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fri posted: Fri 2026-02-13 07:11:31 tags: n/a
Oat bran cereal is actually slightly more fiber-dense and protein-dense than whole oats (oatmeal).

super protein oat bran muffin recipe, ideally low sugar, bonus for vegan

thu posted: Thu 2026-02-12 06:18:27 tags: n/a
While various literary analyses suggest different numbers, the most commonly cited framework is Christopher Booker's "The Seven Basic Plots": 1. Overcoming the Monster (e.g. Dracula; Star Wars) 2. Rags to Riches (Cinderella; Jane Eyre) 3. The Quest (LotR; Harry Potter) 4. Voyage and Return (Alice in Wonderland; The Wizard of Oz) 5. Comedy (A Midsummer Night's Dream) 6. Tragedy (Macbeth; Breaking Bad) 7. Rebirth (A Christmas Carol; Beauty and the Beast) Other major theories propose 36 dr... (...more)
wed posted: Wed 2026-02-11 08:14:24 tags: n/a
Costco run * * * When I decided to leave "inSync", my Castle Age guild of almost 11 years, I looked at the 100v100 leaderboard and started at the top guild. #1, "Redemption" declined me, so I contacted officer "Frillyknickers" (Marty Zive) of second-place Elite Owls. We might have been FB friends years ago when games like CA tied deeper into FB's mechanics to promote friending. If so, that was before FB policy evolved away from such artifice and I purged a lot of rote game contacts. So, I had no ... (...more)
tue posted: Tue 2026-02-10 09:24:18 tags: n/a
lunch variations: a big chickpea / carrot / romaine salad * * * A while back I stumbled across a gaming community website about adapting a "monster parts" salvaging system into D+D. This is a trope we see a lot in MMO games like Warcraft, FFXI and their ilk, which meshes with their crafting subsystems. My initial reaction was "squee" but having let that concept simmer on the backburner of my brain a while now, I think it's actually kind of a dead end. In MMOs, the goal is "keep players subsc... (...more)
mon posted: Sun 2026-02-08 17:32:51 tags: n/a
brekarito 30g cocoa/soy bev 29g litter genie Discord has folded to UK mandatory social-media self-doxxing regulation. So, soon Discord users will have to upload some form of ID or perhaps work with a third-party mass-doxxing service to keep using their accounts. Castle Age settled on Discord as a platform for community engagement around 2017. For my stint playing Realm of the Mad God, I also lurked on that Discord, and though I hardly followed them at all beyond initial landing, Mensa's TTRP... (...more)