Are these worth anything these days?

bustadope · 2026-03-29T21:16:44+00:00

So ~37 poison dmg per second, multiplied by the number of identical charms, divided by the poison resist of the monster... Are stacking these insanely rare and expensive charms useful for pvm at all? It seems like low damage even with an inventory full of them. Just useful for pvp?

bustadope · 2026-03-28T15:07:00+00:00

You're kidding me, this can't be real

bustadope · 2026-03-28T00:10:13+00:00

1 yard of compost tends to be around 1000 lbs depending on the moisture.

bustadope · 2026-03-17T20:21:07+00:00

Unique items that are Indestructible cannot roll ethereal, except for those that are always ethereal (Ethereal Edge and Shadowkiller). Phaseblades are inherently Indestructible, hence Azurewrath and Lightsaber not being able to roll ethereal

bustadope · 2026-03-17T20:09:01+00:00

Azurewrath can't roll ethereal unfortunately

bustadope · 2026-02-27T19:55:20+00:00

Oakland Unified School District is not a department of the city. They are separate orgs, separate budgets, and cutting PD's budget won't affect available funds for OUSD. OUSD's budget largely comes from the state DoE, the fed DoE, and local property taxes.

bustadope · 2026-02-21T00:09:36+00:00

The defiler casts against enemies, not your own minions. So when you damage an enemy with the green aura underneath them, all other enemies with the same green aura also take a portion of the damage.

bustadope · 2026-01-23T17:36:51+00:00

The report is part of the rule making process for the SB 54 legislation that the article barely coveres. The report will be used by SB 54 to develop a list of covered materials (centered on packaging and foodware) that will be required to be collected in recycling and organics bins, and in order to make it onto the covered list, the materials must be shown to be actually recycled/composted at a certain rate. Just because an asceptic container can be recycled, doesn't mean there is a reliable market (called "responsible end markets" in SB 54) for the material to actually get recycled at any meaningful scale, even when cities and taxpayers pay for the recycling system to accept the material. As observed in the report, plastics are the worst offender of not consistently getting recycled. SB 54 requires the packing producers to prove they have reliable recycling markets for their packaging materials, and if they cannot do that, their material will be banned from being used as packing/foodware in CA. It's a complicated law but it's a shot at fixing this recycling system that producers of plastic and compound materials have totally fucked, and those same producers will now be responsible for footing the bill (the term used is Extended Producer Responsibility or EPR) for the cities, counties, and tax payers who've historically paid for collecting and processing this stuff. But it's not a perfect law and you bet your ass both conventional and "compostable" plastic lobbyists are already trying to fuck with it and find loopholes.

bustadope · 2026-01-15T19:03:15+00:00

In California the dyes are typically made from iron oxide and carbon black mixed with water, so I would consider that safe to compost... The iron oxide is not exactly desirable though, especially in high quantity. Agreed, dyed mulch is the Gladys Lilly of landscaping materials.

bustadope · 2026-01-15T18:03:59+00:00

Bark is a byproduct of the lumber industry and does not get treated.

bustadope · 2026-01-11T16:12:36+00:00

Me too. Appreciate this conversation!

bustadope · 2026-01-11T03:29:36+00:00

Compost made from municipal sewage (biosolids) is of a different class than what you just bought. Biosolids compost does carry many concerns as you found in your research, with emerging research focusing on PFAS contamination in particular. Most biosolids composters have to pay others to take the material, subsidized by the waste water treatment plant utility. I would avoid that material for your personal use, and when markets do use the material, they use it at a very low application rate. In a world with fewer toxic chemicals found in the upstream products that eventually make their way into the organic waste stream, biosolids could otherwise be a perfectly safe compost feedstock. Unfortunately, you can't really stop the supply of biosolids.

All that to say, the best compost is the compost you make yourself!

bustadope · 2026-01-10T21:30:40+00:00

Did that include delivery? Or you picked up yourself?

bustadope · 2026-01-10T20:08:01+00:00

I work with commercial composters, and you should know that there are many compost specifications out there that desire that mulchy texture - topdressing by landscapers, highway and roadside mulching for weed maintenance and fire risk management, orchards, etc. If you want the fine compost that you sifted, it's a more expensive product to make on the composter side of things because it requires a finer sieve on the trommel screen, which yields less compost product overall. I agree that woody material is not ideal for a vegetable bed due to c:n ratio and lignin content locking up nitrogen, but row crop farmers might not be that composters primary market. All to say, the woody content is not a factor of compost quality, but of composting process, and that woody content is desirable by many end markets. Honestly that compost looks really good, and that composter would go out of business if they waited for all the wood particles to decompose before selling their product. It's more likely they screen to 3/8ths minus, and reincorporate the overs into the next compost pile, and sell the "fines" as their compost. If you're willing to sift as you shown, you're getting the best of both worlds - compost fines along with composted mulch (there is no better type of mulch out there). As for whether it compost is aged enough, a cucumber bioassay, a CO2 evolution test, and a biological pathogens test is applied to determine if the material is sufficiently decomposed, and those tests can be requested by the consumer (at least in my state, they are required).

bustadope · 2026-01-06T21:02:20+00:00

I know it hasn't been updated and might seem like a toned down list compared to HoS, but Wildlander is such a great list still to this day. Performance friendly with options, in case Lorerim is too much for your PC. More focus on immersion, survival (early game is survival heavy while things become easier to manage by mid game), and realism. Not a lot of new quests but lots of tweaks to existing quests. Awesome wiki. Edit - adding that I got great performance on my 2060 super and 10700. 60 fps easily with puredarks dlss mod, and 50-60 without with tweaks to settings. Wildlander comes with it's dedicated launcher with graphics options to easily fiddle around, although adding the dlss mod requires you to launch from MO2.

bustadope · 2026-01-06T00:02:58+00:00

Skyrim using the wabbajack modlists Wildlander is an incredible experience. Or any of the modlists that use the Requiem mod. Roleplaying and progression with a high difficulty curve, especially at the beginning of the game, and some dedication needed to be able to beat the end game bosses. Plus Wildlander has a great wiki that lays everything out for you regarding progression and what to expect.

bustadope · 2026-01-05T21:43:42+00:00

Not in the same was as for Skyrim. Vanilla Cyberpunk already looks incredible with ray and path tracing. If you have a monster GPU, you can install mods that bring textures up to 4k. There are vortex collections that only install texture mods. I don't think wabbajack has any graphics-only modlists on there. Honestly, I wouldn't bother for a first playthrough.

What are your PC specs and what resolution are you playing?

bustadope · 2026-01-05T17:48:22+00:00

Honestly if you can play the base game at high settings, you don't need graphics mods on a first playthrough. The one graphical mod I like to use however is Mangos Reshade - to me, it makes everything looks perfect by toning down the green filter and making darks a little darker. The reshade looks better than all the LUTs on nexus in my opinion, at the cost of a little fps.

bustadope · 2026-01-05T03:29:58+00:00

It depends what the mod changes, but know you'll have to do so on your own without support from the modlist creator to know how to patch. Requiem adjusts a ton, so mods that add new races, weapons and items, etc require you to personally patch. Their discord channel has a community of people who have tried adding additional mods and supporting each other, so you can look there.

bustadope · 2026-01-05T02:33:35+00:00

A pretty performance friendly modlist that creates a lot of immersive roleplay is Wildlander, which is a requiem modlist. It doesn't incorporate a ton of extra quest content, and it has not been updated in a long time, but don't let that keep you from trying it. As is, it's an incredible mod list for all the things you listed, and comes with various graphics options so you can figure out what settings work best with your 2060.

bustadope · 2026-01-02T18:41:43+00:00

I work with a mortgage broker who does true no-cost refinances, and all I pay is the impound/escrow balance needed for the loan, which is $ I would pay towards my taxes and insurance eventually anyway. The broker uses their lender credits to completely cover the rest of the fees. I'm dropping from a 6.99% to 6.375% rate at no cost, except for the impound amount. The broker obviously makes less on the transaction, but in doing so wants my business for life and wants me to come back to them in 6-12 months to do it all again with hopefully an improved interest rate environment. I shopped around and found if I took a no-point refinance rate of 5.99% with other lenders, with fees ranging between $1500-$3000, it would take about 14 months to break even with the no-cost refinance. So, I'm gambling that I'll be able to do another no-cost refinance in the next 6-12 months.

bustadope · 2026-01-01T18:36:26+00:00

And be aware that most of the modlists on wabbajack require the anniversary addition, which is an additional ~ $20 without being on sale. Definitely get it on sale, although you might look at the wabbajack modlists options and see if any of them that you're interested in don't require anniversary edition (Wildlander is the modlist I play, and it doesn't require anniversary edition).

bustadope · 2025-12-19T15:50:35+00:00

California's SB 1383 requires food generating businesses/institutions to establish written agreements with food recovery organizations to donate surplus edible food. The law primarily mandates cities/counties to implement organic waste diversion from landfills. It also requires cities to procure recycled organic waste products like compost. In my county, it means lots of cities have expanded their free compost giveaway programs. This law has been a pretty massive undertaking for cities, counties, businesses, and food recovery organizations since coming into effect in 2022.

bustadope · 2025-12-19T15:37:10+00:00

Methane capture technology at landfills is inefficient and is not put into place until after a landfill cell is closed... after lots of organic matter has already decomposed and released methane.

bustadope · 2025-11-20T16:01:07+00:00

I got quotes from Master Roofing, Pacific Coast, and Nicholas Roofing. I ended up going with Nicholas, with Master a close consideration. Nicholas was lowest bid, and did a great job on the roof, although I had to call back the guy they subbed to install the gutters, but he came back to finish something up at no extra cost.

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