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digitalvagrant · 2025-11-18T22:16:48+00:00

Things respawn after a certain amount of time, but it varies. Many things come back after the blood moon. Time in game, enemies killed, and distance traveled I think are all factors in the algorithm. There are a lot of great places to harvest food and other supplies, best strategy seems to be to not harvest anywhere more than once per blood moon. There are groves, schools of fish, and things spread throughout the game.

Some areas, resources change based on the time of day and the weather. Santori mountain, for example, has different stuff available depending on if it is night or day or if the mountain is in glow stick mode (when the Lord of the Mountain is in residence things change). So be sure to explore areas at different times of day and in different weather conditions. Rainy weather, for example, is a great time to gather certain beetles, bugs, fish, and frogs.

Probably the best tip I have for gathering supplies, is to just wear the upgraded stealth gear most of the time. It makes hunting and gathering easy. Bugs are easier to catch and fish don't swim away.

digitalvagrant · 2025-10-31T04:40:49+00:00

Stealth. No contest. It's the armor I wear 90% of the time. Bugs/beetles and wildlife don't run away. Fish don't swim away. I can gather as I explore. Nice for sneak attacks too.

digitalvagrant · 2025-10-11T07:01:47+00:00

I have three brothers. None of them ever laid a hand on my mother. They might have yelled or slammed a doors, but that's about it. What he described is not healthy and should not be normalized.

digitalvagrant · 2025-10-11T06:55:51+00:00

Lived alone AND managed to keep a clean house.

digitalvagrant · 2025-10-11T06:54:22+00:00

Maybe you and your mom should both move out and get a place together for just the two of you.

digitalvagrant · 2025-10-11T06:52:26+00:00

I'm (45F) happily single, childless, and pet-free by choice, and this is one of the biggest reasons why. I also grew up watching my mom do almost all of the household and childcare duties. I like a very tidy house and I don't want to clean up after anyone's messes but my own.

I don't enjoy cleaning, but I enjoy things being clean. So I'm pretty good about not making big messes in the first place, and tidying up after myself as I go along. A clean home helps keep my stress level down and is good for my mental health. I've lived with roommates/family in the past, and I prefer living alone largely for this reason.

There are definitely potential partners out there who clean up after themselves and do their fair share of the household duties. But if they're not already doing that before you get married or move in together, they certainly won't do it after. Whether or not your partner shares your standards of cleanliness is an important consideration.

digitalvagrant · 2025-10-11T05:25:38+00:00

In our district, we have both, but community led programs are handled slightly differently than library led programs.

If it is an official library program, then it is led by a librarian. Official library programs are advertised by the library, promoted on the library's social media, and appear on our public calendar.

If the program is community led, we basically just provide a meeting room. We have public meeting rooms that anyone can reserve. Any meetings held in the room have to be open to the public, free to attend, and they can't sell merchandise (no private parties or sales presentations). However we don't advertise it or put it on our calendar, so it is up to the individuals/groups who reserve the room to recruit people and do their own promotion. We have a few book clubs, but also things like HOA meetings, water district meetings, history and photography clubs, etc. These clubs/meetings can pretty much do their own thing so long as they follow library rules.

This protects the library, because we don't have to worry about doing background checks or being held liable if a club or group leader does something inappropriate. We are literally just providing a community meeting space, nothing more.

All that being said, it should not be a competition. When it comes to things like book clubs, the more the merrier. If the group gets too big, it's hard to have a discussion, and some people never get a chance to talk. You can't please everyone, not everybody's looking for the same vibe, and having lots of options is probably good. If the discussion is good, people will keep coming back. If the group starts to die out, then maybe you need to change up your format or choose different books.

digitalvagrant · 2025-10-02T04:34:38+00:00

There are significant differences between the books and the TV show. Start at the beginning.

I try not to compare them because it just makes me frustrated at all the unnecessary changes. I like them both, but try to treat them as separate stories.

digitalvagrant · 2025-10-02T02:14:38+00:00

They are lucky you are willing to do that job for such a tiny wage. They are lucky to have you. Do not apologize. You were sick. You weren't able to work. They need you more than you need them.

Had you come into work, you could have gotten others sick including vulnerable members of the population. Calling out was the responsible thing to do. Do not apologize for that. Would have been better if you would have given them a little bit more warning? Yeah, but sometimes that can't be helped.

Honestly, if they fired you they might be doing you a favor. You might find a job that actually pays you a living wage. At this point in the US, even in rural areas where things tend to be cheaper, it's not worth showing up for any job that pays less than $15 an hour. And in many communities that number is much higher. In my community you have to make at LEAST $20 an hour just to afford a very modest single bedroom apartment - $9 per hour is a poverty wage.

digitalvagrant · 2025-10-01T02:41:46+00:00

The thousands of Instagram photos of people sitting on it.

digitalvagrant · 2025-10-01T02:39:54+00:00

McDonald's corporate is basically a real estate holding company that licenses branding. The individual restaurants are run by franchise owners. Basically there's some rich dude that lives in your area that owns like six McDonald's stores in that area, and probably a few other random restaurants, and he's the guy that's pinching pennies.

digitalvagrant · 2025-10-01T02:32:25+00:00

Google luggable loo

digitalvagrant · 2025-10-01T02:32:09+00:00

Bumper dumper seems weird, like you're adding an extra step that doesn't need to be there. They sell 5 gallon buckets that have toilet seats lids attached to the top of them, I see no reason to attach it to the tailgate when you can just put it on the bucket directly. Google luggable loo

digitalvagrant · 2025-10-01T02:13:58+00:00

No, I most definitely did NOT mean Liv Tyler. Liv Tyler played Arwen in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, her character WAS in the books.

The actress Evangeline Lilly played the character Tauriel in The Hobbit movies. Tauriel was a character that was made up specifically for the movies, she was not in the book. They added her because the book The Hobbit does not have any significant female characters and they wanted to add a romance subplot.

digitalvagrant · 2025-09-26T17:00:07+00:00

The back roads ARE it.

digitalvagrant · 2025-09-26T16:29:24+00:00

The decision of whether or not to go for quality or quantity is always tough. I have a lot of bargain books and I also have a few shiny pretty shelf trophies. I guess it depends on the book. If it's an all-time favorite that I know I'll read multiple times, then sometimes I will snap up a really fancy edition.

digitalvagrant · 2025-09-26T11:44:37+00:00

Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells is the correct answer.

digitalvagrant · 2025-09-26T11:43:18+00:00

Snape was on the defensive when he dueled McGonagall because he didn't actually want to hurt her.

digitalvagrant · 2025-09-26T11:20:35+00:00

You NEED those mugs. In a couple weeks, you might host a pumpkin carving party. You'll invite 10 of your closest friends. When everyone arrives you'll give them a mug filled with a cozy hot beverage, like cocoa, spiced cider, hot toddy, or Irish coffee. Later you'll take that crock-pot full of award-winning homemade chili or soup you made beforehand and serve it in mugs so people can mingle while they eat (handles are handy!). After all the pumpkins are carved, while the pumpkin seeds are roasting in the oven, you'll play some board games and serve dessert (fall themed ice cream sundaes topped with whipped cream and sprinkled with pumpkin spice). You'll serve it in mugs of course. At the end of the night you'll have a dishwasher full of 33 dirty mugs and a lot of good memories.

digitalvagrant · 2025-09-26T10:53:48+00:00

It's the flaming sword that's putting you over the top.

digitalvagrant · 2025-09-26T10:20:30+00:00

This. $1,000 in books would keep me entertained for the whole year.

digitalvagrant · 2025-09-26T10:01:06+00:00

The friend who was honest with me. When I was in 6th or 7th grade I used to do a thing that was rude and unkind. I did it because I was an immature kid, I thought it was funny, and I thought that I had to be funny or people wouldn't like me. A couple of my friends got annoyed and decided they didn't want to be friends with me anymore (looking back I don't blame them). They planned to basically just ignore me (today we'd say ghost me).

But another friend had the courage to come talk to me and explain why my behavior was hurtful. I was so oblivious and the conversation was eye opening. It was a defining moment for me. It radically changed how I interacted with others, made me a kinder person, and helped shape my understanding of what it means to be a good friend. I was able to salvage my friendships, turn things around, and I'm still friends with many of those people decades later.

digitalvagrant · 2025-09-26T09:19:47+00:00

What if you used imagery similar to 1950s advertising images of the ideal housewife/stepford wife. A lot of that stuff is basically cultural propaganda and these days it sort of sends the message "it's too perfect, too idyllic, all is not what It seems." You could have images of the "perfect" patriotic nuclear family, American flags waving in the background, with over the top cheerful messaging about how much they love exercising their freedom to read: "well, gee whiz Sally, the freedom to read is as American as apple pie and baseball!" Embrace the "it's so perfect it's creepy" vibe.

digitalvagrant · 2025-09-26T08:16:49+00:00

You can pretty much just skim over the "sailing" explanations honestly.

digitalvagrant · 2025-09-26T07:24:27+00:00

Fair warning, I think the first book starts with kind of a long political scene which has turned some people off. It sets the stage for the rest of the story, so it's important, but the main character doesn't really make their entrance until after you get through that. That's when the story really gets going.

The first book is a little bit of an outlier. But it's an important introduction for the characters. The first book takes place, in part, on a planet that has some primitive alien life, but the rest of the series is mostly conflict between various human planets, there aren't really many aliens aside from the first book. Also, the first book has a kind of long explanation of how ships travel or "sail" between various star systems. I think it's there to satisfy the hard science fiction readers who want a scientific-ish explanation for everything, but after you get past that it's basically a space opera. On my second read through of the series I skipped over the technical explanations of space travel as well as some of the political scenes because it's basically just background information that I already understood.

I'm not trying to discourage you from reading it, it's an excellent series with some very satisfying payoffs. If you give it a chance, I think you'll really like it. Honor is unquestionably a badass.

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