poweruser

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[–] poweruser 5 points 1 week ago

Way back when, Slashdot had something like this to place in your signature. It was a code string that looked like a PGP/GPG signature but the letters were actually personal details.

I recall you could encode age, gender, and relationship status in it, and I think location and whether you worked in the tech industry

[–] poweruser 12 points 2 weeks ago

Save often and don't worry about save scumming. There are a lot of gotcha traps, especially in the early game, that are funny when they don't wreck all your progress by propelling you into a bottomless pit.

The game lets you save just about any time, even in dialog right before you pick something to say. Don't worry too much about failing dialog choices though. Even a failed roll still gives you interesting story. Some interactions might only happen if you failed your roll.

But again, save often because the game can have bugs and can crash or mechanics can work differently than you expect.

There are almost no quests that have a time limit where they count how many long rests you've taken. Most of them the game will give you an indication that time is running out, but even if you ignore it the story still makes sense - you're just too late to finish a quest a certain way.

Almost all quests don't actually care about time so you can long rest whenever you like and in fact you should rest more often than most gamers probably do because a lot of the story events happen when you sleep.

Often the best tactic in combat is to run away, especially on higher difficulty settings.

P.S. If you're playing with a controller (e.g. on console) there's a puzzle in act two that is broken. If you get stuck on a puzzle with colorful lines and brains, it's not because you're dumb but because you have to click the left thumb stick to enter precision mode to click things like a computer mouse. Otherwise the things you need to click to solve the puzzle are too far away from the character and you can't complete it

[–] poweruser 4 points 3 weeks ago

That makes much more sense than "tofu table"

[–] poweruser 20 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Actually, it's implied in lore that Bhaal, the god of murder, is the one who cums. Into your mouth. I'm not making it up

[–] poweruser 3 points 1 month ago

11/11/11 is the Skyrim epoch

[–] poweruser 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

My grandparents had a dog that looked just like her when I was a kid. Her name was Sophie but I couldn't quite pronounce it at that age.

I had met a chocolate lab before and she was shaped like one but her coat was white instead of brown.

So to me she was a Soapy, the white chocolate lab

[–] poweruser 2 points 1 month ago

I haven't tried those mods but hopefully they buff the conversion rates. Historically, magic to RF has been a terrible deal in my experience.

In my own world I got around this by using cross-mod shenanigans to dupe diamonds, then burned the diamonds for fuel. That seemed sufficiently magical for my headcanon

[–] poweruser 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Be careful that she's not sensitive to the metal. A lot of metal items contain nickel or tin that can cause an allergy-like reaction called contact dermatitis if left in contact with the skin for a long time.

Some people are more sensitive to it than others so maybe it will be fine, but I sure wouldn't want a surprise in my underwear

[–] poweruser 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In addition this was back when airlines had strong restrictions on wireless being used on planes, so many devices had physical switches to turn WiFi/Bluetooth off. Maybe it's still turned off

[–] poweruser 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This was a feature I really appreciated in RedReader and it would be great if Voyager could do it too

[–] poweruser 2 points 2 months ago

You could say the same about just about every job though

[–] poweruser 2 points 2 months ago

This reminds me of the time circa 1992 when my brothers convinced me to ride a scrap lawnmower chassis down the big hill near our house. They didn't consider it important to actually attach the lawnchair so it just fell apart when it got up to speed.

I'm still kind of mad about it lol

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