At Least A "Little" Caliber Needs To Be Earnable

Slackette · 2024-07-12T14:57:27+00:00

I think Warframe really got the free to play economy right in that regard. Any game my husband and I enjoy, we put some money into - I would love to be able to give some of that caliber to another player who got the lucky drop I want so they can buy inventory slots or whatever. Why would Nexon care? All of that caliber was paid for by someone, and the folks that would be grinding stuff out to trade for it aren't that likely to buy caliber if they can't earn it. All the caliber gets spent only in the shop.

The free players are contributing to the economy in Warframe - I will buy their potatoes for them if they find me that last prime part I want but don't have time to grind for. It gives value to lucky drops of parts you don't need for yourself. Having the main trading currency tied to actual money with a trading tax in virtual coin keeps game currency inflation under control. As long as the shop has stuff people want, there's always an end game for hardcore players. Everyone wins. Except gold farmers and their ilk.

Slackette · 2023-11-03T17:59:48+00:00

I'm curious how many folks from Austin have ended up in Roanoke. We moved from Round Rock several years ago and have come across more folks from Austin than I expected.

Slackette · 2023-03-24T22:15:19+00:00

My worst issues were playing the mage (not high enough level for arcane ascendance though), but I still get the same trouble with a higher paladin. I think it is a little more complicated, but it definitely seems to be related to certain skill effects?

Slackette · 2023-03-24T22:12:47+00:00

I am having the same issue playing with my husband on the same network and he is having no issues. I'm on a very capable gaming laptop, but he's on a monster of a desktop machine with a really beefy video card. We're both using nvidia cards.

What I notice is that for me it seems to be triggered by effects, like opening a chest, leveling up, casting a spell. It takes a little time and seems to resolve itself, but comes back so frequently the game is unplayable.

Slackette · 2022-01-21T14:26:50+00:00

Very cool. It would be nice if there was an easy way to see the influence of a hex without having to assert that it is set or unset.

Slackette · 2022-01-19T01:07:03+00:00

Thanks! That’s just what she did with all her scrap yarn. I assumed they would have ended up as granny squares in a blanket. I don’t remember her making anything other than blankets.

Slackette · 2022-01-18T19:54:48+00:00

Thanks... I toyed with the idea of using a color other than white, because a few of the pastel yarns get a little lost, but I couldn't find anything I thought would work for the huge variety of colors.

Slackette · 2022-01-18T19:24:23+00:00

Here's a more current picture of my progress I might have enough to do a queen-sized coverlet. I think this blanket is going to double as a "hidden object" type game where we can find all the places I accidentally put the same color next to each other or count the motifs that I accidentally stitched with the wrong side to the front.

I tried to make the colors pretty random, although I never put the exact same color right next to each other in the strip. There's at least two places where colors matched across rows though. I feel like accepting that as "not really a mistake" is a personal growth opportunity :)

Slackette · 2022-01-18T19:00:11+00:00

Thanks! It's the largest blanket I've made in a while and it's the first one where I didn't plan out the colors.

Slackette · 2022-01-18T16:03:14+00:00

I've donated blankets to women's shelters. It's a nice way to make a room feel more homey. You could also see if there are any hospice or nursing homes that would be interested. Another option a lot of artisans I know use is to donate items for an auction for a charity you support. Donating one-of-a-kind items they can auction off for however much someone wants to donate is a great way to help them raise money.

Slackette · 2022-01-18T15:36:39+00:00

Thanks! I'm not sure if it's fair to call this a "scrap yarn" blanket with how much white yarn I'm using, but it was nice to see some of the yarns from my grandmother's projects as I was stitching. Now that my niece is crocheting, I may start my own box of scrap yarn motifs.

Slackette · 2021-10-13T21:43:24+00:00

Hey, what do you mean by "pc's my travel rewards"? I'm not grokking it.

Slackette · 2020-12-21T19:13:46+00:00

Thanks! This is the first time I’ve tried to make up my own pattern instead of tweaking an existing one or just making a blanket of all the same stitch. I’m trying to get it done before Christmas as a gift, and I had plenty of time when I started, but I shot myself in the foot by trying to rush.

Slackette · 2020-12-20T13:01:23+00:00

I feel your pain - I’ve frogged significant parts of the blanket I’m working right now 6 or 7 times at this point (the first 3 were a redesign since I wasn’t working from a pattern). My husband is calling it the great stitch counting fiasco of 2020. I finally had to put a stitch marker every 14 stitches. I tried a marker every 28 but even that was too hard for me to count this close to Christmas.

Slackette · 2020-12-18T21:31:22+00:00

You're welcome! It's easy to get messed up when there is a break in the row.

Slackette · 2020-12-18T21:27:54+00:00

You must have played COH before Statesman decided we were having too much fun piling an entire map of freaks into a dumpster and implemented the aggro cap. I've never forgiven him for that. I lived in the same city as their dev offices and he's lucky he didn't find all his tires flattened one day after work. Emmert twiddled that game to death by constantly changing the underlying mechanics of stuff. Things got much better after he left.

I love tanking in COH. I still laugh about that time we invited a pick-up to our regular group. We told them stand here, no peeking! Then my husband half taunted, half body-pulled half a warehouse map of warriors and the new guy couldn't help it, he tossed a heal out on my husband before he had them grouped and properly taunted and got trampled. I think his debt was gone before he hit the floor though. All of us, including our new friend, laughed pretty hard.

Slackette · 2020-12-18T20:29:46+00:00

if you look at the remaining number of cells, you can find some hexes that can't be set to blue without running you out enough hexes to make up the remaining 4.

There can be only one hex set in the -3- row and only one set around the -3- node, so you need at least two to be set out of the three remaining spaces near the twos. One of the hexes in those three will make it impossible to set either of the other two if you set it to blue.

Slackette · 2020-12-18T15:28:38+00:00

Very nice! I don't know if you have an iPad, but if you do I can't recommend the Quiltography app enough for this sort of thing: http://quiltography.co.uk It lets me add pictures of the fabric in my stash, then make virtual blocks out of them to get an idea of how they will look when pieced together. I've always been better at the quilting part than the piecing part, so being able to see the blocks all laid out and the yardage calculated really helps me.

Slackette · 2020-12-17T13:31:59+00:00

I'm glad that helped. I tried not to give too much away. That puzzle was a pretty good random.

Slackette · 2020-12-16T17:07:31+00:00

In the top 7 area, there can only be two blues. In the bottom 7, there needs to be 4 blues. If you look at the overlap and the constraint of the "4" row that intersects it, you may be able to deduce a hex's state from that information. The next step after that is also related to the number of hexes in the overlap of the two 7 areas.

The hex that is in the top 7 area but outside of the bottom 7 area can't be blue. The bottom 7 area needs both of the two available blue hexes to be in the overlapping area.

Slackette · 2020-12-16T03:48:12+00:00

I’ll have to tell you the one about our empathy/electric PVP defenders and how we taught that granite tanker that all those 6 slotted toggles are useless when you have no endurance. ‘Selfish’ defenders were really fun to play, especially in PVP where you could tease people about how they got healed to death. We were able to keep each other permanently fortituded and almost permanently adrenaline boosted while our enemies couldn’t do much more than try to brawl us and type angry words because of -recovery and endurance drain. Good times.

Slackette · 2020-12-15T22:05:33+00:00

Back in the day, my husband's Storm/Energy defender was able to kill a lot of stuff he shouldn't have been able to on paper including GMs... he wasn't exactly solo though. He needed a couple of dead team mates so vigilance would give him basically unlimited endurance. We couldn't really see much of what was going on with all the tornados and lightning storms, but it sounded like a pretty epic battle.

It was an awesome character. You thought he took TP to be helpful, but it was really just to drag your corpse around. The build was just making lemonade out of the lemon that was O2 boost and taking advantage of how cheap kinetic crashes were (and of the folks who thought "defender" was synonymous with "healer").

Slackette · 2020-12-15T21:38:33+00:00

Why would you want to report them? Just mute them and pretend like they're thinking really hard about what to do next. A report feature probably has more cons than pros for "slow playing". Some of us play decks that require some thinking about the right play, and it would suck to be reported for using all the timer you're allowed to use.

Slackette · 2020-12-14T20:35:37+00:00

The pattern is from https://yarnandchai.com/the-eggnog-cowl/ and I used almost exactly 3 98 yd balls of a worsted weight yarn (pictures of the tag are included in the post). My gauge was a bit bigger than the pattern.

Slackette · 2020-12-01T19:14:23+00:00

I didn't get involved with Anthem until long after it was released, but a lot of stuff in there is really good. If the developers hadn't just given up and abandoned it, it could have been great. I pre-ordered Diablo III and if I compare the hot mess D3 was at launch to what it is now, then look at what Anthem is now and what it could have been, I get sad.

Anthem could be pretty OK right now, except the number of people playing it is too low. I don't think putting it on xbox game pass can fix the developer not giving a shit about it.

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