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  • Not the person you’re replying to, but I’m also a “try the local cuisine” person. A good percentage of the places I’ve visited have had some local thing that you’d have to really look for to find elsewhere. I don’t end up liking all of them, but I like the experience of trying something new. Some specific examples:

    • St. Louis, MO, USA: Gooey butter cake which is as gross and as delicious as it sounds.
    • Changsha, Hunan, China: Stinky tofu. The local Changsha style of stinky tofu is completely unlike the more common style you’d find in night markets in Taiwan or elsewhere; it’s only a little stinky but is dense, savory, and spicy.
    • Singapore: Kaya toast. Kaya is a sweet coconut-based spread and they put it on buttery thick toast. I was addicted to this when I was in Singapore for work.
    • Scotland: Haggis. It was… okay? Didn’t love it, didn’t hate it, don’t see why it has the reputation it has.
    • Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China: Jiaoziba, which is a little local style of dumpling that’s rich and quite spicy.
    • Hiroshima, Japan: Okonomiyaki, a kind of savory pancake. Okonomiyaki is common in Japan but it’s usually Osaka-style. The version they make in Hiroshima includes noodles in the dough.

    In my experience, if you talk to a few locals, one of them will usually think of a local specialty and tell you where to try it.


  • Depends on where I’m going, whether I’ve been there before, and how long my trip is, but as a rule I’ll always seek out the local food and try to see a mix of famous big-name sights and weird niche things that interest me. For example, when I was in Tokyo last, I went to the top of Tokyo Tower at sunset (normal tourist sightseeing thing) and also went to see their underground flood-control tunnels.

    I don’t enjoy “sit on a beach and do nothing” vacations, but more power to you if that’s your style.


  • lobste.rs is an interesting case study. On the one hand, it sucked to want to join and be unable to! I was in that boat for a while. And it is also disappointingly low-volume; it can be hard to get much of a discussion going just because the user base is so small.

    On the other hand, when a discussion does get going, it has easily the highest signal:noise ratio of any technology message board I’ve ever participated in. Very few low-effort posts, and a high percentage of well-thought-out, respectful conversations.

    I’m not saying I think lemm.ee should follow this model, but it’s not without its merits.









  • Yes, and I even have it as an automatic scheduled payment so I don’t forget. Even with its flaws, it remains one of the shining gems of the Internet, and a resource I use frequently in both my professional life and my personal one. I remember how it was to suddenly want to learn more about a random topic before Wikipedia and I don’t want to go back.

    I also donate to The Internet Archive.









  • koreth@lemm.eetoStar Wars@lemmy.worldKENOBI - The Boonta Eve Redux
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    2 years ago

    This does feel like a real improvement. Nicely done! In the unlikely event I’m introducing someone new to Star Wars in the future, I’ll be sure to point them at this edit instead of the whole series.

    One thing that’s probably unavoidable given the source material but bugged me a bit is that because each of the original episodes had a climax, the edit doesn’t have a story structure where the tension builds up steadily to a peak; it kind of alternates between hitting the gas and hitting the brakes.

    Also, minor nitpick: the miniseries was 6 episodes, but some of them were short so the runtime was more like 4.5 hours.