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I’m in Act III of my second Karlach playthrough (first playthrough as main, second playthrough as romance). I still don’t know how to throw anything. I should really learn which button does that

The gnolls with hyenas are very tough. They are probably the toughest thing before you go to the Underdark or into the mountain pass

Based on my DnD 5e experience, wizards like Gale come into their power once they get the Fireball spell, which happens at 5th level. Burning Hands is ok at lower levels but it tends to put the wizard in harm’s way

Your party balance sounds reasonable. Better armor and higher constitution will help your paladin tank more over time

Keep going. It’ll get easier and feel more natural over time

Not sure if you are trolling, but no

Meta is joining the Fediverse not because it needs the people currently on the Fediverse, but because it needs a regulatory figleaf to protect itself from monopoly charges. At Meta’s scale, there are 0 users on the Fediverse right now. There is no market benefit to getting Fediverse people to move to Meta

What Meta gets out Threads/Fediverse compat is that suddenly Instagram is not technically a walled garden with platform lock-in, so while the number of people who’ll migrate from Instagram Threads to the Fediverse is going to be tiny they suddenly look a lot less like a mean monopoly to regulators

At some point they might remove the Fediverse compat. The people currently screaming about embrace-extend-and-extinguish because Meta is joining will then scream about bait-and-switch even though they’ve had Threads defederated the whole time. The Fediverse will still be there. That’s the cycle of life

If you don’t find the humour funny, it’s not going to work for you. It’s half humour, half love letter to trek. Star Trek meets Futurama

To some extent, the characters have to be hyper and heightened because they have to fit a Star Trek episode in under half an hour

On average, how many times a year do you go from Thunder Bay to Whitehorse versus how many times a year do you get groceries around the block?

Is the party grouped? Try hitting g twice to ungroup and regroup

Hype! Lower Decks; Lower Decks; Lower Decks!

Could be worse. Could be a party with your cleric, Shadowheart, and two cleric hirelings

Scotiabank is the only one that spammed me with insurance sales calls ten years ago and wouldn’t let me take myself off the list because having a bank account was a pre-existing business relationship. I had to close my bank account to get the spam calls to stop

You might not need exponential growth, but you do want a certain critical mass of activity for each of a variety of topics

Are refurbished units not the result of a repair?

That’s the same argument as arguing as Canada doesn’t have to do anything about climate change because China and India can fix it on their own with their bigger population. We have to make some changes on the individual level to be good role models and to pressure those same corporations

Statute of limitations. Fleeing the country is a great trick if you can manage it. Roman Polanski had the same idea

Assange is a rapist that works for Russian intelligence. Notice how he has never once published anything that puts Russia or US Republicans in bad light

He’s so smart that he fled a country that doesn’t extradite to the US (Sweden) to a country that does (UK)

A new challenge with open submissions would be low effort AI spam. Scifi magazines are buckling under the tidal wave of crud right now https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/25/23613752/ai-generated-short-stories-literary-magazines-clarkesworld-science-fiction

“If you want peace, prepare for war. Si vis pacem, para bellum.” - Vegetius

Big bureaucracies do tend to have waste, but spending less reduces both useful spending and wasteful spending equally. Cutting a budget does not achieve virtue. US military spending keeps the world at peace

I left in November and deleted my account in December. Mastodon/the Fediverse is what I always wanted Twitter to be but it never was

Oh, I forgot about these. These songs are so lovely to catch up on

I’m sure I saw an interesting article about it many years ago, but this is the best I can find right now: https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/ql0bsd/what_time_signature_is_the_tng_theme/

Fantasy communism: Life of leisure for everyone!

Actual communism: If you don’t work, you are a bourgeois breaker and saboteur here to destroy communism! To the hard labour camp with you, bourgeois pigdog!

I also like the Culture novels and Star Trek, but I find the FALC meme an unhelpful way of framing things as that’s not a path from here to there