u/Sylectsus — reddlx

Help a milk chocolate lover learn

I am not much of a chocolate lover myself, but love the kind of chocolate that real chocolate enthusiasts tend to hate. Whoppers and Butterfingers are examples of chocolate I like. I have recently taken up ice cream making and it turns out I'm pretty good at that, but I struggle with chocolate flavors and infusions because I'm such a pleb when it comes to this burnt bean. I made a black raspberry chocolate chunk ala Graeter's and it turned out GREAT except for the chocolate which even I understand was the wrong choice.

The real McCoy uses a chocolate that I think is dark, but it's sweeter than most. It's right on the verge of going into that vegetable territory that I don't like about dark chocolate. I'm trying to figure out a good replacement for my next batch of this ice cream, but have no clue about this stuff. Anyone have recommendations for a lightly sweet dark chocolate?

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u/Sylectsus — 2 days ago

▲ 20 r/Marathon

Lore question: why us?

Maybe I just missed this somewhere, but do we know why we, in particular, are runners? Did we volunteer this? Are we still alive back on earth and this is simply a facsimile of us that earns money for us "passively" on earth? Were we criminals that were punished by having our psyche stripped and sold for the use of the corporations?

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u/Sylectsus — 9 days ago

▲ 224 r/Marathon

My insane conspiracy theory about this game.

The soundtrack for this game is on another level. It's hauntingly oppressive. It fits the mood perfectly.

I was listening to the soundtrack out of the game and noticed something when I listened careful to the song New Behavior Norms.

Linked: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=-owJJfev-B4&feature=share

There is a sort of muted bell that hits on every beat. I have asked others if they can hear what I do which is that they are not perfectly on time. Even before I said anything, they said it sounded off somehow.

Here is where my conspiracy theory enters. Everything in this game seems deliberate (except for the missing lore explanation for why trios exist over solos at all) which makes me then think that this timing being off was done on purpose? But why? It would be easy to fix with modern tech. My theory is that it's so subtle, most people won't pick up on it actively when they hear it BUT I bet there is some unsettling effect psychologically from it being ever so slightly off time.

Yet another element of the game that discomfits you.

But seriously, this is possibly the best soundtrack ever simply by how effective it is at evoking emotion. In me, that emotion is terror.

u/Sylectsus — 9 days ago