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  • Sorry but that knife screams “mall ninja.”

  • Edit: Thanks for the gold stranger
  • They’re the same picture.

  • The line war has begun
  • Depends on your frame of reference. When traversing the surface of a globe, your described concept of a straight line isn’t intuitive.

  • Weird.
  • Forgive the ignorance, but are regular OBGYN appointments a thing in the US? From the media I’ve consumed it appears so. I know people with actual gynaecological issues like endometriosis, and even they find the idea of regular checkups without a cause weird.

  • Man who said he'd 'pluck out' VP Harris' eyes was baffled when feds appeared at door: Complaint
  • ”For a comment.”

    In this day and age, who hasn’t made incredibly specific ultraviolent threats against an elected official while constantly reassuring others that they are serious/making a promise to enact these threats? Did this upstanding citizen simply forget to cite his first amendment rights to the agents?

  • It's done. My masterpiece...
  • The is me with my PhD thesis. I wrote it, submitted it, planned for an absolute grilling in the Viva, got waved through the Viva with just minor corrections for grammar, went overzealous with corrections, submitted for review, got accepted, finally graduated.

    It still makes me sick to look at it on my bookshelf.

  • World of Darkness Cosmology is... Different.
  • This really makes me grin, as I've argued these "theological debates" on multiple sides depending on which splatbook I'm into at the time. I've definitely been on both sides of the Caine vs Prime Archmage debate.

  • Godfather
  • Jarl Balgruuf energy.

  • “They don’t have the courage to say the N-word’: Baltimore mayor rips right-wing “DEI mayor” attacks
  • We both know who cares. Who would derail a discussion about bigotry by making pedantic observations on grammar or language?

  • PSST PSST PSST!
  • Do they have a different tattoo or are you referring to the one circling their arm? It looks like the inscription on the One Ring to me, though I definitely could be wrong.

  • What if public libraries...
  • Conversely, a lot of people abstain from drinking. Entire cultures abstain.

  • Et tu, Guinnéss?
  • Ah shit. Reading is hard sometimes.

  • Et tu, Guinnéss?
  • A pint is 568ml.

    Edit: the extra 30ml might be accounted for with the patented Guinness widget, a little ball of nitrogen gas that ruptures and forms a foamy head when the can is cracked.

  • Et tu, Guinnéss?
  • GPT4 is wrong and it doesn’t require a price per litre comparison to prove it.

    4 cans at 440ml cost £4.50. Therefore 12 cans at 440ml cost £13.50, £1.50 less than 12 cans at 330ml.

  • Welcome to the monkey house
  • The fact you made such a connection says a lot about you.

  • free ruleware
  • I agree on a personal level. FOSS software is much more convenient for my usecase of writing papers/typsetting notes, some automation, writing a program that works for me, and browsing/videos.

    On the level of someone working in academia, it can be incredibly inconvenient if not outright impossible to implement. I can manage if I come across a bug in some FOSS software in my personal usage. An enterprise encountering an error with some utility whose support forum is a discord server: completely unacceptable. The entire printing service being offline because CUPS is temperamental: completely unacceptable.

    Enterprises are the core customers of these inconvenient pieces of software with subscription based models.

  • Playing thru the pain
  • On a phoneline service that I have to call about twice a month, you also get a frequent click and a second-long pause in the music, that makes you think you’ve connected to an operator. Given how the service is outright malicious to its users, it wouldn’t surprise me if that was hard coded into the system to keep callers on edge.

  • Russian autopsy shows Navalny locked self in Siberian gulag, poisoned self
  • That’s the thing: you’re proving the idiom in the way that you’re arguing. Naively, one would expect that comparing fruit is easy; after all, they’re both fruit. Two nations have supposedly, in an official capacity, made the same statement (which I don’t believe without you providing a source, and yes the burden is on you).

    The thing is that these are all superficial observations on complex entities. The idiom of comparing two fruits is a common idiom in many cultures, and it’s not for want of an internet commenter pointing out that they’re sweet, have seeds, and are similar colour.

    General point: practice making pithy arguments based on well researched points. I’m struggling to see an actual point in the drivel you’re writing. It isn’t a reading comprehension issue; I read and write dense academic articles for a living. Short, pithy sentences are simply better writing.

  • Russian autopsy shows Navalny locked self in Siberian gulag, poisoned self
  • There's no reason 2 fruits can't be compared.

    I find it hard to believe that you’re not familiar with the famous phrase “comparing apples and oranges,” which is specifically about attempting to compare incomparable items.

  • Rule
  • Pad thai isn’t even that spicy. Who’s ordering a super spicy pad thai?

  • Shuffling party members for the most interaction

    I’m just about to start my second full playthrough, and have run through Act I multiple times. Rather than choosing my main three companions and leaving everyone else in camp, I’m wanting to juggle companions. There are three main reasons for this: advancing everyone in the group and keeping them geared; giving each character a chance for their unique personal interactions; and trying to max out all opinion sliders. For an example: Lae’zel offers unique interaction with Kithrak Voss.

    I’m hoping we can compile a list of best party compositions for roleplay potential in certain areas. I’ll start us off with all that I can think up from above ground Act I.

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    Party Pairings: Wyll and Karlach pair well. Lae’zel and Shadowheart clash. Astarion generally clashes with any companion with a modicum of decency.

    Grove:

    • Recommended party composition: Shadowheart, Wyll, and Gale for kind interactions, Lae’zel and Astarion for mean/underganded interactions.
    • Lae’zel is necessary for an interaction with Zorru.
    • Be mean to Zorru to get night 1 romance with Lae’zel.
    • Keep Wyll out of your party if you intend to free Sazza.
    • Keep Astarion and Lae’zel out of the party if you intend on being kind to tieflings.
    • Take S/W/G if you intend on saving Arabelle

    Risen Road:

    • Recommended party composition: Wyll, Karlach, anyone with high Wisdom.
    • Karlach and Wyll are a good duo for confronting the paladins of Tyr. This is a personal quest for Karlach.
    • For the gnoll fight, a character with high Wisdom is useful in persuading the flind to fight for you and then kill itself.

    Waukeen’s Rest:

    • Recommended party composition: Wyll, any other two (I just go Lae’zel and Karlach).
    • Wyll has a personal interaction regarding the kidnapping of Duke Ravengard.

    Mountain Crossing:

    • Recommended party composition: Lae’zel, any other two (Wyll and Karlach for me).
    • Lae’zel has a unique interaction with Kithrak Voss.

    Blighted Village:

    • Recommended party composition: Gale, Astarion (if he has snuck out of camp), any other.
    • Astarion has something to say about the boar drained of blood.
    • Gale is intrigued by the Thayan necromancer and the book of necromancy. Consider giving this to him.

    Goblin village:

    • Recommended party composition: Shadowheart, Astarion, anyone else NOT including Wyll.
    • Shadowheart has unique remarks about the repurposed temple of Selune.
    • Shadowheart and Astarion have a good time watching you bask in Loviatar’s love.
    • Wyll struggles to keep his fat mouth shut. Keep the liability in camp.

    Teahouse:

    • Recommended party composition: sneaky people or people with Hold Person (if you intend on minimising casualties), someone with create water for cheese.
    • I just always fight the hag. +1 to any stat is useless as only even stats count, and you should be shuffling the “standard” ability array to get all even stats (including two 16s). The Hag Eye is also a liability as perception is rolled more often than intimidate.
    • Sneak and cast Hold Person if you don’t want to fight any of the masked people.
    • cast Create Water on Myrina’s cage to protect her. You can usually tell her and Ethel apart through use of Examine, but Create Water results in Mayrina being wet, which doesn’t require examine to discern.
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    Basic descriptions are necessary for collaborative storytelling

    Just a vibe check of the Lemmy community with a deliberately exaggerated meme.

    A reddit post would get flooded with argumentative mini-essays from folks who can’t string together 5 words in-character.

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