One time I was promised cake if I just did a series of tests on a prototype, though the tests seemed more like they were testing my problem solving skills rather than the prototype itself.
Anyways, the cake was great, so delicious and moist.
It was overall a very rewarding experience that I recommend everyone sign up for.
This is a lie
I actually installed it this week to give it another go, this timing is golden haha
I’m trying to nudge my daughter into playing it, but I guess I shared too many other interesting looking games with the family. A Game About Digging A Hole caught her eye first lol.
My son had beaten both Portal & Portal 2: before his fourth birthday. He’s 16 now and I guess he likes cats.
Lol at that age I remember my daughter thinking Mario Kart was like a movie where you picked your character and their vehicle, then watched them race (because auto steer and accelerate were on, which is good enough to finish middle of the pack, at least for 50cc).
These days she spends most of her gaming time on Minecraft.
My son still plays Roblox at 16. And other games, but he has some friends who like to play Roblox together.
Are you a lab mouse?
Aperture Science doesn’t test on animals, all tests are ethically done on humans, of which I am one who is definitely still alive after finishing all the tests and full of cake.
Bypass that drama and eat the icing straight from the jar.
“Eat the icing from the jar” in the style of “let the bodies hit the floor”.
I sometimes remember this, but then I get to the store and a cheesecake is $17 and I suddenly remember I don’t actually need it that bad
I am a slut for cheesecake
Oh my goooooood……
Unfortunately I need to be gluten free.
Which makes it a $35 cheesecake thats also smaller. Fuck you shoprite, and fuck you gastrointestinal system in my body.
I know the pain. Reminds me of my last road trip, where the best hot food option available was a pizza place that charged an extra $4 for a chickpea crust. $19 for a tiny, shittier pizza. No, thanks. Doritos and soda FTL.
I’m not gluten free, bur I hate cheesecake. Just add sugar to old cream cheese with no crust. Problem solved.
That’s way too much for cheesecake, who’s your cake guy?
The main ingredient in cheesecake is cream cheese, and you need like 2 lbs (32 oz) for an average cake, so that’s immediately like $9 before all other ingredients
yeah my mom makes cheesecakes to sell and never goes under 30 bucks. but i can guarantee it will be the best cheesecake of your life, and that is independantly verified
At LiDL or Aldi an 8 oz. brick of cream cheese is like $1.50, so a little less. What blows my mind is that a 16 oz. plastic tub of cream cheese is like $8 at most places. Like, why the fuck does the plastic tub make it 5X as expensive?
Key lime pie is our benchmark, a new brand will appear for $7.99 or something, and then 3 weeks later they hike the price up to $14. I am not eating a $14 key lime pie from Kroger. Fuck right off with that.
It’s funny tho how junk food like pies, cakes, and especially CANDY have taken such an inflationary hike - it’s definitely got me eating better, and I am kind of glad for it (and we prove yet again that excise taxes work towards public health, these ones were just done for profit instead of funding waterways or clean air or some shit).
My local grocery store’s bakeshop sometimes puts up an 8-inch boston cream cake for only $12. I don’t know why it’s so cheap (a similar sized chocolate cake is $18-$22), but I can’t stop myself from buying it when it’s available. I can’t believe a cake that good costs just $12.
Idk, depends how good it is. In today’s market, ≤$2/serving is actually pretty good even for middling handmade baked goods. One slice at a restaurant would be 3 times that, on the low end, the high end could be the whole $17 or more. But also, yeah, no one needs cheesecake lol.
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You can freeze leftover cheesecake.
I’ve never heard of this kind of cheesecake
Leftover cheesecake is my new favorite oxymoron.
I can attest that you cannot freeze leftover cheesecake simply because there never is any left over
Cake mix is $5.
Pouring one out for all the folks out there who have to get in a car to go to a bakery
Yeah! I get baked at home!
Can also bake one.
On top of probably tasting better, it’s also more fun.
I sometimes want to do this but then I realize I can make a better cake myself.
But can you consume the cake without suffering consequences?
The consequence is that there won’t be any cake left, right?
The me with cake in me is a better me than the me without cake in me. There is no suffering from cake.
Ah but you see I bike there, which means that it is healthy! Fitness is my passion.
I run often, and unfortunately it’s a lot harder to stay thin as I’m pushing 40 than it was when I was pushing 20. And by stay thin I mean stay average.
Kurzgesagt had a good video on exercise that basically talked about how, if you exercise regularly, your body basically doesn’t burn the calories the same. If you’re a couch potato and then you start to exercise, you will get a benefit, but then there’s diminishing returns from continuing to exercise, to the point your body now says “hey, this is my new normal,” and essentially burns the same calories whether you’re on the couch or exercising. There’s a lot more nuance to it in the video.
It seems we’re all doomed to just get old.
The death of innocence is reaching the point where you could do that, but it wouldn’t even make you happy because of health reasons.
When I was kid, I loved bananas, but my mom wouldn’t buy them because she felt they were too expensive, so bananas became even more rare and precious to me.
I grew up, got my own place, and did my own grocery shopping. I remember walking through the grocery store, and passing the bananas, thinking they were too expensive, but I noticed they were 69 cents a pound. That didn’t seem so much, so I weighed a few, and it was less that 2 pounds. I could buy a bunch of bananas for $1.50! That wasn’t so much!
So I bought the bananas. That was many years ago, and I still buy bananas almost every shopping trip. That preciousness still exists though. Whenever I eat a banana, it feels like I’m eating a candy bar.
Did you grow up in East Germany? xD
There really is one for everything huh
Then you do it, and your body punishes you for it this time, instead of your parents.
I remember one time as a young adult eating a cake for dinner, paired with a large beer.
I realized in the midst of my severe tummy ache that perhaps there are reasons why my parents didn’t let me do such things 😆
Yeah, your body will only accept so much sugar before everything gets out of whack
If the smell of your pee drives you out of the bathroom, you might be eating too much sugar.
A good cake is like $60. Who got money for that?
They said cake; they did not specify good cake.
Cheap cake is still cake. It eats the same.
I’m thinking that I might be making a ridiculously moist chocolate cake in my future. I’m thinking last week of September, I’m sure I could make it for $20 I hope haha
As an adult I’ve had enough stomach aches, and gained enough belly fat, and developed enough of a palette, to viscerally dislike eating lots of cake.
The child in me screams for cake
The stomach in my adult body screams for pepto
What’s pepto?
Pepto-Bismol.
Using science to fight bad decisions. It’s the American way.
buying poison and buying medicine to maximise profit
Bismuth subsalicylate, or pink bismuth.
Yep, if I really want cake I’ll pay the ridiculous price for a single slice. Yes it’s expensive, but it’s cheaper than buying a whole cake, and I know after that one piece I won’t want anymore for a long time.
i just take breaks in my cake eating binge to binge tacos. get enough protein in there and you’re fine.
As a kid, you have the time but not the money.
As an adult, you have the money but not the time.
or the metabolism
It’s the metabolism one.
I could consume 4000 kcal most days as a teenager without putting on weight. That is no longer the case and adjusting has been difficult. I’d need to go near 2000 to lose weight.
Yeah, as a kid in high school, one of my go-to high snacks was an Entenmann’s All Butter French Crumb Cake (~1740 calories) and a half gallon of 2% milk (~950 calories). It wasn’t an everyday thing, but I’d house it no problem, and it wasn’t the only thing I’d eat that day. I also swam competitively, although as I’ve grown older I’ve learned that it’s essentially unrelated, and that your metabolism is just your metabolism, essentially regardless if your activity levels. I had trouble breaking 140 pounds at 5’8.
That all stopped. It’s pretty incredible how it all just stops. I’m still fairly active, but I wouldn’t consider eating more than a serving at this point, and I instead have trouble cracking 165 (except from above this time). Oh well, this is life.
I use the example in the meme a lot. As adults we’re in a post-scarcity mindset. If you tell a kid you can eat chocolate ice cream for 3 meals a day and don’t do it because you don’t want to (because you know you shouldn’t), it would blow their minds. You’re growing up when you get access to things and stop thinking “if you can” and start thinking “if you should”.
for me it’s not that i think that i shouldn’t, but i can’t. i just cannot ingest that much sugar at once, i get really bad feelings from that!
My knee swells up. Highfive, we’re old.
I started feeling like an adult when I stopped doing things just because my mother had told me not to.
