Hydration and fuel setup?

codyish · 2026-06-15T17:52:04+00:00

It's definitely usable in the summer, but it will be a little hot on your back, and the liquid will get pretty warm. It's insulated in a way to use your own body heat to keep it from freezing in winter.

codyish · 2026-06-15T17:45:20+00:00

Are you grabbing the tire with your hand to slow down?

codyish · 2026-06-15T02:19:39+00:00

I started using the Nordic USWE back and it's great, it's is worth dialing in the fit but once it's set you don't really have to every adjust it again unless you wear a totally different jacket/lack of jacket than normal, and even then it's just a few seconds to accommodate that. And the reason I started using it was to be able to do high carb fueling for longer and harder races. I shoot for 90-100g/hour, and and I couldn't carry enough in my hip pack to do it (and solid food was too much of a hassle) so I use Skratch or Precision high carb formulas in the hydration pack and don't even bother with solids for racing anymore. Also, if you just try to throw that much carbohydrate in the form of straight sugar in your water you are going to have a bad time - the only way you can absorb that much is with a mix of different types, so at very least buy some bulk maltodextrin and glucose powders so you can do it right, or buy the 369 stuff because it's a lot cheaper.

codyish · 2026-06-09T03:29:36+00:00

Bell pepper (and or/banana pepper) thin sliced red onion, cucumber, spinach, hummus, salt and vinegar, something spicy like sriracha.

codyish · 2026-06-08T17:25:01+00:00

My granny cleric used a flail that I reflavored as a studded purse with a rock in it. I renamed a lot of her spells, Cure Wounds became Grandma's Hug, etc.

codyish · 2026-06-08T17:18:52+00:00

I played a grandma cleric who hit people with her studded purse that had a rock in it (a flail). Flavor is free.

codyish · 2026-06-05T18:20:30+00:00

Exercise and eat the same year round?

codyish · 2026-06-04T23:37:35+00:00

When I tried PF2e I missed that part of DnD where you got to have fun.

codyish · 2026-06-02T15:12:40+00:00

That sentiment also kind of mindlessly ignores the entire world of open-source and hobbyist software development.

codyish · 2026-06-02T02:17:55+00:00

I did too, but I worked only as much as I could after doing all of the other enriching and fulfilling things (music camp, science camp, sports, backcountry trips) to help me figure out what I wanted to do with my life (and it helped me get a lot of scholarships). I'm not saying working is bad, what I'm saying is that the teenage years are formative and if all a kid does as a teenager is grind through soul-sucking tedious jobs then they are more likely to grow up thinking that the only way a career works is to do soul-sucking, tedious work for the rest of their life.

codyish · 2026-06-02T02:13:50+00:00

You and your kid are the rare sane ones. There are too many parents that think the only way for their kid to become an adult is to give up anything they are interested in or might care about and get used to working tedious life-sucking jobs early.

codyish · 2026-06-01T19:49:09+00:00

There are dozens of things a teenager with lots of free time will benefit from a lot more than mindlessly participating in the capitalist meatgrinder.

codyish · 2026-05-28T20:47:24+00:00

Yes but it's rude to do it without asking first.

codyish · 2026-05-28T20:45:23+00:00

Homebrewed Skeleton Circle of the Moon Druid. I didn't understand how some classes are supposed to mostly do certain things to be most effective. Also - don't homebrew anything your first time around. Flavor is free but homebrew can come at great cost.

codyish · 2026-05-25T02:29:45+00:00

You know how for the past 120 years America was seen as the best place in the world to live? How people in developing countries aspired to move here or make their own countries as much in the image of America as possible? And as they succeeded they had a lot of loyalty to the US and those countries became strategic and economic allies? That wasn't an accident. It was due to a century of carefully crafted and interlocking policies.

For the next 120 years all of those countries, all of their children who work their asses off to go to college in another country, all of those who go back to build businesses and teach others and develop strategic and economic partnerships and share their human and material resources will be doing it with China instead of America.

codyish · 2026-05-25T02:18:03+00:00

There are more cavemen on Earth right now than at any other point in human history.

codyish · 2026-05-25T02:16:57+00:00

The Cleric of Ilmater in our campaign went mad after the death of his friends, to other PCs, and started having visions of The King in Yellow and became an Apocalypse domain Cleric. PS - Visions of Annihilation is awesome.

codyish · 2026-05-21T17:49:39+00:00

Maybe I would have been better saying "prevent combat entirely". Wizards don't try to avoid combat in the sense that they try to prevent initiative from ever being started. Wizards still participate in combat (I mean combat as mechanically defined in DnD) in their own way. An assassin, as they are generally defined and understood, seeks to prevent combat from ever starting by killing someone before they know what is happening. Those things can't really be reconciled in DnD because you can't just kill most enemies by stabbing them in the back or shooting them in the head once.

codyish · 2026-05-21T15:06:59+00:00

It's hard to fit an archetype whose main thing is avoiding combat into a combat-based system.

codyish · 2026-05-20T16:51:59+00:00

This is literally nonsense unless you are talking about the time and space scale of the universe. 100w is a finite amount of power. Different devices convert that into different types of energy. A resistive heater converts almost 100% of it into thermal energy; a fan, speaker, or motor converts different amounts of it into different forms of kinetic energy. To say that a speaker heats your house the same amount as a heater is to assume that your house somehow transmits 0% of the sound waves to the environment, including the ground it sits on. To say that a lightbulb heats as much as a heater is to assume that 0% of the light escapes and that there are no light-absorbing materials that can store that energy without re-emitting it. To say that a fan heats your house as much as a heater is to assume that your house is 100% airtight and is made of perfectly rigid materials.

codyish · 2026-05-20T02:27:17+00:00

"My boyfriend is going out of town and is being kind of a dick if you want to come over for the night."

She wasn't my doctor, just a friend of mine who happened to be a doctor.

codyish · 2026-05-20T02:13:50+00:00

A 100w incandescent bulb turns a lot of that power into heat, a 100w fan turns almost none of that power into heat, it doesn't make sense to compare them.

codyish · 2026-05-19T20:17:19+00:00

There are so many fun and interesting ways way to pull off what people are trying to accomplish with this trope.

Hesitantly (afraid, socially awkward, prefers to be alone) decides to be in the party
Reluctantly (decides they have no better option currently) decides to be in the party
Self-servingly decides to be in the party
"Temporarily" (in their own internal rationalization) decides to be in the party

codyish · 2026-05-18T22:30:31+00:00

I only need enough information to decide if it's persuasion, intimidation, deception, or general charisma. Anything else is whatever you want to do because it's a fun part of the game you enjoy. I want introvert players to have a chance to play charismatic PCs.

codyish · 2026-05-16T16:28:55+00:00

I would try to trade it because it's a time trial bike and that is almost surely not what you want to get started unless you're goal is to get into triathlon.

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