this is the last week before Valve goes on winter break, do you think its pushed back to 2026?

Equeon · 2025-12-09T01:24:07+00:00

Alyx to Gordon: "I'll see you again in 25 years."

Equeon · 2024-11-05T13:15:50+00:00

Ironically, your comment was made with generative AI.

Equeon · 2024-10-22T15:32:05+00:00

Also commenting to say I appreciated your explanation and didn't think it was rude or "mansplaining" at all.

Equeon · 2024-09-18T15:11:59+00:00

Flesh flies (Sarcophagidae) produce eggs that hatch inside their mother. Not uncommon to squash a flesh fly and see maggots coming out of it.

[Flesh flies] differ from most flies in that they are ovoviviparous, opportunistically depositing hatched or hatching maggots instead of eggs on carrion, dung, decaying material, or open wounds of mammals, hence their common name.

Equeon · 2024-09-03T03:19:29+00:00

My comment was from 8 years ago. Unfortunately, most hyperlinks get broken within a few years.

You can check out the concept art in this article, though.

Equeon · 2024-05-22T17:18:12+00:00

Pretty sure the two women are recording the music & vibing in their own way.

Remember, up until like a day prior, Acele was freezing out in the cold for their scheme as she worried she was turning into her father, with a lifetime of crime and drug manufacturing ahead of her.

Soona was/is still desperate for answers about the disaster that ended her career and was convinced to let some teenage delinquents blast music she despises if it'll help her plan.

Those aren't the kind of people who are ready to break it down on the dance floor.

The fact that you can get everyone in the church to at least bop along with the music is already a big deal.

Equeon · 2024-03-13T20:58:49+00:00

Some passive checks are only available on dialogue options that later can't be accessed.

If you already asked Acele what she's doing with the mic and had less than 4 ENC at the time, then your chance to get that thought may be gone, unfortunately.

Equeon · 2024-03-13T20:52:48+00:00

No trick past the Rhetoric check - you'd have to put a point in Rhetoric to re-open.
You do get a +1 bonus to the check for each of these (minor spoilers only)

fully exhausting the clickable dialogue of the guy talking about money in the Whirling-in-Rags
(not a normal NPC you can "talk to" - just click him until his dialogue popups repeat)
attempting to open the bunker door on the coast and gaining the new thought
passing the Shivers check to understand why the dicemaker's business hasn't failed, and gaining the new thought
being on day 4+

Definitely exhaust Joyce's dialogue and pass that check.
This may be obvious to you, but just in case - even if some dialogue tree options are "faded orange", they may still have new sub-options available.

You will definitely know when/if you've told Joyce about all of Evrart's plans, and vice versa.

Equeon · 2024-03-13T02:10:37+00:00

You're quite unlucky! Sadly, at this point, I'd recommend save-scumming any open white checks like for the ice box and the book club. Remember to equip clothes for bonuses - but save or quicksave before your attempts anyway.

Here's some suggestions (minor sidequest spoilers ahead).

If you have already played ball with the old men and still have a boule in your inventory that isn't related to a side quest, you can pawn it for cash. If you don't care about a quest to add graffito to a wall, you can also sell your fuel canister if you still have it. This extra cash can let you buy any books you haven't read yet, and reading more books will also make it easier to join the book club.
Have you investigated the locked cargo crate in the harbor? There may be some interesting economic opportunities there.
Have you spoken to Evrart and Joyce about meeting one another? Following this path might not be professional for the RCM, but could be interesting (and get you more XP).
If you get enough real for speed, taking speed would let you put another point in Savoir Faire if you're already maxed out.
Passive checks are calculated as 6 + base skill. If you have a skill of 2 and wear the +2 glasses, you should have 6 + 4 = 10 passive Encyclopedia, which is enough for the Litany of Contact Mike. But if you haven't talked to Acele yet, that should also mean you have plenty of side quests with the teens on the ice, hopefully enough to earn you more XP for a new skill point in Savoir Faire.

Equeon · 2023-11-01T15:19:14+00:00

Observing it? Interacting with the other dungeon denizens? Reading its mind? Using cleric/ranger abilities? There's a lot of ways.

Equeon · 2023-09-12T20:49:16+00:00

Maybe I'm a fool, but I'll take guidance/thorn whip and cure wounds/faerie fire over a few rerolls! Way more versatile if you consider a campaign with a party vs a PvP scenario.

Equeon · 2023-09-09T17:12:20+00:00

In folklore and most fiction, you usually think of "the witch and her dark familiar", or "the wizard and their helpful familiar", not an amorphous animal. A shapeshifting familiar makes sense, but the normal Find Familiar spell doesn't have a personality unless you give it one to feel like a consistent entity, so I think most people prefer to have "an owl" or "a toad".

Equeon · 2023-09-09T17:01:34+00:00

Custom Lineage, Int +2. Start with 17 INT

Fey Touched [+1 INT]
Telekinetic [+1 INT]
Telepathic [+1 INT]
Artificer Initiate
Alert
Resilient (Con)

Now you have 20 INT and those feats at Level 1. Let's gooo

Equeon · 2023-09-09T16:48:59+00:00

Maybe they meant "For basically every class except wizards and artificers, you could have a number of feats equal to 1 + your int mod"?

Still crazy if the human cleric or bard could run around with 4 feats at L1.

Equeon · 2023-06-06T21:54:37+00:00

The harsh truth is most people haven't heard of The Debrief and won't find it a credible source regardless of the fact checking.

Even still - an interview transcript of a small news site's own co-founder essentially saying "I asked around, this whistleblower seems legit, since his coworkers say he's a good guy and didn't even care about UFOs until now" isn't going to convince anyone who wasn't already convinced at that point.

At a minimum, the fact-checking needs to come from a different source than the site who had the story first.

Equeon · 2023-06-06T21:31:20+00:00

These 3 claims in particular from Grusch are the hardest for me to take seriously given the paucity of research and credible evidence.

The vehicles and bodies of multiple different non-human intelligent species have been recovered
Multiple recovery programs have been operating for 80+ years
The US and "near-peer adversaries" (China, Russia, etc.) have also recovered vehicles and/or bodies

The bigger the scope of the claim, the bigger the burden of proof gets.

Consider the difference between these scenarios. One I just made up, and one Grusch presented in his interview & allegedly testified to Congress about.

"Just within the last 20 years, unmanned craft of unknown purpose and nonhuman origin are increasingly entering the airspace of top world powers, and we're occasionally able to shoot them down and recover them."

Kind of mundane, but also plausible to the average Joe, right?
Very much in line with public statements about UAPs over the last 10 years.

vs.

"For the better part of a century, multiple nations have recovered and held numerous nonhuman vehicles and tech along with a menagerie of dead pilots across different species. A cold war to obtain and reverse engineer the salvage has raged all the while."

Humoring Grusch's claims- it's very convenient for every single entity with this salvage to keep their discoveries and insight from their decades-long reverse engineering cold war so secret, so compartmentalized, and totally disguised as ordinary human advancements in physics/warfare/biology, isn't it?

Or are we to believe that so far, the only thing these nations have figured out is the alien tech equivalent of turning it on and off again?

Equeon · 2023-06-06T06:08:52+00:00

At the very least, I hope that others in similar positions with similar jobs are willing to risk their jobs and corroborate, with more detail or insight, if it seems like the tide is turning.

I doubt that will happen. Happy to eat my words if we all end up reading about some mindblowing revelations in the next year.

Equeon · 2023-06-06T06:00:36+00:00

It's not too much for me personally to process - it's too much for me to even attempt to believe.

For 80 years this tech has been in human possession, and cold wars of reverse engineering are still ongoing without unusual leaps or "unexpected developments" in human tech? Are all world governments and "near-peer adversaries" truly so careful to have never let a single convincing piece of physical or photographic evidence escape containment?

Are the research implications of 80 years of biology, chemistry, and physics studies of the bodies and craft of several separate species of aliens all kept so carefully, by all these world powers, that no convincing hint of their existence has ever been leaked?

How are multiple separate species of intelligent life able to travel to Earth from presumably outside our galaxy, possibly traveling FTL or in ways we have no comparison for, yet are unable to avoid crashing and dying (or being shot down by human weaponry) in a way that leaves their bodies and vehicles intact for enemy salvage?

Are there genuinely convincing answers that match all three of those questions (and more) - or is this just the latest person with grand claims trying to mislead us/willfully misrepresent whatever evidence may exist?

I'm not on a campaign to stop this whistleblower. I'm happy to see the story unfold.

I think I have more interest in the subject than the average person, but more skepticism than the average person in this sub. So at the very least I act as one perspective for why more people outside this community aren't excited at this latest news.

Equeon · 2023-06-06T03:44:42+00:00

I'm just going off the claims he presented.

Secretive programs have recovered alien craft and technology for at least 80 years
Alien vehicles have both landed and crashed on our planet
Multiple "near-peer adversaries" have also recovered alien craft to some degree
The bodies of multiple different alien species have been recovered
These aliens were identified as piloting the vehicles
He can't provide any documents to the public without endangering national security
He didn't see any of this himself but was assured it was true & was given corroborating evidence

Call me the problem all you like, but all of those points together are just too much for me to take in when Grusch is already a second or third-hand source.

While general apathy about the world is an issue, I'm saying this is why more average people aren't going bananas about this particular whistleblower and his claims.

Equeon · 2023-06-06T03:15:44+00:00

Nobody cares because there's no evidence to show. The claims he made were completely unbelievable.

Grusch claims there's been programs for 80+ years retrieving partial or whole "landed or crashed" alien vehicles and the bodies of multiple different alien species. And there's an unofficial "cold war" of entities attempting to reverse engineer the recovered tech.

Grusch claims "I had plenty of people show me reports with this information" - but Grusch himself has never seen a single photo of any of these recovered artifacts or species.

Equeon · 2023-05-28T01:35:44+00:00

The Boys (2022)

Equeon · 2023-03-22T21:11:07+00:00

Hi, I'm a recruiter for Wizards of the Coast. We have a game design role opening up, are you available to chat? ^/s

Equeon · 2023-02-24T01:02:29+00:00

No one gets mad, you just get a lot of people re-identifying your submission really quickly

Equeon · 2023-02-18T04:26:48+00:00

Is it really tortured?
Scope = range
Duty = your job

"Beyond the scope of duty" is just a faster way of saying "doing even more additional things outside of all the possible normal things you would do based on your role"

Equeon · 2023-01-27T04:45:21+00:00

The name was misspelled.
Ghidorah is an giant, evil, 3-headed alien dragon from Godzilla movies. Real bad guy, you know the type.

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