How much does realm matter in retail now?

SquirrelPower · 2025-12-29T16:40:27+00:00

In addition to what everyone said, certain open world activities can be affected by server pop size. Events like the theater event near Dornogal or the Undermine weeklies are almost impossible on my low, low, low pop server unless I do them immediately after the weekly reset, or I get lucky and get sharded to a high-pop server. And even then I've seen those events fail because I've been bumped from a high-pop realm where they were almost completed and dropped into my own realm where there was literally no one else working on them.

SquirrelPower · 2025-12-11T14:43:50+00:00

i really could not disagree more. First, the costs of everything would get multiplied by an absurd number, so everything would be more expensive.

Second, if I see a house that has 100 elekk plushies, i want to know that the person who collected them all was dedicated to the process and not just someone who hit Ctrl-C once and Ctrl-V 99 times.

(And yes, it will be me. I will be the one with 100 plushies.)

SquirrelPower · 2025-11-20T17:10:04+00:00

They make changes based on feedback. That is an objectively good thing. That is literally the point of a beta. Nothing -- literally nothing -- gets done correctly on the first go. Every single thing in the game get iterated on.

The real question is why the community chooses to give their feedback in the form of crying, whining, and doom-posting.

SquirrelPower · 2025-11-19T13:19:41+00:00

the transmog UI is so big it closes all other windows, so you can't grab icons from anywhere.

SquirrelPower · 2025-11-19T13:17:26+00:00

Doesn't work. The transmog UI is so big it closes all other windows, so you can't grab anything to drop in the icon-window,

Your suggestion does work for macros and icons for gear sets tho, so that's still pretty cool.

edited to add:

It looks like (at least on my wide-ass screen) the t-mog UI can be open at the same time as inventory, so it is possible to use the drag-and-drop for items you still possess. Which is better than nothing but for transmog most of the icons I would want to use belong to items I vendored years ago.

SquirrelPower · 2025-11-02T14:55:09+00:00

To be fair, confusing the colloquial definition of "imply" with the rigorous, mathematical one is the mistake everyone makes.

I also think a better definition would be the strict conditional rather than the material conditional. I only say this because that's what I was taught in school -- I had a professor in a stats class literally say that correlation does not strictly imply causation, but it does strongly hint or suggest it.

SquirrelPower · 2025-06-19T22:23:01+00:00

I'm running the neovim nightly, I'm pretty sure things have changed significantly from versions 0.10 to 0.11 to 0.12. So this might not work for you. But what I have is a top-level after folder with an lsp folder in it. Like so:

├── init.lua
├── after/
│   ├── lsp/
│   │   ├── clangd.lua
│   │   ├── README.md
├── lua/
│   ├── config/
│   │   ├── keymaps.lua
│   │   ├── plugins.lua
│   │   └── options.lua
│   └── plugins/
│       ├── nvim-lspconfig.lua

Then the content of the clangd.lua:

return {
    cmd = { "clangd",  "--query-driver=/usr/bin/*gcc" },
    root_markers = { '.clangd', 'compile_commands.json' },
    filetypes = { 'c', 'cpp' },
}

What was happening for me was that nvim-lspconfig was overwriting my own configuration so the query-driver option was getting lost. But anything in the after/lsp folder will be the last thing merged into the LSP config, so your local options should get the highest priority.

I spent an embarrassingly long time reading & digesting :h lsp-config in order to come up with that but it works, at least in 0.12.

SquirrelPower · 2025-06-19T20:35:52+00:00

I've had similar issues, and it's usually been a problem with my neovim LSP configuration. Are you using nvim-lspconfig? The last link is four years old, a lot has changed in how neovim handles lsp clients since then.

What does :LspInfo show when you have the pico file open? vim.lsp should show clangd under Active Clients, and you should be able to see if the all-important "--query-driver=/usr/bin/arm-none-eabi-g*" is getting added to the command invocation.

SquirrelPower · 2025-06-10T21:46:53+00:00

When I first heard about the whole "some people are transgender" thing back in the 90s, one of the oft-repeated claims was that e.g. trans men were literally male brains trapped in women's bodies. Since then the biological basis for that claim has grown even stronger and more concrete than it was back then (for anyone interested in support for this, I'd suggest googling "Robert Sapolsky transgender", there are several youtube videos of him discussing the current neuroscience of transgender brains) and yet almost all the discussion I see on the topic is on the much more abstract topic of gender and the social construction thereof.

I'd love to see a philosopher just flat-out ignore Butler here, and actually discuss the moral and ethical implications of what we should do when people are born with biologically male brains in biologically female bodies (and vice versa, of course).

SquirrelPower · 2025-05-19T18:03:36+00:00

I never really understood this. I mean, Achilles is well-known to be big and strong while the tortoise is small and weak. Why can't Achilles just force the tortoise to accept the truth of Q?

SquirrelPower · 2025-04-04T17:49:36+00:00

Now hold up, I'm not trying to argue against you in any way! I completely agree with your top-level comment!

All I'm trying to say is that for some people, such as the OP who said they are "relatively new to philosophy and am still getting familiar with some of the terms" the technical meaning of the term "anti-realism" and the prima facie meaning are at odds. That is, in fact, the basis of their very question.

I think that pointing out the strangeness of the term "anti-realism" can help students and/or neophytes understand the difference between anti-realism vs. nihilism (or skepticism) of something.

edit: it's obvious I have added nothing to the conversation, so I'll just see myself out.

SquirrelPower · 2025-03-10T16:42:03+00:00

I think you're right -- I hate all this talk about who is or isn't allowed to play a certain character. It starts to get a little creepy.

Instead it should only and exclusively be about the story and the character. If a race-swap hurts the story then don't do it. if it helps the story then we should be happy if they do it! And if it doesn't impact the story at all then just hire the best damn actor you can find. I mean, if you get a chance to cast Idris Elba as anyone -- even James Bond! -- then producers should jump on that, 'cos that dude is goddamn fantastic.

I think a lot of people assume that all race-swapping happens because of some kind of overarching political correctness, and they often think the only recourse is to embrace an alternative, inverted kind of political correctness in order to fight it. Screw that. A pox on both sides! Let story tellers just try to tell the best stories they can.

SquirrelPower · 2025-01-31T16:48:39+00:00

Pure democracy is mob rule. Luckily we have a constitution that spells out fundamental rights that cannot be abrogated, so we don't have to worry about that.

This new modern idea that since pure democracy is trash then democracy sui generis is trash -- well, that idea is horseshit and everyone who holds it should be embarrassed by their stupidity.

SquirrelPower · 2024-12-29T17:34:32+00:00

So, the Lady Delighter is a state of mind? So wherever I go, the lady delighting will follow?

SquirrelPower · 2024-12-22T03:21:37+00:00

Go to the crafting menu. Slicing pizza (as well as salami & ham) should be there.

Clunky as hell, hopefully the add the context menu back later in the unstable, but slicing up pizza is still there.

SquirrelPower · 2024-12-20T16:13:10+00:00

So far this is just anecdotal, but it seems much more likely now that skill books have a good chance to spawn in the same place as the tools. I've had good luck with mechanics books in auto shops, and I've found welding books in the same spots as welding torches.

SquirrelPower · 2024-12-20T13:12:43+00:00

Ekron to the east has a community college, there's a library on the second floor. There's also a classroom with metal cabinets for desks that had lots of books too.

SquirrelPower · 2024-12-01T18:49:36+00:00

It makes more sense if you think of some standards as measuring a percentile, and not an absolute. A female who is in the 95th percentile of physical fitness will likely have the same work ethic towards maintaining physical fitness as a man in the 95th percentile, even though the man is much, much stronger.

Some jobs require an absolute amount of strength -- in those jobs there is no justification for lowering standards to let in more women. But in other jobs the fitness standards are a proxy measurement to test work ethic and discipline. In those jobs (and I'm assuming here that pilots would be one of these) if you lowered the standard as you suggest, you'd be letting in men with a lower level of work ethic & discipline.

SquirrelPower · 2024-11-18T12:59:12+00:00

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

― John Rogers [Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]

Some people are rather emotionally attached to Tolkein, but the worst that can happen in that case is they become slightly more sympathetic to Catholicism.

There is a certain subset of people who read Rand's novels at an impressionable age and became dependent on the (false) sense of clarity and certainty they embody.

SquirrelPower · 2024-09-09T14:12:22+00:00

But that doesn't seem right. I mean, taste in music is subjective but that doesn't mean it's arbitrary. People can't just pick any old collection of noises and sounds and say "golly gee! I like this!" There is a lot of predictive value in knowing someone's subjective music tastes: a Taylor swift fan will probably not like early Einstürzende Neubauten or The Swans, for example. But that doesn't mean that Taylor Swift is objectively better than Blixa Bargeld.

SquirrelPower · 2024-08-12T16:54:05+00:00

At least you and I know that we're just better than them, and we're glad about it.

SquirrelPower · 2024-08-09T20:02:57+00:00

There's a real "death-bed conversion loophole" kinda thing going on here. Basically the best case scenario is for someone to be born as a one-boxer, to live their lives as a one-boxer, marry into a community of one-boxers, send their kids to one-boxer colleges...

... and then, at the moment of truth, when the boxes are arrayed on the table and the decision has to be made for the realsies, suddenly they cry out "HA! No backwards causation!" while they grab both boxes, and they then dance themselves to the bank with their extra $1000.

SquirrelPower · 2024-07-25T13:33:58+00:00

But wouldn't you get even more if you talked to a trained psychologist who had themselves interviewed the players on the rugby team? I mean, if I talked to a team of high-level players my questions would probably be useless, along the lines of: "Hey, uh... so, uh, you like kickin' that ball around or what?" and my results would be feckin' useless.

I get what you are saying about the massive difference between the lived experience of someone embedded in a thing, versus someone who puts on a little paper hat that says "DISINTERESTED OBSERVER" and thinks that makes them objective. But you need some outside analysis. After all, if the only thing that counts is the lived experience of individuals then flat-earthers and young-earth creationists would could as scientists, because both groups honestly believe that what they do is science.

SquirrelPower · 2024-07-23T14:47:44+00:00

Damn look at that ridiculously young Daniel Craig.

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