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The Great Icrontic Bake-off!
Hey y'all,
We're all baking anyways, I think it's time we have an official bake-off!
How you qualify--
Next weekend, May 30th and 31st, you will bake a thing!
Anything! Literally anything! Savory, sweet, I don't care, I'm not eating it! (Unless your name rhymes with Mosh and you live close enough that you could leave some at my house...just saying**).
Post photos here of what you baked and the recipe (as long as it's not a family secret) and you will be entered into a raffle to win a $10 Amazon gift-card.
- Bonus internet points for baking a new recipe, for telling us what you learned/what you'd do differently, for getting someone to judge your food or judging it yourself and for sharing here or in Discord progress photos of how your baking is going! __Note: bonus points have no impact on winning but will be noted in the official register.
- Sidenote: I am definitely not stalking any of you nope no sirree so I definitely have no idea when you actually bake things. Cough. (Honestly...I don't actually care when you bake the thing! Just bake it!)
Bake bake baaake bakeeey bake bakerooos
Bagels for tax
** No Posh does not have any elevated chances at winning
GnomeQueen
Re: Has anyone made sake before?
After three attempts I finally got it! Right now its not perfect but I'm hoping pasturization will straighten it out a bit. My choice of yeast (D47) seems to have given it some sweet, fruity esters which goes nice with the arborio/jasmine base.
Here's a pic of it first starting
And one right now being strained through a muslin bag before pasturization (with a bulk aging banana wine in the background)
MrTRiot
Has anyone made sake before?
I've been in the process of making my own booze for a few years now. I've done everything from imperial stouts to crab apple wines yet I'm getting stuck on making sake/rice wine
My first attempt turned into rice wine vinegar and my second attempt turned out pretty rancid. Not sure if it's because I messed up the koji or something else.
My third attempt I gave up on making my own koji and am using stuff imported from Japan (no english instructions). Im not sure if it's going to turn out at this point and its got me pretty frustrated.
Has anyone made sake/rice wine before and could help a fellow Icrontian out? It would be greatly appreciated
MrTRiot
Minecraft Creative Challenge 5/2 8pm EST
Hey y'all,
I'm excited to bring back an old expo tradition for this weekend's Minecraft session! We'll be doing a creative challenge starting at 8pm EST sharp. This challenge will probably only last an hour, so we recommend that you log on a little early in the event of technical problems or questions. I will give you a prompt, and then you will have an hour to make something in creative mode that fits that prompt. There's pretty much no rules besides the time limit-- you can make whatever you want with the materials available in creative mode, within a certain plot size on the map. Obviously, touching the creations of other players is also against the rules.
There will be two prizes available for this challenge-- a first place prize for most creative/impressive art piece, and a participation prize available by raffle. The competition will be judged blind by me.
First place prize: Creeper plush because I'm your pal the Creeper Queen (you'll need to give me your address to get this)
Participation Prize Raffle-- $10 Amazon gift card (no address needed, can send as digital code)
Many thanks to @BobbyDigi for handling the technical aspects of this...I got no idea how these here Minecraft servers work
So excited to see your creations!! 
GnomeQueen
Pandemic Playtime: PoGo Community Day Lockdown Edition
4/25, 2020 11:00a - 5:00p Local Time - What better community to hang out with than Icrontic!
- Hang out on Zoom with Icrontic
- Share your shinys and other exciting finds
- Giveaways will happen for prizes like Pokemon Plushies and PokéCoins!
- Pokemaster Digi will be available to answer any questions you have about Pokemon Go!
Incense will last 3 hours so you'll only need 2. There will be a one time purchase Community Day box available for 1,280 PokéCoins. This will get you 30 Ultra Balls, three Super Incubators, and three Incense. Also for the first time ever, an Elite Charged TM will be included in the box. This will allow you to change a Charge Move on one of your Pokemon and not only do you get to choose the move, legacy moves / community day moves will be available! For any of you PvPers, this is the chance to make that uber-mon you missed out on. Who will you use your Elite Charged TM on?
There will also be a special research available for $1 if you want to do some extra stuff. Main highlights are 13,000 Stardust, a Poffin, and a Rocket Radar. Let's go through the adventure together!
I will start up a Zoom 8p/9m/10c/11e am so that East coast folks can start hanging out while they Community Day. I will be available for the length of Central community day and I'll stay on as long as I can to help Mountain and Pacific finish up their days. Evolving an Alakazam during the event and up to 2 hours after 5pm to get the fast move Counter. We'll discuss this and how it will affect Alakazam as a raid team member and in PvP.
Alright Icrontic Community, let's be The Very Best!
All Details here: https://pokemongolive.com/en/post/communityday-april2020/
https://pokemongolive.com/events/community-day/
-Digi
Icrontic Pandemic Playtime 2020 - Gaming Laptop Giveaway
Hey Icrontic!
Starting tonight with the Minecraft event, anybody who participates in a group event that is on the Icrontic calendar is eligible for one entry for a random drawing to win this laptop.
The drawing will be held on June 1st. There will be no way to win multiple chances—each participant gets one ticket (unless you opt out to let someone else have a chance). On June 1st, Bobby will select a random winner.
This is a good time to talk about the Icrontic event calendar: Since we won't be meeting in person anytime soon, this is a good chance to get something social going. If you would like to host an event like @HumerusMeg is doing with movie viewings, or @Cola is doing with Jackbox, or @BobbyDigi is doing with Minecraft, let me, Linc, or Bobby know and we'll put it on the calendar for you. Please keep in mind that most of the coordinating and real-time discussion about events happens on our Discord.
Good luck everyone!
