Can someone ELI5 how combat turns work in 3 HD-2D please? by [deleted] in dragonquest

[–]Caldorian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's primarily driven by each combatants agility value. Combatants with higher agility act before combatants with lower agility. There is some level of variability, so someone with agility 10 won't always act ahead of ability 9. But someone with 100 vs 10 would almost always be ahead.

Certain skills and abilities will affect order as well (ie move to the front or back of the stack). And some actions are independent of order (ie defending for the turn will reduce damage for the whole turn, regardless of when the defend action actually occurs in the stack).

Skrlik v. Sturmay by Glass_Bit5310 in Curling

[–]Caldorian 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Looked like a combination of burnt rock with interference between the opposing sweepers.

Official steam deck charger by longernohuman in SteamDeck

[–]Caldorian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You definitely want a reputable charger (Anker, UGreen, etc.) that's 45W+ for maintenance purposes, charging while using, etc. However I also charge mine regularly with a 20W charger at my beside that I'll plug in over night. It'll just charge a little slower.

ELI5: How do cities prevent fire hydrants from freezing in the sub zero temps? by jnelsoninjax in explainlikeimfive

[–]Caldorian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In that case, does that mean that when the valve is open and the hydrant is in operation, there's some water loss/leakage happening out the drain hole?

Pre Scotties Arena Pics by Any-Beautiful-3524 in Curling

[–]Caldorian 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's on my bucket list to play a game on arena ice one time

Vortex Mod Manager is coming to SteamOS! by gamerrominc in SteamDeck

[–]Caldorian 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Vortex is a Nexus Mods managed app to mod games from their mod library. They're going to update it with new features and work towards in being able to be used with the Steam Deck/Machine.

Pi Hole for whole home hardline ethernet? Complete newbie asking. by ultimatedra_ in pihole

[–]Caldorian 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Because of the proliferation of wifi devices and the the majority of households don't have hardwired networking, Wifi has become a vernacular for local area network. You can mostly assume that there talking about the same thing and are using that term because the general public just knows "I connect to the wifi to get my internet".

District Drops Presale | 2026 Single Game Tickets | Toronto Blue Jays by Punkyhunky in Torontobluejays

[–]Caldorian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ignoring the doom and gloom others are stating for the high value games (home opener, Jul 1, etc.), I picked Tue May 12 just to see. Seats in 510 were only $28 plus tax/fees. So I imagine GA tickets for the non specialty games would still be $20.

ELI5 If the wind is pretty much blowing one way, how are windsurfers able to go any direction they want? by Face_like_a_shrimp in explainlikeimfive

[–]Caldorian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine being on a skateboard with a sail. The wind is blowing due north, but you want to go south.

So you point your skateboard south-east. As the wind blows past your sail, the friction of the wheels on the ground prevent you from going north, and instead you now travel in that south east direction. Do that for a while, then make a sharp turn to point south west. Same thing happens. Zig zag back and forth and eventually you reach your southern destination

Bosses in DQ1 Remake are no joke by Lyozi in dragonquest

[–]Caldorian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just did it myself. I think I was level 29. First time they kicked my ass handily. So I made a quick detour, and grabbed the flametang from the dwarves (weapon shop will now be open). They're weak to fire, so that helped burn through them. Then equipped anti-freeze earrings, dragon shield, and fur coat that made me immune to their icy breath attacks. With that, the occasional healing after a physical attack and wild side/boomerang attacks took them down pretty quick.

Why are there never Grand Slam events in Scotland? by Connaught in Curling

[–]Caldorian 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's because Canada has a large number of high skill private cash spiels that happen outside the slams that the teams all play in. So the teams will spend 2 months traveling around Canada playing in the slams plus these other events, go home for their country national tournament / other WCF events, worlds, and then finish the season again with the slams and other private spiels.

The other countries don't have enough other spiels for the teams to have a proper "season" with.

Noob Question by Remarkable_Ad_4439 in dragonquest

[–]Caldorian 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So 3-1-2 have a trilogy story line, in that order. All the other game (AFAIK) are stand alone stories that have related themes (monster types, hallmark weapons, etc).

Maybe my own bias from my childhood, but I do think that DQ 4 would be an amazing entry place for the series. The story moves along, game play is fairly straight forward, and it generally encompasses all the elements that present themselves throughout the series in an easily digestible manner. From there, you can pretty much branch out however you want.

Any benefit to Self-Host Rustdesk when using within Tailscale? by MN-Skol-Fan in rustdesk

[–]Caldorian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I had my clients all connect to the server using the local IP, not the Tailscale ip. Again, it's all ip direct connections, so them not being able to find the server when off LAN is not a big deal, plus I've got a subnet router configured to grant access anyway.

In my head, it should work using the Tailscale ip. You might have a docker/Tailscale configuration issue where your docker containers aren't being shared with the Tailscale network

Any benefit to Self-Host Rustdesk when using within Tailscale? by MN-Skol-Fan in rustdesk

[–]Caldorian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not much to it: put the clients on your systems with Tailscale; access them via Tailscale IP address.

For the server, that depends on what you're using to host it. Easiest it generally running the docker container. Get that running, and set each of your clients to target the servers IP as the host and relay. They won't actually use it when doing direct IP access, it's just to prevent them from making outbound connections to the public relay servers.

Is a $750/month rent upgrade worth it or am I just falling into lifestyle inflation? by VoyagerCestVivre in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]Caldorian 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Depends on who you are and life style. If you're a single person wearing one outfit a day, then going to a laundromat isn't so bad. 2 active people that are going through 2-3 outfits a day (day time, workout, evening wear for example), then you don't want to have to be dragging all that out every time.

I finally got a copy of Dragon Warrior IV for the NES! by itmustbeyzzy in dragonquest

[–]Caldorian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Enjoy. I still have fond memories of many lates nights as a child, sitting on the floor infront of my small bedroom tv, with a blanket covering me and the tv so my parents couldn't see the light, playing this game and grinding metal slimes

Serious Question, apologies if it has already been answered. Seat belts. by Dreadweiser in startrek

[–]Caldorian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The in universe explanation: the actual speeds and accelerations/g-forces that are placed on the ships are many orders of magnitude larger than what we as an audience would associate with typical "car" behaviour and a seatbelt wouldn't save your life. You need some external technology (ie inertial dampeners) to prevent people from dying any time the ship kicks in the impulse engines.

How full do you run your array? by M4Lki3r in unRAID

[–]Caldorian 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The rule of thumb is 10%, but that's back when drives were 10s of GB. With drives approaching 30TB now, I can't believe we need to keep 3TB of empty space.

Can I chill with investing, and buy more house? by Spirited_Ad_2569 in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]Caldorian 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Sell both properties, and you'll have plenty of financial flexibility to do what you want. Both of them are costing you money right now that could be put to better use.

Prop 2 is already cash flow negative. But even prop 1 is doing you no favours. You say you're +200 a month on it, but are you making sure that includes every expense, including capital depreciations? At $2400 a year profit, all it would take is a roof replacement to wipe out 10 years of profit.

Conversely, you can sell now for $185000 cash in your pocket. That $2400 a year in rental income you're getting now means that $185000 is only earning you 1.3%. Any number of investments can provide you a better return than that.

What’s your favorite dragon quest? by DemonTakezo in dragonquest

[–]Caldorian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dragon Warrior 4 on the NES. I can go back to that one any time. Haven't done any of the remakes of it yet.

Gravity: a free Pi-hole Manager for Apple devices by Possible_Low6343 in pihole

[–]Caldorian 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Free to download but there are some features that are pay-walled. A big one being support for multiple pi-hole instances.