themoken

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[–] themoken@startrek.website 7 points 8 hours ago

All I know is that Sisko, Bashir, and O'Brien all identify Section 31 as non-Starfleet assholes that need to be stopped at all costs. Discovery has Pike practically saluting Section 31 genocidal Empress Georgiou and revering the black badges in a way I'll never forgive it for.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 8 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

I think DS9 did Section 31 right, as the bad guys to be foiled, as anathema to Starfleet's ideals, but yeah every other show seems to miss the point.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 9 points 10 hours ago

Enterprise established it as a result of Klingons experimenting with human augment DNA and it getting out of hand. It probably didn't need to be addressed in universe, but I thought it was a fun retcon.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 11 points 10 hours ago (6 children)

Ugh, Discovery just made no sense in a million ways. My (least) favorite is how Control was sentient AI like a century before Data was a thing, or even M-5. That and every time Section 31 was acknowledged as Starfleet black ops instead of a rogue agency of assholes.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 1 points 22 hours ago

I don't think it's misleading, you just have to know that "KDE Linux" is a distro, not the DE. If anything, poor choice on the devs for choosing such an overloaded name.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Haha, Wrobocop is a great nickname.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

30 fold means 30x not 30%, but I agree the article could use some more raw numbers.

That said, I don't think it's in doubt that our education system is fucking up. The current gen of college students, my son included, got their high school experience seriously fucked by Covid and now LLMs are basically devaluing having skills at all. I feel bad for kids these days, their prospects are so much worse than basically any previous gen, even with degrees.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

This Shohei guy might even be pretty good at baseball.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hitman wasn't really a sandbox until Freelancer mode was added. The story mode has always been pretty linear. Same level order, same objectives every time. I'm not expecting my choices to matter to the narrative, but I am expecting to be able to choose between quiet and loud, lethal and non-lethal etc. to finish the given mission which should be a pretty low bar.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If there isn't a ton of play style variety like Hitman then it will suck. Play your way is the fun part. I'm a SASO type player and that fits into a more realistic sim but Bond also goes loud and wacky a lot in the movies too.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 8 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I haven't watched a single trailer for this, but I'm hyped solely because IOI did great things with Hitman, and being a (movie) spy is similar except your objectives aren't always assassination.

Couldn't really care less about the Bond angle, but since it's a reboot of his story, don't really think that matters much.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago

It means making yourself more attractive by smashing your bones and micro dosing meth while receiving payouts from Peter Thiel

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by themoken@startrek.website to c/baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world
 

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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