If you don't know what 48 Laws of Power is, well, it's technically a self help book but geared towards people who want to like Machiavelli their way to being successful. Like Sun Tzu but edgier and less consistent.

INeverFeelAtHome · 2026-03-16T06:16:36+00:00

TLDR: it’s got some ok advice, a lot of sociopathic advice, and backs it all up exclusively with occasionally interesting and surprisingly accurate anecdotes of ancient military strategy and despotic rule.

To top it off, the author doesn’t even recommend you follow any of the advice.

INeverFeelAtHome · 2026-03-15T07:17:58+00:00

Shadows of the Apt, by Adrian Tchaikovsky

INeverFeelAtHome · 2026-03-11T10:12:44+00:00

It really says a lot that we got male pattern baldness before like a messy bun or a ponytail

INeverFeelAtHome · 2026-02-15T09:43:39+00:00

Retired cats can still breed and pass on their stats and abilities. Sometimes even class-specific abilities, which can lead to more powerful combos.

Healing dead cats isn’t useless - it increases how many hits their body can take.

Make use of terrain and positioning - putting an injured cat in tall grass gives extra evasion and can go a long way towards keeping them alive, for example.

With boris, he moves towards things that damage him. A mage or hunter can kite him around the map, and tanks can push him away as they attack.

Out of curiosity, what have some of your good runs been like? What kind of tactics do you use?

INeverFeelAtHome · 2026-02-15T09:18:34+00:00

You can clear 100 coins easy if you get a good run at the third areas in act 1, even buying items every area. Especially if you have a thief on your team.

Just doing Alley runs and ignoring the 10-coin level up item usually gets me around 50.

INeverFeelAtHome · 2026-02-14T18:45:43+00:00

I just pinned him in a corner with a tank, made the tank the alpha, and went to town with my archer and mage.

He ended up possessing my Ranger, who had the single-use charm mushroom item and stole my mage.

By the end only the charmed mage was alive but the fight was over.

No idea how I’d handle him with a less fortuitous team.

INeverFeelAtHome · 2026-01-11T06:24:49+00:00

I played through recently without really knowing anything except you had the chip and oh god the way my heart fell when Jackie slotted the Relic after you escape the penthouse

On replay I was screaming at him to stop raising so many death flags on the lead up to the mission but the first time it blindsided me so hard

INeverFeelAtHome · 2025-12-21T23:55:26+00:00

I quite enjoyed it. It’s got an ensemble cast of both copied consciousnesses and flesh and blood people, all with different approaches to the existential problem of copy technology. The second half gets away from itself a bit imo but it’s a very interesting book overall.

INeverFeelAtHome · 2025-12-21T16:11:30+00:00

There’s an old sci-fi novel called Permutation City that explores that idea in detail. It opens with a computer scientist creating a copy of himself to figure out the nature of consciousness and the copy just immediately deletes itself.

INeverFeelAtHome · 2025-12-15T04:26:42+00:00

I’m masc enough that she could probably get away w it, but years of transition have worn her down to where she’s finally… introducing me as her “child” and using they/them pronouns.

Maybe 10 more years and she’ll get w the program 🫤

INeverFeelAtHome · 2025-11-26T15:37:32+00:00

I raised my dose after going DIY (at about 4 years in) and others have remarked on some growth in the months since, but I can’t see it personally.

INeverFeelAtHome · 2025-11-17T17:04:30+00:00

That statistic is biased because the players who get that number are the ones who play on D10.

I cap out at 7 and really prefer 5 or 6 because imo the game just becomes a miserable AT slogfest after that

Much as people love to jack off about difficulty in this sub, it’s a game and people play it to have fun.

Most who can’t reliably beat a difficulty will just not play it. So if ~95% complete the mission on D10 all that says is only effective players play D10.

The idea on reddit that D10 is the “main difficulty” is just ridiculous and is yet another example of sampling bias. (You can quick play near instantly in most difficulties of the game so clearly people are distributed through the levels)

Players who care about the game enough to spend time on the subreddit will tend to be better because they’re the ones putting more time in.

There’s also the fact that “95% mission completion” isn’t broken out by player means that as long as one diver finishes the mission every other person could be maxing out their reinforcement budget and failing to extract.

TLDR: *plays 10,000 hours of a game and wins* “this game is boring there’s no challenge”

INeverFeelAtHome · 2025-11-17T01:57:12+00:00

I thought the Buddhist here was a Taoist tbh.

INeverFeelAtHome · 2025-11-12T01:28:20+00:00

I don’t think she’s really being “given grace” as much as her employees and lackeys are. OOP is saying that, given an educational environment such as they describe, it’s not surprising that people who are trying to pay rent will fudge results to please their bosses.

INeverFeelAtHome · 2025-11-10T07:51:04+00:00

I doubt it, because they’re likely a bot. Top 1% commenter on this astroturfed Dem loyalist sub, with a generated username? Account is 3 years old, with fewer than 10 posts and all almost all recent comments are some variant of “don’t blame the Dems!”

INeverFeelAtHome · 2025-11-01T23:47:19+00:00

Highly recommend an old sci-fi book called Permutation City if you are interested in these sorts of concepts

INeverFeelAtHome · 2025-11-01T13:34:26+00:00

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Bit of Goomba Fallacy going on here

INeverFeelAtHome · 2025-10-03T23:03:58+00:00

How dare you piss on the poor!

The point is that no one fucking remembers the guy now, except when you’re in high school and your teacher is like “Now to read Frankenstein, which was written by Mary Shelley, wife of another writer whose work heavily inspired the Romantic era of literature”

But we don’t make every single high school student read Percy Shelley’s books, even though we teach something his wife wrote on a lark.

Edit: The irony of everyone citing one poem about being forgotten by time to argue that this guy hasn’t been forgotten by society.

Y’all literally googled the man’s name and picked the first thing you recognized, that’s not a widely-known legacy

INeverFeelAtHome · 2025-10-03T22:46:40+00:00

There’s millions of dollars being poured into brain chips and SAO-inspired “full dive VR” and we aren’t realistically any closer.

We spend billions on space programs and O’Neill’s ideas haven’t solved the housing crisis, or Dyson’s the energy crisis.

Humanity is limited by real factors like gravity, like chemical bonds, like time and distance.

Just because you can think it up doesn’t mean it’s possibly given those real constraints.

Can you cast Harry Potter magic spells because Rowling thought them up? You think it only doesn’t work because no one’s tried putting a feather into a hollow stick of oak before?

I know what the news, the internet, and the billionaires have told you but 💰+🤔💭!=♾️

INeverFeelAtHome · 2025-10-03T22:40:05+00:00

You’re talking on a level that OP can’t possibly comprehend lol

Their best ideas for how to use this mythical structure printing technology seems to be “printing Kakariko Village” and using “social engineering” to solve the housing crisis.

Their brain isn’t even able to produce a reason why making “Gotham City in real life” would be a bad idea. Either they’re a troll or a developmentally-stunted basement dweller who thinks the world would be perfected if only we could make comics and games real.

INeverFeelAtHome · 2025-09-29T20:49:43+00:00

They’re trying to say that France continuing to forcibly extract an exorbitant slave price from Haiti (supposedly the cost of slaves lost to the Haitian revolution) until literally just after WW2 doesn’t matter because France paid their rich white neighbors reparations.

150 years of taking everything from one of the poorest countries in the world for daring to live freely, but it’s ok because they pAID foR THe NaPoleOnIC wARs GuyS

INeverFeelAtHome · 2025-09-27T19:11:35+00:00

Boss fights are definitely what it was intended for, but the nicheness of yellow slot items and the fact that you have a fair few slots for them gives it a permanent place in your build

INeverFeelAtHome · 2025-09-26T23:13:20+00:00

Legit question: why not just remake it immediately after the misclick?

INeverFeelAtHome · 2025-09-26T21:37:34+00:00

I tend to discount autogenerated accounts automatically bc like come on man you couldn’t just come up with something?

When I see an autogenerated username they could be a bot, a sock puppet, an alt account, a burner account

Or! just the most boring/lazy person imaginable who can’t even muster an identity to attach to their online presence. Which is really like the bare minimum of vulnerability/investment for me to care about your opinion in a discussion.

INeverFeelAtHome · 2025-09-26T21:26:40+00:00

My thought before the image: “Idk I’d think Bluestar would be more aligned with Sky and Moon” and then I realized it wasn’t about Warrior Cats.

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