Moon Cricket (crushbead@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 15-Apr-2023 13:44:30 JST
Moon CricketSo I was trying to track down a copy of Kamidori Alchemy Meister since I started playing it a decade ago but never finished it, and just discovered that Catbox archived all of Fuwanovel's projects on an official page as torrents. There is one dude who is single handedly preserving all these games and VNs that will likely never ever get an English release or republished. Just one guy trying to hold back the hands of time and preserve a little bit of the internet from a better time.
@thatguyoverthere@ringo You can use PH strips to measure the alkalinity of your lye water or, if you want to do things the old timey way, you can drop an egg into the lye water. If a coin sized circle of egg floating above the lye water it is sufficiently alkaline. If it doesn't use a deep fry skimmer to fish the egg out and slowly boil your lye water down until it reduces. I don't know anything about making liquid soap, just bars. Also ash soap isn't like store bought soap. It doesn't foam up and feels slightly oily.
also also always reduce your lye water or cook your soap outside. It lets off fumes when you heat it up.
@thatguyoverthere@ringo Making lye water is easy. Just use oak in your fireplace one winter and you will end up with more than enough ashes to make gallons of lye water. All you need is a decent barrel some hay or alfalfa straw, and some hardware. Add a bunghole and spigot near the bottom of your barrel, pack it with straw above the bung hole, and then alternate layers of ash and star until it is full. Fill the barrel with water and just let it sit for a couple of months. Drain it off and you have lye water.
If you want to make soap just let it evaporate until it becomes as concentrated as you want and cook in your fat and scents.
@slash@coolboymew I had a similar moment when I used to chew tobacco since we couldn't smoke in the barracks. I spent an entire Saturday sitting at my desk watching some movies all day and all night, drinking cheap beer, and using an empty can as a spitter. About a rack and a half in I had a desk covered in dead soldiers and reached for what I thought was my beer and took a massive gulp of spit that had been sitting on my desk in 100+ temps all day.
@thatguyoverthere@ringo Oh my misunderstand. In regards to charcoal I would assume that it would entirely depend on the type of charcoal you use. I know that when I have made lye water that hardwoods like oak are the only woods able to produce ash and charcoal with high enough PH.
@thatguyoverthere@ringo You need to be careful with rainwater. It has extremely low PH from all the chemicals in the air and can throw your body chemistry out of whack. Probably isn't good for the teeth and digestive tract to be drinking something that is that acidic constantly too.
@thatguyoverthere@ringo You can remineralize your water. They sell things like mineral drops that are intended to be added into home distilled water to balance the PH, replace the missing minerals, and fix the taste. Personally I use Himalayan salt since it is mineral rich and doesn't feel as fake and chemically as adding drops from a plastic squeeze bottle. Just grate a little bit in to your pitcher and you are good to go.
@coolboymew@thomasroiloup /cow/ fell off really hard when 8ch died because it got segregated to the webring ghetto and the schizos filtered a lot of people off until basically every fringe imageboard became a ghost town.
@thomasroiloup Why do you keep showing up on /cow/? I don't pay attention to the drama any more and only go there to save weakload's asian girl pics, but every time I scroll through thread #9 lately I see people discussing you.
@thomasroiloup Seems to be generally positive from what I have seen. Except for this one faggot that seethes about you hating comic books or something, and people wanting some kind of coherent timeline for events.
@coolboymew@Suiseiseki Gundam Wing dub is hilarious because of how bad it was juxtaposed with how edgy the dialog got with Hiro. You are a Quebecois so the unintentional humor goes right over your head. Also DBZ had two dubs. One was just awful and one was okay enough that it became entrenched in the minds of 20 years worth of young men hard enough to become iconic.
Saint Seiya dub is absolute trash and there are fan dubs done with hilariously thick Mexican accents that mog the shit out of it.