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[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 8 minutes ago

The white sand beaches are pretty nice, IMHO.

https://www.visitflorida.com/travel-ideas/articles/florida-white-orange-dark-sand-beaches/

Much of the sand on Florida beaches is made up of quartz crystals, produced by the weathering of continental land masses like the Appalachian mountains. The quartz is washed down America's great rivers into the Atlantic and the Gulf where it's carried onto the beaches by water currents and waves.

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If you wind up leaving, enjoy its strengths now.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

but I just can’t reach the soulsucker’s village because the goatfolk just keep killing me on my way.

Mamon Souldrinker can be, IMHO, a hard fight, the quest isn't a prerequisite for anything, and the rewards aren't anything fantastic. His fight is a quite significant bump in difficulty from regular goatfolk, I'd say. I'd probably back-burner it.

  • At least for me

I normally play a melee character


and I assume most people, the biggest problem with the goatfolk is the goatfolk sowers, which have explosive missile weapons. You're in a jungle. Use the trees to break line of sight with them so that you only engage them in melee. Don't engage crowds if you aren't up to it; you can lure lone enemies off onto an adjacent, cleared screen. If you're a melee character, and can't use trees to get as close as possible, Charge will let you close the last bit of distance quickly.

  • Discretion is the better part of valor. If it looks risky, don't take the fight.

  • When you walk off the current screen to another, enemies who are close to you will follow shortly thereafter. However, if you leave that screen before they enter, you won't be followed (e.g. leave near a a corner of the current screen, then exit off to another screen prior to the enemies following you to the second screen).

  • You have a Sprint ability in your abilities tab. That'll let you briefly move faster than enemies. "Sprint adds the ability to start sprinting, with a cooldown of 100. While sprinting, a character's movement speed is doubled, and this effect lasts for 10 turns by default." That'll help break line-of-sight or get off the current screen.

  • Especially if you're a mutant, you may have some "escape key" abilities already


most roguelikes tend to favor having some kind of "escape key". For physical mutations, something like Phasing, or the ability to emit line-of-sight blocking gas (Sleep Gas Generation, Corrosive Gas Generation) for physical mutations. I don't play espers much, but for them, maybe something like Force Bubble.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 2 hours ago

...

Ukraine is literally using a heart crosshair on their anti-ship weaponry?

https://kotaku.com/overwatch-2-heart-crosshair-reticle-season-9-how-to-1851256441

How To Get The Heart Crosshair In Overwatch 2

Here’s how to make your shots a little more girlypop

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 2 hours ago

Super Metroid, “The galaxy is at peace” intro clip was amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86Z4bwdxn_Y

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 2 hours ago

Zelda’s is pretty classic

Which Legend of Zelda game? The first? The series is one of the largest video game series out there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda

Youtube: All The Legend of Zelda music (1986-2022)

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Yes, but honestly, it won't help you that much.

IMHO, the major challenge to reaching the exterior of Grit Gate is learning to handle goatfolk (especially goatfolk sowers, where you need to break line of sight until close up). It's not that hard to get there.

I'd say that being able to handle Golgotha, which you need to beat to get the Barathrumites to open the city up, is the larger issue.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, I'm saying that this was just in the past


they closed that hole years back.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

I'm guessing religion.

Leviticus 18:22:

Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

Leviticus 20:13:

If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

Jude 1:7

In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.

Referencing:

Genesis 19

Genesis 19:5–8

Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house.  They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”

Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him  and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing.  Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”

And:

Genesis 19:12–13

The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”

And:

Genesis 19:24–25:

Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens.  Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.

Romans 1:26–28

Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.  In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.

1 Corinthians 6:9–10

Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 16 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean, I'm not in the cultural space on this, but trying to be objective and clinical, neither one of you cares about a mutual analysis of the weather, right? You're following a social convention to establish that you're friendly and agreeable and willing to interact with each other and not just coldly ignoring the other person. From that standpoint, the response makes sense.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 14 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (4 children)

I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt here as to meaning, as the second part of his statement is even more incoherent if not, given context. I'm assuming that he just misspoke.

“Myself right now saying, ‘I am a giraffe,’ that doesn’t mean it’s true.”

I don't see as how his giraffe-ness would have much bearing on homosexuality, otherwise.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49199407

The layoffs at one of your studios most able to ship games is a bonkers, stupid decision; but pivoting Obsidian to making a new Fallout game is a good business decision if you don't care about what your creatives feel led to create.

 

I got inspired and decided to try out a few fountain pen inks the other day. I picked up Organics Studio's Nitrogen.

This is a popular saturated blue ink that has a lot of red sheen to it, looks almost like metallic foil when written on sufficiently ink-resistant paper.

I used it with a broad-nib TWSBI Eco. And in that, that, I agree. It does show a lot of sheen.

One really needs video to see the effect, since one needs to tilt it relative to a light source. A static image doesn't really convey the effect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEsHNIn1c7w&t=1460s

But there were some big caveats.

It dries out very quickly on one's nib

My big surprise was how extremely quickly the ink dried on my nib, producing a delay until the ink is flowing and a hard start after just a short time out in the air without ink flowing. People do talk about this online, now that I've gone looking for it, but I wasn't aware of it when getting the ink, and I doubt I'd have gotten it if I'd known about this going into it. One can't just stop and think for very long without needing to start writing to keep the ink flowing. For me, this is frustrating, and really kills the appeal of the ink for me. None of my other inks do this.

One really needs ink-resistant paper to see sheen

Another thing that I hadn't anticipated


not having played around with inks with a lot of sheen prior to this


is that one really needs ink-resistant paper to see the sheen. On ordinary copy paper, it just looks like a blue ink. I knew that there would be a difference, but not that there would be no sheen. On an inexpensive composition notebook I've had sitting around for probably thirty years in my desk, it looks all right, if not quite as shiny as on Iroful paper.

This probably isn't a huge surprise to people who have used inks with sheen, and it's not going to be specific to this particular sheening ink. But I'd expected some sheen to still be visible on more absorbent paper, and it isn't.

It tends to smear and get on things

In the above video, Brian Goulet does mention this and how the ink is infamous for doing this


which I find puzzling, given how quickly it seems to dry out on the nib. So I was expecting to see this. But I still managed to get smearing and blue blotches on my hands multiple times, despite being careful. I haven't seen anything like this with the other inks I've used (though I don't have a huge collection, admittedly).

Other

It has a reputation for staining clear pens. I haven't tried cleaning it out after exhausting my current fill, so no first-hand experience with this, but I thought that I'd also mention this, in case someone runs across this post when considering the ink.

Summary

The ink is pretty, if one wants something with a lot of sheen. I don't dispute that. But it really is a pain in the neck to use.

I don't know of a good "Nitrogen alternative" that performs better, but I have to say that I wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless they are aware of what they are getting into.

 

Not sure what's going on, but for at least today and yesterday, I've seen a fairly high rate of server errors when attempting to load a number of different sorts of pages. I've seen this happen with attempting to view a post (including on communities that are not locally hosted), and attempting to view user pages.

As far as I can tell, if one keeps reloading, one eventually gets through, if you're hitting this. No idea as to cause


all I see is:

Error!

There was an error on the server. Try refreshing your browser. If that doesn't work, come back at a later time. If the problem persists, you can seek help in the Lemmy support community or Lemmy Matrix room.

Sorry I can't provide any additional information, but I can't think of much other information.

An example page:

https://lemmy.today/post/55800972

This successfully showed up on, I believe, my sixth reload. The seventh reload was an error again (so it's not a "it works once and then keeps working" problem for a given page). I've seen it on various networks on my end, so I'm pretty sure that I'm not a factor.

https://lestat.org/ doesn't show errors, so whatever it is, it's not tripping their error detector.

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