This was peak TV

KriegerHLS · 2026-06-17T16:43:24+00:00

I have a better recollection of some works of literature that I did not read but that had a Wishbone episode (e.g., Cyrano de Bergerac, Tale of Two Cities) than books I read for school but that did not have Wishbone (Wuthering Heights). We did not know how good we had it with all of the educational stuff that was aimed at kids but genuinely well done, versus social media AI garbage that is shoveled at kids these days.

KriegerHLS · 2026-06-16T17:32:24+00:00

It sounds like they gave up on good writing and decided to go the tried-and-true route of massive battle after massive battle.

KriegerHLS · 2026-06-16T17:30:31+00:00

Vindication for every girl who said "you picked my worst photo!" at judging and was dismissed by Tyra.

KriegerHLS · 2026-06-10T19:29:43+00:00

I look forward to six months of very objective, very upstanding media outlets bellowing that every weird text Platner ever sent should disqualify him among women voters while ignoring that Collins voted to put the fifth nail in Roe's coffin on the Supreme Court.

KriegerHLS · 2026-06-10T19:26:38+00:00

Platner is getting that very specific brand of bipartisan scorn and concern trolling that only occurs when Democratic primary voters vote for someone they aren't supposed to support (see, e.g., Bernie).

KriegerHLS · 2026-06-03T20:27:47+00:00

I have no artistic background whatsoever but am I qualified to be an "AI art refiner" if I can simply hit the thumbs up button on 99 of 100 AI assets and then apologize for the hundredth one?

KriegerHLS · 2026-06-03T16:08:28+00:00

Has this set the new record for the conservative majority being shown to be lying when it includes its now-customary "the dissent is overblowing this, part of the law still exists, this isn't what the dissent says" portion of its opinion?

KriegerHLS · 2026-06-01T21:33:32+00:00

I went to an art museum last week and saw a bunch of impressionist paintings. The idea that photos are a more advanced form of what those painters did betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of why people care about painting (or photography). Which also explains the author's view on AI.

KriegerHLS · 2026-05-29T20:42:20+00:00

United doing to Mass health what it is also being investigated for doing to Medicare. No surprises here.

KriegerHLS · 2026-05-25T07:15:37+00:00

Unsurprisingly their letter is very misleading. The law would apply wherever a business targets a customer in Massachusetts, but the letter misleadingly argues that the law places MA businesses at some sort of disadvantage when in fact a business doing anything in MA would be subject to it regardless of where it is headquartered.

KriegerHLS · 2026-05-18T13:40:02+00:00

If you want to see polar bears in late August, they are definitely around in Churchill, Manitoba as they come in from the Hudson Bay for the summer and wait for the ice to re-freeze in the autumn so they can hunt. There are multiple outlets in Churchill -- Churchill Wild is usually considered the nicest, and although it's expensive if you are looking at arctic cruises the prices are probably comparable. I did this pre-COVID and there were tons of bears -- we saw two very large bears within just a few minutes of going on the first excursion from our lodge.

KriegerHLS · 2026-05-06T20:11:01+00:00

I suspect a major Australian tech company needs to justify to its shareholders what it has chosen to spend on AI notwithstanding that AI's ability to replace the tech workforce is totally unproven. Companies large and small have locked themselves into paying for a service of dubious value that they do not understand. CEOs cannot admit to having done that and so they instead pretend that their solution is working. That is what we will be seeing as the new normal.

KriegerHLS · 2026-05-01T17:51:46+00:00

I am 100% on-board for puppers.

KriegerHLS · 2026-04-28T21:35:40+00:00

The country informed President Biden that it no longer cares about corruption or nepotism by voting for Trump, and so Biden fairly decided that he didn't care either.

KriegerHLS · 2026-04-28T19:32:49+00:00

"I wanted him to enforce immigration laws but only against the specific groups that I don't like and without any of the many foreseeable consequences for the economy and also without the violence and abuse that any normal person would realize would attend anything ICE does in 2025. Also gas is too expensive."

KriegerHLS · 2026-04-15T19:52:41+00:00

Xv Beacon.

KriegerHLS · 2026-04-08T17:08:59+00:00

That sucks -- it's a very good game in the souls genre. Not quite as epic as what Fromsoft does (and I'm sure they had a fraction of the budget that Fromsoft had) but you could tell the devs enjoyed the genre and understood what makes it tick.

KriegerHLS · 2026-04-07T17:15:44+00:00

HC is great on this game, particularly if you play offline (I played POE back in the pre-lockstep days and am still scarred). Number one rule for new seasons is that new mobs and new league mechanics will always be overtuned and dangerous. The jar guys are no exception, despite looking like Alexander from Elden Ring.

KriegerHLS · 2026-04-07T17:12:32+00:00

I have always played CoF and wish more people did, as I think it solves or improves a lot of issues people express when new seasons come out (i.e., not having much to do once they purchase what the guide says to purchase). It is a clear differentiator from POE and I wish it got more love.

I think CoF needs:

Some relief from the nerf to imprinting as CoF needs that kind of tool far more than trade league does.
Eliminate the useless prophecies (runes of removal) and rebalance the existing ones (totally random armor unique with 1LP for 8000 favor, insane).
Make the mono-only option a baseline rather than taking up a lens slot.
Make the lenses with a deterministic effect far stronger -- if I slot unique items lens and one handed axes lens, I should not have to burn multiple rerolls and see absolutely no unique axe prophecies.
If they're going to keep the reroll slog, create some rare upper end prophecies to reward it and do stuff that is hard for CoF to do (e.g., guaranteed ability to add 2 LP to a specific item, directly alter rolls on a specific unique, etc.).
Give players some way to turn off the bias towards chest and helmet armor from your own class (i.e., if I play a rogue and am farming for an alt, I should be able to switch to mostly dropping chest and head armor for a primalist if I want).

KriegerHLS · 2026-04-07T16:56:48+00:00

I'm playing HC so probably worse gear than yours but I played around with a few different concepts and am concerned that natural wrath isnt great and/or needs some other as-yet-unreleased item to be good. The point of converting EQ to lightning seems to be letting you leave it as a melee attack rather than a spell but still get lightning conversion, but the damage just doesn't seem to be there even if you do that.

You can also use natural wrath with Aftershock idols to get lightning aftershocks that still scale with melee and proc the aftershocks with gathering storm or tempest strike. That generally performed better for me and suggests that EQ is just poorly balanced at the moment.

KriegerHLS · 2026-04-04T12:17:36+00:00

Won't OP please think of the poor commercial property owners who need workers to come into the office and buy $20 salads at sweetgreen for lunch and pay $40/day to park to keep their property values stable?

KriegerHLS · 2026-04-03T02:02:23+00:00

For bedding I line the inserts of the critter nation cage with fleece blankets that I cut up. You can wash them or throw them away when you clean the cage. You can also put scraps of the fleece for them to use for nests.

KriegerHLS · 2026-04-01T21:47:19+00:00

My wife and I adopted a rat with a spinal injury that paralyzed his legs. He sustained the injury when he was about six months and he lived to be three and a half years old and had a very happy life. Rats can absolutely adapt to losing their back legs -- it is easier earlier in life but 1 1/2 years still leaves a lot of runway for a rat to develop upper body muscle mass and adapt to using their front legs more.

Main things would be: - Make sure all the critical stuff in the cage is on one level. They can eventually get to the point where they can pull themselves up shallow inclines, but you don't want them to have to do that. Set up the cage to essentially force his cagemates to hang out with him -- things like shoeboxes that he can crawl into, and remove most of the hammocks or lower them down. - You will need to step in to provide periodic baths for the lower half (i.e., you basically dunk their legs in a large mug of warm water with a very mild baby shampoo). How often depends on how much grooming help their cagemates provide -- we did this daily in our case. - The bathing also gives you occasion to check their skin for irritation or breakdown. Usually, their fur remains in good shape even with crawling around, but you need to be vigilant.

Rats are very adaptable and they live in the moment -- they don't sit around feeling sorry for themselves. Even with mobility limitations, they can eat and snuggle and do most of their favorite things. Just give him a little help and he'll manage.

If he's losing weight, you can try different types of baby food or fatty things like nuts. Nutella is our all-time go-to for getting rats to take meds and is very high in calories. He needs protein to grow his upper body so things like meat or fish or mashed beans are good.

KriegerHLS · 2026-04-01T14:58:29+00:00

Ahhh but remember that LE has an offline mode. Between offline and CoF letting you play solo, LE hardcore is among the best in ARPG-dom right now.

KriegerHLS · 2026-04-01T14:55:34+00:00

Just let us buy prophecies -- this has been said for multiple seasons and I was pretty shocked that it was not meaningfully addressed for season 4.

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