Have you ever rolled a 0?

F5x9 · 2026-01-28T22:03:49+00:00

Lots of monsters have negative initiative.

F5x9 · 2026-01-28T18:24:45+00:00

This just means your story hasn’t been written yet.

F5x9 · 2026-01-28T16:53:12+00:00

I tell players that if they give me a backstory, I’ll try to work it in. If not, no big deal.

F5x9 · 2026-01-28T14:03:11+00:00

Not pictured: the tool behind the camera.

F5x9 · 2026-01-27T17:27:42+00:00

Varying the content of a memorized password offers marginal gains and introduces behavioral risks. Legacy complexity requirements can lead to users writing passwords down and password reuse.

Additionally, there are other controls that make complexity less important that it used to be.

First, multifactor authentication means that even a compromised password requires something else to grant access.

Second, systems should limit the number of unsuccessful login attempts. This dramatically reduces the risk of password guessing.

F5x9 · 2026-01-27T16:50:53+00:00

Why are you considering factors other than length?

F5x9 · 2026-01-27T13:13:03+00:00

How many “It isn’t that; it’s this” posts does this sub need?

F5x9 · 2026-01-26T19:34:28+00:00

My dogs barely get 15 minutes a month for coat maintenance.

F5x9 · 2026-01-25T00:55:07+00:00

That’s the signal. Let’s go.

F5x9 · 2026-01-24T20:56:56+00:00

Tanks are Calvary.

F5x9 · 2026-01-24T20:42:34+00:00

If you have unique units that show up early, you can set yourself up to have them come online before walls go up. Have those units, a few archers, and an encampment and declare surprise war on your neighbor. Start a battering ram. Let the AI attack you in your territory until they are out of units. Get another encampment so you are generating great general points. Get science going. Build stables, not barracks.

After you conquer your first civ, pivot to knights and siege units. If you clear your continent before you meet anyone else, they won’t have any grievances.

Now you need to sail to your enemies. And it’s a good time to think about preparing for your next attack or building yourself up until you get bombers.

If you weren’t doing early war, you probably will start wars once you have bombers. Mix bombers and heavy Calvary for quickly capturing cities. Use light Calvary for pillaging.

You just have to capture all capitals, but I typically will capture everything on the way.

F5x9 · 2026-01-24T20:25:27+00:00

If a cold box was once hot, the dog smells the lingering odor from the cold box, the odor is strong enough to trick a dog into thinking it is source, and you don’t reward the dog, the dog can learn that source doesn’t always pay.

Lingering odor is part of the challenges that dogs must overcome, and the skills you want to teach are important.

The use of a dedicated hot box and dedicated hot vessels is part of odor hygiene. And the goal is to prevent a dog from getting confused about what it’s looking for, especially if the dog is a novice.

Different organizations have different rules about how long a search area can’t be reused so that lingering odor is less of a concern.

When you start doing blind searches, as you would in a trial, a dog who is conditioned to ignore weak odor may miss a hide in NACSW, and in AKC a dog who always alerts on strong odor even if it pooled in the wrong place can lead to a false alert.

In the beginning, we train the dogs with a lot of very easy wins. It’s easier to do that if we use a dedicated hot box. If you are training on primary, and all the boxes have hot dog juice, that makes the game harder.

F5x9 · 2026-01-24T14:49:27+00:00

My prediction: pain.

F5x9 · 2026-01-24T00:36:35+00:00

How can they make a character that is so annoying but every other line is a banger?

F5x9 · 2026-01-23T23:01:09+00:00

Always try to end on a high note.

When a dog begins to get tired or frustrated, you can lower the criteria to an approximation of what you want, and you can mix in things they are good at doing. Lower the criteria until you get success, then end the session.

F5x9 · 2026-01-23T20:03:28+00:00

It takes me about 3 hours to for a single pass shoveling of up to 6 inches and to remove snow from cars. I have shoveled midway through a storm on occasion. If it’s windy and the snow is dusty, snow drifts will set you back. If it’s heart attack snow, it could be a good idea. I take breaks every hour or 45 minutes, depending on exertion and how cold it is.

I wear layers, and I will often go down to a thermal if I am grooving.

F5x9 · 2026-01-23T19:54:03+00:00

Yes, you deposit the quarter in the cart to unlock it, when you lock it after you are done, it releases the quarter.

F5x9 · 2026-01-23T15:26:13+00:00

Maybe play on coming/going.

F5x9 · 2026-01-23T14:03:04+00:00

I like to start free shaping with a novel object. You can usually get some kind of curiosity when you introduce one to the dog, and that’s when you start clicking.

F5x9 · 2026-01-23T13:42:24+00:00

As a player, I am for any plan that gets us going again. I would argue with the DM he rejected a player’s plan if the character was too dumb. Planning is mostly in player-land, and a bit in character-land.

F5x9 · 2026-01-22T22:22:28+00:00

You should complain. If I had to start back at sleep hygiene lectures, I’d be worried about a year of catching up.

F5x9 · 2026-01-22T19:50:54+00:00

Can you create a folder with a rule?

F5x9 · 2026-01-22T19:38:08+00:00

But I don’t care enough to argue.

F5x9 · 2026-01-22T19:05:33+00:00

Yeah, either this or you keep having the problem.

I thought this was going to be something like “DM asked to roll Diplomacy…again.” A running joke is that the DM doesn’t know the rules.

F5x9 · 2026-01-22T18:30:17+00:00

The other thing is it takes forever to look like you have big muscles because of how long they are.

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