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by emmet 893 days ago
People like to make fun of the "2000 word backstory before actually getting to the recipe" about cooking sites, but now I'm finding it with everything. Tried to find news about Baldurs Gate cross-play, and stumbled my way through a giant incoherent mess of an article that had nothing to do with the title.
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The funny thing about recipe spam is that now the best cooking information is youtube, even though objectively it seems like a video would be a bad format for a recipe, at least with youtube you know up-front how long the video is going to be, and the ingredients are generally in the description.
It’s really infuriating because you constantly feel like they’re about to get to the point.

Maybe as a protest I’ve been hammering on bottom-line-up-front in all of our team communications.