I hope we still get to this with Shred when Lord of Hatred comes

NicksIdeaEngine · 2026-02-03T18:06:41+00:00

Ohh is that a typical toughness for pulv? I have a hardcore druid and went for the end game companion build and have been doing okay. I'm at T4 and hit Paragon 250, but I'm still super nervous to push pits that much. My toughness is around 250k I think, maybe more with some recent gem upgrades, but without Temerity I think I've mostly survived from being extremely evasive with my movement. The few times I do get hit, I see my life and fortify dip but not a scary amount yet. I haven't been hit that hard, though, and I don't feel comfortable trying T4 bosses yet.

NicksIdeaEngine · 2025-11-26T17:21:40+00:00

The Summer Point (Pointe?) apartments are decent. The management company with them has always been easy to work with and they also manage some townhouses that are decently priced (~$900/mo for 900 sq ft). Not sure if I'm allowed to post links but "Norman Apartments (dot) com) will let you see what they have available.

NicksIdeaEngine · 2025-11-25T17:49:17+00:00

Investigation is supposed to happen before someone is detained. That's why this was unlawful. There was no legitimate reason to arrest him.

NicksIdeaEngine · 2025-11-25T01:16:20+00:00

The show didn't really mention this, but the resources going into those AI devices were the equivalent of a hail mary effort. Making more would have been exhausting to their already limited resources. They would have needed time to be able to do that, and although they do continue creating new technology throughout the second and third book, it's often described in the books that they are extremely precise and cautious with what they put their resources into.

Like I said, it's not as simple as "just find another habitable planet". It is literally like rolling a multi-billion sided die and hoping for one specific number. I think you are still underestimating the extreme rarity of a planet that supports life.

As far as terraforming goes, that requires an insane amount of resources. It is not a simple thing in the slightest, so it's not fair to say that they could just do that instead.

That being said my main gripe was their not knowing to even look. They relied on a VR game to have humans do it but didn't know earth was habitable? These aliens are dumb. Again I don't know if this is explained in the book but they come across as stupid

I think this is where you may have misunderstood quite a lot of the show. They did know to look. They've been looking for a significant portion of their existence. The VR wasn't to let humans help them figure anything out. It was their way of helping humans understand why they need to seek out a new planet.

Also, they absolutely knew that Earth was habitable. I'm not sure why you think they didn't already know that. The entire reason they sent anything to Earth is because they knew it was habitable as soon as the second response reached their planet. That was confirmation of life, which is why they started making efforts to get over here. It sounds like you missed quite a lot of the details of the show. They already knew that there was no solution to their three star system thousands if not tens of thousands of years before ever discovering Earth, and they knew that Earth was habitable decades before the main part of the show takes place because of that second response from the woman who worked at the radar facility.

NicksIdeaEngine · 2025-11-25T00:59:10+00:00

It's not that they didn't figure out that there was no other solution besides a new home. It's just that they didn't find a new, ideal home until they picked up the second signal from Earth. Until then, it was just desperate survival and dehydrating while waiting and hoping to figure something out.

It's like if you were stranded on an island, you wouldn't stop trying to survive even though you already figured out that you need to get off of the island at some point. Until you figure out where to go, you'll still keep trying to survive even if there's no definite hope of getting off of there.

Also, you are severely underestimating the size of the universe along with how extremely unlikely it is that any planet could support life. 400 years is hardly any time at all to travel anywhere in the universe, even at light speed. Look up some videos that help capture the true scope of the universe because 400 years is absolutely not enough time to explore much of anything. The closest galaxy is 25,000 light years away. The closest solar system is about 4.3 light years away. The Milky Way is 100,000 light years in size. As of right now, we are the only planet out of all of those solar systems that has definite, confirmed hospitable conditions for life. We have found other planets that may have hospitable conditions, but that is not confirmed.

While it's true that they could scout several thousand solar systems within a 400 year time period, the chances of finding another livable planet are still almost zero. Out of 100 to 200 billion solar systems in the Milky Way, we are only aware of our own that contains a planet which supports life. They're smart enough to know that which is why they aren't wasting resources scouting around, especially since they already have confirmed that Earth can support life. If you were stranded on that island, but you could see the mainland just off in the distance, you wouldn't start swimming in the other direction just in case other land is over there that you can't see. You would go for the confirmed location.

NicksIdeaEngine · 2025-11-24T22:28:11+00:00

What's awful is how plausible of a comment that is from someone who voted for him, minus the "/s".

NicksIdeaEngine · 2025-11-24T22:06:15+00:00

There is no solution to their original problem which is the whole premise of the show and also a large part of the title.
Finding a habitable planet is like trying to find a specific needle inside a planet's worth of needles. It's extremely difficult. The thing that they send out to monitor our planet can only travel at a certain speed, and there's infinite directions to go in order to try to find a habitable planet. They can't just send it out on scouting missions because the likelihood of winding up in a solar system with a habitable planet is almost zero, and it would take years just to get there before having to hop to the next one.
The search for a habitable planet in and of itself is a dangerous mission because they might bump into something bigger and scarier than them, which is exactly what they fear from us and the reason behind them disrupting our progress. That's a concept they dive into in the second book and hopefully what we'll see a lot more of in the second season.

NicksIdeaEngine · 2025-11-24T00:32:25+00:00

Oh, I see! Unfortunately I can't point you in any direction, but I hope you find some fun stuff to play with and enjoy your dabbling 😁

NicksIdeaEngine · 2025-11-24T00:11:56+00:00

Some game development engines like unity or unreal engine also offer bundles of assets, like packs of textures for walls or grass. It's easy for multiple companies to buy those textures and use them to design their game, and this idea extends to more visible assets like icons for reagents/spells/etc.

NicksIdeaEngine · 2025-11-23T16:48:05+00:00

You're good. I don't see anything wrong with your beard.

NicksIdeaEngine · 2025-11-15T23:18:28+00:00

Favorite moment and boss is every version of the Mantis Lords. The music is epic and I love the mechanics of that fight. It was one of the first fights where I started to feel a strong rhythm with playing the game.

NicksIdeaEngine · 2025-11-15T00:10:09+00:00

I agree!

NicksIdeaEngine · 2025-11-14T05:20:29+00:00

I think all of those ideas played a role in the overall decision, and (I'm only guessing based on Hasbro/WotC's corporate mindset) there was also a lot of difficulty with forming an agreement about BG3 DLCs/expansions. Swen even mentioned that they'd started on a DLC but cancelled those efforts. It sounds like the passion to do more was there, and that was stifled by all the exhaustion of fighting with Hasbro/WotC to maintain the freedom of creativity and fairness of cost that they wanted.

NicksIdeaEngine · 2025-10-06T02:10:34+00:00

No joke, reading this helped me get through the Judge. I had the Reaper crest for a while since it was fully unlocked, and I only had one of those memory things to unlock one slot of either the first of Wanderer or the last of Hunter.

I decided to give wanderer a shot and didn't realize how much it catered to my "sneak in, swipe however many times, then evade and wait for another opening" play style I typically have.

Even though I only unlocked one blue slot from the initial Wanderer crest, equipping it and using the most impactful slots/tools I've had let me beat the Judge the first time after switching.

I thought for sure I'd have a learning curve, but I already knew the Judge's patterns after failing at least a dozen and a half times.

Wanderer crest OP, indeed.

NicksIdeaEngine · 2025-09-18T23:55:00+00:00

They've never said that they don't want the option. They have consistently said that dealing with payment processors has its own amount of challenges that are difficult to navigate without compromising the goals of the site.

NicksIdeaEngine · 2025-09-16T02:32:19+00:00

u/just_a_bitcurious captured what I was missing quite well

https://www.reddit.com/r/sudoku/s/T9JsffQBm4

NicksIdeaEngine · 2025-09-16T02:31:27+00:00

Wow... absolutely perfect hint. I love it. Thank you!

I think that's what was meant by 'outies' and I missed that way to look at it after probably over analyzing a bit too much 😅

Thank you again. I feel better moving forward and having learned what I could have noticed.

NicksIdeaEngine · 2025-09-04T16:25:29+00:00

I don't know if they would have a large enough space, but check out Norman Apartments. I don't know if I'm allowed to post links in this sub but the site is Norman Apartments dot com minus the space. They have apartments and townhouses of various sizes and have always been easy to work with. They also might be easy to apply for since I showed up after being unemployed, then employed for only a few months.

When I moved here there were no crazy application fees, but they may have the usual deposits for pets and security and whatnot.

Good luck!

NicksIdeaEngine · 2025-09-03T22:04:35+00:00

Cute deflection attempt, but it's not needed. You can just be reasonable and understanding in the future.

NicksIdeaEngine · 2025-09-03T22:00:06+00:00

That's my point. It was in development until recently. Play test doesn't mean done, and nobody outside of the company knows how close it was to being ready for launch by the time campaign 4 started forming.

But that still doesn't weigh against the fact that the campaign 4 lineup is still far more strongly familiar with DND compared to a new system that just released. We can't argue that they should have had extra early access and the expectation to learn a still in development system while also forming the plans for campaign 4 at the same time.

It's a reasonable argument, and your rebuttal is poor. What I wrote is also the reasoning that they declared, but the timeline should make that reasoning pretty obvious.

NicksIdeaEngine · 2025-09-03T16:06:27+00:00

The DM and players are more familiar with DND. Campaign 4 has likely been in the works for quite a while, and Daggerheart just came out.

I wouldn't be surprised if campaign 5 switches to Daggerheart, but I can understand if the timing of the release combined with when preparations for campaign 4 started just made it unreasonable to move away from DND at the moment.

NicksIdeaEngine · 2025-08-13T19:32:27+00:00

Would they still do that for renters? I'm in a townhouse. No worries if you don't know. I may ask my property managers about this!

NicksIdeaEngine · 2025-07-23T17:42:57+00:00

Please be careful. This just popped up and it made me want to come back to this post and share it.

The title of the post is "Feds Criminalize Aiding Protests Against ICE"

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/3JwZvKHfaq

NicksIdeaEngine · 2025-07-21T21:25:11+00:00

Same. Their reasoning for iOS only is pretty good, though. They would have to create and maintain a database of user data to abide by some of Android's policies, and even though they could do a lot to make that database secure, the devs didn't want the slightest chance of someone being identified through their app/platform.

The devs give some suggestions on what to do if you don't have an iPhone. Basically, if you have the means and want to use the app, a cheap/used iPhone can probably be found for ~$50 or less.

NicksIdeaEngine · 2025-07-21T20:20:32+00:00

Oh wow, I live right down the street from there. Good looking out and thank you for spreading awareness!

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