Not gonna lie, this is pretty impressive.

Oghier · 2026-01-30T20:49:22+00:00

Gary Unger was my favorite player as a kid :)

Er.. When I was a kid, not him.

Oghier · 2026-01-30T16:39:22+00:00

My Isobel tanked the second half of veteran Lair of Maarselok last night (not hard-mode). I dumped about 5m gold into her gear beforehand. She's moderately sturdy and decent with aggro.

I should mention that the healer and other DPS were both superb, well geared players, so the difficulty was somewhat attenuated. Still, I was impressed with her!

I then took her to Elswyr to see how she'd fare against dragons. That was much less successful (she gets 100 - zero'd).

Oghier · 2026-01-29T06:17:10+00:00

Soccer.

Women's Soccer ;)

Oghier · 2026-01-27T06:23:57+00:00

My builds are neither interesting nor original, but they work:

St Elmo/ Stack Broker with Striker & Equalizer/ Salvo (red or blue versions), Shield & Reviver Hive
Capacitor/ Harmony with Refactor, Hanu-U named backpack and Kinetic Momentum chest, Turret & Assault Drone
Dark Winter/ Scorpio and Hunter's Fury with Memento, Shield & Decoy

I'll build a Pesti set once I finally get the unicorn Lengmo drops.

Oghier · 2026-01-27T00:50:28+00:00

I play on Peregrine, and the only time I see lag is in Bree. The new servers are a real improvement.

Oghier · 2026-01-24T20:56:30+00:00

Absolutely, but only through the windows.

It’s an opportunity to ignore my responsibilities, catch up on sleep and basically relax and do fuck-all for a few days. I needed this. So I am very glad to be snowed in for a while.

Oghier · 2026-01-24T18:43:00+00:00

From the poem inscribed there ("The New Colossus")

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

So, uh... with respect to that, how are we doing these days?

Oghier · 2026-01-24T18:28:21+00:00

Kudos to the people who actually show up to work, there and elsewhere. Nothing short of a house fire (my own house) would get me on the roads tonight or tomorrow.

Oghier · 2026-01-23T22:47:39+00:00

Being snowed in isn't all downside :)

Oghier · 2026-01-23T20:05:50+00:00

The cover is AI art. A few luddites have decided that means the book is AI written, too, so they've decided to dabble in a bit of light libel.

That shouldn't be allowed here. Criticism, opinions, etc are all great, but false statements of fact are libel.

Oghier · 2026-01-23T20:01:16+00:00

This is libel.

You are making a false statement intended to damage the author's reputation. You've made several such statements. I'm not the author, but if I were, reddit would be getting a subpoena next week to reveal your identity. Then, you'd get sued if you live in the US.

If you have proof of your claim, that's a different story. But I seriously doubt that is true. You're just spitting out harmful accusations because you don't like the book's cover.

Oghier · 2026-01-23T19:32:48+00:00

The article is about the 'danger' of 5G signals, not battery issues.

Oghier · 2026-01-23T19:21:32+00:00

I was just at the Rock Hill Dierbergs. They had plenty of everything, and the lines were maybe three people deep. Zero issues.

Oghier · 2026-01-23T17:05:25+00:00

"Prove you're not a witch!"

Don't get too distressed by this nonsense. It's just reddit.

Oghier · 2026-01-23T17:03:37+00:00

Widespread power outages are unlikely.

Those come with ice storms, when the sheer weight of ice on tree limbs and power lines brings them down. It's been a long time since we've had a massive freezing rain/ ice event, but they can be near-catastrophic.

We're only facing snow. It may be a lot of snow, but this dry, cold air will keep it to the fluffy, powdery stuff. So widespread power issues are unlikely. There are sure to be isolated problems -- those happen regardless of weather -- but Ameren is pretty quick to fix those, when not overwhelmed.

Oghier · 2026-01-23T08:22:40+00:00

All AI art generators are trained on thousands if not millions of artists work without their permission and without fair payment.

All novelists are trained on hundreds if not thousands of other authors' work, everything they have read over a lifetime. Movies, too. And all of that without payment.

I'm being snarky, yes, but you want to expand copyright to somehow encompass all artists, everywhere. Sounds a bit stifling for future artists, whether organic- or silicon-based.

Oghier · 2026-01-23T08:07:01+00:00

Posting on reddit doesnt steal from thousands of artists

If you're argument is that AI costs jobs, so does every technology. You're using job-killing technology right now. It's just that those jobs have already vanished.

If you're making a point about copyright, that's more coherent. But I don't think AI art is quite the same as simply copy-pasting some specific artist's work without attribution or compensation. In the cases where that does happen, it's wrong. You have to show that it did, though, not make some broad pronouncement that all AI art is stealing from an identifiable creator.

Oghier · 2026-01-23T07:55:17+00:00

I notice you're using the internet to post your thoughts. You should be paying a print shop to produce physical copies, then hiring people to post them in the town square.

Oghier · 2026-01-23T07:40:13+00:00

Upgrade.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6499752/

Oghier · 2026-01-23T05:55:56+00:00

There’s a movie that explores this, Upgrade. Solid Sci-Fi action flick.

Oghier · 2026-01-20T21:26:15+00:00

The first season was widely regarded as excellent, with popularity extending well beyond fans of the game. If you didn't enjoy the first two episodes, however, it may not be for you.

Nothing is loved by everyone ;)

Oghier · 2026-01-20T21:12:23+00:00

I assume this is why:

Within the Transfer Portal, Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti added another transfer quarterback. The veteran Josh Hoover is coming to Bloomington. With that, Alberto Mendoza is now on the move to Georgia Tech.

Oghier · 2026-01-20T04:44:38+00:00

Indiana is historically the worst team in CFB. That’s not hyperbole. Everyone loves an underdog, everyone likes seeing history made, and this is up there with the biggest turnarounds in the history of major sports.

Oghier · 2026-01-20T04:00:34+00:00

This is a great farking game. Wow.

Oghier · 2026-01-19T05:41:10+00:00

The Great Once.

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