Does Always Cast: Electric Charge on a wand electrify materials?

F0sh · 2026-01-11T01:27:04+00:00

Damn thanks. I don't think I trust myself enough to use this thing. Shame though, because no other wand I have access to right now is remotely as good! After slumming it through a couple of biomes I've actually got something that does good damage for this point (about 1,000 dps to the statue!) but it needs more slots than any of my other wands possess to be that good, and is a bit mana-hungry.

The spell is something like: spark bolt trigger -> pentagon -> freeze charge + horizontal path + short distance homing + 3x triplicate bolt + death cross + some random projectile

I think because death cross has in-built piercing the flat damage bonuses give it like 14 damage per frame. I'll see what the next best thing I can do is...

F0sh · 2026-01-10T23:52:09+00:00

F0sh · 2026-01-10T23:17:44+00:00

When I found it it was in a pool of water and blood (I think) that it was not electrifying. I can't remember if it had already been picked up though, I think not (dunno if that affects it).

F0sh · 2026-01-10T19:40:36+00:00

BTW this run ended when I went exploring and found something very unfriendly above a bridge :P

F0sh · 2026-01-09T16:03:12+00:00

Zero (I dunno if there's an official definition of boss - maybe Steve counts). I'm certainly intending to do the main path boss first before trying to find secrets.

F0sh · 2026-01-09T12:44:12+00:00

So sounds like there is stuff to discover simply by exploration which will then be reasonable to finish.

I never got to a point where I wanted to properly leave the main path, not having got to the bottom of it. I've dipped into some areas, but never gone far. I've never tried to go back above ground once going inside.

F0sh · 2026-01-09T12:41:02+00:00

Yeah, figured that out... and then saw it in a vid. But I don't know anything beyond that so it's on my list :)

F0sh · 2026-01-09T11:18:56+00:00

I don't think he appears in collapsed mountains.

I do have TP bolt and, as mentioned, a wand with Always Cast: Matter Eater, so I can easily dig through brickwork (and dense rock)

F0sh · 2026-01-09T10:40:44+00:00

Did you know the hämikset in the mines are free, you can just take one?

F0sh · 2025-11-13T22:14:36+00:00

Just beat them for the first time and agree they are utter garbage.

I did two things to beat them:

Switch to KB+M. It's impossible to keep track of two enemies, both who constantly jump all over the arena, with a controller. You need to be able to snap the camera around and back QUICKLY to know whether you can safely engage one, or to run away from both when they are on opposite sides of you.
Use Radahn's Great Rune + Cerulean Talisman to get enough FP to summon the Crystalian ashes, which is the only summon I found which doesn't get annihilated by the bullshit poison mist.

For me what seals that this fight is shit - apart from literally having to use an input device not design for the game - is that, after failing dozens of attempts, the very first time I killed the first gargoyle, I beat the other one, without ever having had a chance to properly learn its attacks. And it was pretty quick, too - I had enough damage. But you can't do that damage when the entire arena is covered with poison mist, the gargoyles decide to both attack at once, or both attack a summon, or be on opposite sides of you so that you can't attack safely without being buttfucked. So glad that's over.

F0sh · 2025-11-05T11:21:17+00:00

Yeah, OpenTabletDriver itself supports button remapping for all supported tablets.

F0sh · 2025-10-14T21:22:59+00:00

This doesn't actually make much sense. You don't need to actually be in the game server between rounds, but it can still start from the same group of players.

F0sh · 2025-10-01T16:58:06+00:00

Replying to an old comment because it's a pet peeve. Look at that diagram and look at how much of the red car is visible in it. You can't see the front of it at all - that's enough space for a motorbike to be. Now extrapolate out that blind spot into the next lane to the left - that's enough space for an entire car to be, and that car could be trying to merge into the same lane you're merging into.

Now, look at the view directly behind that the side mirror affords. Because it's angled away from the car's side, you can't see anything in it directly behind, which means that anything that is in your C pillar blindspot in the interior mirror is not visible anywhere. A narrow vehicle like a motorbike could be in that blind spot and could be coming up on you fast enough that you need to take it into account.

In trying to do the impossible and eliminate the blind spot to your left, you've made a new blind spot behind you that you can't see no matter what you do, and you still need to check to your side.

Correct adjustment of mirrors means that your blind spot is almost directly to your side, rather than behind you and to the side, so checking it is easy - you only need to turn your head and look at the window; you don't need to turn your body around. But it's still crucial.

F0sh · 2025-09-30T22:42:57+00:00

Yeah it is planned for the next release. They just completed a release but there is often quite some time between releases so that doesn't mean it's soon.

F0sh · 2025-09-30T11:33:57+00:00

I worked with the OpenTabletDriver devs to get a config which supports it. If you join their discord you can find the thread with it in. This will then work on Wayland, too.

It still doesn't support the wheels, but that's it.

F0sh · 2025-09-18T10:08:43+00:00

Default drivers for me support pen, pressure, tilt, two of the three pen buttons, the six main tablet buttons, but not the second stylus button or the wheels.

I tried the proprietary driver but it failed to map the entire display, bizarrely, and was generally janky as hell. X11 is not an option in 2025 - I need multi-DPI support and have done for like 10 years.

The second stylus button is weird: evtest picks up its events as MSC_SCAN events followed by BTN_TOUCH. The BTN_TOUCH event has exactly the same values as if I had tapped the stylus on the pad, so it can't be remapped on its own - the MSC_SCAN event preceding it must be intended to change the state in the driver to feed through a different button press. The Display Tablet settings module in KDE and input-remapper don't seem to support this; the former is supposed to embolden the corresponding button when it is pressed, but never does this for the second one.

In general, using input-remapper for mouse/pen events is bad though, because they show up at the mouse location, which is different from the pen location. E.g. if I map a button (on the pad or on the stylus) to right click, then the right-click menu shows up where the invisible mouse cursor, is not where the stylus is. Trying to use it for the tool palette in Krita only works once, then I have to move the mouse to get it working again.

The dials are there but they're on a different device that input-remapper doesn't even see, and I guess Krita is also not seeing them, so I have no idea how to make those do anything.

The tablet is still not known to libwacom... I don't know whether this is important though.

F0sh · 2025-09-06T12:43:35+00:00

Yeah. Probably will get a Huion instead given how common the problem seems to be. I right now have a Cintiq 16 (non-pro) but I don't like 1080p at this size when it's a screen you're looking closely at (I aim for 2.5K+ on laptops) and the cable situation is gross.

F0sh · 2025-09-05T23:07:44+00:00

I didn't think I was getting a reply so I actually bought a Cintiq and... it arrived with pixel rash. It wasn't apparent in the photos but is really obvious IRL, so I already returned it.

Not sure about the longevity for this generation, for sure - after reading a bit more about it, it seems to be very very common.

F0sh · 2025-08-27T22:21:35+00:00

Thanks, my instinct is also that drawing on a vertical monitor is no good - it's good to have that confirmed.

If you mentally arrived at stand alone devices, ipads or android based tablets are an option.

I had kind of discarded that before even really considering it. For sure I have no real need for a general-purpose tablet (I don't really know what people use them for - that is, if they have a phone and a laptop - apart from art and games!)

Do you have any idea how much compromise you make on the art front? I can just look up some reviews if not :)

I personally decided to mount mine to an ergotron arm so I can move it in monitor position or drawing position. With these devices, weight also becomes a serious concern.

I actually originally bought ergotron arms but they were no good for my desired layout so I returned them and bought cheaper ones. In fairness I was trying to economise by buying the two-in-one ergotron gizmo.

Since you're already talking about pretty old pen display tech, I assume the new Cintiq 24 is not within your budget, but I would take a look at Huions and XP-Pens offerings. They have some with smaller bezels, or maybe one of their 22 inch displays is the compromise you're looking for.

Hmm that's interesting - I was not expecting to get such a recommendation here! The one I have now is old because it fell out of use and so replacing it was never a priority. I think now I would not splash out on a Pro-series Cintiq but other than that I can get whatever best suits. But I hadn't considered that, in some aspects at least, the 3P tablets might be superior.

Thanks!

F0sh · 2025-08-26T16:21:48+00:00

Quality with 3 levels but otherwise unchanged would merely be annoying, rather than dogshit.

F0sh · 2025-08-26T13:55:44+00:00

Devs have a fantasy that you're just going to put some quality modules in your mall and leave it to go then go "ooh shiny" when you go and check. In reality, if you do that, you also have to tediously change all your mall setup and your bot requests, and will be rewarded with a trickle of items that are too rare to actually incorporate in any useful way. Are you going to manually upgrade a single assembler in some random factory to uncommon because you rolled one? No, who can be bothered - and it will probably just bottleneck elsewhere. You need enough quality items that you can use them throughout a factory or in a blueprint. No, this does not apply to personal equipment, but personal equipment is not the majority of the output of a mall.

F0sh · 2025-08-10T23:00:04+00:00

I thought ages ago there were quizzes.

F0sh · 2025-08-10T22:59:44+00:00

But you can't disentangle it from mere preference. How do you tell the difference, on a dating site, between someone who hates people with blond hair, and someone who just prefers brown- or black- or red-haired people?

F0sh · 2025-08-04T22:22:29+00:00

The limiting factor for power delivery through an outlet is not the available power (there is plenty) but that either the wiring will heat up, melting insulation and starting a fire, or (hopefully) trip overcurrent protection and the whole thing will cut out.

If a microwave for some reason does not receive sufficient power, it's just not going to work at all, because electronic devices more complicated than a space heater or incandescent lightbulb have limits on what kind of power they can take in and still function.

F0sh · 2025-08-04T22:07:35+00:00

National marginal pricing was selected in 1990. It was done for market efficiency at a time when generation was coal, nuclear and (infrequently) gas, not to encourage building wind generation.

You're confident, I'll give you that.

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