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kyle,

“at least once a week”?

That’s crazy lol. I’ve had a couple once a week games over the years, but most of the time we’ve done every other week. Everyone is just too busy. Granted we have a larger group going right now, 6 players in both my big games that play every other week.

kyle,

I get that feeling a lot lol

kyle,

All I know is that it’s a raid, you’re a sherpa, and I feel your pain lol.

kyle,

My wife got me to read the first trilogy, they’re pretty good. There’s also some weird writing at times that made me think it was very much “men writing women”. And a weird scene at the end of book 3 where >!Fitz (nephew) and Verity (uncle) do a Freaky Friday body swap so Verity could fuck his wife while in his nephew’s body and impregnate her.!< I didn’t read the other books lol.

To be fair, I’ve read all of Wheel of Time and loved the series, and while it’s not as bad as Discworld, it’s still pretty weird and misogynistic at times.

kyle, (edited )

I’ll add a +1 to some mentioned:

  • Cradle series - progression fantasy, basically DBZ or Naruto style progression with a magic system, intelligent beasts/dragons, demigods, etc.
  • Night Angel Trilogy - street rat turned assassin with magic. I feel like it leans pretty heavily into fantasy tropes, but they’re fun reads.
  • Kings of the Wyld - this book is fucking hilarious. The main characters are basically a kickass D&D group but it’s 20 years later, they’re old and fat, and have to go on one last epic adventure.
kyle,

I’m aware, that’s why it’s surprising.

kyle,

It’s definitely good and entertaining, but I found it almost distracting how he described women. I’ve been told it was actually intentional, like he was making fun of other fantasy tropes, but it sorta turned me off to it. I only read Color of Magic.

kyle,

I appreciate you being a perfectly reasonable person and understanding that people have different tastes in books lol. Cheers

kyle,

Fake, and definitely gay

kyle,

There’s definitely places to get unbiased news, but each side is likely to hide information.

In general, there are a couple good resources that show bias in different news sources, you can check those out.

www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart

adfontesmedia.com/gallery/

kyle,

I mean if you use that software, you can just share your screen.

Notably, the free versions of Zoom and Teams only allow 40 minutes if you have more than 2 people in the call.

kyle,

Neat! I’ve never actually had to look for others, I just know Zoom and Teams because of work lol

kyle,

I felt dumb for reading it that way first, so thank you

kyle,

Kinda sucks. There’s already so little competition in the design space. Inkscape is honestly pretty clunky, usable if you learn to deal with its quirks.

kyle,

Honestly looks terrible, just speaking about the art style. If you want to go cartoon-y, it looks better if you lean into that style, like Borderlands or Deep Rock Galactic.

This kinda reminds me of Torchlight. Which came out in 2009.

kyle,

I never actually played the game as a kid, but freaking loved the show. I might actually give it a try, seems like a pretty straightforward platformer.

kyle,

Does BG3 do anything with overlapping extra attack features?

kyle,

Can you elaborate? I really only have experience with 5e

kyle,

Sales people generally make a commission, but you’re assuming they are selling expensive equipment to begin with. My cousin does inside sales at a tire company, mostly tires for construction vehicles. His commission is based on whether they meet sales numbers, and is considered part of his “normal” income, typically referred to as “on target earnings” or OTE.

A company that beat their number by $6mil and isn’t popping champagne means they are probably a billion dollar or more corporation.

Source: I work in pre-sales, get commission, do not get mints or pizza. I did get a $40 credit to our company store, which lets me buy shirts and hoodies with the company logo on it WITH MY OWN MONEY.

kyle,

Once ever? Once a week maybe!

kyle,

What makes this meme even better is the guy in the picture, Shah Rukh Khan, is a legend in Bollywood. Indian Tom Cruise. I’m pretty sure he has written in his contracts that all close ups require a fan in his face to make it look like his hair is gently blowing in the wind.

kyle,

Holy crap she really did.

www.marca.com/en/…/65242ba8268e3e26448b459c.html

kyle,

Fair, the site posts garbage, but she really did post on Twitter calling them “freedom fighters” and that they should film horizontally to get better footage (of the atrocities??)

Can the government decrypt your WhatsApp chats?

For open source messengers, you can check whether they actually encrypt your messages and whether the server has access to your encryption keys but what about WhatsApp? Since it’s not open source, you can’t be sure that the encryption keys aren’t sent to the server, right? Has there been a case where a government was able...

kyle,

Everything I’ve ever heard about government cryptography from people close to me is that the government (FBI, military) is wildly far ahead of what’s available publicly. I wouldn’t count on anything you do on the Internet to be truly private.

kyle,

Anecdotally, I played on PC at launch, no mods or fixes and had a pretty good time. The most buggy things I encountered were people clipping into my car when driving and forcing me to hit them. Random stuff, but nothing too bad IMHO, not like game crashes, awful lag/latency, save corruption, etc.

Definitely not bug free, I ran into those often, but I felt like they were mostly trivial. As another concession, I did have an above average rig so I didn’t really fall into any of the terrible optimization problems.

kyle,

Nice

kyle,

I stared at this for too long

kyle, (edited )

Is “das ist mir wurst” a thing? That’s one I learned from my MIL (from Bavaria).

I also have a special love for the word “Mietschuldenfreiheitsbescheinigung”. And yes I had to Google the spelling lol.

kyle,

You are correct, it’s the attestation, not an actual saying. I just think it’s wild how many words were shoved together to make this abomination of a word.

kyle,

I actually watched The Last Unicorn for the first time recently. Pretty awesome for an old kids movie.

kyle,

There are about 326,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water in our oceans. I found a neat little calculator to determine how many pounds of ice you’d need to cool water (okay pool water, not ocean water, good enough). The ocean surface temperature has increased about 1.5°F in the last hundred years, let’s reverse it!

[Ocean Vol] / 1000 × [Temp] × 4.375 = 213,937,500,000,0000,000 lbs of ice

Or 1,069,687,500,000,000 tons An enormous ice cube roughly 63 miles or 101km on each side. Super easy!

kyle,

Bad Boy Bubby, scrape it from my brain.

I just hear his mom saying “good boy bubby…” as she’s riding him and it haunts me.

kyle,

Getting married in about 6 weeks. Compared to my first one 10 years ago, it’s nuts. One metric I read said that wedding costs were up 40% post COVID. My first wedding was maybe $5,000 and that was super strict budget. This one is closer to $25k.

My fiancée was quoted between $300-650 for makeup only. Seriously?? DJ is minimum $900 for 5 hours of work, I got a lot of quotes in the $1300 range, or $2200 for better lighting ($440/hour??) Look I know you had to buy your own equipment but holy hell.

kyle,

I didn’t have a DJ the first time around, just a laptop and Spotify playlist (was at a church that has a speaker system, so we got to hook into that). It was fine, but we booked an actual venue for this wedding.

No idea if I’ll feel like it was really worth it when it’s all said and done, but so far I actually like all the vendors picked.

kyle,

Has some major Samurai Jack vibes and I love it.

kyle,

Fantastic lol. Great art

kyle,

so horny i let him explain his PC build

wow your solid state hard drive is so cool let me suck your dick

kyle,

Standards

kyle,

In D&D 5e, you can get infinite money while living a life of luxury from an Uncommon item, Alchemy Jug, by making vials of acid.

Even just a few hundred gold in D&D 5e is probably hundreds of thousands of dollars. Your average D&D party are multi-millionaires.

kyle,

Looks like Arcane Trickster for Rogue has a permanent one.

kyle,

“I never thought I’d die like this, but I always really hoped”

Any time one of my friends or I are simping over some actress or character.

kyle,

Same with my pixel! Thanks for the heads up

kyle,

Same on Sync

kyle,

Amazing for choke points, even just a doorway! Let the bad guys come to you! Let them waste their actions using dash through some thorny brambles!

kyle,

Dogs are much less sensitive to it than humans, according to the article.

A quick Google search leads to an FDA article for veterinarians that says “only a tiny amount” can cause an overdose though.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

kyle,

Hey, I work with contact centers!

It’s such a niche tech space. To play a bit of devil’s advocate, a properly designed IVR will have “DTMF clamping” which veils the dial tones (the same ones you hear your phone play when dialing a number, did you ever notice the tones are unique?). The IVR should also disable logging completely. When on a call, they should be disabling call recording.

This is part of a process called PCI compliance, and it’s fucking huge, because the penalties for it are insane, tens of thousands of dollars per month, plus extra for each incident of non-compliance. Some companies do transactions in the millions, at a $50 fine a pop. British Airways was fined $229 million back in 2017 for exposing data.

So really, companies are always going to do their due diligence to make sure your financial data is safe. It’s too expensive not to.

kyle,

It just works!

kyle,

If you also consider the weather and politics, I would still much rather live in Paris.

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