Ligr77:
If you're gonna charge me over 20 bucks on a dish, it'd better be big, and it better be good!

I'm always shocked by how much people will spend for such little portions.

Also, I understand that people tend to eat with their eyes, but plating is kinda overblown in fancy places. If I'm going out to eat, I'm thinking way more about how it tastes than how it looks.

Deadass427:
It started out as lactose intolerance, but now it feels like any high calorie, fatty food that I put into my body really messes me up

Munchies:
I've had vegan cheese before. It tastes like sad.

Letters And Numbers:
A lot of it’s fine, some of it’s good. Cashew based nut cheeses can be really tasty, especially when you treat them like a soft cheese with fruit and honey and stuff like that mixed in. Kinda heavy though and not the easiest on the stomach always.

Some of the potato starch based cheeses are more like American cheese, but pretty good American cheese and they melt well. Very much not bad.

Munchies:
The vegan cheeses where I live are either soy or olive oil based. Perhaps you live in an area where the pickings are better.

Deadass427:
It started out as lactose intolerance, but now it feels like any high calorie, fatty food that I put into my body really messes me up

Munchies:
I've had vegan cheese before. It tastes like sad.

Supergirl:
Hi everyone, I just finished posting a short story called "Fat for a Day" which is one of several I've written recently, all with a theme of people being tricked or manipulated into gaining weight.

I'm treating them like an anthology series, which I've called "The Devil Made Me Do It," for reasons that become pretty obvious if you read the story, lol.

In the last month I've been really prolific in writing, which is unusual for me. My dive into writing has been a result of something other tough stuff going on in my personal life. It's nothing too serious (not life threatening or anything), but I am going to have a bit of a journey ahead of me.

I wanted to share this because, not only has being creative through writing been a positive outlet for me, but also I am finding that strife seems to be inspiring me. This is something I found fascinating as I've looked at my own creative process. It makes me wonder if being happy/content takes the gas out of my creative engine? Like, why write if you can just do something light and fun, you know?

I'd be interested in how other writers feel about the connection between mood and creativity.

X_Larsson:

And it would be helpful to see the justification given as a final post if a discussion is shut down.

X_Larsson:
To sum it up, the many interventions by moderators are that some people are "offended" by something, even if it is not personal attacks or denigrating statements?
Alternatively, shut down preventively by moderators before anyone complains?

So discussions are not really discussions, more of somewhat uniform flow of inputs, morally approved, in the "virtues" currently "in fashion" of more conformistic parts of the society? And avoiding to potentially "hurt someone" is consistently more important than discussing the topics? (There are clearly some people that should be more protected than others.)

It is good if the contents of these applied (but not always stated) rules are clear, which they obviously are not, by looking at the numbers of stopped discussions (as I referred to in my initial question).

Again, this is posted as I see that many discussions (that I not posted in) develop in very odd directions.

Munchies:
Who hurt you?

X_Larsson:
Haha, the oh so predictible ad hominem! I am not hurt, and I have posted one question, the same as now is posted by @Letters and numbers; "When a thread gets locked, say why."

I do not care about politics, and I have only had one topic of mine shut down (obviously without any stated reason).
But in the interest of retaining some dynamics and interaction, having clear examples and justification would be good.

X_Larsson:
To sum it up, the many interventions by moderators are that some people are "offended" by something, even if it is not personal attacks or denigrating statements?
Alternatively, shut down preventively by moderators before anyone complains?

So discussions are not really discussions, more of somewhat uniform flow of inputs, morally approved, in the "virtues" currently "in fashion" of more conformistic parts of the society? And avoiding to potentially "hurt someone" is consistently more important than discussing the topics? (There are clearly some people that should be more protected than others.)

It is good if the contents of these applied (but not always stated) rules are clear, which they obviously are not, by looking at the numbers of stopped discussions (as I referred to in my initial question).

Again, this is posted as I see that many discussions (that I not posted in) develop in very odd directions.

Letters And Numbers:
If Abe Lincoln had been really fat, maybe he would have survived the assassination attempt and guided the country through reconstruction.

Munchies:
Posts from a brighter timeline.

Lincoln was shot in the skull behind his left ear. I don't think anyone, even someone 2,000 lbs, is fat enough to withstand that.