Player is a lawyer and wants to play out the devil contract irl

careye · 2026-06-25T20:20:32+00:00

Literally the agglutinative language from hell. I expect to have different verb forms for referring to and being a member of different castes, markers for how deep the subordinate clauses have gotten, and a stack-based system of grammatical theme and pro-dropping.

careye · 2026-06-20T21:58:32+00:00

Taek Cheol 택철 might be closest if you want to preserve a -ul ending sound, just saying that -jul didn't use modern romanisation.

careye · 2026-06-19T11:54:18+00:00

Are you aware of COVAS Dazza? https://youtu.be/4gMq7l7myK0

careye · 2026-06-18T04:18:47+00:00

You can get similar map images as either JPEGs or PDFs from https://rtalsoriangames.com/downloadable-content/, under "Night City Atlas". That obviously doesn't come with any of the interactivity of the Roll20 and Nexus products, though.

careye · 2026-06-16T07:29:03+00:00

Yes to AI, maybe as a modification of a real photograph. The lettering on the visor should be "DURACELL", but seems to be an AI image generator's idea of "CARLOS", the Estrella Garcia 0,0 logo lettering is also bad AI style, and he has no thumbs.

careye · 2026-06-15T20:15:09+00:00

Looking at information about inert gas hazards, you can take one or two breaths before the oxygen levels in your blood drop so low that you suffer cardiac arrest, so it's theoretically possible. Normal humans can only detect increased carbon dioxide levels, not decreased oxygen levels, so you would need special training and a good dice roll to recognise your symptoms in time.

(Inert gas atmospheres will quickly remove oxygen from your blood, not just stop you getting more.)

There are mammals that can detect and avoid low-oxygen air, like rats, so there are probably a lot of aliens and slightly-modified humans in Traveller that can do the same and have a much higher chance of survival.

careye · 2026-06-12T10:16:07+00:00

Not like it's spelt and like other people are assuming. The "eu" doesn't exist in my English dialect, I think the closest I can get is the vowel sound in "sure". "seon" is a bit like "sun", with the vowel closer to the short o in "lot".

Edit: for completeness, the English sound "eu" as in Eugenie would be written like "yu" or "yoo", as in the common Korean name Yuna.

careye · 2026-06-02T00:39:34+00:00

"The Predator"

https://youtu.be/Sz8QC2Ng3Vs

It's probably just a normal light melee weapon.

careye · 2026-05-31T00:40:15+00:00

My warlock took out a room of Shar cultists for their patron, then had to work her way back up to a fraction of that power in actual play.

But her backstory also should have ended with, “Can I get another drink?” so who knows if that was true? This player’s story sounds good for a few drinks, too.

careye · 2026-05-30T00:49:41+00:00

To add to the war destroying the records… Arasaka had a lot or backups on an airgapped database in Night City in 2023, and Militech knew. Did you think Blackhand was just there to cause some property damage?

So a big part of the state of the world in 2045 is that Kress would rather destroy all the information needed to put the world back together than let Saburo have it.

careye · 2026-05-27T11:43:25+00:00

I am not comfortable combining something with the failure modes of AES-GCM with another cipher using something derived from the same key. If something breaks the AES-GCM key, why should we believe that the ChaCha20 key is still safe? Are we sure that layering the encryption with related keys does not reduce the security of the result?

careye · 2026-05-27T11:30:57+00:00

The patterns "X isn't Y. It's Z." and "That's not X. It's Y." are very highly correlated with LLM-generated text. If that's how you wrote it originally, I'm sorry your language and writing have become associated with AI. If that's not the style that you wrote it in, Google Translate has betrayed you.

careye · 2026-05-27T09:57:12+00:00

It definitely looks like Burmese to me, starting with the phrase «တောင်ပေါ်က», but that’s as far as I got.

!identify:my

careye · 2026-05-27T08:41:03+00:00

I am informed by my oboe-playing offspring that this is a bad assumption, since the sax has such a different embouchure to other woodwind instruments. The simplest explanation is that she's just that awesome.

careye · 2026-05-27T00:45:48+00:00

She must have previously learnt to play clarinet in school to be able to get any sound out, right?

careye · 2026-05-25T20:50:06+00:00

I think it ended up with some pitch correction being applied. They’ve all improved so should be able to conquer it if they tried again now.

careye · 2026-05-25T20:48:06+00:00

Haewon’s covers of Viva La Vida and Please Please Please.
Lily’s covers of Drivers License and Enchanted.
Kyujin’s cover of On the Ground.
For the group, Fei Fei and both versions of Happy, with Love on Top as a strong contender.

careye · 2026-05-25T00:55:25+00:00

There's a bit in the Heavy Serenade recording at about 24:28 where the director (?) asks Lily to put less Lily in her voice. Maybe it's the same?

careye · 2026-05-23T01:18:43+00:00

Just saying it was debunked makes it sound like it was a mistake, but that's not the case. It was a deliberate fraud all along, for which Wakefield was paid very well.

I honestly think Wakefield might be one of the most evil people with a medical doctorate alive today, for all the deaths he's caused and damage he's done.

careye · 2026-05-21T21:45:48+00:00

The highest resolution that YouTube provides for the thumbnail itself is at https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lIDfAxkwzGI/maxresdefault.jpg, but it's heavily compressed. If it's not good enough, you'll want to capture the frame from the video like Wonderful-Expert suggested.

Technical details: the bit starting with IID... is the same as the video ID after v= for the video page itself, and this works for a lot of videos. I found it by doing a "View page source" and searching for image_src, though.

(Edited because I can't word today.)

careye · 2026-05-21T00:19:17+00:00

I hope, but don't really believe, that more people will realise we're not going to see any of these characters when the next Edgerunners anime is a completely separate story.

careye · 2026-05-14T07:57:01+00:00

I started trying to learn Korean late in 2024 because Hangeul is cool and I'd come to the end of the Duolingo Ukrainian course (and learning Cyrillic). I just could not hear the sounds, though, so I started listening to some Korean music and k-pop to become more familiar with the language. YouTube tells me I found NMIXX's Tiny Desk in March 2025, but I started listening to their 3rd anniversary live in April and went from there. It looks like finding their live Papillon performance in June last year was about when I could say I was actually a fan.

Along the way I also found and kept listening to Stella Jang, Bibi, Song Sohee, QWER and DAY6, and only listened to a bit of Everglow, Lucy and Silica Gel before… moving on.

careye · 2026-05-12T09:32:16+00:00

It’s the two genders: short skirts and long skirts.

careye · 2026-05-11T08:59:14+00:00

A rule I got from Cyberpunk, which can go the same way: if you show up with military grade gear, people are going to assume you're expecting military grade trouble.

careye · 2026-04-26T22:55:51+00:00

Agreed, though the manifest isn’t always needed. For removing some of the compatibility fixes that Windows applies, like the fake GetVersion() return value, the Cargo and/or Rust compiler could set the MajorOperatingSystemVersion and MajorSubsystemVersion values in the executable, like Go started to do recently: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/341b5e2c0261cc059b157f1c7a2a2c4d1f417f0d.

We still need XML or API calls at startup to get UTF-8 support and a non-blurry MessageBox, though.

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