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If you know how to make meringues, making macarons is actually fairly simple.
For the outer shell it's just egg whites, sugar, and ground almonds- sometimes food colouring or a pinch of cocoa powder.
For the inside, you can just be a bit lazy and spread nutella or jam in between them.. or you can make your own ganache. :3
Glad you enjoyed them!

Oh, and the outside is very rarely flavoured. The flavour you get most of the time is from the filling, not the shell.. this is to do with technical baking reasons! (any fats or oils will completely deflate the macaron shell and it will not rise or hold its structure.)

Is Chinese New Year a good thing?

I think it's been a pretty good year, even though I was gone from PC most of the year )': Though now I'm back so let's hope 2016 is even better!

idk man the xl isnt even bad. this is coming from someone who's had regular DSes all her life! if you're someone who prioritizes portability more than anything else (read: putting things in your pocket), then I guess the size might be a slight inconvenience, but honestly it's livable even given the size over the regular 3DS.

i dont think you'd be missing out on much, if anything at all, by not getting the N3DS regular.

I guess memory cards have always been a thing, but on Nintendo handhelds it really bothers me to have to need to use them...I mean, cartridges have always had save files. It's a huge part of their appeal. If you ever do get a Vita though, I'd advise biting the bullet early and picking up a 64GB memory card. It'll cost a lot, but you won't need another memory card for at least three years, and proportionately it's cheaper.

Well, buying a game in a store is just as bad as buying it digitally on your wallet, really - stores need to make a profit, after all. Which actually makes digital prices even more unfair, when you consider that there isn't a third-party retailer to cater for, so you're paying full price to line a greedy publisher's pockets. I know what you mean about finding the damn things in stores, though...I have never seen a JRPG I've been really interested in at my local store. It's pretty much so-called AAA titles only in high street retailers, as those are the only ones that will sell enough to justify the stock.

I think the wait is worth the savings, but I guess it depends on your preferences...you probably don't buy as many games or have as big of a backlog as I do. I'm rarely in a position to play games I buy straight away, so I don't mind waiting usually. I have no idea what the postal service in your country is like, but in my experience if you pay more you'll get it much faster, and you'll still save a little money. But yeah, I can see your point. Guess you just need to balance how much you need it and how long you're prepared to wait~

I honestly don't see the benefit of digital games at all, and I get very aggravated when games are digital-only releases. Digital titles always retail at full RRP, for one, which in these days is ludicrously expensive, and outside of occasional sale the price never drops. You can get a game 3 years old or more and it'll still be full price. For two digital games at full RRP, you could get three or more physical games. Looking at it another way, those themes you can get for digital purchases aren't free at all, because the extra you're paying almost certainly costs more than a theme would by itself. They might be exclusive, but are they really worth the cost?

If you don't like the game, you can't sell it either; you're stuck with it, and there is no way to make even a fraction back on your investment. The fact that a digital game is locked to a single account - at least on handhelds - means that you can't play it across systems unless you purchase it for a second time, either.

Memory cards are also outrageously expensive. This is more of a Vita issue than a 3DS one, but the fact that you have to pay at all for a memory card is further adding to the cost. The space required for 3DS games is significantly more than Vita titles as well most of the time, so it balances out: you'll pay more for a Vita memory card, but you'll have to buy more 3DS ones if you keep going digital.

Your point about cartridges is valid, but I would say it's a very, very small advantage - cartridges aren't that big, and there are plenty of carry cases that fit in your pocket and can fit two or three cartridges alongside the console. Hell, you could fit a cartridge in your pocket even without one of those. Swapping them out isn't much of a hassle at all, really.

My advice is to go physical, every time, and to protest like hell every time a title is digital-only. Pricing isn't competitive, bonus incentives aren't really an incentive as a result, and the stupid policies surrounding digital titles negate any advantages they might have. Plus, you're not buying a game, you're renting a license. You're paying an excessive price for something you don't really own.

Life stuff should always come first! Good luck with work! :)

Yeah, at least the 3DS still has production and attention going for it, so out of the two, my opinion is that the 3DS would be your best bet.

for me personally, I don't want to get a Wii U because I feel it's really too late to get one, what with the NX around the corner in 2016. You could argue a case to get one anyway if Pokken tournament, Mario Maker and Splatoon are games you think you'd play 24/7, but I'd rather have a console that I can play for the long-term with a lot of game than a console that I'd get bored of with just a few games.

Just something to consider. It's up to you since I imagine it is rather expensive in Indonesia to purchase these things, so yeah.

I'm slowly dying in Singapore too... >.<;;

Maybe post about this in C&T? :)

I'm getting a new mac but I'm curious to see stuff optimized with windows 10 rolling out soon

[COLOR="Green"]I Already Upgrade My Laptop into Windows 10![/COLOR]

I'm waiting for my prompt ;-;.

Btw I love your signature, I can't leave you a VM gushing over it though!