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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Tim Horton’s certainly can hit the spot but the quality has been on a steady decline for about 15 years now. Their menu used to be very simple; coffee and assorted café style drinks, bakery treats, and soup and sandwich. All very simple, yet effective as the ingredients were of reasonable quality and the coffee was consistently good.

    Nowadays the diversification of the menu has gotten so extreme that they can barely do any single thing right. Coffee is often burnt as machines are calibrated too hot, machines not properly rinsed after cleaning resulting in an oil slick of soap and chemicals floating in your coffer (personal experience), donuts and breads are often stale or poorly made… For years their breakfast menu’s egg was not egg at all. “Cheese and onion egg-like product” was what was on the box. Only recently have they moved to using real egg which has had a massively positive effect on the breakfast menu’s quality.

    Tim’s can be good. In Canada, its often that its not. I live in a town of ~50,000. This town has more Tim Horton’s than Ottawa with over 1M people. Tim’s has a cult-like following around here. Not sure why after the years of mediocrity.

    Glad you like it though. I’d love to try your Tim’s to see if there is much of a difference.





  • I 100% agree. Every element of the physics engine felt like it actually had weight to it. The driving physics were predictable, especially if you have any experience with sim driving/racing titles. It wasn’t a simulation, but the cause and effect aspects were as good as we’ll probably ever get in a game like GTA. Passenger cars drove like barges, sports cars were agile and snappy. It wasn’t some canned effect, it was actually down to approximations of a tire model and suspension dynamics.

    GTA V feels like every car is the same baseline slot car with tweaked effects to try and provided some level of difference between vehicles. The inertia is bad. Accidents have minor consequences compared to GTA IV. The damage model in IV is vastly superior as well.









  • AstralPath@lemmy.catoMemes@lemmy.mlJust no
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    2 months ago

    I love pineapple on pizza, but the key to its greatness is using small pieces on top of the cheese and even giving them a little squeeze before cooking to prevent an over abundance of juice.

    For kiwi on a pizza to be even mildly appetizing at face value IMO the pieces would need to be quite small. I don’t want a mouthful of sweet. A hint of sweet along with all the saltiness in the pizza is what makes sweet/salty pizzas amazing.