themoken

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[–] themoken@startrek.website 3 points 3 days ago

I'm not sure I agree this is an awful location if you're going to make a big studio campus. It's not in Austin atm but it will be eventually (it's currently surrounded) and 290/183 are useful veins. You say "outside Manor" like it's also not ~10 miles from the capitol and downtown. In LA terms that's basically nothing.

That said, as an eastsider, yeah fuck the billionaires generally and the Ellisons specifically.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 3 points 4 days ago

Trans? More power to you.

CIA? Go fuck yourself.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Haha, me too. I watch a streamer, Vulrhund, fight ten thousand zombies and end up in a powered bachelor pad that he built, plastered, painted and furnished over the course of an in game year...

Meanwhile I have like 500 hours and my last death was eating lethal mushrooms I foraged on day three. My best run ever was maybe 2.5 months. I'm not sure I've ever actually lived long enough to harvest any crops I planted.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Peter Gibbons in Office Space.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Turns out I liked the game only because of what I thought the game could be instead of what it actually was.

I never played Star Citizen, but this is kinda where I ended up with No Man's Sky. I played it at launch and again earlier this year and there's definitely some fun to be had but nothing fits together right, or feels fully realized. NMS lost a coherent vision of the game at some point and eventually it just made me itch to play better games that were more focused.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

Fuck a movie, we need a Xena sequel series. Get Lucy Lawless and Renee O'Connor back to pass the torch to a new generation of ass kicking women.

Ideally, both of them could be regulars as well, I just don't think they'd be down to do the fights anymore.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago

Totally. I had a few runs on it while it was in the unstable branch and the new mechanics are great, but firing it up after the stable release and seeing all the love put into older map locales really made it feel like a brand new game.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago

3 all day, every day. I can no longer sit normally, I can only lounge.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 21 points 2 weeks ago

It's basically the best virtualization platform. It can do full system emulation across a number of platforms, or hardware assisted virtualization (using KVM). It's incredibly useful for debug as well as doing real work.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Uh, what? The Ayn Rand garbage philosophy? I've never heard that and don't see how that jibes with a free, crowd sourced encyclopedia...

[–] themoken@startrek.website 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like this comic but Beetle Moses needs to actually look at a tortoise, haha.

Their arms and legs don't pop out of holes in their shells, their shells are more like wraps around their torsos (it's a strapless dress, not a onesie). Also those scutes (panels of the shell) are fucked.

... Why yes, I'm fun at parties, why do you ask?

[–] themoken@startrek.website 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It does seem like a parody. Isn't the backstory of Ebenezer Scrooge throwing his life and relationships away for profit? I can see some opportunities for showing how stupid that is, but without the epiphany moment of A Christmas Carol, will he just end the story as a bitter old man?

Or is this just a retelling of the whole story at which point it's yet another remake that doesn't need to be made...

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I'm doing two simultaneous runs, a good Sorcadin run on Tactician and a dark urge, evil Berserker run in Honor Mode that follows along. The good party is basically acting as an advance team to remind me of the scary encounters, ambushes etc. but I've also never done an evil durge run so it's not exactly a 1:1 comparison.

The evil party is just shy of Act 2, but I'm playing with the only companions I have access to (because of my evil actions) and I'm roughly trying to play them on type. Astarion is a Gloomstalker Assassin, Lae'zel is an Eldritch Knight and Shadowheart is a Light Domain Cleric. We are cake walking at the moment, didn't really break a sweat through the Underdark and Monastery. I'm concerned at not having a true caster... But I'm also sort of intrigued at the viability of this party.

Counterspell is the big thing I'm worried about. The advance team is proccing it constantly. Also replacing Haste with potions would suck and I can't get the Haste bow (I assume, Dammon is dead). So far relying on cleric skills for AoE has been working okay.

Can I get away with using speed potions and maybe something clever like going full anti-magic and using Sussur blooms with some party tweaks?(edit: apparently that's not possible anymore, but still Silencing weapons etc.)

Or, should I bite the bullet and spec Minthara as something castery when I get her? If so, who do I replace?

Any suggestions welcome.

 

I have my Linux box running my TV and it works great, but I'd like the ability to treat my Chromecast as a desktop window for streaming without switching inputs, multitasking etc. I have an HDMI capture card that works great with a Switch, but the Chromecast detects it's not HDCP (DRM) compliant so it won't work. Is there a way to outsmart that detection with software or hardware?

I've heard some knock off hardware confuses it enough to work but it seems like the info is old and I'd rather not roll the dice on hardware that's otherwise garbage...

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