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Haha whoops, forgot to refill my meds

Ran out two days ago, had a busy day yesterday, was sure I'd do it today but fell into a FOSS hole trying to setup some stuff and now here we are. Getting the first rushes of anxiety, actual bursts I can feel. It's only Citalopram, so I won't be going through withdrawals or anything crazy, but dang this sucks.

Anyways thanks for listening, I wanted to tell someone and figured chat might as well be a good spot. Anyone else got exciting medicine stories they'd like to share?

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Need Mod Suggestions to make Witcher 3 less grindy

Howdy! I'm going to play Witcher 3 again, I had fun with it for a little bit a few years ago but fell off. The main reason I fell off: the hardest difficulty was just... tedious.

I really enjoy the lethality of the difficulty, it felt like even basic monsters had to be respected, and I have to use every tool in my arsenal smartly to survive. What I didn't enjoy was the massively inflated health pools, especially when fighting bosses. It turned what should be a tense and skillful engagement into 10+ minutes of dodge, dodge, hit them for 0.5% of their HP, repeat.

I'd like to know if anyone has any mod recommendations to be able to keep the lethality and high stakes, but lower the HP so I don't fall asleep every combat. Thank you!

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Cancel Amazon Prime [2021]
  • Living under capitalism is living under the yoke of devils. You cannot escape them, and you sometimes make deals with them, whether because you have to, or you think the deal will work out for you. But that doesn't mean you should love the devils, and if you can get away from them you should.

    Yeah, most people's phones or shoes or whatever probably have some dirty pasts, but that doesn't mean we should just give up on making any kind of good or moral choices. We're locked into capitalism, and we will have blood on our hands whether we are aware or not, but using that as an excuse to give up on trying to do better is not a coherent moral position.

    I think there's a significant difference between "any shoe I try to buy is shady, and if a wholesome option even exists it is incredibly hard to find/buy/pricey", and "sure Amazon workers literally die in warehouses, but next day shipping on my random knickknacks is soooo convenient!"

    There exists real and valid use-cases for prime, as several other people in this thread have expressed. But just shrugging and saying "eg whatever" because you want to save $1 on random junk isn't one of them.

  • Games on GOG?
  • I love RimWorld, and I love DRM-free, but RimWorld on GoG is a mistake.

    Instead, buy RimWorld directly from Ludeon. Then you get both DRM-free files from them (to enjoy in the fallout bunker), AND a steam key (so that you can easily enjoy the metric boatloads of modding content on the steam workshop).

  • Good Foss Alternative to Slack?

    Hey Beehaw, I wanted to check if anyone knew of any good Foss alternatives to slack?

    I live in a co-op, and we currently use free slack to organize our online discussions, but we've run into issues with the free version (namely being unable to see posts older than 3 months). Paying for pro is way out of budget, so Im looking for alternatives.

    We could probably self-host if required, assuming it doesn't require a ton of power. And it'd be very important for it to have a good phone app or phone front, as that's how most people interact with the internet. We're only just shy of 30 people, so no need for super-high capacity. Thank you in advance!

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    A recommendation pleading post (with a twist)
  • Slay the Spire is a classic, it's all turn based, playing is easy but mastering it is a deep skill if that's something you're into.

    Divinity: Original Sin 2 is a cool CRPG, the exploration is real-time and it switched to turn based for combat. Very big and large, and you can spend a lotta time running around learning lore rather than fighting if that's what you like.

    Persona 5 Royal is a dream, again turn-based fighting, cute characters and story, very anime. Also long (took me like 90 hours) but never feels drawn-out.

    If you like board games, I've recently got the Aeons End digital adaptation, and that's a lotta fun. It's co-op, but you can play "two-handed" (aka control 2 people) and it works pretty flawlessly, and the app is very good. If you really wanna be ambitious you can even play up to 4-handed, but I feel like that's too much brainpower for any sane person lol

  • Are Tabletop Simulator posts welcome here?
  • I'd hope so. Unlike digital implementations, TTS is literally just the same board game, but on a digital space. Scripting etc can help, but it's still the same at the end of the day. I don't count digital apps in my board game tracking app, but I do count plays on TTS, as they really are just the same thing, different place

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