Updated links, fixed types, added some Orlando restaurants

links.md4tj

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 [hemmerich.co](https://hemmerich.co)
 [izzyangell.com](https://izzyangell.com)
 [rawexp.dev](https://rawexp.dev)
-[The R-Box Podcast](https://www.youtube.com/@ther-boxpodcast8099/) - A bunch of my childhood friends decided to band up and create a podcast while they were living together. This is the result, basically a distillation of our inside jokes and humor in three glorous episodes. I don't talk to these guys much anymore, but as far as I can tell it's never coming back. Probably only funny to people who know them personally (like me), but who knows? I recorded an episode with them as a guest a while back when I was back in town, but I guess I was such a terrible guest they didn't bother uploading it.
-[micae.la](https://micae.la) - Met this guy on SKYN3T
+[The R-Box Podcast](https://www.youtube.com/@ther-boxpodcast8099/) - A bunch of my childhood friends decided to band up and create a podcast while they were living together. This is the result, basically a distillation of our inside jokes and humor in three glorous episodes. Probably only funny to people who know them personally (like me), but who knows?
+[Micaela](https://micae.la) - Met this guy on SKYN3T
+[Skiz](https://schizoid.party/) - Met this guy on Dangerous Minds
 
 #### Communities
 ~~[SKYN3T](https://skyn3t.in) - I hang out with these guys a lot on Mumble~~ As of 07-09-23 the site is dead.
+[Dangerous Minds](https://www.dangerous-minds.com/) - Effectively where the SKYN3T community moved after the site went down, I spend a lot of time in the Mumble server. The admin is really nice too.
 [Cyberia](https://cyberia.club) - A "hacker collective" I hung out with on Mumble a long time ago back in my "[tech geeker](http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/writ/tech_geeker.html)" days
 [Cock.li](https://cock.li) - My junk email provider, I used to hang out on their mailing list and keep up with their shenanigans
 
 #### Personalities I follow
-[Xah Lee](http://xahlee.info) - Aside from the Emacs Lisp manual and C-h f, his website is my main resource for ELisp programming. I also like reading his philosophical blog posts, he has an interesting mix of enjoying free and open source software while criticizing it (which is perfectly ok). He's known for some crazy antics, but his writing is solid for the most part. 
+[Xah Lee](http://xahlee.info) - Aside from the Emacs Lisp manual and C-h f, his website is my main resource for Elisp programming. I also like reading his philosophical blog posts, he has an interesting mix of enjoying free and open source software while criticizing it (which is perfectly ok). He's known for some crazy antics, but his writing is solid for the most part. 
 [Richard Stallman](https://stallman.org) - The originator of the Free Software and copyleft movements. His ideas on software are a bit extreme and would not work in the real world, and I disregard most of his opinions on social issues.
 [Vincent Canfield](https://vc.gg) - The administrator of [cock.li](https://cock.li), his blog posts are pretty interesting but he hasn't posted in about 2 years.
 [Se7en](https://se7en-site.neocities.org) - ~~A guy I met on the [cock.li](https://cock.li) mailing list. He has interesting blog posts on pretty much anything but I disregard his more extreme opinions on the Covid vaccine.~~ Looks like he deleted all of his posts, I'm sure they're on archive.org
-[Videogamedunkey](https://youtube.com/videogamedunkey) - One of the only bearable YouTube personalities, his ideas on video games are very insightful and highly influenced my own ideas on what constitutes a *good* video game.
-[MoistCr1TiKaL](https://youtube.com/penguinz0) - I watch his videos when I'm bored and want to see some wacky thing that happened on the internet or in real life. I mostly skip through his videos because his commentary really isn't that funny and his videos are way too long.
-[Internet Historian](https://www.youtube.com/@InternetHistorian) - The authoritative source on any major recent happening. Probably the most skilled documentarian on YouTube. He rarely uploads which I really like.
-[Greasy Tales (formerly SexuaLobster)](https://www.youtube.com/@SexuaLobster) - A very talented animator I was introduced to almost 10 years ago, his videos are pretty funny and he rarely uploads.
-[Pea](https://pea.moe) - A guy I met on the [cock.li](https://cock.li) mailing list.
+[Videogamedunkey](https://youtube.com/videogamedunkey) - One of the only bearable YouTube personalities, his insights on video games highly influenced my own ideas on what constitutes a *good* video game.
 [Ed and Mari](https://web.archive.org/web/20130823160422/http://edandmari.com) - The last archive of edandmari.com, a couple's personal website onto which I stumbled when I was a kid looking for Star Wars lore. These guys inspired a lot of my hobbies, including Star Wars, root beer tasting, amateur restaurant reviewing, and pressed penny collecting.
 [Terry Davis](https://templeos.org) - A schizophrenic programmer who created TempleOS. Unfortunately, [he is now deceased](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH41gGBVpkE).
-[DemiseTheGod](https://www.youtube.com/@DemiseTheGod) - I grew up with this guy, but lost touch with him when I deleted Snapchat years ago. We used to hang out a lot, playing vidya and basketball. He tried for a while to make it as a pro CoD player and clip editor but that scene died out in the mid to late 2010s as far as I can tell. He's now trying to make it as a Valorant streamer. I'm more enamored with his YouTube videos as he plays old Wii games which is infinitely more interesting than modern competitive shooters.
+[DemiseTheGod](https://www.youtube.com/@DemiseTheGod) - I grew up with this guy, but lost touch with him when I deleted Snapchat years ago. We used to play vidya and basketball. He tried for a while to make it as a pro CoD player and clip editor but that scene died out in the mid to late 2010s as far as I can tell. He's now trying to make it as a Valorant streamer. I'm more enamored with his YouTube videos as he plays old Wii games which is infinitely more interesting than modern competitive shooters.
 
 #### Stores
 [Nabee Socks](https://nabeesocks.com) - Sellers of very great compressions socks. My wife - a nurse - says they really help her on the job, which requires her to be on her feet all day.
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 [GOG](https://gog.com) - A storefront selling games without DRM.
 [itch.io](https://itch.io) - A storefront selling games without DRM.
 [List of game engine reimplementations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engine_recreations) - Wikipedia's list of open source game engine reimplementations.
-[List of DRM-free games on Steam](https://steam.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games) - A common misconception is that every game on Steam is DRM-encumbered with the Steam DRM. This is not the case, and this site documents which games do not have DRM. Slightly outdated.
+[List of DRM-free games on Steam](https://steam.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games) - A common misconception is that every game on Steam is encumbered with the Steam DRM. This is not the case and this page documents which games are playable without an instance of Steam running. Slightly outdated.
 [Internet Scrabble Club](https://isc.ro) - The Internet Scrabble Club, a fun scrabble community.
 [Project DSM](https://projectdsm.org) - A project that seeks to recreate the entirety of Des Moines, Iowa in Minecraft.
 [Red Eclipse 2](https://www.redeclipse.net) - A FOSS arena shooter featuring parkour. Used to be heavily active on the game, but it has unfortunately died. It is still fun to play with friends though. Also available on [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/967460/Red_Eclipse/).
 [Xonotic](https://xonotic.org/) - A fast paced, movement-heavy FOSS arena shooter. I am terrible at the game and often ragequit, but something about it makes me keep coming back.
 [Endless Sky](https://endless-sky.github.io/) - Some would call this a clone of Escape Velocity, but this supersedes the original in pretty much every possible way. A while back, I attempted to code a mod adding in multiplayer but abandoned it, I may pick it up again someday.
 [Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup](https://crawl.develz.org) - My favorite FOSS roguelike. Yes, I know the greatest roguelike of all time is NetHack, I don't care.
+[The Force Engine](https://theforceengine.github.io) - A reimplementation of the Star Wars Dark Forces game engine, makes the game playable by modern standards
+[ScummVM](https://www.scummvm.org) - A collection of executable rewrites of point-and-click adventures from the 90s and 00s (e.g. Beneath a Steel Sky, Sam and Max Hit the Road)
 
-#### Watchdogs
-[spyware.neocities.org](https://spyware.neocities.org) - A software privacy watchdog I utilize heavily. Extremely outdated but still useful.
+#### Watchdogs and Guides
+[spyware.neocities.org](https://spyware.neocities.org) - A software privacy watchdog I utilize heavily. Extremely outdated, slightly controversial, but still useful.
 [RYF certification](https://ryf.fsf.org) - The FSF's Respects Your Freedom certification page.
 [Defective By Design](https://defectivebydesign.org/guide) - A big DRM watchdog's guide on living DRM-free.
 

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 I was told by many that Toronto has excellent Indian food, but this isn't very special to me because as an Indian I've hit a lot of the popular Indian destinations in the US - Iselin, Chicago, Los Angeles, etc. not to mention I make Indian food for dinner most nights every week. I went here alone on a whim because all my dinner plans fell through, but this was a pleasant surprise. This restaurant is a chain local mainly to Toronto, and I went to the Harborfront location. I initially tried to order their famous KK Agni challenge which is an ultra-spicy dish which gets you onto their hall of fame if you can finish it in 20 minutes or less, but this location didn't have it so I opted for a lamb roti at the second-highest spice level. The spice was more than bearable and the lamb was very tender and delicious. As a note, this isn't really a traditional roti dish but rather a roti optimized for walking and eating - rather than providing the curry and the roti separately such that you have to break off a piece of the roti and eat it with the curry, they stuff a roti with the curry making it amenable for eating on the go. I sat down in the restaurant so I didn't get any benefit from this, but it's a pretty good idea. My meal came with a gulab-jamun for dessert and some fried snacks. Unfortunately, the interior is cramped and they didn't have a pop fountain so you had to buy cans which could add up fast if you're thirsty. All in all, it was 16.99 CAD (about $12 at the time) plus a couple of extra dollars for pop, making this one of the cheapest meals I've ever seen in downtown Toronto. If I go again, I'd probably just get takeout and spend a night on the Harborfront, but the food itself is solid. 7/10.
 
 #### P.J. O'Brien Irish Pub & Restaurant - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
-I went here with a couple of friends solely for the reason that it was one of the only places in Toronto serving alcohol that was open at 10:00 AM. We had a bit of a walk from the Harborfront for this one, navigating a maze of streets before running into this one in a nondescript alley. Once inside, we were greeted by a cozy interior; we were allowed to pick anywhere to eat so we picked a comfy booth in a room inside the main room. We arrived well before the lunch rush so service was fast. I ordered the Beef and Guinness Stew and a pint of Kilkenny Cream Ale. It was mostly good, except the potatoes in my stew were slightly underboiled so they were hard and bitter. The venue was great, but I think I just had a bad batch of the stew. 6/10. 
+I went here with a couple of friends solely for the reason that it was one of the only places in Toronto serving alcohol that was open at 10:00 AM. We had a bit of a walk from the Harborfront for this one, navigating a maze of streets before running into this one in a nondescript alley. Once inside, we were greeted by a cozy interior; we were allowed to pick anywhere to eat so we picked a comfy booth in a room inside the main room. We arrived well before the lunch rush so service was fast. I ordered the Beef and Guinness Stew and a pint of Kilkenny Cream Ale. It was mostly good, except the potatoes in my stew were slightly underboiled so they were hard and bitter. The venue was great, but I think I just had a bad batch of the stew. 6/10.
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+#### Chicken Guy! - Orlando, Florida
+Near one of the entrances of Disney Springs (Disney World's outdoor shopping mall) is an enticing yellow and red building featuring Guy Fieri's restaurant, "Chicken Guy!". I've never been to a celebrity's restaurant before, so I was looking forward to this one. Unfortunately, the only thing this one has going for it is the prices - we paid under $30 for 2 meals, which is about the cheapest non-fast food meal in the area especially inside Disney Springs. I got 5 hot tenders, while my wife got the Buffalo Mac N Cheese sandwich, both about $10 plus another $3.49 for fries. The fries were pretty bad, but in my opinion no place gets fries right besides McDonalds so this was expected. The chicken was especially disappointing - it was dry, rubbery, and tasteless, tasting more like a chicken substitute than actual chicken. The entirety of the flavor came from the coating which just tasted like pure spice, nothing else. The buffalo chicken sandwich was no different either. Giving it the benefit of the doubt, perhaps the main selling point is the sauce (after all, one of the taglines is "The sauce is the boss"). My meal came with 2 sauces in very small quantities and it cost 50 cents for each additional sauce. The sauce quantity given was not enough for the 5 pieces I was given. I chose the chipotle ranch and special sauce, neither of which was worth writing home about. The special sauce is apparently composed of mayo, ketchup, mustard, pickle juice, and a proprietary seasoning but all I tasted were the nonproprietary components. Better chicken and unlimited sauce out of a dispenser rather than in individual packages would fix this restaurant. It was pretty hard to find seating, as it's more of a grab and go restaurant with extremely limited seating inside the only free part of the Disney experience. For all these reasons, I will not be returning. 2/10.
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+#### eet by Maneet Chauhan - Orlando, Florida
+I love Indian food, and of course I would want to visit the only Indian restaurant in Disney Springs. This one is also run by a celebrity chef who appears on various Food Network shows. I am pretty well-versed in Indian food, as I cook it almost every night. I am also quite familiar with "generic" Indian restaurants and the horrors that modern chefs concoct in order to make some kind of meaningless social statement that no one but critics understand; that this restaurant would be one of the two was my main fear walking in. Instead, I got enough food for leftovers at a reasonable price for the area. We both chose the "BYOB" (build your own bowl) option, which comes with cabbage and masala-flavored chickpeas. Then, you pick the base, kebab, and sauce; we both chose rice and tandoori chicken for the first two. My wife picked tikka, while I picked bhunna for the sauce. It's hard to mess up tikka, but it was excellent regardless. The bhunna was quite spicy and flavorful. The chickpeas were great: instead of cooking it as a dal (the traditional approach) these were served puffed and crunchy, infused with a nice masala flavor. The cabbage detracted from the dish in my opinion and it would have been better if it were left out. The tandoori chicken didn't have a ton of tandoori flavor, but was serviceable regardless as something to have with the excellent curries. Seating was easy to find, as I guess Indian food isn't popular enough in America to have a line out the door. I will definitely be revisiting this restaurant when I'm in the area again both because the food is excellent at a reasonable price and I missed out on getting the "tandoori chicken poutine" which is an interesting proposition for sure. Unfortunately, I missed meeting Chauhan by a day as she was visiting the restaurant the day after I ate there, I would have loved to have met her. 8/10. 
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 #### Hot takes
-- Wonder Woman (2017) is the greatest super hero movie of all time, surpassing even The Dark Knight (2008)
-- Zack Snyder's movies are very entertaining and are only disliked by neckbeards that enjoy "real" cinema
+- Zack Snyder's movies are **good**
 - There is literally no reason for Burger King to exist -- their fries are disgusting and their burgers are only marginally better than the competition
 - Rolling Rock is the greatest mass-produced beer, followed closely by Hamm's
-- Cyclones > Hawkeyes
-- Halo Infinite is pretty fun
-- The Matrix wasn't that good
-- Rather than loading video games with DLC, video games should simply cost more
+- The Matrix sucked
+- Avicii's music sucked
 
 #### Nuclear takes
 - The Beatles were talentless hacks
-- The Simpsons is not entertaining, not even season 4 which is widely cited as the greatest season
-- Skyrim (2011) is a decent modding platform but by no means a good game in and of itself
-- Doom (1994) and other "classic FPSes" are certainly software engineering marvels, but definitely not good games.
+- The Simpsons sucks
+- Skyrim sucks
+- Doom (1994) and other "classic FPSes" are certainly software engineering marvels, but they suck by modern standards
 - Halo: Combat Evolved (2001) is an awful game, and a good lesson in how to not design levels and weapons
 - Minecraft is not fun, a complete waste of time, and a technical abomination
-- Avicii's music wasn't that great