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I love making big batches of dense vegetable soup that have as much stuff in each bite as possible and will last a few days. I've always loved vegetable soup since I was a kid but I got tired of the processed soups that are just canned water and the amount of vegetables in the entire can seems like it can be counted on two hands. I wanted to make my own and pack as much nutrition into each batch as I could so that when you poured yourself a bowl you were certain it wouldn't waste your time. It started out mostly for the utilitarian purposes of getting as much nutrition in with as little time-investment as possible, and have the soup last a while. I went online and looked up botanical resources to learn what vegetables tended to have higher concentrations of which nutrients. But once I started cooking it and getting familiar with the tastes and colors of the different vegetables in the market I started to see the art in it, so it's fun now too.

I sautee some onions, leeks, or shallots a little bit and toss in the rest of the hard vegetables so they have some time to cook and get softer, usually celery and carrots. Then I add either vegetable broth or miso stock as a base and bring it to a boil (miso if I'm craving more salt), and I add bay leaf to it. Then I reduce it to a simmer and add my greens nearer to the end so they don't get too cooked or wilted. The greens are the coolest part because I can change up the recipe all the time depending on what looks good in the market and there are lots of options. It'll be chard, kale, spinach, cabbage, or something. When I pick out greens I try to go for the things with the most potassium and fiber. Sometimes I throw in shredded chicken near the end if I have some laying around, that's always good.

I remember over the past few years Vinny and Drew have been doing panels at cons or answering questions in various places on the net about video production, editing, and other things they do at Giant Bomb. I imagine they'd be great sources of knowledge on top of the youtube stuff you find.

I'd like to see content that connects people with you and let's them into your perspective, history, and teaches them about games in the process. You have more retail experience than anybody I've ever known and it was during one of the more exciting times in gaming that a lot of people have nostalgia for, so you already have an interesting perspective out of the gate. I don't actually follow anybody that talks about gaming history to much extent, the closest thing I get is Jeff Gerstmann talk about it as it comes up organically on the Bombcast in conversations, so anything digging into history would be new for me.

And in the process, letting people get to know you through your own history, your journey with games, things that are happy, things that are sad, and everything inbetween. The people who are most likely to watch have probably themselves been playing games for a while, so they know what it feels like to go through ups and downs in life and be able to fall back on games for whatever multiude of reasons that games benefit their lives. Comedy and levity are great too, especially the type of persona you bring out into the podcast. The Pewdiepie styles of comedy are annoying like you said. Having a more grounded approach and nuanced opinion is way more interesting than treating each thing like it's the best or worst you've ever experienced, and you have a long history of nuance and thoughtful critique.

You can do it, Julian! I never work out and I don't eat as well as I use to, but my problem has never been weight, but cardiovascular health instead. Ever since I was in elementary school till now I have a really tough time running or doing any kind of cardio to exercise my heart. Just this year my dad had to get a quadruple bypass surgery and he's recovering well, but they found out his heart has been underperforming since birth most likely, because there's a valve that pumped very weakly and two of the three flaps were actually grown together into one big inefficient flap. So the whole system didn't pump normally even under the best circumstances. I may have inherited some heart problems that I don't know yet, but in the meantime I still want to work on cardio. I have no interest in building muscle or being fast, although those might be a nice bonus, my sole purpose of turning around my exercise and diet will be for the heart

Woolly World is so beautiful, one of the cooler looking art styles in a while

I liked Assassin's Creed Black Flag a lot. Did they do anything with the tablet for the Wii U version? I wonder if they took advantage of it for menus or gameplay purposes

Stealth games are my favorite genre and I like the action because the appeal of stealth (in a good stealth game) is that you're able to take your time and not be forced into combat. You can size up your obstacles and attack them or avoid them completely on your own terms (if you're good at stealth, and again if the game is designed well). I like the satisfaction of doing recon on an area, getting the jump on the enemies, and being able to dictate the terms of the encounter or even avoid it and move on. In good ones like Metal Gear Solid, Deus Ex, Dishonored, and some Splinter Cells you can play through the whole game without killing people, so players can decide for themselves to be non-lethal whether it's on moral grounds or just a practical solution and the killing isn't worth the effort.

This sounds pretty good. I don't play farming sims but some of the streamers I watch on Twitch play Stardew and I enjoy seeing their adventures

The twilight princess zelda looks amazing! She's awesome

 I loved the Ocarina music, that was the first game soundtrack I ever bought

Stage Select: 3 best intros

3. Half Life 2 - getting off the train and wandering around City 17, seeing the police oppress the citizens, and getting chased by the Combine until Alyx Vance saves you.

2. Fallout 3 - seeing your character go from infancy to a pre-teen birthday, to high school exams, culminating with you exiting the Vault and seeing the Wasteland for the first time.

1. Bioshock - seeing Rapture for the first time from the bathysphere is easily the best. Also, do you remember the beautifully orchestrated opening cutscene of Fable 2 that ends with your peasant character getting pooped on by a bird? Awesome.

Chrono Crossing 2001

Halo 1. I loved the campaign, and my friends and I played a bunch of the split-screen multiplayer together. Halo came in hot with a weird space opera, a distinct art style, great music, and you played it with TWO thumbsticks! My friends and I had literally never played anything like it before.