Kempeth

How was it? What can you recommend? Or not?

After picking up the recipe on the site that shall not be named we finally got around to making it and absolutely love it!

Credit goes to ameliaisnotachef for the recipe:
Garlic Confit

• 1.5 heads of garlic
• 1 cup or so of olive oil- enough to cover the garlic cloves

Add olive oil to small sauce pan and heat on medium. Once oil is hot, add garlic cloves and reduce to low and cook for about an hour. Set aside

Harissa Chicken

• 3.5 oz harissa paste
• 1 tablespoon gently crushed coriander seeds
• 3 large cloves garlic, grated
• 1 tablespoon ginger, grated
• 1.5 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 0.25 cup olive oil
• 3 tablespoons honey
• 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
• 0.5 teaspoon cumin
• 3.5 lbs boneless skinless chicken thighs, trimmed and cut into 1 inch pieces

Step 1
Add all ingredients except for chicken in a medium bowl and mix

Step 2
In a large bowl, add chicken and marinade and toss thoroughly. Chill for 2 hours or longer - overnight is ideal.

Cucumber Salad

• 6 Persian cucumbers, halved and sliced
• 0.5 cup diced red onion
• 0.5 cup apple cider vinegar
• 0.25 cup water
• 0.5 cup sugar

Step 1
Add apple cider vinegar, water, and sugar to a medium bowl and mix to combine until sugar is dissolved.

Step 2
Add cucumbers and red onion to bowl and toss. Refrigerate for 30 minutes and then drain- serve immediately! (Meh, it was entirely fine sitting like this in the fridge for a day)

Garlic Herbed Yogurt

• 1.5 cups plain greek yogurt
• 3 tablespoons chopped dill
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1.5 tablespoons lemon juice
• as many garlic confit cloves as you’d like (since they are cooked, they are milder)

Add all ingredients to a bowl and mix. Set aside

Final Assembly
When chicken is ready to be grilled, skewer all pieces of chicken and grill on medium high for about 6 minutes, flip and another 6 minutes. Cook until internal temperature reaches 170°F

Warm a piece of naan- I like to dampen paper towels and wrap the naan and stick in the microwave for about 30 seconds.

Spread a decent amount of garlic yogurt on naan, add a chicken skewer, and then top with cucumber salad.

Personal Notes
Yoghurt was too salty for my taste and the meat not salty enough. Overall the amount was good but I would probably move about half the salt from the Yoghurt to the meat.

Also this is a huge batch! Probably something like 6-8 portions depending on how much of an eater you are. The naans also add quite a bit of bulk.

I'm tinkering with a framework to implement board games in c# (similar to boardgame.io in JS) part of that is getting a handle on turn structures. (What is a round? what is a turn? who gets to go when? etc)

So I've gone through all my games and looked for recurring patterns and exceptions to them and here's what I've collected so far:

• There's always at least one structure that handles how player act or "take turns"
  • the vast majority of games do traditional turns - one player does things, then then another,
    • usually in a fixed order maybe going forward some times and backward other times.
    • sometimes the order can change
    • also possible are:
      • turn order decks (you don't know who goes next but know that everyone gets a turn)
      • action tracks (where whoever is furthest back gets to go next, possibly resulting in an uneven number of turns)
      • the next player is dependent on an action of the previous player
  • it's also possible that players can play simultaneously
    • a complete free for all is pretty common
    • it's also possible that players can act freely to some point, then have to wait for everyone else to catch up
  • another consideration, both for concurrent and sequential play is that sometimes some players are excluded (Codenames for example lets all guessers on a given team act concurrently but not the leaders or the other team)
  • there can be different rules at different times (like first picking a tile in sequence then everyone can place it simultaneously)
  • and there can be nested rules (like every player gets to run an auction but in every auction each player get's to bid as well)
  • one relatively common special case is where certain actions on a player's turn result in decisions being needed from other players (trades, attacks, "each player ..." effects)
• there are often structures that simply subdivide another structure
  • they can occur at any level. A game may be divided into "setup" and "play", a round could be divided into different phases but a single player's turn might also be divided into smaller steps.
  • these subdivision usually restrict / specify which actions are allowed in them
  • these subdivision often come with limits like: you can only do N actions
  • sometimes a player can "pass" sometimes they cannot

I'm wondering if anyone can think of an instance that is not covered by these "rules".

dpunked seems to be sleeping in... So, what did you folks play last week?

As a new user I would like to point out some issues I encountered getting off the ground with lemmy in the hopes that ironing these out will help the network welcome more users.

1. join-lemmy.org is really hard to find without the "join". On startpage.com there is exactly 1 link related to the link aggregator software out of 10 pages. And that one links to the github. You're gonna lose a whole bunch of possible users on this hurdle.
2. join-lemmy.org doesn't do what it says on the tin. The home page is almost exclusively dedicated to get people to self host. In terms of overall population these people are a rounding error. The focus of a site called "join lemmy" needs to be to get people to join lemmy. To that end: explain what it is then move them along
3. picking an instance to join is not something the average user wants to do. They want to join LEMMY. They do not have the information to make an educated decision at this point.
   • there should be a short list or wizard to guide them. language? country? nsfw content yes/no/maybe? Then give them a few recommendations for ACTIVE instances.
   • there needs to be accounting for the fact that if they register on a non-NSFW instance they will not be able to consume NSFW content. This is an important information regardless of what you want, as picking the wrong one means you have to do it all over again. An appreciable number of users will just leave at that point.
   • there should be an option for users to move all their contributions from one instance to another. There will inevitably be instances that go under. I don't know about others but I would like to be able to take my history with me if I'm forced (or decide) to move.
4. The initial content offered to new users is often suboptimal. Firstly, it defaults to showing only the local communities, which is fine if you consider instances as their own ecosystem but horribly disappointing for someone looking for a reddit replacement. There should be an initial community selecton like on reddit. A few busy quality general interest slices (group of lemmings) to get people started and engaged. Maybe have each instance curate their own collection? Then default to that.
5. figuring out which new community to subscribe is annoying. There are currently a LOT of duplicate communities with little to no content. In addition to subscriber stats there should be an activity stat.
6. community groups and collectives could help in this regard. Say you're interested in TTRPGs. There are currently like half a dozen communities (slices).
   • If a user could subscribe them into a larger (personal) group they could check on each of them in one go instead of visiting each individually
   • The communities themselves could organize into "collectives" in a similar way as hashtags are born. These could be a very useful first point of contact for the corresponding interest.
7. auto reload pushing new content in at the top is hugely annoying. we have refresh buttons for a reason.