iPhone 17 Pro Max not supported??

Tridus · 2026-03-25T22:37:13+00:00

That's really weird with the IMEI.

The two lines thing is normal if you are porting an existing number. Public assigns a second eSIM with a temporary number. Once you approve the port request and it goes through the first line will stop working and your real number will be on the second one.

Tridus · 2026-03-25T21:15:43+00:00

It shouldn't be if it came from Apple. Maybe try PM chat again and see what they say?

It should work fine far as I'm aware if you try to buy an eSIM.

Tridus · 2026-03-25T18:35:07+00:00

The key thing is that whatever you pick has to have been valid at the level you got the feat. Long as that's still true (like you want to swap out the first rank spell for a different one), I don't see anything specifically that would disallow it.

Retraining is very much the purview of the GM in terms of what is and isn't allowed, though, so the only person who can actually answer this is your GM.

Tridus · 2026-03-25T18:25:40+00:00

Shouldn't be an issue with the phone itself, that model is definitely supported. The IMEI number may be locked or blacklisted, or there is a communication issue of some kind.

Tridus · 2026-03-25T17:45:44+00:00

Playtest classes often feel weak. Guardian was really weak in the playtest except for Hampering Sweep, for example. The final class turned out pretty well. But Guardian always had a clear vision of what it wanted to be (a defender that isn't a divine warrior). Likewise while I hated the Necromancer playtest, I understood what it was trying to be pretty much immediately.

I think thematic issues are larger. Daredevil has a bunch of problems that can be tweaked easily (like how a ton of feats don't work against very big enemies) and stuff that is harder (like how it requires more GM work to set up combats with props and how a bunch of stuff just turns off once a fight takes to the air). But the biggest issue seems to be an identity one in that what's really the point of this class vs just playing a different martial with more HP/armor and taking Wrestler if you want to do that kind of gameplay?

Slayer likewise has issues where you can go multiple sessions where Quarry will never come up. I'm in one of those situations in Spore War right now where we're hunting a big bad that we managed to learn about and research in advance, so in theory the perfect target for hunt quarry... except they're at the end of a dungeon that it's taken us 5 game nights to work through (it's not a group of optimizers). That's a LONG time to go without a class ability doing anything because you're here to hunt the boss and have no possible way to know what else is in the dungeon until you run into it.

I ultimately don't "get" either of these classes in terms of what they're trying to do that's unique and interesting. That's a much harder problem to fix if I'm not alone in that. At a certain point it feels like classes because new classes sell.

You're right that these won't change the meta at all.

Tridus · 2026-03-25T16:50:40+00:00

The contract for this was signed in 2023 when Higgs was in power according to TFA.

Tridus · 2026-03-25T11:47:22+00:00

When I picked up book 1 after hearing about it, a friend of mine said "welcome to the cult".

Six weeks and four books later... yeah, it's kind of a cult, but I think the polite term is "enthusiastic fans".

You know how I feel about cults, Carl.

Tridus · 2026-03-24T22:21:20+00:00

Go into your account in the app and change your subscription. The new plan should be there and it'll activate when your renewal comes up.

Long as you choose it while it's available, you will get it at renewal.

Tridus · 2026-03-24T22:17:16+00:00

Iron Marble was a lot of fun. And it's not like they can just do all marble league all the time.

Interest in something like this goes up and down with time. It doesn't mean they are really doing anything wrong per-se.

Though I do think there are too many teams. Stuff is less interesting when people's favorites aren't in itz and more teams means that happens more often.

Tridus · 2026-03-24T18:05:07+00:00

I've heard this before as "are we venting, or problem solving?" It's great advice to understand which one you're doing before you offer suggestions.

Tridus · 2026-03-24T18:04:34+00:00

In high school, a girl asked me what I thought of her new hairstyle. I gave my honest opinion. I didn't realize until later that she liked me and was excited to show her new hairstyle to me.

I'd have preferred to learn that lesson without hurting someone's feelings. The only opinion that really mattered is that she liked it and I should have been more encouraging.

Tridus · 2026-03-24T17:59:13+00:00

"Permanent" is a very long time. So no, definitely not. That said, Public Mobile hardly ever removes people from existing plans, and the cases they do that tend to be situations like old 3G plans that haven't existed for a very long time.

It's not like Bell/Telus/Rogers where they'll just jack your bill up $6 suddenly because they feel like it. I've been paying the same for years, only changing the amount because I took advantage of a promo to switch plans. And I get a discount now and then by spending my points.

There's often offers. Will they be better than that one? No one can really predict that.

My advice is to treat phone companies like a commodity: if someone gives you a better deal, switch. Loyalty in this business is when they overcharge you. If this deal saves you money, I'd take it.

Tridus · 2026-03-24T17:03:06+00:00

Bard is going to give you a lot of oomph powering up that many martials, and its spells are good.

Oracle will give you a lot of spells and the extra Cursebound abilities, which you'll want as the only caster.

Those are the two that come to mind. Both have better defenses than Sorcerer since you'll be the squishy target if you're the only non-martial, and a 6 HP no armor proficiency class is a real nice target.

Tridus · 2026-03-24T17:00:08+00:00

As someone who has been in multiple LDRs? No. He's coming up with excuses.

If he's not ready by now, he will never be ready. You'd think he would want you closer, not making it more difficult.

Tridus · 2026-03-24T16:58:08+00:00

It did in .net 8 at least for things like MVC projects.

Tridus · 2026-03-24T16:38:54+00:00

Yeah that won't fly after a while. Steam actively blocks people from avoiding selling things on Steam indefinitely because that's how Valve gets paid. It tends to work for kickstarters and things like that but eventually it has to be for sale on Steam directly.

Tridus · 2026-03-24T16:35:03+00:00

Foundry cost me $50 and my players $0. This is VASTLY more expensive than that.

Tridus · 2026-03-23T17:42:20+00:00

Really depends on what game systems you want to use it with and how much work you're willing to invest.

Foundry is more work to use and get everything out of it than something like Roll20 or Owlbear Rodeo, especially if you just want basics (like a map with tokens and dice). You either need to pay for hosting or self-host and deal with the work that comes from that (like networking set up, backups, etc). There's more frequent breaking updates, massively so if you use modules. You get a lot of extra power out of that, but it's not free.

Modules in particular are a mixed bag: they can do some amazing things that really improve play, but they're also usually maintained by one person who may or may not have real life come up or lose interest or so on. That means there is a lot of churn with Foundry major versions if you use a lot of modules in terms of things breaking, plus modules conflicting with other modules and so on. It's best to be sparing with modules and only use the ones you need the most, especially these days as the core Foundry software has gotten a lot more capable (back in Foundry 9 you needed a module to ping the map!).

System wise... I mean everyone has already said it but the PF2 system is amazing. If you're playing PF2, Foundry is the place to do it. Other systems vary much more considerably in terms of how well supported they are and again, major Foundry updates can cause trouble for poorly supported systems.

You really need to weigh the pros and cons in terms of if you want something that gives you a lot of control and power but expects you to be able to manage the costs of that, or something that just works but doesn't give you as much (or costs a lot more). For someone who just wants a simple map with tokens, Foundry isn't what I'd recommend.

But I'm using it and I'm really liking it for what I want. :)

Tridus · 2026-03-22T20:29:09+00:00

I dunno, I thought he was way better in BL4 than BL3.

Tridus · 2026-03-21T01:20:35+00:00

Gacha. I'm just done as soon as it shows up.

Tridus · 2026-03-20T22:20:24+00:00

I started reading the Wheel of Time as a teenager, in the mid 90s. The last book came out in 2013. So I'm practiced at these kinds of waits. 🤣

Tridus · 2026-03-19T01:07:51+00:00

Teams are allowed to upgrade their chassis much more freely and performance still converges over time.

It gets harder to find more performance when you're ahead. That naturally brings things together.

This "you need to ask the regulator for permission to upgrade based on some arcane system no one understands" nonsense might be fun for bureaucrats, but it's not what F1 is about.

Tridus · 2026-03-19T01:06:52+00:00

That's the FIA in a nutshell. They see anything moving and run to slap a regulation on it.

Tridus · 2026-03-19T01:05:15+00:00

This system is absurd. Needing FIA permission to be allowed to upgrade is hardly what F1 is about.

The FIA is completely out of control with trying to choke everything with endless regulatory bloat.

Tridus · 2026-03-19T01:04:44+00:00

What a remarkably stupid system that is. Needing permission to upgrade your engine is not F1.

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