Your unpopular (non-political, non-offensive) opinions!

[HanZie82]

9 hours ago, Niksa said:

Puns are just overhyped (bad) attempts at making jokes. 

On that same level, meme's are just over-hyped pictured cliché's.

[tikker]

5 hours ago, Stahlmann said:

Even though the name pretty much explains exactly what it's supposed to do, most people don't understand it. Even many reviewers only "measure" the HDR abilities of a monitor by looking at the peak brightness and maybe the color gamut. Even though most local dimming implementations are so bad that higher peak brightness basically also means higher black levels, and because of that also loss of shadow detail. Sadly because of this people buying HDR400/600 displays nowadays are being "conditioned" to think that it just means the picture is brighter than SDR.

 

HDR =/= brighter image

 

Just tried to clear that misunderstanding. It's getting increasingly frustrating trying to explain the point of HDR when more and more people buy seemingly "HDR certified" monitors and then being disappointed by the experience.

 

Sadly i don't have a say in the VESA DisplayHDR standard, otherwise i'd make at least 384-zone FALD a minimum requirement for even the lowest HDR400 certification.

I guess it's easier to make a display brighter than it is to make it dimmer (properly). That makes it somewhat understandable to look at brightness to me. I guess I have more beef with their "TRUEBLACK" variant even if just for the sake of argument what OLED in that context is. Ultra true black?

[Stahlmann]

1 hour ago, tikker said:

I guess it's easier to make a display brighter than it is to make it dimmer (properly). That makes it somewhat understandable to look at brightness to me. I guess I have more beef with their "TRUEBLACK" variant even if just for the sake of argument what OLED in that context is. Ultra true black?

So far only OLED displays certify for the "True black" certification afaik. But the true black certification actually helps to bring out some semi-hdr displays. I just hope brands don't find a way to certify their monitors by cheating with some sort of auto-brightness that turns the backlight off under certain conditions.

[MultiGamerClub]

On 8/3/2021 at 12:16 AM, adarw said:

finaly someone said it.. RGB SUCKS

Ironic enough, i now have 9 fans glowing in full A-RGB fasion on rainbow mode, it grew on me.

[IPD]

8 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

I find something salty helps pineapple.   I think this is why “Hawaiian” pizza is good.  Ham is salty.  Pineapple and anchovies works well too, if the anchovies are spread sufficiently thin and evenly.  This I think is the major problem with anchovies on pizza.  They need to be broken up.  I find a whole anchovy is simply too concentrated. Ham an anchovies are both “something umami with a bunch of salt” should be a way to imitate that one. Pineapple with fish sauce maybe?

Salami & Pineapple

[Bombastinator]

8 minutes ago, IPD said:

Salami & Pineapple

Never tried it.  There a lot of kinds of salami.  My memory is the preferred meat for salami many many years ago was donkey. Not something likely even findable now-a-days. I’ve also never had a pineapple and fish sauce pizza though so I have no way to know.  Umami and salt should be something doable from a vegetarian perspective.  At least in theory.  The button mushrooms I see on pizza don’t have a ton of umami though.  Probably need something else.

[IPD]

Needs to be smoked.  Deep, rich, smoked salami.  Not the USA standard fare "pathetic excuse for salami".  Something a hole-in-the-wall Fleischer shop in Dusseldorf would have roasting on a spit out back.

[Bombastinator]

10 minutes ago, IPD said:

Needs to be smoked.  Deep, rich, smoked salami.  Not the USA standard fare "pathetic excuse for salami".  Something a hole-in-the-wall Fleischer shop in Dusseldorf would have roasting on a spit out back.

There’s a lot of variation in even US salami.  Oscar Meyer, a gigantic and quite old US meat packet in the USA even does at least two kinds.   The concept of a smoked dried salami might do it though.  Makes me wonder if maybe a brined, and smoke dried porcini mushroom would do it maybe.  Have to be tried. The cheese has enough fat.  That’s not the shortage.  Might need a heavily salted cheese.  Cheese already has salt in it but I still think not enough for pizza.

[Donut417]

26 minutes ago, IPD said:

Needs to be smoked.  Deep, rich, smoked salami.  Not the USA standard fare "pathetic excuse for salami".  Something a hole-in-the-wall Fleischer shop in Dusseldorf would have roasting on a spit out back.

Salami is not that simple in the US. There are many varieties. I prefer hard salami. Though Ive never tried it smoked and that sounds good. 

1 hour ago, IPD said:

Salami & Pineapple

Im going to try this the next time I do pizza. My mom prefers Ham and Pineapple. I eat almost anything but fish on mine. 

[IPD]

2 hours ago, Donut417 said:

Salami is not that simple in the US. There are many varieties. I prefer hard salami. Though Ive never tried it smoked and that sounds good. 

Im going to try this the next time I do pizza. My mom prefers Ham and Pineapple. I eat almost anything but fish on mine. 

Can also work well with RED pesto sauce, instead of tomato sauce.  Or marinara sauce in a pinch.

 

Local pizza shop here puts shrimp, ham and pineapple on one of their specialties.  Strangely, it works well!

[Donut417]

22 minutes ago, IPD said:

instead of tomato sauce

Thats the best part. I just really like Tomato sauce. Sadly I dont eat pizza like I used to because of the dairy. 

 

23 minutes ago, IPD said:

ocal pizza shop here puts shrimp, ham and pineapple on one of their specialties.  Strangely, it works well!

EWWW. Yeah I dont eat anything that comes out of the water. Well Id do eat Tuna from the can mixed with Mayo and Relish most of the time. I have tried Shrimp and didnt like it. Also tried Lobster and didnt like that either. 

[Bombastinator]

28 minutes ago, IPD said:

Can also work well with RED pesto sauce, instead of tomato sauce.  Or marinara sauce in a pinch.

 

Local pizza shop here puts shrimp, ham and pineapple on one of their specialties.  Strangely, it works well!

I thought Marinara is a kind of tomato sauce.  They just grind up the tomatoes. There are other red things.  Various kinds of peppers for example.  Orders of magnitude more expensive.  I don’t know what is in “red pesto” I didn’t even know it was a thing.  Green pesto is fresh basil and olive oil and occasionally some other stuff. Have to replace the basil with something else. Green pesto makes a pretty good pizza sauce too though. I’ve heard of Alfredo sauce being used as well. “White sauce”
 

I suspect that ham shrimp and pineapple thing doesn’t taste a lot different than pineapple and anchovies.  Seafood is to a degree seafood.  No matter what you do there’s sea in it. 

[Bombastinator]

30 minutes ago, Donut417 said:

Thats the best part. I just really like Tomato sauce. Sadly I dont eat pizza like I used to because of the dairy. 

 

EWWW. Yeah I dont eat anything that comes out of the water. Well Id do eat Tuna from the can mixed with Mayo and Relish most of the time. I have tried Shrimp and didnt like it. Also tried Lobster and didnt like that either. 

I fished for tuna as a teen.  They’re about a “out of the water” as you can get.  Big alpha class predators.  They weigh so much and swim so fast that we used to tie lines to the boat with package twine and the fish would just snap them without noticing.  So loud it sounded like a gunshot. Really.  That loud.  Fresh tuna meat is a deep deep red btw.  Not grey.  The grey happens when the fish fight too long.  Lactic acid builds up in their muscles and they poison themselves.  Grey meat is referred to as “burned”.  Only good for canning.  Worth about 1/10 as much.  Less now, maybe.  When they talk about “sushi quality tuna” they mean unburned tuna.

Edited December 2, 2021 by Bombastinator

[Bombastinator]

3 hours ago, Donut417 said:

Salami is not that simple in the US. There are many varieties. I prefer hard salami. Though Ive never tried it smoked and that sounds good. 

Im going to try this the next time I do pizza. My mom prefers Ham and Pineapple. I eat almost anything but fish on mine. 

The thing I worry about with salami is there’s large amounts of fat in it.  The little grey lumps are just fat. Pepperoni has the same problem but not as bad.   Possible greasy pizza

[IPD]

Doesn't bother me as much as prosciutto.  I expect to blot a pizza regardless.

[Bombastinator]

1 hour ago, IPD said:

Doesn't bother me as much as prosciutto.  I expect to blot a pizza regardless.

Prosciutto is just air cured ham.  It was one of the foods that helped create the EU food monopoly laws. The Dutch had developed a superior was of raising pigs and was undercutting Italy on pork costs. Modern prosciutto is raised these days is often made using the exact methods the Dutch developed.

[Tan3l6]

Damn. It sucks when the new BIOS comes out and the OC settings have been overamped with new/"exotic" settings.  OC fails on the same settings that were set before.

Who does actually know all the detailed settings in modern BIOS? Literally hundreds, if not thousands of settings...

 

Edit: actually my mistake - forgot memory controller frequency. But there are really overwhelming amount of settings that rarely anyone uses.

[Morris_lee_9116]

I never heard anyone talking about chocolate wafers, they're fuking amazing

[King_PIN]

On 12/1/2021 at 4:04 PM, IPD said:

Salami & Pineapple

My favourite pizza to make pineapple, fresh pitted jumbo black olives, red onion, pepperoni and tomatoes.  

Lots of sweet, salty and freshness from the tomatoes.

[tikker]

On 12/2/2021 at 2:57 AM, Donut417 said:

Thats the best part. I just really like Tomato sauce. Sadly I dont eat pizza like I used to because of the dairy. 

Cheese is pretty good, but since I've been making my own dough I must say vegan versions can be great as well (is pizza without cheese an unpopular opinion?). For the tomato sauce I use a can of san marzano tomatoes plus garlic, salt, pepper and oregano blended with a stick blender, then for toppings anything one fancies. Spinach, shiitake mushrooms, pickled jalapeno slices. Then maybe some condiments based on vegan mayonaise if it's really dry.

[IPD]

If it doesn't have cheese, it's not pizza.  It's a glorified dough sandwich.

[Quackers101]

pepsi gate

[Donut417]

2 hours ago, IPD said:

If it doesn't have cheese, it's not pizza.  It's a glorified dough sandwich.

Exactly. I have tried dairy free cheese and its hit or miss. Also it doesnt melt very well. 

[Avocado Diaboli]

3 hours ago, IPD said:

If it doesn't have cheese, it's not pizza.  It's a glorified dough sandwich.

Pretty sure it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_marinara

[Donut417]

20 minutes ago, Avocado Diaboli said:

Pretty sure it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_marinara

We are talking about the fucked up American versions of Pizza. Pizza from Italy is a whole separate category.