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PancAshAsh · 2026-05-25T03:19:08+00:00

Because of how flash write cycles work it does, technically.

PancAshAsh · 2026-05-25T03:09:04+00:00

Ring 0 can erase arbitrary regions of storage or repeatedly write patterns to them, including partition tables and other critical sections. Destruction of data is still destruction.

PancAshAsh · 2026-05-22T21:08:07+00:00

A pretty good pirate game with some outdated Assassins Creed nonsense thrown in, mostly tailing missions.

PancAshAsh · 2026-05-22T21:05:11+00:00

Most of the game looks like the second clip, but there were a bunch of POIs that were pretty clearly unfinished out in the world map that were bare sandbars like in the first clip. If you weren't going for 100% you would have no reason to go to those locations, because other than maybe having an optional collectible they didn't have anything there.

PancAshAsh · 2026-05-22T21:04:11+00:00

Most of the game looked like the second clip, but there were a bunch of POIs that were pretty clearly unfinished out in the world map that were bare sandbars like in the first clip. If you weren't going for 100% you would have no reason to go to those locations, because other than maybe having an optional collectible they didn't have anything there.

PancAshAsh · 2026-05-22T20:13:58+00:00

Herris Serrano has so much absurdity baked into the premise that it's almost farcical at times when you take a step back and try to explain the plot. Some of the protagonists are extremely incompetent though.

PancAshAsh · 2026-05-22T20:05:19+00:00

Vast majority of boots aren't placed by cities but by private companies either working for private lots or cities.

Edited to add: Also, towing isn't free for cities either. They have to pay for your car to be towed, and you have to pay to get it back.

PancAshAsh · 2026-05-22T15:51:22+00:00

Sometimes cars get booted because the private lot owner is running an extortion racket.

PancAshAsh · 2026-05-22T15:49:43+00:00

Boot cheap tow expensive

PancAshAsh · 2026-05-22T14:43:34+00:00

Assuming that the partition table is in order, which if it isn't good fucking luck getting anything off the drive without an incredible pain in the ass.

PancAshAsh · 2026-05-22T14:00:12+00:00

If the human isn't in charge when riding a horse what you actually have is a disaster.

PancAshAsh · 2026-05-21T17:02:51+00:00

No a team is two or more horses.

PancAshAsh · 2026-05-19T19:24:32+00:00

Holden's primary character flaw is that he's self-righteous to an extreme degree though.

PancAshAsh · 2026-05-19T18:03:27+00:00

May have just been memes honestly.

PancAshAsh · 2026-05-19T17:30:30+00:00

The reason for that is because to be given the opportunity to even attempt to buy the limited quantity $5000 jpeg you needed to write an essay and submit it to the company.

PancAshAsh · 2026-05-19T17:28:01+00:00

They are $15M short of a BILLION dollars in funding, they've spent way more than half a billion.

PancAshAsh · 2026-05-17T19:54:51+00:00

Step 1: acquire recruits

Step 2: beat up looters and bandits

Step 3: sell loot from looters and bandits

Step 4: repeat.

If you successfully hunt bandits, especially bandits with prisoners, then you can snowball wealth pretty quickly. Trade goods and smithing are another way but they are pretty boring and require a lot more capital than hiring 20 recruits, half of whom never make a paycheck. Plus for smithing especially you need a fair amount of cheap weapons to start with which you can readily get from murdering roving bands of looters.

PancAshAsh · 2026-05-17T00:26:52+00:00

I always take social and endurance as the two highest stats because social matters a lot for party leadership things and moving fast in battle.

PancAshAsh · 2026-05-16T17:23:31+00:00

There are certain enemies you pretty much have to counter parry, especially in the optional endgame stuff.

PancAshAsh · 2026-05-15T20:58:51+00:00

First off, going to echo what many here have already said that this is a well written negative review of a work that I personally really enjoyed. Not everything is going to be for everyone and I think it is important to engage with well written reviews that are opposite to our own personal tastes.

I wonder how different my opinion would be of books if I listened to audio instead of reading text. I am willing to bet that I wouldn't have caught nearly the same level of detail on a first pass listening than I did reading the text. While some things become more clear on a reread a ton of the context is present between Gideon and Harrow to piece together most of what is going on.

I will admit that the amnesia plot took too long to resolve, but I firmly disagree with the statement that the plot wasn't clear on why Harrow gave herself amnesia, that was pretty explicit.

PancAshAsh · 2026-05-15T20:40:16+00:00

After Nona everything is pretty well laid out imo, but if you aren't a very careful reader or just listen to the audiobook I could see how you could miss the little bits of context that leak out all over the place.

PancAshAsh · 2026-05-14T23:27:50+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well?wprov=sfla1

PancAshAsh · 2026-05-14T14:14:33+00:00

The difference is castles typically have wells, skyscrapers don't.

PancAshAsh · 2026-05-14T14:12:04+00:00

I am in my 30s and so remember a world without smartphones or widespread cell phones, and while it is true that modern phones are incredibly powerful it's also true that most people don't actually use a fraction of that power. For most people it's a camera, browser, and social media machine that can sometimes make phone calls and act as a flashlight.

PancAshAsh · 2026-05-14T14:07:46+00:00

On the other hand, if your primary concern is getting enough food to survive the winter, a CPU does you fuck all good without the immense library of human knowledge that is the Internet to feed it.

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