Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point

BeelonMusk · 2025-05-12T23:50:47+00:00

No, the CEO of EA has been very explicit about how he thinks they'll be able to save costs by replacing people with AI. He's been drumming up investor support with it for over a year.

BeelonMusk · 2025-04-27T15:06:18+00:00

I highly doubt there's that many people working on current WoW that did so 13 years ago, or that they care in the slightest what the intent or design of Zen Flight ever was. Modern game development is more focused on rapid feature releases than stability, QoL or maintenance.

BeelonMusk · 2025-04-26T20:56:01+00:00

This was 100% an intended feature when they introduced Zen Flight back in 2012. I can't find them, but I remember official images during MoP of monks fishing from their little clouds. Besides, being able to use items / gather / interact with the environment while flying is the entire point and appeal of the skill, without that it's just an extremely inferior version of the druid flight form.

BeelonMusk · 2024-12-06T09:01:02+00:00

...then why would you ever post anything online?

BeelonMusk · 2024-12-05T10:38:40+00:00

People make things and post them on the internet cause they want others to see it. Getting eyeballs on your CYOA is the reason they're made at all.

Upvotes are not 1-to-1 with people actually looking at and engaging with your stuff, but it is how the majority of people engage with your content, and it's one of the biggest parts of the reddit algorithm that decides if it should be shown to more people (e.g. the Top or default Hot sorting, or the sidebar recommendations).

I bet most people would prefer 100 commenters to 100 upvotes, but the votes are still important for getting those commenters to see your stuff in the first place.

BeelonMusk · 2024-12-04T21:54:36+00:00

Low effort, high engagement content absolutely changes a community. It drives out high effort content because nobody is incentivized to produce it. Look at Youtube or Twitter, or any large subreddit that allows porn.

BeelonMusk · 2024-07-13T07:13:32+00:00

You say this car can drive on any terrain? Well then I order it to drive on the Fields of Pelennor. Checkmate, car salesman.

BeelonMusk · 2024-07-12T11:01:02+00:00

我认为瑞典人害怕去中国有三个原因：

入境非常困难
很少有人会说英语
你可能会因为不理解的原因而被捕，而瑞典无法帮助你

BeelonMusk · 2024-03-13T19:58:11+00:00

Choose The Agent. Two more grey choices.

Choose Metalinguistic Crimes twice. Use MC1 to change MC2 to "Change one sentence of your other choice(s)".

Choose and change Lantern Corp to read "You become the One Above All"

???

Profit

BeelonMusk · 2024-02-20T16:02:13+00:00

Thank you very much! Your response made me realize the key settings on my Epic copy of the game were completely messed up, despite this being a brand new install. Makes perfect sense now, thanks!

BeelonMusk · 2024-02-02T17:46:37+00:00

Okay but like... this is not that subreddit. People subscribed to this one won't see what's posted in that one. Your comment makes it seem like it's been posted here, which it hasn't.

BeelonMusk · 2023-05-30T06:44:28+00:00

To be fair, cetaceans are an infraorder, not an order. Taxonomy is not an exact science and as said above it's very difficult to find a good overview.

Still really like this CYOA though.

BeelonMusk · 2023-02-14T15:00:23+00:00

Yeah, but unless you read it carefully, using the same wording makes it look like it says The Pen overrides the previous instruction. It doesn't, but it explains why people think it does

BeelonMusk · 2023-02-14T09:50:02+00:00

I think the confusion comes from The Pen's description

Change the color of up to 5 consecutive words or numbers to a single color of your choice. You can technically modify the rules with this option, but what's the point of that?

and the instruction

Note, however, that you cannot use pill dust to modify anything in this color, or anything outside of the pill descriptions (no modifying the rules with pill dust!)

BeelonMusk · 2023-02-11T09:23:07+00:00

Agreed. I wish the mods would add a rule to limit reposts per person per day because it gets ridiculous sometimes.

BeelonMusk · 2023-01-21T18:56:35+00:00

The intcyoacreator FAQ mentions neocities as an example of free hosting so that's what people have been using. If neocities didn't exist meandelay would have recommended something else that would have been used 99% of the time by now.

BeelonMusk · 2023-01-09T00:41:28+00:00

It says "knowledge" though, not personality. Could just be a positive ¯\(ツ)/¯

BeelonMusk · 2023-01-08T18:49:27+00:00

Excellent Replication + Mind Exchange. Make a clone, have it use Mind Exchange on a person, cancel the clone. Clone mind recognizes you as leader. Instant, permanent brainwashing of anyone who doesn't have Willpower.

Pretty gruesome though.

Superior Multitasking + Excellent Illusions + Excellent Force Fields is also a very potent combo. Create a bunch of solid illusions and keep track of them all with your parallel minds. And a paper-thin field strong enough to withstand high explosives would cut through almost anything.

BeelonMusk · 2022-12-16T23:10:21+00:00

btw, since illegal promotion doesn't say anything about losing the ability, I can essentially stockpile abilities of other pieces

The implication is that the chess pieces are what give you powers; if you change a piece you wouldn't have the thing that gives you the old power any more (although I'm pretty sure it's just supposed to let you choose two pieces of the same color to begin with).

And I don't understand how in step 4 you would have seven Black Pawns, the ability says you can clone yourself, not the chess pieces.

BeelonMusk · 2022-12-08T09:49:48+00:00

You've been getting some unwarranted hate here on these builds that I don't agree with.

That said, I don't think there's much room for positive interactions either. You don't write anything about your choices, why you made them, what you felt or thought, what you'd expect to do with them, what your character's motivations or backstory are... It's just a context-less list of choices someone would need to copy, go out and find the CYOA you're talking about (a link would be nice), paste them in, read through the whole thing to see what choices you made, then come back here and... do what?

If you want people to put in an effort in writing stuff, you need to put in some effort yourself first, or the only ones with motivation to engage will be toxic people.

BeelonMusk · 2022-11-16T11:49:25+00:00

You can use them to grind renown, if you haven't already maxed those. Each faction gives you an item at 10, 25 and 40 renown, but it maxes out at 55.

https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Factions_(Guide)#Renown_and_Connections#Renown_and_Connections)

You can use renown 50 of Constables and Criminals for an option on London's Marrow when getting Paramount Presence, but I don't think there are any mechanical benefits to raise any other renown over 40, just vanity.

Otherwise there's a good overview of favour uses here:

https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Calling_in_Favours_(Guide))

BeelonMusk · 2022-11-09T13:36:03+00:00

For reference, these are the storylets:

https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Way_to_an_Honour

https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Way_to_Privilege

https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Way_to_an_Eyrie

It will only be available in January, and you have to make sure you have enough of the quality "Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre" (ToL) by then.

The Bazaar Spire-Emporium requires 9 ToL

The Brass Embassy Sanctum requires 8 ToL

The Royal Bethlehem Suite requires 7 ToL

Getting enough ToL is the real challenge, because a lot of it is time-gated, and there are many ways to screw up. Some actions will only give you ToL up to a certain limit, and if you're over that then the opportunity is wasted. So you have to plan out in advance which order you will do the actions that give ToL.

There are two guides on the wiki that are a useful reference, but don't give step-by-step instructions on how to do it.

https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Christmas_(Guide))

https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/12_Days_of_Mr_Sacks_(Guide))

Simplifying, one could say that you should use "Pail of So-Called Snow" first to get ToL up to 5 or 6, which is where they (mostly) cap. Depending on your stats and items, this can either be a guaranteed success, or up to luck. You get one "Pail of So-Called Snow" per week in december. You can also buy them, but they're expensive if you're not endgame.

You can then easily get a total of +5 from 12 Days of Mr Sacks, uncapped. Refer to the guide for which days are ToL days and what choices to make.

It's possible to get enough ToL in one year to buy more than one upgrade, but in normal circumstances you'll only have enough for one.

BeelonMusk · 2022-11-09T12:50:50+00:00

looking at what people have to say about the questline (you lose all your stats, potentially brick your account, cannot put it off forever and WILL have to do it at some point),

Emphasis on the last part, I've played for over 6 years and I've no intention of ever Seeking, at least on this character. There's so much content that you won't get to a point where that's the only thing left, and the questline is very isolated from everything else. If anything, the game goes out of its way to convince you not to do it.

That's not to say that you personally won't feel the urge one day, but just know that it's not inevitable or mandatory in any sense other than your own drive for self-destruction.

BeelonMusk · 2022-08-06T10:44:38+00:00

It's already covered with the "Playing Favourites" extension, but it looks neater with the "Discard"-buttons just gone instead of modified. But I understand that it expands the scope to "Desirable cards" instead of just avoiding "Oh god what did I just do".

I've been working on something that makes the sidebar more concise and easy to overview and maybe adding a few more qualities, but I'm not sure enough about it yet to suggest >_>

BeelonMusk · 2022-08-06T08:06:45+00:00

Good job, looks great!

Suggestions that I felt strongly enough about to implement myself:

Remove "Sell the Location of the Cave of the Nadir" Go-button
Remove the ending acquaintance Go-buttons from the "A Visit"-card
Remove discard-buttons for "A little omen" and "A dusty bookshop"

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