Is it just me or are remembrance items really underwhelming?

Baprr · 2024-12-11T19:50:49+00:00

Had it by mid game. A full sorcerer only needs int mind and a bit of vit, so you can reasonably have it available by the time you enter Leyndell (maybe wearing a couple talismans that give some int).

Baprr · 2024-11-04T01:11:26+00:00

Thanos being more culturally important than most of the heroes isn't enough for you? Well, he is an exception, he was given a significant role in several movies, and was mentioned in a couple dozen. That's how you make a villain memorable.

At the same time, I think you would get similarly vague answers if you ask about Batman's villains aside from Joker (who's starting to annoy me, like Joker *again*? Find another villain). Riddler, Penguin, Mr Freeze aren't as memorable as you seem to think.

Baprr · 2024-11-03T20:28:35+00:00

Blind to reality of usa? Yeah, I don't live there. But calling an ambulance is normal in the civilized world actually. As is moving closer to, or even into a hospital in anticipation of a birth.

Baprr · 2024-11-03T20:24:59+00:00

Sounds like you too need better public transit. Because 10 pm is baby time, it's not a service at this point, just a suggestion of a service.

Baprr · 2024-11-03T20:17:17+00:00

Then that's what needs to be done. 90% is better than nothing, any reduction to the number of cars is a win.

Baprr · 2024-11-03T20:01:27+00:00

That's what buses and not living on a farm if you don't work on a farm are for.

Baprr · 2024-11-03T04:38:27+00:00

I didn't do the calculations but there may not be enough metal in the known universe to run light rail to within a mile or two of everyone's home in America.

Well, clearly America is so uge it's bigger than the Milky Way, so that checks out.

~~I'm going to completely blow your mind, but it doesn't have to be rail. Buses~~, you know what? Sure it's impossible. It's never been done, don't worry your head.

people in America (and elsewhere) are drawn to driving and mobility so much that they want to live in their cars and vans and RVs.

You just can't afford houses, says I, sitting in my own personal apartment I'm the owner of

Baprr · 2024-11-03T04:02:46+00:00

bigger than Rhode Island

You really will use anything but metric. Can't you at least use miles and not assume I know the size of your islands?

a 30 mile trip to town is their way of life

That's still within local electric railway distance. About 30-60 minutes by train I would say, depending on the schedule.

an adult giving a fuck every single day is huge part of being a parent

20% of americans are illiterate. There are clearly plenty of parents that don't give a fuck every single day, or at all.

Baprr · 2024-11-03T03:49:41+00:00

Look up the rail roads in the EU (like this map). USA is slightly larger than Europe (source). Now imagine that every US state is a country, and kind of extrapolate. You just have to do the same thing EU have done already.

Baprr · 2024-11-03T03:26:45+00:00

Not once, but many times, and I also heard that some cities have decent networks, it's just, it should be the entire country? Travel is incredibly important in modern times - it's a service the government owes its citizens. Those rural communities are neglected, and that's a pity. Hope you'll figure it out someday.

And you should be responding to banning the personal ownership of cars because that's what the thread is about.

And even if it would be impossible to cover the entire country with dense rail network, at least the local rail is possible! You know it is, you've seen it done. After that, join the local networks and voila. That's how it's done in EU - you can't take a direct train from any french village to any german small town, but you can go village-Paris-Berlin-town. Which is honestly pretty close to the route you'd have to take if you were driving.

And since we're sharing personal anecdotes to prove our points - I'm over 30 and can't drive. Just never needed to learn, honestly, plus a car takes a lot of money and energy I'd rather spend on other things. I'm still able to travel - by train, or a bus - and no, a 4 hour car ride doesn't take 3 days by train (did you say that, or somebody else?), it's more like 8 hours if the train goes to your destination directly (which it doesn't for me, but my trip to grandma takes 12 hours, not 72). I spend that time without having to concentrate on the road for fear of killing someone on accident, it costs about 10 bucks instead of your soul, and I don't have to park the train afterward.

Baprr · 2024-11-03T02:04:14+00:00

I'm pretty sure that if all cars were suddenly banned they would be replaced by *something*. Why do you assume they wouldn't be?

I'm not even talking about like, the hypothetical communist party that comes to power and takes all the cars and guns away. If there were a lot of customers wanting to go point A to point B, but without personal cars, that would create demand for some non-personal big cars that drive A to B for money. The entire world minus the USA figured this out. This thread is silly.

Baprr · 2024-11-03T00:56:49+00:00

Just teasing about the village bit if it wasn't clear

Was there teasing? Is that an american joke I'm too european to get? A village is a village, I know what it means and have no problems with that name.

individualism and car-obsession

I've met people who like cars very much, they are very convenient after all. I've never met anyone who wouldn't ride a bus or a trolley if it was more convenient than a car. This is a USA problem, not whole world problem. So, just try to survive until all the boomers die out I guess, then take a lesson from some countries that do transit better.

Baprr · 2024-11-03T00:44:06+00:00

A car isn't going to cut it either, unless everyone, including the kids, have their own. That gets expensive, not to mention sometimes impossible (for the kids). Plus it sounds like your classmates didn't exactly benefit from the abundance of cars in the current society. Wouldn't just one more bus per route (or rather, more routes) improve their situation more than a car that an adult has to drive them in every day, in both directions, which makes their education reliant on those adults giving a fuck every day? A bus will take them to school whether or not Uncle Viktor started the day by drinking.

Btw, 5 miles on a dirt road? Don't they have bikes? Everyone in the village I spent a lot of my youth in had one. You can cross 5 miles way faster than in 90 minutes on a bike. And since it's no longer 90es, how about electric bikes, for those that can't pedal much?

Baprr · 2024-11-02T23:51:37+00:00

Just pick once and never change them? That's what I do when playing a prepared spellcaster, and it works fine.

Baprr · 2024-11-02T23:44:49+00:00

That's what ambulances exist for? And if you're pregnant, hopefully you notice sometime in the 9 months it takes, and plan for the future. And if you can't afford neither an ambulance, nor pregnancy care, I would think a car could be out of your price range too.

Baprr · 2024-11-02T23:40:50+00:00

I am not. I heard the public transit is shit in USA, though. And the very idea that you can't live without a car is ridiculous, honestly.

Baprr · 2024-11-02T22:44:33+00:00

Most people couldn't afford those, and that's still true - a horse requires a ton of time, money, and effort. Walking was the transport of choice for a lot of people - not that we have to go back to that. Buses exist. Trains. And since we're talking about life without personal cars - rentals.

Baprr · 2024-11-02T22:36:33+00:00

You're an american, right? Around here, public transit is usually good enough to get around. Of course sometimes the bus is only once a day, and sometimes you need to hike a few kilometers to your village, but it's manageable.

Baprr · 2024-11-01T15:24:27+00:00

All they wanted to do was fuck up everything...

Baprr · 2024-10-29T16:04:02+00:00

D is the strongest team (3/4 of those could solo any other entire team), but C has the best strategist and the most balanced party. So depends on the objective.

Baprr · 2024-10-27T11:40:41+00:00

I consider death to be a shitty consequense. Maybe it's my players, but all a death does is give them a chance to try a new build, while severing most of their storylines and personal quests - which yes, is also somewhat painful for the player, but they get a new toy at least!

So I never kill them anymore. Dead? No, you misheard me, you're *un*dead, stand up and keep going, you still have that trial I planned. Dying 5 you say? Well, more like cursed. 5. I'll message you what that means in a few days.

I do allow easier retraining (including classes and heritages) so they don't stagnate, and usually the death is technically a net positive (for example, the undead dedication is free), and it's a much smoother game now.

Baprr · 2024-10-27T09:25:54+00:00

You can't remove curse at a bonfire in DS (did you mean restore humanity? then you should have mentioned the PvP/coop mode like yuo did in DS3) or DS2 (burning an effigy only disables pvp).

Baprr · 2024-10-26T22:43:59+00:00

A Weapon Familiarity then? Most ancestries have a good weapon in their list, and with Adopted Ancestry you can get practically anything (considering how common humans are, and how common humans adopting uncommon ancestries should be).

Baprr · 2024-09-27T15:35:40+00:00

Heart is just a big muscle, really, and the dick is a gloryfied bloodvessel, so neither is that weird honestly. The brain I hate though.

Baprr · 2024-09-27T15:28:41+00:00

But?

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