So exciting, congrats :) I'm keeping an eye on Scopely as well, so curious to hear about your experience!

One last thing I haven't ruled out is that our oven might run quite hot. We already know the digital built-in thermometer is off, and we have a separate oven thermometer, but I wonder if that needs to be calibrated too and the baking temperature has just been too high.

A marble loaf cake, with the chocolate marbling coming further down into the cake than the previous attempt but still quite thick and kind of clunky. The overall crumb is more consistent and closer to what's expected from this type of cake.

I also added extra cacao and some espresso powder to the chocolate batter and used a different strategy for marbling. Finally I baked it by testing rather than time (it was done so much faster than the recipe said too?!?!)

Overall, better texture. Not sure I'll use this recipe again...?

I tried again while this was still fresh in my mind.

I used caster sugar and increased the amount of liquid-- almost double what the recipe suggested so I don't know what's going on there (it's from Paul Hollywood's book so I'd assume it was solid???)

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A loaf cake with no icing. It's sliced to reveal the inside, mostly vanilla with a layer of chocolate at the top. The crumb is okay in the chocolate, but a bit tight in the vanilla. The outside is a bit darkly done but not burnt.

I added a roasting pan with hot water to the oven to try preserving/adding some moisture. I'm glad I did, because it baked FAST and had nearly a crust on it 😆 But aside from being a little dry and the marbling failing (understandably), it tasted fine. I'll try again!

Since I'm taking a highly experimental approach to all this (gleefully reinventing the wheel), I decided to try using granulated sugar instead of caster.

I suspect this is the reason the mix was QUITE dry (?). I knew it seemed off, but again, decided to see what happened and bake it anyway.

I tried baking a marble loaf the other day.

Right now I'm learning the differences between ingredients (e.g. caster sugar vs. icing sugar) and often realizing I don't have what I need. Then I have to decide whether to try a recipe with a substitute.

Wrex

I've seen comments on other websites saying this is a good use of AI because typesetting is just grunt work.

No it isn't! There is a lot of skill and craft to good typesetting and this is aiming to take jobs from people to automate what should be a human process!

This sucks!

Spy x Family is very cute

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Photo of a round Irish soda bread loaf with chocolate chips sitting on a white cutting board. The crust is not dusted with flour and has a light brown color, probably a bit lighter than it should

The soda bread, sliced, revealing its inside texture. Crumb is fairly open and consistent, with some density in the lower centimeter or so. The chocolate chips are more or less even, with some concentrated clusters

I think the inside structure is okay, but a little dense at the bottom. Given that plus the light-ish crust color, I think I probably could have baked it for another few minutes.

Tastes great at least 😊 Overall I'm pleased.

I also subbed unsweetened vanilla almond milk & white vinegar for the buttermilk since I didn't have that, either 😆

I also added some chocolate chips.

I think it came out pretty well for a first attempt, especially given the added variables of an extra ingredient plus a substitution.

I'm getting into baking and might share some things here as I go. I'm a beginner and it's just for fun and creative expression.

Today I tried a soda bread, mostly because it's quick and I don't have any strong bread flour at the moment.

It's hard to describe burnout

Me, stressed, relaxing by playing games that make me feel dumb and angry 💪

And this beautiful game on grief is out now! If you want to support Arab-made work about the Arab world, history, arts, and culture -especially in a time of destruction and erasure towards our people- I cannot recommend this game more.

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It’s called the Cycle of Abuse or the Walker Wheel: calm followed by rising tension, the explosion of violence, the reconciliation, the incremental intensification of violence over time.

How are people supposed to live like this

i left messages with both senators and congress for WA and it took literally 3 minutes. i did it on my break in my car. pick up your phone. ask them to speak out publicly, invoke the 25th amendment, and stand firm against this behavior

Sometimes I have to remind myself that in terms of stressful life events (even positive), I have been & will be CONSERVATIVELY at 207 (closer to 250) on the Holmes and Rahe Life Change Index for *months.*

I'm doing ok & prioritizing health... but also, jeez, go easy on yourself Evie 🫩

I miss how I used to engage with social media. Just unabashed fandom and joy and sappiness.

Now I find I'm mostly prone to post "I'm so tired, team."

One thing that I feel like isn’t been talked about much is how career progression for almost all of us is GONE. We are lucky to have a job at all, but we certainly aren’t getting promotions. Even the folks who keep their jobs end up with stagnant careers w/ no upward mobility.

This game is, I'm not exaggerating, the reason my husband and I started dating.

I'm mostly just musing, although I'm also open to thoughts/suggestions.

I just really don't want to start totally over, leaning a trade from scratch again 😞

The catastrophic state of the games means this question constantly percolates in the back of my mind: when I leave my role later this year (my company policy won't convert my position to Canada-based), what do I do? Do I even try to stay in the industry? Go to an adjacent one? Shift disciplines?

Yeah 🙃

If anyone is hiring for a game designer with 23 years of experience, hit me up.

So sorry to hear this 🫂