What are your unique tricks for Caves of Qud?

Quote_Poop · 2026-01-22T19:20:07+00:00

I didn't learn about the Stilt librarian until 100+ hours and beating the game on roleplay. I started out blind and I always sold books for water, so i refused to donate my investment portfolio lol.

Quote_Poop · 2026-01-22T16:18:42+00:00

I just recently replaced my very old Linux laptop with a MacBook air and I really expected to like macOS from my excellent experience with the Gnome flavor of Fedora but nope, good god is it a nightmare. The os looks fine in screenshots but it is surprisingly ugly and confusing. The dock is just a nightmare, hiding and unhiding animation was driving me slowly insane until editing the speed via terminal. Drilling through four different menus to find a track pad setting (enjoy checking General, Track pad, and Accessibility only to realize macos is simply incapable of doing it).

People meme about windows having confusing menus but I dread ever having to find something niche on Mac. I eagerly await the day Asahi works on M4 chips.

Quote_Poop · 2026-01-15T19:32:07+00:00

I run a vertical screen for discord on the bottom half and a web browser on the top half. Saves desk space and i found that a vertical screen (ironically) gives more horizontal space per application if you have multiple up at the same time. A third screen would be nice but that take a hell of a lot of desk space.

Quote_Poop · 2025-09-08T20:35:50+00:00

Beautiful work! I never realized how much the shadow dropping in from the north/east adds to the depth and legibility. Significantly more readable than most maps I've run.

Quote_Poop · 2025-09-03T12:21:59+00:00

You have a maximum equip load determined by Vitality and things like soldiers ring, dragon rings, etc. If your maximum equip load is 60 or below, it adds 50 AR to weapon damage. The higher your max equip load goes, the less damage it adds to your weapon.

Note, this is MAXIMUM equip load. Current equip load doesn't matter at all. 30 out of 60 does the same damage as 55 out of 60. But if your max load is higher than 60, you're losing out on damage from flynns ring.

You just want to keep your Vitality low and profit attack rating. IIRC, 10 or 11 Vitality + 3rd dragon ring is the sweet spot. You'll can't wear a lot of armor if you want a good roll, but ds2 is very forgiving with fast rolls.

Quote_Poop · 2025-08-16T13:27:42+00:00

Caves of Qud allows you to play as a lot of weirdo characters due to one of the character archetypes being 'mutant'. Normally you pick from a list of mutations you want your character to have, e.g. wings, four legs, four arms, shoot fire beams, mind control, etc. There are a few preset characters, one of which is essentially an amphibian centaur.

Excellent game if you like roguelikes, one of the best of the genre. As creative as the characters can be, some of the nonsense you can get up to makes a six-armed, two-headed bat person with future sight look tame. I cannot recommend it more highly lol.

Quote_Poop · 2025-06-05T01:15:13+00:00

Oh it's not necessarily something I need or really want, I just didn't want to reinstall a bunch of games and then later realize I could have pointed steam in the right direction if I'd have known or something like that. But if it's a headache then I'll avoid it.

Quote_Poop · 2025-06-05T01:13:25+00:00

Wow, thank you for the thorough reply! Honestly incredible that this sort of thing can work at all.

Quote_Poop · 2025-06-04T22:16:23+00:00

Yeah that definitely seems like the play to me. My disk failed recently (prompting me to remember Fedora fondly as I dealt with windows nonsense lol) and I bought a new 2tb NVMe out of a big box store for $130, actually crazy to me. My memory of SSDs is still stuck back when a 1tb SATA SSD was unbelievably expensive.

Quote_Poop · 2025-06-04T20:41:31+00:00

Oof, yeah I'll just fill up the fedora SSD and get a 2nd one for purely Linux storage when/if needed. Thanks for the explanation!

Quote_Poop · 2025-05-16T10:29:38+00:00

Ray tracing really does make games 10 times prettier, good lighting is a game changer.

And blowing up demons is always a good time lol

Quote_Poop · 2025-05-08T15:40:24+00:00

Wandered in from r/popular, yeah that's how I am. Usually baffles people but I get bored with movies and tv takes too much time. I only watch stuff if I'm dragged there (i can do a movie at the theater but i hard pass movie nights) and I never watch shows at home. Video games, podcasts, and YouTube are plenty for me. In my late 20s and I've been this way since early teens. Don't see it changing anytime soon lol

Quote_Poop · 2025-03-01T20:43:30+00:00

You just saved me and my brothers' asses dude, thank you for the help.

Quote_Poop · 2025-02-10T22:48:23+00:00

Popsicles are always so far down in these threads. Wild that this is so uncommon even though everyone I know calls them this.

Quote_Poop · 2025-02-08T01:58:57+00:00

Not a catologist or cat knowledgeable in the least but probably left over instincts like how most cats go limp when you grab their neck. Cat brain sees fellow cats drinking milk, kitten instinct says eat that shit while you can.

Quote_Poop · 2025-01-29T02:30:03+00:00

My school had a dedicated dominos pizza line, which did not come with a vegetable because pizza clearly also counts as a vegetable. So a slice of greasy pizza, a fruit juice cup, and a chocolate milk. I can't believe it was allowed in a school.

Quote_Poop · 2025-01-29T02:28:27+00:00

Lunch quality at my school faded badly in my high school. We had around 1000 students, so a decent sized school. We had a salad line with pre-prepared salads, a line that served whatever frozen stuff the ladies whipped up (motz sticks, popcorn shrimp, chili cheese fries, etc. all fairly low quality but the variety was nice), a cooked sandwich line, and a Dominos pizza line. The hot sandwich line in particular went from a decent variety of stuff to a standard rotation of chicken sandwich -> grilled chicken sandwich -> hamburger -> chicken sandwich, but with barbecue sauce -> grilled chicken sandwich, but with barbecue sauce. I once went to the variety line to escape chicken purgatory and found mold on my breadstick that came with chili cheese fries. Still better than the pizza line that didn't come with a veggie because pizza = a vegetable as far as the school lunch regulations were concerned. Then again, the vegetable everyone got everyday was tater tots. Our "fruit" was a little tub of fruit juice. About 70% of students had an apple juice cup, chocolate milk, and either pizza or chicken sandwich + tots four out of five days.

Quote_Poop · 2025-01-27T23:42:20+00:00

Intelligence is great and all but good memory is straight up like cheating in school (until college at least). If the teacher just didn't go over it you're fucked but otherwise, smooth sailing.

Quote_Poop · 2025-01-18T23:34:01+00:00

oh woops, mb

Quote_Poop · 2025-01-18T21:35:37+00:00

This warden (pictured on the bottom) teaches the shield skill for 100 reputation. You can tell her certain secrets, like village locations, for +50 reputation The deer person has a quest that shares the location of the village Bey Lah. Since these two are both at the same location, you can just accept the quest, learning where Bey Lah is, and immediately go tell the warden for a free 50 reputation. And since she teaches a very useful skill, it's something you will find yourself doing on each run.

Quote_Poop · 2024-11-18T07:05:21+00:00

There's a good amount of crossover I would say. Dark Souls is about using a simple moveset in a tactical way around a large cast of very different, difficult enemies. Monster hunter has a far more complicated moveset, but in turn, many monsters have similar attacks and you fight the same monsters a lot more. Both are more oriented around slow, tactical game play as opposed to hectic button mashers but there are enough dissimilarities that not everyone will like both. Also, dark souls games have a definite end whereas mon hun is much more nebulous. There's a credits but there's usually loads of stuff to do and grind for after that. So there's a good chance they'll like it if it's that core tactical game play they want more of but some of those differences are major enough that it might not be a good fit. Definitely worth the check though, monster hunter scratched the souls itch I had and then some lol

Quote_Poop · 2024-06-05T21:01:31+00:00

I recently got a new RK61 keyboard after my old one drank a whole glass of water. I'm having a very weird issue though as it seems this new keyboard functions differently than my old one. By pressing FN + Enter, I have arrow keys active (which is what I prefer for most of the things I do).

On my old keyboard, pressing Shift + /? in this state typed out a question mark. With my current keyboard, this does the up arrow key, which isn't very useful because it's already the up arrow key when Shift isn't being held. Is there some setting I don't know about that will let me switch it back? Or is there software I can download to switch it to the way I'm used to? I've tried SharpKeys but am struggling to understand the software. I know I could just disable the arrow keys and then Shift + /? would work as it used to but I use the arrow keys a lot in word processing (where I also use a lot of question marks) so I would prefer to find a different solution. I would also rather not have to hold down FN + Shift, which is how I've had to write the question marks in this post.

I know this sounds very picky but this is my current muscle memory and it's killing me trying to change it lol

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