting in school. it got so bad, my doctor had to write me a paper that i cannot attend school anymore. one day, i got such a bad panic attack and fainted on the street. ambulance brought me into the hospital and thankfully they let me go home - unfortunately, this caused my agoraphobia. it got so severe i havent left my house in months and on some days, i didnt even leave my room. i couldnt go to school, see my friends, attend therapy, get help - i was trapped. my mother and her now husband (they got married) planned to move out of my childhood city into a completely new one. they never asked me for opinion, they just said so. for 8 months, i was left alone in our house in my childhood city, since my mother was already in the new city. when i was lucky, she came home for one day every week, just to buy me some food and leave again. if it wasnt for my granny stopping by, i woukd surely go fuckin insane. came the big day and i had to be moved from the city to the new city - with severe fuckin agoraphobia. it was absolutely terrible but somehow i made it and ended up here. i found a new therapist and oh, she seemed so sweet, so perfect, so amazing. i had so much hope, she promised me so much things and completely made me believe everything she had to say. she stopped showing for therapies tho, started charging much more, even for the things she never did and she started talking very badly about me and my family behind our backs. turned out she was a fake therapist, scamming severely sick naive people like me. she robbed us of thousands and made me feel absolutely fuckin terrible. i never recovered from it and i don't think i ever will. i already had severe medical trauma and she only made it worse. i got new therapists thaz is till have to that day and they are quite nice, i like them. and here im - 17 years old, 10+ diagnosis, nothing is helping, hopeless. i still have agoraphobia, i can leave the house for a bit but i can't go anywhere far. i can't get a proper help, since you have to be personaly everywhere and thats something i can't do, due to my agoraphobia. i can't go to school, make new friends, anything - im so lonely. i have an online friend, they are my everything and thats all i have. i have bpd, autism, clinical depression, agoraphobia, panic dissorder, severe anxiety, severe c-ptsd, chronic illnesses, dissabilities and yet to get my ocd and schizophrenia diagnosis, since i have severe symptoms. i have no one but my online friend and two therapists. my family is not working. my mother's husband is just weird - he's a good guy and he's trying but he's rasist and just very pushy and touchy. my mother is a cold monster - she made her first boyfriend (my sister's father) kill himself, her second husband (my father) hate her child and her current husband cry many times. they always argue, cause my mother is a sick person, that wont admit that she needs help, that she's fucked in the head. she's restricting me from food, ignores my special needs, problems and severity of my problems. she's neglectfull and we argue a lot. she was also cheating on my father with my uncle (his brother) and she would open her legs for anyone. just recently i found out that my father is really not my father - my mother cheated on him and got me with some random man. maybe thats why he hated me so fuckin much. so, i don't know my real father and my only father figure let me down terribly. sometimes he sends me emails and letters about how i ruined his life and how he tried to ens himself thanks to me. im not getting any better and since the year started, everything has been much much worse. im spiraling, im lost. everyone let me down - my family, doctors, my friends, everoyne. i never got proper help, treatment, care, love. i was never heard or seen and even through all that, i stayed nice and im helping people every single day. im givng everyone everything, so much love and positivity but i never get anything in return. i was never loved, i was never meant to be alive. nobody that did me dirty ever got a punishment, i got zero justice or anything like that. suicided seems like the only answer now and i think i'll do it. i don't know. leaving this here, as it might change something for someone. it might give you hope or something. it might open eyes to people and make them care more for others. i want to be remembered for my story, in case i die. you don't have to believe me, nobody ever will but is wear im not lying. i don't have the heart to make terrible shit like this up. love you, friends, you all stay safe, i will at least try.

Last Updated List: 12/05/2024
 
I'm primarily looking to trade for games from my wishlist, otherwise I am also open to selling them. I am not interested in games I already have and all games I'm getting are for me and activated on my own account. Other than that feel free to offer your list of Steam games and something I may not have and fulfills my criteria I could/would be willing to trade for it/them.

• To trade you must respond to this thread first, I will not respond or accept anyone outside of this thread, only exception are unless we've traded more than once before.
• Only interested in trading for games on Steam.
• I don't do Humble gifts whether receiving or giving, all my keys are in unrevealed form right after purchase.
• No interest in any keys from an unofficial retailesource (aka grey market), curatoreviewer keys (aka beta/reviewebeta-testing/etc.), abandonware, keys for games that are already free on Steam itself, Steam profile-limited keys, and only slight interest in VR-titles and/or de-listed games (no banned games).
• Anything marked as wishlist/paypal, it's self-explanatory and I won't look through lists.
• All my keys are EU keys, if you are outside of EU, make sure you double check for any region locks for your country. For quite a few which I was aware of I already listed the region lock, however this is not my responsibility as I did specify the key's region.
• When buying, I only accept payments in Euro's. Minimum purchase of €1,00. Fees are on buyer.

If you're either trading or buying please state the game(s) you are interested in and your offer (game(s)/list/price).
 
Info:

• Region (and keys region): Europe
  
• IGS Rep Page
  
• SteamTrades
  
• SteamRep
  

 
I kindly ask of you is to be reasonable when making offers to make it a fair trade for both of us.
Let's have a good exchange/trade!
 
List of games:

• 100% Orange Juice
• 16bit Trader
• 20XX
• 4089: Ghost Within
• 9 Years of Shadows
• 911 Operator
• A Demon's Game - Episode 1
• A Game of Changes
• A Juggler's Tale
• A Normal Lost Phone
• A Plague Tale: Innocence (wishlist or Paypal only)
• A Tale of Paper: Refolded
• ABZU
• Aces and Adventures
• Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion
• Afterimage (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Afterparty
• Airborne Kingdom
• Alien Breed 2: Assault
• Alone in the Dark (2008)
• Amanda the Adventurer
• AMID EVIL
• Amnesia: Rebirth
• An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire
• Animal Shelter (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Anomaly II
• Anomaly: Warzone Earth
• Arcade Paradise
• Arcade Spirits
• Archipelago
• Arizona Sunshine: Deluxe Edition
• Arto (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Ary and the Secret of Seasons
• As Far As The Eye
• Ashina: The Red Witch
• Athena Trivia
• Attack of the Earthlings
• Autonauts
• Autonauts vs PirateBots
• Axiom Verge
• Axiom Verge 2 (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Back 4 Blood (Region Lock: Sub ID) (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Backstage Pass
• Baobabs Mausoleum Ep. 1 Ovnifagos Don't Eat Flamingos
• Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition
• Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition
• Batman: Arkham Knight Premium Edition
• Batman: Arkham Origins
• Battlestar Galactica Deadlock Season One
• BattleTrucks
• Beacon Pines (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Beat Or Die The MiniGames
• Beholder
• Ben 10: Power Trip
• Beyond the Long Night
• Big Crown®: Showdown
• Bighead Runner
• Bionic Commando
• Biosys Inc
• bit Dungeon II
• Black Book
• Black Paradox
• Black Skylands
• Blackguards
• Blackguards 2
• Blasphemous (Region Lock: EU/US only)
• Bleep Bloop
• Blind Fate: Edo no Yami
• BLOCKADE War Stories
• Blood And Zombies
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (wishlist or Paypal only)
• BomberZone
• BPM: BULLETS PER MINUTE
• Brick Breaker
• Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
• Buggos
• Calico
• Caliper
• Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
• Cardboard Town
• Carton
• Castle Defender
• CastleStorm
• Cat on a Diet
• Caveblazers
• Cavity Busters
• CHESS CROWN
• Chicago 1930 : The Prohibition
• Children of Silentown
• Chorus (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Chronicon
• Citizen Sleeper
• City Siege: Faction Island
• Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues
• Colortone
• Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
• Company of Heroes 2
• Company of Heroes 2 - Ardennes Assault
• Company of Heroes 2 - The Western Front Armies: Oberkommando West
• Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor
• Cook, Serve, Delicious!
• Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!
• Cookie Cutter (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Copy Kitty
• Coromon
• Corrupted
• Cosmic Star Heroine
• Crash Drive 2
• Crazy Machines 3
• Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance
• CRYPTARK
• Crystals of Time
• Cthulhu Saves Christmas
• Curse: The Eye of Isis
• Cybercube
• Dad Quest
• Dark Deity
• Daymare: 1998
• Dead Estate
• Deadlink (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
• Death's Gambit: Afterlife
• Deathtrap
• Decarnation (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Decay: The Mare
• Deceive Inc.
• Decks Of Power
• Deep Despair 2
• Deflector
• Deponia
• Desert Parkour
• DESOLATE
• Destroy All Humans!
• Dicey Dungeons
• Dinosaur Fossil Hunter
• Disciples II: Rise of the Elves
• Dishonored
• Dogfight 1942
• DOOM II
• Drawful 2
• Dread Templar
• Dread X Collection
• Dread X Collection 2
• Dread X Collection 3
• Dread X Collection 5
• Dread X Collection: The Hunt
• Dreamscaper
• DreamWorks Dragons: Dawn of New Riders
• Driftland: The Magic Revival
• Drunken Robot Pornography
• Dungeons
• Dungeons 2
• Dungeons 3
• DUSK
• EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair + 18 DLCs (Complete)
• EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 WINGDIVER THE SHOOTER
• Eldest Souls
• ELEX II (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Eternal Threads
• Everhood
• Evil Genius 2: World Domination
• Evoland Legendary Edition
• Expect The Unexpected
• Extinction: Deluxe Edition
• Factory Town
• Fairy Escape
• Fall of Porcupine (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Fantasy Kingdom Simulator
• FAR: Lone Sails
• Fast & Furious: Spy Racers Rise of SH1FT3R
• Feel-A-Maze
• Fight'N Rage
• Figment
• Finding Paradise
• Firelight Fantasy: Resistance
• First Class Trouble
• Fishermurs
• Flashback
• Fly O'Clock
• For The King
• Forgive me Father
• Fred3ric
• Frederic: Evil Strikes Back
• Frederic: Resurrection of Music
• From Space
• Frostpunk
• Fury Unleashed
• Garden In!
• Garfield Kart
• Garfield Kart - Furious Racing
• Generation Zero
• Get In The Car, Loser!
• Gloria Victis
• Going Under
• Golden Light
• Golf It!
• Gone: Survival
• Good Night, Knight
• Gotham Knights (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Graveyard Keeper
• Gray Dawn
• GRIP: Combat Racing
• Guilty Gear X2 #Reload
• Guts and Glory
• GYLT (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Haegemonia: Legions of Iron
• Hamilton's Great Adventure
• Hands of Necromancy
• Hard West
• Heads Will Roll
• Hell Pie
• Hellbound
• HELLCARD
• Hellslave
• Hi-Fi RUSH (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Hollow Knight (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Holy Potatoes! A Spy Story?!
• Homestead Arcana
• Home Sweet Home
• Homeworld Remastered Collection
• Honey, I Joined a Cult
• Hue
• Human Fall Flat
• I Am Fish
• Ice Age: Scrat's Nutty Adventure
• ICEY
• Inertial Drift
• Inexistence Rebirth
• Injustice 2 Legendary Edition
• Internet Cafe Simulator 2
• Interstellar Space: Genesis
• Is Simon There?
• ITORAH
• Jagged Alliance: Rage!
• JANITOR BLEEDS
• Jotun: Valhalla Edition
• JUMANJI: The Video Game
• Junkyard Fury 2
• Just Die Already
• Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
• Killing Floor 2 Digital Deluxe Edition
• King Arthur Collection (Sub ID 25825)
• King of Dragon Pass
• King Of The Castle
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance + Band of Bastards DLC (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition
• Kingdom Wars 4
• King's Bounty: Armored Princess
• Kitaria Fables
• Kitchen Simulator 2015
• Kraken Academy!!
• Kyle is Famous: Complete Edition
• Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager
• Leisure Suit Larry 7 - Love for Sail
• Life is Strange: True Colors (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Lila’s Sky Ark
• Little Orpheus
• Loddlenaut
• Loop Hero
• Lord of the Dark Castle
• Lords and Villeins
• Lords of Football
• Lost Castle
• Lost Planet 3 Complete Pack
• Lucius III
• Lumberhill
• LunarLux
• Mad Max
• Mafia III: Definitive Edition (Region Lock: Sub ID) (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Mago
• Maid of Sker
• Mail Time
• Main Assembly
• Maneater
• MARSUPILAMI - HOOBADVENTURE (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Marvel's Midnight Suns + DLC (Region Lock: Sub ID) (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Mechs & Mercs: Black Talons
• Medieval Kingdom Wars
• Mega Man Legacy Collection
• MegaRace 1
• MegaRace 2
• MegaRace 3
• Men of War
• Metal: Hellsinger (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Metamorphosis
• Metro Simulator
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor GOTY
• Middle-earth: Shadow of War Definitive Edition
• Midnight Fight Express
• Minute of Islands
• MirrorMoon EP
• Monaco
• Moon Hunters
• Morbid: The Seven Acolytes
• Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Mortal Kombat XL
• Moto Racer Collection
• Moving Out + Movers in Paradise DLC
• Music Racer
• My Little Universe Soundtrack (DLC)
• My Little Worms
• Mystery of Unicorn Castle: The Beastmaster
• Mythforce (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Mythic Ocean
• Nadir: A Grimdark Deckbuilder
• NARUTO TO BORUTO: SHINOBI STRIKER
• Nash Racing: Pursuit
• Nearly Dead
• Necronator: Dead Wrong
• NecroWorm
• Neon Abyss Deluxe Edition
• Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
• Nimble Fish
• Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition (wishlist or Paypal only)
• No Place Like Home
• Nobody Saves the World
• Nomad Survival
• Oaken
• Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
• Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
• OlliOlli World
• Onde
• One Finger Death Punch 2
• One Hand Clapping
• Onee Chanbara Origin (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Operation Tango
• Orange Cast: Sci-Fi Space Action Game
• Orbital Racer
• Orcs Must Die! 3 Complete Bundle
• OTXO
• Out of Space
• Overcooked
• Owlboy (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Paint the Town Red
• Papo & Yo
• Patch Quest
• PAYDAY 2
• PC Building Simulator
• Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition (Region Lock: Sub ID)
• Plunger Simulator
• Police Stories
• POSTAL 2
• Primal Carnage: Extinction
• Prodeus
• Push The Box 3D
• Qbik
• QUAKE II
• qubo
• RAD
• Rad Rodgers Radical Edition
• Radio Commander
• Railway Empire
• Recipe For Disaster
• Red Faction: Armageddon
• Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered
• Red Solstice 2: Survivors
• Redout: Enhanced Edition + 5 DLCs
• Regency Solitaire
• Regions Of Ruin
• Remnant: From the Ashes - Complete Edition (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Remnants of Naezith
• Repetendium
• Resident Evil 0 HD REMASTER
• Resident Evil 4 (2005)
• Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition
• Resident Evil 6
• Resident Evil Revelations
• Resident Evil Revelations 2 Deluxe Edition
• Retrowave
• Reventure
• RHEM I SE: The Mysterious Land
• Rhythm Sprout: Sick Beats & Bad Sweets
• River City Girls
• River City Ransom: Underground
• Road 96 (Region Lock: Sub ID)
• Röki
• Royal Battleships
• Rustler
• Saints Row (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Salt and Sanctuary
• Sanctum 2
• Sands of Aura
• SATAZIUS
• Satellite Repairman
• Say No! More
• Scarlet Tower
• Scars Above
• Scorn
• School Years
• SEGA Bass Fishing
• Sense - 不祥的预感: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story
• Severed Steel
• Shadows: Awakening
• She Sees Red - Interactive Movie
• Shift Happens
• Shing!
• Shut Up And Dig
• Sid Meier's Ace Patrol
• Sine Mora EX
• Sigma Theory: Global Cold War
• Silent Service
• Sinking Island
• Sir Whoopass™: Immortal Death
• Skeletal Avenger
• Slaycation Paradise
• Small World + 1 DLC
• Snafu
• Sneak Thief
• Sniper Elite 4 Deluxe Edition (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts
• Snowtopia: Ski Resort Builder
• SONG OF HORROR COMPLETE EDITION
• Sorry, James
• Soul Grabber
• Soulblight
• Soulstice
• Space Crew: Legendary Edition
• Sparkle 2 Evo
• Sparkle 3 Genesis
• Sparkle ZERO
• Spirit of the Island
• SPOOKWARE
• STAR WARS Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy
• STAR WARS Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast
• Stacking
• Starblast
• Starpoint Gemini 2 Gold Pack
• Starpoint Gemini Warlords
• Startide
• STASIS
• Stick Fight: The Game
• Steel Rats
• Steelrising (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Strange Brigade
• Streets of Fury EX
• Strider
• Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
• SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator
• Sucker for Love: First Date
• Suite 776
• Sunblaze
• Sunlight
• Sunset Overdrive
• Super Catboy
• Super Indie Karts
• Super Magbot
• Super Meat Boy
• Superbugs: Awaken
• Superliminal (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Survive the Nights
• Swag and Sorcery
• Switchball HD
• Sword of the Necromancer
• Syberia
• Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Synergia
• SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising
• System Crash
• S.W.I.N.E. HD Remaster
• Tacoma
• Tallowmere
• Tenta Shooter
• TERRACOTTA (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Terraformers
• Terror of Hemasaurus
• Tesla Force
• The Amazing American Circus
• The Banner Saga Trilogy Deluxe Pack (Sub ID) (wishlist or Paypal only)
• The Bluecoats: North & South
• The Callisto Protocol (wishlist or Paypal only)
• The Chronicles of Nyanya
• The Citadel
• The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes (wishlist or Paypal only)
• The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan (wishlist or Paypal only)
• The Dark Eye: Memoria
• The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2
• The Dungeon Beneath
• The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos
• The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard
• The Esoterica: Hollow Earth
• The Evil Within 2
• The eXceed Collection: Aural Brutality Edition
• The Executioner
• The Falconeer
• THE GAME OF LIFE
• THE GAME OF LIFE 2 (wishlist or Paypal only)
• The Gunk
• The Haunting of Billy Classic
• The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut
• The Initiate
• The Initiate 2: The First Interviews
• The Inner World
• The Knight Witch (wishlist or Paypal only)
• The Legend of Tianding
• The Long Reach
• The Moment of Silence
• The Quarry - Deluxe Edition (wishlist or Paypal only)
• The Quarry – Horror History Visual Filter Pack (DLC)
• The Red Lantern
• The Sapper
• The Talos Principle
• The Talos Principle: Gold Edition (wishlist or Paypal only)
• The Tarnishing of Juxtia
• The Tenants (wishlist or Paypal only)
• The Town of Light
• The Undying Plague
• The Witness (wishlist or Paypal only)
• There Is No Light: Enhanced Edition
• This War of Mine
• Those Who Remain
• Through Abandoned: The Refuge
• Ticket to Ride
• Timberman
• Time Lock VR
• Time on Frog Island
• Tiny Tina's Wonderlands: Chaotic Great Edition (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Tinykin (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Titan Quest Anniversary Edition
• Toki
• Toodee and Topdee
• Totally Reliable Delivery Service
• Tower of Time
• Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
• Train Simulator Classic + 2 DLCs
• Trifox
• Tropico 3 Gold Edition
• Tropico 4 Collector's Bundle
• Troublemaker
• Trover Saves the Universe
• Turbo Overkill (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Turmoil
• Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
• Turok
• Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
• Twin Mirror
• Two Point Campus (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Ultimate Zombie Defense
• Undying (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Unity of Command Trilogy
• Up and Down
• Vampire Survivors
• Vanguard Princess
• Verdun
• Violett Remastered
• VirtuaVerse
• Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire
• Wanted: Dead (wishlist or Paypal only)
• War for the Overworld
• Wargroove
• Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon + Soundtrack DLC
• Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon - Da Orks
• Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector
• Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach
• Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide
• Warhammer: Vermintide 2
• Wayward
• West of Dead
• Where The Water Tastes Like Wine
• Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?
• Within Skerry
• Within the blade
• Wobbledogs (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Wolfenstein 3D
• Worms Rumble
• WWE 2K23 (Region Lock: Sub ID) (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Yoku's Island Express
• Yooka-Laylee
• XEL
• XIII - Classic
• X-Morph: Defense Complete Pack
• Yakuza 4 Remastered
• Yakuza: Like a Dragon (wishlist or Paypal only)
• You Deserve
• Zombie Army Trilogy
• Zombie Driver HD
• Zool Redimensioned

Last Updated List: 12/05/2024
 
I'm primarily looking to trade for games from my wishlist, otherwise I am also open to selling them. I am not interested in games I already have and all games I'm getting are for me and activated on my own account. Other than that feel free to offer your list of Steam games and something I may not have and fulfills my criteria I could/would be willing to trade for it/them.

• To trade you must respond to this thread first, I will not respond or accept anyone outside of this thread, only exception are unless we've traded more than once before.
• Only interested in trading for games on Steam.
• I don't do Humble gifts whether receiving or giving, all my keys are in unrevealed form right after purchase.
• No interest in any keys from an unofficial retailesource (aka grey market), curatoreviewer keys (aka beta/reviewebeta-testing/etc.), abandonware, keys for games that are already free on Steam itself, Steam profile-limited keys, and only slight interest in VR-titles and/or de-listed games (no banned games).
• Anything marked as wishlist/paypal, it's self-explanatory and I won't look through lists.
• All my keys are EU keys, if you are outside of EU, make sure you double check for any region locks for your country. For quite a few which I was aware of I already listed the region lock, however this is not my responsibility as I did specify the key's region.
• When buying, I only accept payments in Euro's. Minimum purchase of €1,00. Fees are on buyer.

If you're either trading or buying please state the game(s) you are interested in and your offer (game(s)/list/price).
 
Info:

• Region (and keys region): Europe
  
• IGS Rep Page
  
• SteamTrades
  
• SteamRep
  

 
I kindly ask of you is to be reasonable when making offers to make it a fair trade for both of us.
Let's have a good exchange/trade!
 
List of games:

• 100% Orange Juice
• 16bit Trader
• 20XX
• 4089: Ghost Within
• 9 Years of Shadows
• 911 Operator
• A Demon's Game - Episode 1
• A Game of Changes
• A Juggler's Tale
• A Normal Lost Phone
• A Plague Tale: Innocence (wishlist or Paypal only)
• A Tale of Paper: Refolded
• ABZU
• Aces and Adventures
• Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion
• Afterimage (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Afterparty
• Airborne Kingdom
• Alien Breed 2: Assault
• Alone in the Dark (2008)
• Amanda the Adventurer
• AMID EVIL
• Amnesia: Rebirth
• An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire
• Animal Shelter (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Anomaly II
• Anomaly: Warzone Earth
• Arcade Paradise
• Arcade Spirits
• Archipelago
• Arizona Sunshine: Deluxe Edition
• Arto (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Ary and the Secret of Seasons
• As Far As The Eye
• Ashina: The Red Witch
• Athena Trivia
• Attack of the Earthlings
• Autonauts
• Autonauts vs PirateBots
• Axiom Verge
• Axiom Verge 2 (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Back 4 Blood (Region Lock: Sub ID) (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Backstage Pass
• Baobabs Mausoleum Ep. 1 Ovnifagos Don't Eat Flamingos
• Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition
• Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition
• Batman: Arkham Knight Premium Edition
• Batman: Arkham Origins
• Battlestar Galactica Deadlock Season One
• BattleTrucks
• Beacon Pines (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Beat Or Die The MiniGames
• Beholder
• Ben 10: Power Trip
• Beyond the Long Night
• Big Crown®: Showdown
• Bighead Runner
• Bionic Commando
• Biosys Inc
• bit Dungeon II
• Black Book
• Black Paradox
• Black Skylands
• Blackguards
• Blackguards 2
• Blasphemous (Region Lock: EU/US only)
• Bleep Bloop
• Blind Fate: Edo no Yami
• BLOCKADE War Stories
• Blood And Zombies
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (wishlist or Paypal only)
• BomberZone
• BPM: BULLETS PER MINUTE
• Brick Breaker
• Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
• Buggos
• Calico
• Caliper
• Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
• Cardboard Town
• Carton
• Castle Defender
• CastleStorm
• Cat on a Diet
• Caveblazers
• Cavity Busters
• CHESS CROWN
• Chicago 1930 : The Prohibition
• Children of Silentown
• Chorus (wishlist or Paypal only)
• Chronicon
• Citizen Sleeper
• City Siege: Faction Island
• Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues
• Colortone
• Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
• Company of Heroes 2
• Company of Heroes 2 - Ardennes Assault
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I have been trying to come up with a chili recipe that will be better, and cheaper than store-bought chili. I really don't know the first thing about chili, and have been flying by the seam of my pants. The first batch I made was utterly horrible... I don't wanna talk about it. But I have hit upon sort of a rough-recipe that I've found to be pretty good, but I'm sure that some chili aficionados can help me make it better, and hopefully cheaper. This is what I've been doing so far...
Ingredients:

• 2 Cans of Kidney Beans
• 4 Lbs of Beef Franks, Sliced into Medallions
• 2 Lbs of Lean Beef (stew meat, skirt steak, whatever's cheapest), Diced
• 1/8th Cup Cayenne Pepper
• 1/8th Cup Paprika
• Mustard Seed (Add until it tastes right)
• One Whole Garlic Clove
• 2 16 oz Cans of Tomato Sauce
• 1 28 oz Can of Crushed Tomatoes

Procedure:

• Dice lean beef into 1/2" cubes
• Lightly season with Johnny's
• Cook in a sauce pan until lightly seared, remove from heat and drain grease
• Slice beef franks into medallions, and lightly fry until they're slightly browned, remove from heat and drain grease
• Drain and rinse two cans of kidney beans, and throw into 5 qt pot
• Add beef chunks and medallions on top of kidney beans and mix
• Pour in tomato sauce, and crushed tomatoes, and mix
• Add water and stir until entire mixture reaches top of the 5 quart pot
• Bring to boil, reduce heat, and let boil for 45 minutes
• Add cayenne, paprika, and minced garlic and reduce heat to simmer for 8 hours
• Periodically stir and add mustard seed throughout

I like the results, but I have no doubt it could be better. I like the spice level, but I think I'm missing something that could give it a little bit more "tanginess". I like to add sour cream and eat it with tortilla chips. I read to let the beans cook before adding the seasoning because they will kind of "absorb" the flavor, so that's why I cook them for 45 minutes before adding the seasoning. I like to slightly sear the beef first, because otherwise I find that cooking it for so long kind of leaves it a shredded mess instead of chunks. I screwed up and left too much grease in the mix a couple times, so I have gotten more careful about that. I would really like to find some peppers that might add some tanginess, but I'm pretty satisfied with the spiciness. Maybe something like some lemon/lime juice could be the ticket? I'm trying to avoid adding too much salt.
Most importantly, is the economics. Right now, the ingredients for all of this cost me about $30, and so for 20 cups, I'm getting about the equivalent of 10 cans of chili. $3 a can is not bad, especially considering most of the store-bought stuff I can get isn't much cheaper than that, and I am happy to get away from the processed stuff and preservatives. However, I'm not really at a point with the recipe that I'd say mine tastes better. It's palatable, and I enjoy it, but I would like it to be a bit tastier, and if I could get it to be AS cheap as store-bought that would be great. Right now the main ingredient that's preventing that is the beef; even buying the cheapest cuts or stew meat, it's just very expensive. I could cut out a ton of cost by just using beef franks instead, but while I find those flavorful I feel like if my goal is to try to get away from preservatives and processed foods, having those in tremendous quantities doesn't really help.
One thing I really like about this so far is it's pretty simple. There's not a whole lot of different ingredients, or a lot of prep time, and I'd like to keep it that way. I'm wondering if I could possible switch out beef for pork to improve the economics? I initially tried chicken, but I didn't like that at all, however that was before I had tweaked other parts of the recipe.
My ultimate goal would be a recipe that would get me close to a $1 per cup recipe that's low on preservatives and processed food, but that tastes as good or better than the store-bought stuff.

TLDR; I'd like your opinion on what kind of buffs/effects you'd like to see on food to make it worthwhile for you personally, or any other opinions you think are relevant.
Hi everybody, recently I've been playing Skyrim again, and I typically play with only one life, in addition to not trading with merchants.
When you only have one life and everything to lose when you die, you certainly start to look for any benefits you can find, so of course the first thing I thought to look at for my early game was cooking. I quickly found however that cooking provided extremely little, with the highest health restoration on food being a whopping 16. Talk about mediocre at best, considering that I need to go hunt down the different ingredients to make it, and then the majority (but not all) of foods need salt which is hard to build up a large quanity of in a short time.
Went and checked on the Nexus, and I did find a few mods that changed up cooking. One was an entire overhaul on alchemy and cooking both, but I personally didn't like the alchemy aspects very much, and all the foods seemed to have a very small regeneration buff and not much else. I found another cooking mod, but it did the same thing - just gave a varied amount of regeneration for the three different stats.
I'd like to go a bit further, and make cooking a bit more worthwhile. While I'm not experienced enough to create new effects that don't exist in the game already, I feel like I can expand on cooking enough with effects that already do exist to make it feel more worthwhile to spend time on, without making it absolutely essential.
With that in mind, I'd like to ask the opinions of others what they would like to see with this kind of mod that would make cooking feel worthwhile to them as a whole, or anything else they might feel is relevant.
How many recipes is too many? Just how powerful should food be? How easy/hard should it be to make food depending on it's effects? Anything you think would be relevant would be of great help as I begin working on my little project.