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Hey artists, C. Spike Trotman, founder of Iron Circus Comics, just posted an invaluable thread on depicting different types of black hair. I’d do the thing where you screencap the whole thread and post it but it’s just too long (which is great because it’s a whole lot of useful information!) Give her a follow while you’re there.

Obviously you can fucking look up what "boil/cook/fry until done" means. You can look up what the texture is supposed to feel like, what it's supposed to look like when it's done. But no matter how much you research it that innate sense you have for if something is done or not just by looking at it/checking the texture is something you only develop through experience. Somebody might check for everything the instructions tell them to check for but miss some other indicator that their food isn't done, something a more experienced cook wouldn't miss. You're telling me you genuinely believe this can't happen. That reading instructions no matter how complex really counts for absolutely everything in cooking. And experience and skill has nothing to do with it. Okay

"You can look up what medium heat is" 1. I've had people on this post tell me medium heat should be marked on your stove (it's not on mine so that's not it) 2. I've had people on this post and elsewhere tell me medium heat is obviously 6-7, others have told me it's obviously 5-6, others said it's 5-4, idk man there does not seem to be a consensus on what "medium heat" really is? Not to mention, all stoves are different, some are stronger some are weaker. How could you know what the author of whatever recipe you are using meant? Besides, what I actually meant when I mentioned the medium heat thing is the ability to know what heat settings are the right ones to use for whatever you are making, maybe even despite what the recipe says. That's something you need experience to get right. Especially if you're cooking without a recipe. I guess I made a mistake by putting the focus so much on recipes in my original post, I had assumed people would still get my point regardless

I suppose the pinch thing is the easiest to not get wrong, I still mentioned it because how much of something you add in a pinch can vary. It's not a very exact form of measurement.

I didn't mention this one in the post, but I did in the tags. Say you're following a recipe to fry meat, and it tells you to "put butter in the pan, wait until the pan is hot enough, then add meat and fry until done". This is obvious if you know what you're doing but say you've never fried meat before. Again, there's the issue with the "frying until done" thing. But also? How much butter do you add? Just a spoonful? Or half a stick? Seems obvious if you know what you're doing but if you don't? How'd you know? I've never seen a recipe describe how much butter to add to a pan. And what if you don't have any butter? Most people know you can substitute it with oil but what if you didn't know that? Then, checking the heat of the pan. How do you do that? Do you just touch the pan? No because then you'd burn yourself. What do you do? You might look it up and it might tell you to hold your hand above the pan to check the heat (what I always do) but then what? What are you looking for? What are you supposed to feel? How hot should the air feel? Should it just be warm? Or should it sting? Even if you're told "it should sting from the heat" you only get that sense of if the heat is right or not if you're experienced. You know?

Also I'd like to personally call out everyone who said you should just "get someone to help you". First of all. Not everyone lives with someone else, and not everyone lives with someone who can cook. Second of all. In telling someone who doesn't know what to do to just get the help from someone who does are you not just kind of admitting that cooking is a skill? If it wasn't how could someone else help? If it really was just following instructions? They'd be reading the same instructions, wouldn't they? Or are you recognising that they might have additional experience to better understand the instructions/insight into what to do maybe even despite the recipe? But also, I don't even get what the point of mentioning that is. "You can get someone to help you" is never in no way an argument against something being a skill. It is true for anything. Would you also say that, for example, woodworking isn't a skill? Because if you're struggling you can just get someone else to help? Like, how can you think this is in any way an argument against cooking being skill-based. It has nothing to do with that at all. What point are you trying to make by mentioning that. Tell me please

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It's perfectly reasonable that I have decided, based on ambient cultural information, that Ready Player One will not be my jam and I'm not going to read it. What that means, though, is that I have very little information about Ready Player One. I am not an authority on Ready Player One. If there's a discussion of the character development or worldbuilding or plot structure in Ready Player One, I can listen, but I can't really contribute, because I have not read it and thus am missing quite a lot of information about it.

To the Person Who Asked If I Was OK

Of course Peter Gallagher knows that "dank" is a weed thing. He also knows that "in heat" is a sex thing and that when aliens "probe" someone it's in the anus.

These are words, not things. Heathcliff is a comic about symbols.

You're never going to get a comic where an alien actually probes someone any more than you're going to get a comic where the Man-Eating Giant eats a man. You're just going to get a dozen comics where aliens like the word "probe".

Heathcliff wears the ham helmet because it's the helmet you wear when you eat a ham. You can tell it's that helmet because it says "ham" on it. The helmet's function is determined not by its form but by its label.

summer = beach = sand = desert = mummy and thus there is the Summer Mummy. Because of symbolic associations that do not otherwise cohere.

Robots don't wear clothes but the mere act of labeling them "nude" makes them nude. And once a painting is a nude painting there has to be a fig leaf because a "nude" without a "figleaf" is "indecent".

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