Andouille is great, but really any smoked sausage works well. I actually prefer boudin if you can get that, because the chunks all stay together.
But don't forget to brown them first, that's very important.
When I make red beans and rice I use equal parts onion, celery, and bell pepper. I chop them very finely and then cook them till they turn to a mushy, thick, aromatic sauce.
About an hour before the beans are done I'll scoop out a cup of them out and mash them up to thicken the sauce some more. It's at this point that I'll add some browned sausage into the pot.
I do like adding some pickled onions when serving, because the acidity balances the fat from the sausage nicely.
Oh, I'd forgotten about that game. I actually liked it better than Age of Empires.
I played so much Warlords 2 multiplayer with my siblings when I was a kid. I should check that series out again.
I've been getting back into the classic Close Combat games, and they're some of my very favorite of the wargame genre.
I'm curious what retrogaming's favorites are. I'm not too particular on what constitutes a "wargame," it could be anything from Final Fantasy Tactics to Steel Panthers.
To throw a couple more out, I really enjoyed Rome: Total War for the 4x strategy and the Combat Mission games for their simulation systems as well.
The death penalty is barbaric no matter how it's done, but if the state was going to put me to death then bleeding out in five minutes by firing squad seems a lot better than drug-induced tortured breathing for an hour.
Yeah, they were perfectly happy to ride the tiger when it was hurting people they hated and giving them power over ignorant bigots.
Good thing he exploited all of those people, now he'll get some good PR.
Billionaires should not exist. Being a better person than Elon Musk is the lowest bar a human can possibly clear.
I made that exact mistake a couple weeks ago, and it was just like you say. Biggs doesn't have nearly as many of those bitter ones, either.
No. It's another form of government that has its own issues, but not all authoritarian regimes are fascist.
On the other hand, neo-feudalists are reactionaries because they want to return society to a mythical past where a heirarchy of elites rules over their subjects. Fascism, neo-feudalism, and conservatism are all subsets of reactionary ideology, but they are not the same thing.
The way they're holding the bird makes it look like the owl's talons are their hands.
I agree that that is what society and government should be for.
Reactionaries, on the other hand, have a completely different set of values that is incompatible with a free society. They see the role of government as instituting a heirarchy with themselves at the top.
The recent attacks on DEI are a clear example of their insistence on hierarchies with the "proper" people sorted to the top. They believe that all of society's problems are due to leftists upsetting the pyramid.
They don't think they'll need protection, because the government works for them, since they imagine themselves at the top.
I've been playing some games through ScummVM, and there's a cool feature that lets you load the game using whichever graphics mode the software originally supported. It also lets you use shaders to simulate a CRT, because these bare pixels were never meant to be seen with human eyes. I thought it was fun to compare the art from the different versions.
The posted image is from the EGA version
Here is the CGA:
And Here is Hercules(Amber):
My favorite overall is probably Bridge Crew, because there's nothing better than cruising around in the OG NCC-1701 Enterprise with your pals.
I also liked Elite Force when it came out, because it was crazy to see the 3D Trek environments even though they're unimpressive by today's standards. It even got me to watch Voyager.
I loved lightgun games on the old systems, and I think the Sega Saturn's Stunner was the best hardware of the lot. The obsolescence of CRTs pretty much killed the tech, but the gameplay style has made a bit of a resurgence a couple times with the advent of the Wii and VR.
I'm glad you're finding it interesting. Season 2 is even better in my opinion.