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Turn-based combat is king. All those attempts to do a hybrid approach are failing in my opinion. I think Diablo has poisoned these games with the fancy real time hack and slash combat. I like D&D for intense strategy combat and not for the real-time hectic confusion. I have a party of 4 people against 5-10 enemies. I am too slow to even judge the situation and make a good decision.
about 10 months ago from web-
@zeldatra Yeah. The companion AI might also do a lot of heavy lifting there too. Imagine how bad it would look like if the other characters were potatoes and did the worst decisions. In BG3 I was peeved off any time (out of combat obviously) whenever a character stepped into a trap or dangerous zone. I had to reload and redo a fight because a NPC character completely out of my control stepped into an AOE effect (Moonbeam spell) that was active when every enemy died. Then due to that dumbness the NPC went hostile against me because he was that dumb.
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@zeldatra Hearing about the new battle system actually piqued my interest in playing the remake, I'd previously been put off by hearing about the plot changes
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I recently put on a very old piece of clothing that has been washed with scented detergent and it hit my nose really hard. For about 4 years I use detergent without any perfumes. My nose couldn't handle the stench of "freshness" companies try to sell to customers.
about 10 months ago from web-
@adiwan Are you saying you don't think that fresh smells like a rotting strawberry soaked in rubbing alcohol?!
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@scribus Thank you. You have described the scent pretty well. I was lacking myself the words to describe the mango. I am happy that I found shampoos that are based on olive-oil that don't overwhelm me and give me headaches.
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This is me speaking about fashion options as a dude who wears almost exclusively graphic t-shirts and jeans (or sweat pants at home).
about 10 months ago from web-
@scribus It reminds me that I need a new suit for special occasions. Last time I bought one was 10 years ago. My proportions have shifted a bit.
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@adiwan I was so grateful that my recent job interview was online so I could wear mismatched slacks with a jacket I couldn't actually button and nobody could tell
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@scribus To my in-person interview in September 2017 for my current job I wore a graphic t-shirt with a sailship being attacked by a kraken, griffin, and a sea serpent. However the graphic t-shirt with an astronaut using a half-moon as a rowboat for an interview at IBM was unsuccessfull. The reasons were mainly that they wanted a Java-focused developer and not one preferring C/C++/C#.
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I have some gherkin plants but they grow too few fruits to make it viable to pickle them. Some are giant while other fruits are barely grown. I'd need thrice as many as I have now to have a good selection of mid-sized gherkins at a time and enough to make it worth the process to put them into the pickle jars. So far I have given them away or ate some myself. I'm not a fan of fresh gherkins but at least they are better in taste than store-bought.
about 10 months ago from web-
@adiwan Gherkin mention
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@thelastgherkin Unsolicited gherkin pic https://i.imgur.com/EHgptpy.jpeg This one is about 15cm long. Similar ones I harvested were about 250g in weight.
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Nothing quite makes me wish I could've known a person like beating life expectancy and then checking out in a homemade helicopter accident, he sounds like he was party as batcave https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/russian-man-88-dies-after-homemade-helicopter-falls-apart-on-takeoff/
about 10 months ago from web-
@scribus Whenever I see home-made helicopters I already flinch by the sole thought of touching one. They look soo flimsy and with safety third in mind.
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I have finally a working 3D printer! I bought a used Prusa MK3S for 250€. It's about the current price it goes for but for me it's a bargain, as it is the start of the end of many of my printer problems. I want a work horse, reliable, not super fancy, but it does the work, neither exceptionally but competently. Also it's my first direct-drive extruder which will enable me to print with flexible material like TPU at 95 shore hardness.
about 10 months ago from web-
@scribus Thanks. The previous owner had printed a test print just before I arrived to demonstrate that it works, and I believe him fully that it always was without any problems. However, There is a lingering thought in my head that is slowly getting louder saying that my luck (more misfortune) will make it to an object with the same amount of problems as I had before. Joking aside, I think it will take me a little bit of time to get it to know and know its limitations and quirks. It uses a magnetic spring steel sheet with a PEI layer as the print bed surface, which can be really tricky to print with PETG, that is my preferred material. It tends to destroy the PEI coating of the print surface when not being carefully handled.
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I'm at the end of Act 2 of Baldur's Gate 3. WHO DESIGNED THIS PIECE OF CRAP ENCOUNTER?!?!?! It is impossible.
about 11 months ago from web-
@adiwan The skeleton thing? I went through that one just fine but I guess that's the advantage of a cleric/pally heavy party
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@scribus Wait until you try Wrath of the Righteous.
Pathfinder in general is number crunching hell since its first edition, but WotR takes it a step further crowning itself as the most number-crappy TTRPG I've played so far.
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@nerthos It was the fight. My party had a Ranger with the teleport moth swarm (my character), a cleric (Shadowheart), a wizard (Gale), and a barbarian (Karlach). My damage output was too low and all of them failed their saving throws more times than statistically possible.
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I'm the weirdo blasting orchestral soundtracks out of the rolled down car window next to the guy with the mega subwoofer in the other lane.
about 11 months ago from web-
@adiwan I have at some point been driving around, windows down and "Phantom of the Opera" up
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@scribus I'm a more simpler man: I had Grasslands de Chocobo from Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on slightly than higher volume https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN8W9Ng-P4U
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What are the natural forces in video games that reset a room upon exiting and entering it again? Why aren't these forces resetting the puzzle upon entering? Is it related to infinitely spawning enemies and why is the law of conservation of energy and mass violated? Why are some people/creatures fading out of existence upon death and some need to be buried? It'd be interesting if a piece of media told a story that tries to explain odd and common video game stuff.
about 11 months ago from web-
@scribus Never seen that piece of entertainment but I know its infamy as it was told among the whole nerdom and it was cursed by all its witnesses spew out toxic because of the end.
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I’m not proud of this but I’ve been playing the Gex Trilogy for most of the night
about a year ago from web-
@zeldatra GEX 3D: Enter The Gecko was awesome. I had to guy a 3DFX Voodoo graphics card to get the game to work back in the day. It was the best Mario 64 replacement a PC gamer could have without owning a N64.
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just voted. Tactically, both of the men I supported are black, which removes the possibility of me having accidentally platformed a guy who did blackface… again…
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I don't like what I was seeing the the Naked Gun trailer.
about a year ago from web-
@adiwan I laughed exactly once at the OJ joke in the first trailer but I have been unimpressed otherwise.
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@zeldatra I got a slight chuckle at max out of this. I feel like the stuff in the trailer was off-putting serious in tone while being off-putting outlandish in the next. I don't remember the originals being like that. Also I don't like that he is so trigger happy for a comedy film. I guess, according to the Youtube comments, it will be a moderate success, as I have seen a ton of positive comments. Cinema is dead, I guess.
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The mystery of the mysterious poop in my garden has been solved. A few weeks ago I was cleaning up some poop from behind my grill. Before that I had some poop on my lawn. Today I found the culprit: A hedgehog. Somehow there is a hole somewhere in the fencing and a hedgehog found its way in my garden. I encountered it when I was checking for rain to collect in buckets. While that I found the hedgehog standing absolutely still on my lawn. I grabbed a few sticks and pushed it gently out of my gate since I don't know where it could exit otherwise and I am certain that it wouldn't survive in my garden.
about a year ago from web-
@scribus Words like "go away" and "idiot" were uttered. That stupid stubborn little piece of poop and spiky bristles either didn't move at all or it moved quickly back to under the bush to make the whole process comically on repeat. 10 minutes for a distance of 1.5 meters.
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@adiwan I spent half an hour yesterday chasing a duck around the yard, also on account of poop. I warned it for months that the pool wasn't going to keep me out forever, and yesterday was the point where I finally said "Oh ho, it's Speedo time," stripped down to my underwear, and cannonballed on about a meter away from it.
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I gotta say… every time I see an F-150 in DC I gotta ask wtf these dudes are doing
about a year ago from web-
@zeldatra Compensating and pretending they need the flat bed for the off-chance to transport something big enough to warrant the purchase and ignoring trailers are a thing.
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While ICE slams minorities in the USA, ICE is crashing against a horse with 300km/h (186mi/h). ICE is an Inter City Express train in Germany.
about a year ago from web- RDN's Lucifer likes this.
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@adiwan Until now I was cheering for the two MQ9 Reaper drones flying circles over LA, but you have convinced me to cheer for the Inter City Express instead.
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@nerthos Too bad. The train has a delay of 50 minutes and the AC doesn't work. Seriously, the trains here are a joke for decades ever since Deutsche Bahn is run like a normal capitalist company.
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The pharmacist keeps telling me she gave an android device to “the lady with the jihad”. I think she’s trying to say “hijab”.
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https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/garbage-and-glory/news/garbage-and-glory-rpg Who wants to roleplay a party of trash pandas?!
about a year ago from web-
@scribus That looks fun. I guess my D&D group's taste would like a little bit more serious setting. I own the Humblewood books and I wait for the day I can do a one-shot in that setting when we start a Spelljammer campaign next year.
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Had my first time a militant vegan was commenting on my post on bluesky. Shouldn't have replied to them. It baffles me that they cannot frame their interaction in a more positive light like saying that other products might be better and be positive to try more. Guess that's the Internet in a nutshell.
about a year ago from web-
@adiwan I didn't want to look into the person's profile but I did it anyway. As suspected the person is as stereotypical of a militant vegan as it can be. Their personality is fully based on spreading veganism by being a dick to everybody and guilt-tripping for eating dead animals. Cool bro. You found an interesting hobby.
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FBI reports that the man who bombed the fertility clinic in Palm Springs had access to bomb-making material, wonder how they figured it out
about a year ago from web- RDN's Lucifer likes this.
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@scribus Oh wow! What a surprise! A determined person could brew something simple as gunpowder from the knowledge from Wikipedia.
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I equip my TI-83+
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What if school classes were RPG classes in a game? Having a party of students that is composed of a physics student, a foreign language student, a history student and a religion student could be for example a fantasy equivalent of a wizard, a bard, a rogue, and a cleric.
about a year ago from web- Scribus likes this.
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@adiwan I had actually just been mentally workshopping something like that, where your character sheet is a report card and instead of numbers it was letter graded, "Oh I've got this puzzle, with my A+ in Ancient Sumerian Math!"
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@scribus Hmmm.... Weirdly compelling. So you have to find books, teachers, information and then to write an exam to level up a skill?
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It is bonkers to me that people give so much authority to the catholic church. If they were doing the right thing the child diddling pieces of Fluffle Puff were in jail and excommunicated.
about a year ago from web- Scribus likes this.
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@nerthos Sounds great! I was not very informed or I forgot the news about that. I guess my avoidance of religious news is the culprit.
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@nerthos Plus, the vast majority of said CSA cases happened in the 60s and 70s. At the same time hippies were taking 14 year olds to concerts and giving them drugs to sleep with them, Michel Focault (of marginality theory fame) was leading a political movement to remove age of consent laws in France, and universities worldwide taught that you should do LSD and pedophilia was actually a very good thing for the kid's development.
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@adiwan Yeah it was nice. They excommunicated like 900 priests between 2004 and 2014 when serious investigations took place.
Obviously there will always be incidents like with any crime (there are over 400k active priests plus a whole lot more clergy staff, nuns, monks etc) but the cover up policy is over. Now they try to do an internal investigation first and if they find anything, excommunicate and report to secular law, unless it's within the vatican, which as a sovereign state has the authority to trial.
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Digging out tree stumps is hard. Stupid roots. I had to buy a new saw with large teeth to make it rip better through the very wet wood of the roots. The previous owner had cut off three trees and let the stumps behind some bushes and I created some of my own. I really want a greenhouse there some day and these idiots needed to go.
about a year ago from web-
@adiwan You can use a drill to make holes in a stump and pour acid in to rot the wood quickly and make it easy to dig out, but obviously this makes the wood unusable.
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@nerthos Thanks. I'll try it with an old bush next to my terrace that will be a cherry to remove. I have a bottle of Hydrochloric Acid and some Citric Acid powder.
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In a moment of 2000IQ clarity, one of the students zapped his phone's charging port with a lighter electric igniter and killed it
Immediately after, he asked me if doing so was harmful for the device
I love my jobabout a year ago from web -
I find that the screen keyboard on my phone seems to be more or less of a piece of crap depending on what app or field I'm typing into, but in no case is it unlike trying to speak with one's tongue cut out and jaw wired shut. I hope there's a Hell bad enough for Steve Jobs.
about a year ago from web-
@scribus One thing he did was good: kill off the Adobe Flash plugin. It was a lot of trouble security-wise and performance on PC and especially mobile was atrocious. My HTC Desire Z could run Flash but more on paper than in practical terms. Also this move has eradicated Flash websites. They work now as good as they did back then, not at all.
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@adiwan OK yeah, Flash did need to go, but we still could have kept physical keys!! :p
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I've operated an electric chainsaw today for the first time. It went easier than thought. I wanted to use it weeks earlier but the fuse in the electrical box always triggered because the starting current of the motor was too high. I bought a current limiter for this case and now it triggers only half of the time instead of always. The current limiter is just on the limit of the fuse's limit at 16A. At least I can use the chainsaw. Also I have a miter saw that also is kinda trigger-happy, so the bought current limiter is useful for more than the chainsaw.
about a year ago from web-
@adiwan They're pretty nice, but the cable gets annoying sometimes when you're on a tree
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@nerthos I am not that bothered with a cable. I throw it over the shoulder and it mostly works out. I rather prefer power tools with cables. I am annoyed by batteries not performing as long as I want and by the need to charge them at the most inconvenient times. The only tool I accept being battery-powered is a drill and even that sucks. I have two batteries and at times I was using one while charging the other and constantly swapping them back and forth.
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Delving into smaller youtube channels. The sponsor segments are definitely weirder than the ones of the bigger and more established channels. It surely shows the desperation the creators have. A furniture modification/restoration channel that is sponsored by a LED beauty face mask? Questionable meets desperation.
about a year ago from web-
@adiwan As someone who shaves maybe a fraction of their face, maybe once a week, I just laugh at the wasted sponsor money every time I see one
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@scribus Me too. I shave once a month and wait until it gets itchy. I only have a simple safety razor and an electric shaver. It is sufficient but I like neither of those because my skin is easily irritable. I'd like to permanently remove my beard with lasers but I fear it'll destroy my skin.
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@adiwan I go the easy route and trim with scissors, then correct with the razor. Should probably buy an electric shaver but eh
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I need to find me a good IE punk bar
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Who wants to get in a heated fight over who is best/worst pony like the old days? No guns, but knives and clubs are ok to bring
about a year ago from web-
@scribus I know she's so cute
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@firestormdangerdash That smugness is why she's my favourite, even 15 years later.
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@adiwan Wife tbh (mushi will kill me for this post)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0rvFX3EQV0
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Strongly heating up the remaining red jalapeno made them bearable. Beating heat with heat. I put them on a pizza and they were not so bad. Degenerating capsaicin with heat is the key. The sauce I made a little while ago was never heated so much or long to break down the hot stuff. Fresh and uncooked will never enter my digestive tract ever again.
about a year ago from web
