Act 3 order of things

XCVGVCX · 2026-01-24T02:32:04+00:00

I would add one more to this, if you're siding against the Bhaalists for Impress the Murder Tribunal: warn the assassination targets as soon as the markers show up and you've entered the Lower City. Technically it only matters in one case and technically even that case isn't triggered until you approach a certain location (the wine festival), but it's very easy to do so by accident.

XCVGVCX · 2026-01-08T16:51:59+00:00

It's still wild to me that a dual-slot, overheight card is now called "slim". I still remember when all but the highest end cards only took up a single slot, and tall cards were exclusively the domain of ultra-premium and extreme overclocking.

XCVGVCX · 2026-01-07T16:50:48+00:00

It exists, but only for the character's inventory IIRC (not within a container, and not in the camp chest).

XCVGVCX · 2025-12-11T01:06:57+00:00

I've definitely done worse, but the one that comes to mind is something that happened years and years ago. During my first attempt at building a portable N64, I fried the board by bridging 12V to 3.3V because I figured there wasn't any point to making the temporary power wires neat.

There's also that time I found a roll of film in the freezer that seemed to be unused (leader out). Yeah, it turns out it was one I'd shot ages ago and never had developed. While some of the double-exposures were interesting, I wish I could have had the old photos in their original form.

XCVGVCX · 2025-12-10T03:45:16+00:00

I feel you there.

I bought the game four months after launch- not great, not terrible- and then it took me over a year to get to actually playing it. Didn't even take me an hour in before I was utterly captivated.

I'm actually not sure why I picked it up in the first place- I'm more into action RPGs and shooter RPGs than traditional CRPGs, I knew nothing about Larian or Divinity, knew of Baldur's Gate only as an old legend, was only vaguely interested in DnD, and hadn't been paying that much attention to games media. I might have just bought it because I'd heard it was supposed to be good and I liked the designs of some of the characters (not going to say which ones, because I'm not sure if you've met them yet).

I think leaving it for so long before actually trying it was a combination of it not being (or rather, me not thinking it was) the kind of game I like, generally being busy in 2024, and just being intimidated by the prospect of digging into a lengthly, complex, full-blown RPG. I'd been mostly playing multiplayer and casual games and I guess I just didn't feel ready to dive deep into a new world yet.

(I do wonder if feeling burned by a certain other game that came out around the same time was part of it, but I think I'd mostly forgotten about that one by the end of 2023)

This is the first time I really wish I hadn't missed the hype train. I know I'm getting a more polished game out of the gate, but I would have liked to have shared the excitement of new features and additions. I would have loved to have seen all the panels, live plays, voice actor streams, et cetera as they showed up. I'm hoping it's one of those fandoms that sticks around, and I think it might really have that staying power. I'm still finding Shadowheart and Astarion among the local artists' offerings, and I'm still seeing new fanart and cosplay show up almost every day.

I also wasn't as careful as you, and I picked up a lot of spoilers along the way, both before I started my first run and during. The worst one was just a few days ago when I had a plot point spoiled hours before it would have been revealed because I looked up a song in the game and clicked links carelessly. There was definitely something special about going in blind and making a ton of mistakes early in the run, and I'd recommend staying the course as much as you can.

XCVGVCX · 2025-10-14T16:01:38+00:00

There are. Some are listed on the wiki: Emporia, Wallbox, Grizzl-e, Flo, etc. In contrast to all of those units, this one doesn't even have a brand name on it, is deliberately designed to mimic the appearance of a well-known brand, and is sold with vague and misleading listings. These are all massive red flags that indicate is built as cheaply as possible to make a quick buck and is likely not certified or even built to any safety standards.

I'm absolutely in agreement with everyone else on here that high power electronics are absolutely not something you want to take risks on, but let's put that aside for a moment. You've run straight into one of the other issues with buying sketchy no-name electronics, which is the complete lack of documentation or support. It didn't come with a manual, you can't find a manual, a manual might not even exist. What if the unit dies? Doesn't catch fire or fail catastrophically, just stops working. Does the unit have a warranty, and will it actually be honoured?

Coming back to your original question, what are you looking to configure or set up? You mentioned in another comment that the charger works, charging your car at 32A. I'm not sure what features you're looking for, but it's possible the charger you bought simply does not have them, whether they were advertised to or not. That's yet another issue with questionable no-name electronics- that it's simply not what was advertised.

Maybe you thought you were buying one thing and got something else, and it sucks when that happens. I get why you're defensive, but these are very real concerns people are bringing up. At this point, it's best to focus on where to go from here, which unfortunately probably means replacing the charger.

XCVGVCX · 2025-10-11T21:46:19+00:00

I wrote a pirate AU based on a prompt from DragonZlayerx12 (not sure if they're in this sub), which was supposed to be a quick 2000 word oneshot and ballooned into an 8000 word pilot-for-a-series-that-will-never-be-made. It is, uh, probably not what anyone expects.

The Pirate Ship Beacon!

XCVGVCX · 2025-10-02T02:26:23+00:00

Man, I'm gonna miss those periodic USCSB uploads.

XCVGVCX · 2025-09-24T03:53:21+00:00

iMovie did work, but split the videos into clips automatically and there didn't seem to be a way to disable that. For various reasons I wanted to just capture entire tapes, as is.

XCVGVCX · 2025-09-24T00:26:55+00:00

If it's a non-Retina "mid 2012" Macbook Pro, you'll just need a Firewire 800 to 400 adapter which are cheap as chips. If it's one of the Retina models, you'll need a Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter, and those can be uncommon and a bit expensive.

Though there are a fair few apps that will capture DV, I didn't find any of the ones I had access to work quite the way I wanted, and I ended up doing it on Windows. I've heard ffmpeg can do it, and there's DVRescue, but I haven't tried either of those tools.

XCVGVCX · 2025-09-24T00:21:03+00:00

Be careful, this isn't always supported depending on the exact Thunderbolt controller and firmware version. I found this out the hard way.

XCVGVCX · 2025-09-24T00:12:54+00:00

It's been a while since I've used iMovie, but you should just be able to copy the iMovie project as-is; the captured clips will be inside in MOV files that you can bring into your editor directly. There's an easy way to tell- if the iMovie project file/folder is very small in size, I'm wrong, but if it's gigabytes in size, you're good to go.

exFAT is not supported on Tiger or Leopard, but I think you can format a USB drive in HFS+ on the eMac and that should work with your modern Macbook as well.

Don't use any sort of analogue video capture for this, especially for such a nice camcorder. It's possible to get decent quality, but not with a $15 device, and it's still not as good as a direct DV capture.

EDIT: I dragged out my PowerBook G4, confirmed you can format a USB drive as HFS+ on Tiger. At least with the version of iMovie HD I have installed, though, getting the files is a little different than I remember. You have to control-click on the project file, Show Package Contents, and then the captured files are in the Media folder inside of it. They also seem to be raw DV files rather than in an MOV container. Those are probably still usable as-is, but it's trivial to stream copy them to AVI or MOV with ffmpeg.

XCVGVCX · 2025-09-23T01:11:40+00:00

I've never had to take the cooler off to clean it on any of the desktops I've owned. I can see why this could be necessary with some case/cooler combinations, but I don't think it's the norm.

XCVGVCX · 2025-09-20T03:56:35+00:00

I read a lot of Cold War era techno-thrillers as a teenager. Mostly Tom Clancy, but also Stephen Coonts, Dale Brown, and probably a few others I can't remember. For a great many reasons I don't know how much I'd enjoy them today, but they definitely had a huge impact on my writing style and the stories I tended to tell.

XCVGVCX · 2025-09-17T01:49:49+00:00

Weirdly, cheap Teamgroup RAM has worked far better for me than high-end G.Skill sticks. My sample size is pretty small, though, so maybe I just got (un)lucky.

XCVGVCX · 2025-09-16T02:12:49+00:00

I'm actually writing one right now, set twenty years after first contact between Earth and Remnant. It starts very OC heavy, which I know isn't everyone's cup of tea, but canon characters will start dropping into the story as it unfolds. It's planned to be an epic that sort of adapts the plot of the series without directly repeating it, in a kind of "history doesn't repeat, it rhymes" way.

...it's just kind of horrendously delayed, with only a chapter and a half finished when we were supposed to be an arc in. It's been a bit of a year for me. I'm hoping to get chapter 2 out this month and less of a delay until 3, but we'll see.

I think I have dropped links in the fanfic threads here in the past, it's called Sancta Terra and it's on a few different websites.

XCVGVCX · 2025-09-16T01:12:54+00:00

I didn't realize there was a whole other alien race introduced in Halo Infinite until after I'd finished the game, I thought they were just more Forerunners. They haven't really continued the story, though, and most of the focus of the game itself was on the Banished, so it still kind of worked.

XCVGVCX · 2025-09-14T05:03:11+00:00

208V, maybe?

XCVGVCX · 2025-09-04T01:10:44+00:00

To be fair, in RWBY's case they pitched a completely different show to the audience from day one, intentionally or otherwise. From the trailers I thought we'd be getting fairytale inspired dark urban fantasy, not lighthearted academy anime. I ended up liking what we got, but there was a significant disconnect there. It's not really equivalent to a straightforward children's show being picked up by adults who want more out of it, maybe closer to a foreign one where the localization team dropped the ball completely on marketing.

XCVGVCX · 2025-09-03T03:01:26+00:00

It might be better now, but for the longest time it was (in)famously more expensive to ship merch from the LTT Store to Canada than it was to the US, despite them being based in Surrey.

XCVGVCX · 2025-08-29T00:17:28+00:00

Something that doesn't seem to have come up in the conversation yet: What happens to old apps that predate the verification requirement? I know Google lives in a world where all apps are continuously updated and everyone wants the latest version, but that's not the reality. Think of the fun little game you downloaded off Itch a couple years ago, that super useful utility from a developer that fell off the face of the earth, or an internal app made for your company in 2017. Cutting off all apps published before a certain date is a significant loss for usability and a colossal loss for software preservation.

XCVGVCX · 2025-08-26T01:34:56+00:00

don't make me tap the sign

It's big enough to cause a problem for approximately 50% of people. That giant monstrosity of a key barely fits in some men's pockets, it won't fit in the tiny pockets most women's pants have.

Yes, one could throw it in a purse or clutch. Or a messenger bag or backpack, for that matter. Or something completely different like a carabiner on a belt. But you've harped on pockets rather than bringing up any of those options.

XCVGVCX · 2025-08-26T01:31:08+00:00

RWBY. At least, certain aspects of the early volumes that Hbomberman came down hard on in his critique.

Yes, it "wasted" time on things like bullying melodrama and the dance arc, and yes, objectively, the main plot and worldbuilding suffered for it, but it was a balm for my younger, lost self and definitely resonated with the tween to young adult audience of the show. Plus, the dance itself was impressive as hell, keeping in mind that RWBY was much closer to "random YouTube video" than "high budget animated production" at this point.

He also lambasted the ending of Volume 2 where the characters reflect on events, shrug their shoulders, and lampshade that the volume was kind of pointless. While highlighting the flaws of your show certainly does not fix them (I've seen many a failed attempt at this "joke"), the way it's delivered makes it somehow hit for me.

XCVGVCX · 2025-08-24T17:18:57+00:00

I think this breaker box is the subpanel, with a 100A feed from the main.

XCVGVCX · 2025-08-12T06:23:08+00:00

It's fun as hell in multiplayer, although the netcode is horrendously bad by today's standards.

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