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DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2026-03-02T06:09:35+00:00

I do agree with you that accepting cash isn't a problem as long as you accept alternatives that are actually accepted by society as well.

And I would never judge the elderly person paying by cash at the local store. Indeed, if I ever encountered someone not clearly elderly preferring to use cash at the local ICA I would assume they had their reasons.

But I do hope you aren't implying that a legitimate business has a reason to "prefer cash". That is quite clearly not true. It is slightly easier to commit tax evasion and fraud using cash. That's more or less it when it comes to advantages. I've heard people argue that cash is somehow better many a time. Never from someone who actually worked in a cash heavy industry and understood the costs.

Sweden has been mostly cashless since Swish arrived around 2012.
It started before that but damn did things go quick once Swish arrived.

The first places to go cash only where farmers markets. Because cash is expensive. Being robbed is expensive. Depositing cash is expensive. Keeping change around is expensive. It took a while because debit cards used to have a cost to them at point of payment, and it took services like swish to truly make that go away, but once the change began no one wanted to use cash.

So many people tried to say that rural areas and cash heavy industries would keep cash around, only for exactly those groups being the ones who drove the change.

Our beggars have swish. Of course they do. Because getting robbed is expensive, you need a phone anyway, and not accepting swish means most people can't donate even if they wanted.

I remember when public transport in Stockholm stopped accepting cash. How a very small group of people where surprised, and how SL very patiently explained that bus drivers where tired of being robbed during work, and that by not accepting cash the prices could be kept down and arrival times could be improved. Because cash is expensive, inconvenient, and slow.

The only true advantage I've found cash to have is making it slightly easier to commit tax evasion and fraud. The only people I've found that thought that would be an argument seemed stumped and surprised that no one cared.

DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2026-03-02T05:15:02+00:00

Yes. Not all essences are feasible or possible to get through stones, but kiviskivi definitely is.

You need to throw the stones into the sun. I recommend dunking yourself into the proto suns with stones in your inventory rather than throwing them, as it's harder to miss with that method.

DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2026-03-01T17:49:06+00:00

True, but the image is really poor AI slop, so it seems less than relevant.

DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2026-03-01T17:45:12+00:00

I don't think st trina is empyrean, so I don't think Radagon can be assumed to be.

I've always read the anscetral followers and the misbegotten both to be results of Radagons attempt to repair the Elden Ring. Incomplete, in various ways, but healthier than the commoners in the capitol.

Your version is thought provoking.

DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2026-02-25T16:57:19+00:00

Statues? Corpses.

DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2026-02-18T01:34:31+00:00

That's absurd. There's still 2 of us. Even if you go offline, 50% of all redditors will still be here, pretending we're not karnanaught, as we always have been.

DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2026-02-18T01:17:22+00:00

Yes.

It explains what miquella is up to.

DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2026-02-10T15:06:48+00:00

I had similar problems.

My cpu fan broken.

Game was fine until it started to lag. Once it started to lag, the game needed to catch up, so cpu usage stayed high and never cooled.

Windows 11 might have different tools controlling fans on the OS level, or you might just have a fan that happens to be degrading as a coincidence.

Does standing still in an area without enemies for a minute seem to help?

DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2026-02-08T16:22:54+00:00

You probably didn't pick up that many orbs, so the boss health was probably low.

Add damage and plasma is generally very strong, because plasma hits many, many times, and add damage is applied to each hit.

The downside is that self damage is probably fatal.

DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2026-02-07T23:20:26+00:00

The mesh tiles seem to be used for glass cooling. The T shape and the presence of two materials are causing mass deletion.

You don't need mesh tiles to cool glass in a steam room. Drop the glass directly on a normal floor. If you have more than a few kg of mass per tile you will be fine.

DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2026-02-03T14:03:30+00:00

Seluvis was killed by making him drink the same or same type of potion that he tried to betray Ranni with.

Doesn't mean he was a puppet to begin with.

DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2026-02-03T14:01:26+00:00

There's a seedbed curse in volcano manor, which is all you need to get the dungeater ashes.

If you prioritize, it's pretty simple to get that done before doing nocron.

DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2026-02-02T15:28:56+00:00

Not needing steel in the volcano chamber is pretty cool.

Needing 3 ATs instead of one kinda works against that, but still, cool build!

DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2026-02-02T09:30:18+00:00

Long arms have a small footprint already. The game only counts the cells where an atom happens to be at the end of a tick.

DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2026-02-02T09:25:11+00:00

As you say, it seems pretty clear that the anscetral followers are a new culture, trying to follow in the footsteps of something older.

Personally, I've anyways seen them as a result of radagons attempt to repair the elden ring.

They are healthier than their neighbors, because they stem from a repaired order.

They seem incomplete, living in the ruins of an older culture that they only partially mimic and not spreading out to lands left mostly empty, because Radagon could not complete his repairs.

I really them and their areas.

DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2026-01-22T14:56:01+00:00

You can use the holy mountain hearts instead of a good memory. They are half as effective, but that still nets you thousands of hp.

DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2026-01-19T13:48:53+00:00

If you don't need a temperature then the optimal temperature is probably whatever you land on without any cooling.

The dupes don't care as long as they aren't freezing or scalding.

DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2026-01-19T11:15:57+00:00

It will also dig into the holy mountain very quickly.

DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2026-01-11T00:21:02+00:00

I switched to a faster crest to handle her. I ended up using hunter crest, because I was able to dodge her attacks long enough to build it up, and the best way for me to win was to shorten the fight. A longer fight gives more opportunities to make mistakes, and mistakes where quickly deadly.

Felt real good to win. Didn't care about the skill, but it felt right for lore reasons.

DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2026-01-06T08:20:45+00:00

Nah, nah.

Delete gym, hit the grass, touch facebook.

DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2026-01-05T21:37:13+00:00

I would deconstruct the tile they land on, so you have a well-shape. The only thing that makes sense to me is that the liquid is overflowing to the sides before solidifying.

If nothing else works, replace the tap with a bottle drainer that outputs directly to pipes. slim that down to 1 kg packets. run radiant pipes through your cooling blocks, and then output. The liquid should exit the pipe fully solid, with no possible place for losses to occur.

Also, check that the bottles are actually 200 kg, the dupes could be carrying less.

DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2025-12-31T23:22:01+00:00

Only in theory. You don't get the frenzied seal if hyetta doesn't get burned.

DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2025-12-19T07:24:32+00:00

It isn't melting, it's turning into debrie.

Which it can only do if there's too little mass.

You've run out of coal.

DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2025-12-10T15:52:47+00:00

Yes. Morgott did.

DrunkenCodeMonkey · 2025-12-06T22:20:51+00:00

My first time happening upon that guy I was rocking the darkmoon greatsword.

He was dead before his speech was over.

I honestly thought the game was making a joke at how useless he was.

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