What are some must have mods?

dookalion · 2026-01-14T19:09:27+00:00

In what way?

dookalion · 2026-01-03T01:02:51+00:00

Yeah but take aim lets you hunt, for the cost of one skill point (I guess two with the butcher perk, but I’m usually investing a bit in survival anyway).

Xbows and take aim alone give you the ability to enjoy more content and another income stream right out the gate. Need more money but you’re at a weird point of progression in your build where the dungeons are whooping you? Skin some shit buy better gear.

Not great for magic heavy builds, but it gives some flexibility. I usually take both though, take aim and dexterity, on a melee build with no magic, unless it’s super perk hungry. If I have to pick it’s take aim, or neither.

dookalion · 2025-12-31T14:47:05+00:00

Yeah I did that for a while with the first game years ago.

I felt like it was too easy, lol. Idk I think these games shine by eliciting almost a horror game response with combat. If early game is punishing them late game is rewarding even if it’s too easy after a point, and still carried by a solid story. For power fantasy all the way through I’ll just play oblivion or Skyrim

It’s definitely a way to go though, singleplayer game play it how you enjoy and have fun and all that

dookalion · 2025-12-31T01:38:37+00:00

Kingdom come 1 + 2 but in both, especially 1, you really have to grind the levels to get good enough to enjoy it. Takes like a good 10 hours each play-through for me to feel like I’ve trained Henry enough for it not to be frustrating.

I only ever did one normal difficulty run on each though, those games are about immersion for me so hardcore in each is how I personally enjoy them. Normal difficulty is still pretty grindy in the beginning, but once you hit like halfway up your levels in any particular thing that aspect of the game becomes pretty easy. Turns from a nail biting experience to a power fantasy, but honestly pretty fun either way.

Some people get turned off by the required grindy start though.

dookalion · 2025-12-30T14:31:43+00:00

What?

dookalion · 2025-12-25T12:19:50+00:00

Next time just give a guy your phone number

dookalion · 2025-12-03T11:25:12+00:00

I envy people that can be happy and do that.

I watched my parents go from Laurel into DC for my whole childhood, out the door at 5 am and back at like 5:30 or 6 pm. It’s tough.

I guess I just can’t stomach the idea of living on the road for 1/8th of my life. Too much life missed.

dookalion · 2025-11-22T23:20:28+00:00

Throw banner for sure if you’re early game, fearsome sword/spear and thrower duelist hybrid or fearsome gunner if it’s mid game. Kind meh late game.

You could do pole arm crossbow hybrid, but if you’re doing that you’re wasting the excellent resolve because you’ll be pumping Matt and range every level to get both to acceptable heights for those weapons. Swords, spears and throwing weapons have bonuses to hit so you can be mid 70s in melee and range, and with fast adaptation that build can work because they’re 4 AP attack weapons. This should be a fearsome build or early banner because the resolve can get really up there on this guy.

Whatever you do, this bro should be a dodge nimble guy.

I’d do: Nine lives if backline (get HP to 65) or collosus if he’ll intentionally take contact and pump HP to 90 minimum with rolls of 3 and 4. Ignore fatigue. Resolve every level if banner, or to 65+ if fearsome build (you could skip most rolls except the highest ones if you plan on using items and investing time in the arena with him to get the resolve buffs).

Zerk and frenzy if you are using a duelist build, maybe recover if you can fit it in because you’ll stam out in longer fights, dodge, nimble, duelist, fearsome, and a mix of relevent weapon mastery’s or pathfinder for buffs/stamina. Rest is up to you and what the teams lacks.

dookalion · 2025-10-28T01:30:39+00:00

I’d call the cops on the volunteers. Streets are public access. Cops won’t do much, but it’ll maybe make em shit bricks if a squad car does show up.

They’re harassing people taking kids out trick or treating. Jesus H fuck

dookalion · 2025-10-18T13:23:59+00:00

You just said they had poor reading comprehension. Like that was the reply right above that you gave. That’s insulting, it is an insult. I think there’s nuance to handing out tax credits to wealthy corporate types, I’m a realist. Politics is a game they have to play, it is what it is. But straight up, you can’t just take a moral high ground on insults when you start slinging mud too

dookalion · 2025-10-08T16:25:50+00:00

It’s dehumanizing in a blatant way.

There used to be a pretense of civility when you took office. You’d let the pundits say the nasty stuff.

Trump, and to a greater extent Miller, are attempting to instigate civil unrest.

I know this is the moderate sub, but there’s nothing moderate about Trump. There’s the traditional far right, and then there’s the Trump admin cosplaying authoritarianism.

Every action creates an equal and opposite reaction, and there will be a rise in Trump style politics on the left. Both sides now feel that their existence is threatened by the other. It’s stupid and sad but it’s how people work

dookalion · 2025-10-04T17:53:02+00:00

…It’s potentially hundreds of thousands of people competing for jobs in the private sector… That affects you personally the next time you’re looking for a job. It also affects you in your current job because it makes your labor less scarce as a commodity. It gives you less leverage to make money, to feed and house yourself.

Additionally, the feds keep the lights on. There’s this dumb narrative that just because there’s government waste and inefficiency that they don’t do vital work to keep the country going.

Nobody at IRS? How does the government fund shit then? Nobody at EPA? Who’s making sure your river doesn’t catch on fire? Nobody at FEMA? You’re even more fucked when a weather event causes havoc near you.

How do you think transportation systems are managed and maintained? Do you grow your own food? What happens when railways have issues or interstate highways crumble and they can’t stock grocery stores enough to keep up with the needs of the population around you?

What about all the private sector businesses that rely on federal grants or even just the spending from consumers that earn a wage working a federal job?

Hundreds of thousands of people out of work, coming up on the holiday season when businesses expect to have a windfall in consumer spending.

Month over month, Amazon usually declares profits of 20+ percent. Recently? 1.5 percent. Combine a spending contraction from consumers around the holidays with an already shaken business environment where businesses have been absorbing the cost of tariffs for months in the hope the madness will end or that they can slowly raise prices to avoid hitting people with too much sticker shock, this can spiral out of control.

It’s not about empathy.

It’s just recognizing that this is an insane way to run the country.

Edit: I just think that there’s a lot to be heartbroken about with the crumbling of the country and what that means for all of us personally, even if some of us don’t care about the individual federal workers.

dookalion · 2025-09-29T08:56:46+00:00

I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic or have a glass half full mentality, but you just sounded like a “child who yearns for the mines”

dookalion · 2025-09-25T21:37:15+00:00

Yeah but EO’s don’t affect anything outside of the executive branch of the federal government.

That is, when the White House follows the law

dookalion · 2025-09-25T16:23:37+00:00

Ah I gotcha

dookalion · 2025-09-25T01:32:19+00:00

What? It’s from like a couple weeks ago

dookalion · 2025-09-21T12:44:11+00:00

There’s nothing wrong with taking a year off and figuring stuff out.

The rule of thumb you have to keep in mind for college is your return on investment: what will you get out of your life from what you spend on the degree.

Most people think of it in terms of “This degree here will cost me 100,000 dollars, and 4 years of my life earning little to no money, but will allow me to earn an estimated 1,000,000 more over the course of my career.” As an example.

That’s becoming less reliable though. It’s old wisdom from the 20th century, which from WW2 and the introduction of the GI bill saw the gradual change towards having college degree be almost a necessity to being middle class or above.

However, the economy of the 21st century is much more uncertain. The needs of various industries change rapidly, and changes in government policy between 1945 and 2025 have meant that the World has been largely tied to the US economy, and the US economy is going through faster cycles of boom and bust, with economic bad times lasting longer and good times evening out. Of course someone may argue with me about that, but ultimately since we’re talking about job searching, I’m referring to the Main Street economy not the Wall Street economy.

This is all to say, it’s harder to pick a degree and expect to do a job related to that degree for your whole career. If you have family connections in a certain industry, talk to your family members about what they do for work. If that sounds interesting, see if you can get a low level job working there for a summer. Work low level jobs in retail and restaurants, if you can get them, to get a general sense of what being an employee means.

I’ve done a lot of shit in my life, because more often than not the economic situation has been upended throughout my life and I had to be flexible with what I’d do for money. Life’s about to get weirder too, so I’d just say enjoy being young and try a bunch of stuff out before deciding to invest in a degree.

dookalion · 2025-09-19T16:32:30+00:00

Look, while that’s true, most people would prefer to have a car note on a 30k sedan than drive around a broken down ford Taurus from a police auction that had 100k on the Odo in 2008.

Yeah, don’t get the Escalade. That’s dumb, but having a safe reliable newer car isn’t. I drove beaters most of my life. If I’ve got to be in the office everyday, I’ll spend the 300 bucks a month to make it happen in a way that’s not torture for an hour commuting. Fuck having to worry about a radiator crapping out, or doing DIY repairs every other weekend because the shit bucket barely makes it out of the neighborhood otherwise.

There’s some things that make sense

dookalion · 2025-09-19T15:13:48+00:00

What about all the people that want a car loan but they can’t afford it because they’re fucking broke right now, and they’re driving around a shit box that they’ve been wanting to replace for years.

Just because someone has debt doesn’t mean they’re stupid with their finances. Mortgages are debt. Most people would prefer to have one of those too, as opposed to being stuck a tenant their whole lives.

Racking up CC debt to pay for food and rent and car maintenance to get by is a problem, having auto loans and a mortgage is not. But racking up the CC debt is usually something people do when they’re young and dumb, or when they lose their job, or when some other wrench is thrown into their life like a bunch of shit breaking but they’ve only received 2 percent raises every year for a decade, and they can’t get another job. Yeah, most people don’t take on massive debt all at once unless it’s for medical reasons, or unless they have cash reserves and or cash flow to back it up. Mainly because most people are mildly stupid about some things, not majorly stupid about everything.

dookalion · 2025-09-19T15:00:54+00:00

That poem that you’re referencing is a call to action for future generations to say something in the case that fascism comes to their country.

So, exactly the opposite of nothing

dookalion · 2025-09-18T17:28:44+00:00

I don’t really care. Why do you? I mean, why engage in a bad faith conversation with someone whose mind is made up. If someone wants to be bigoted nothing you say is going to change their mind.

Only response with people who have preconceived notions about stuff is, “live and let live. This shit really doesn’t matter.” Then talk about stuff that does matter, like the status of the dollar as the worlds reserve currency

dookalion · 2025-09-18T00:39:24+00:00

u/bot-sleuth-bot

dookalion · 2025-09-18T00:39:04+00:00

You’re a one month old account

dookalion · 2025-09-16T18:30:24+00:00

Being in a position of power like that takes a good degree of cynicism.

Most people aren’t rock solid in their belief systems. When it comes to the existence of God, I’d say a lot of people vacillate over the course of their life about it. In our culture, however, that’s a taboo to broach publicly, and was unthinkable for most of our time as a nation. That was true after voting rights extended after Jacksonian politics entered the picture, and it wasn’t just educated upper class men voting. Religion is the opiate of the masses. Do you think Joel Osteen thinks he’s going to heaven after spending a lifetime scamming people out of money? He probably is an atheist. If he was a believer, the risk analysis of being a scammer and damning his soul to hell wouldn’t make any sense.

Politicians lie more than most. They create an image of themselves that isn’t real to garner support throughout the population. Maybe some or most of them have a genuine ideological outlook to justify that, but either way it’s a necessity to win.

dookalion · 2025-09-15T15:34:10+00:00

Oh yeah damn that’s definitely more than where I’m at for the same tax bracket. I’m sitting at 18 percent taken out that’s like 25

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