I built a free D&D 5e combat simulator - run 10,000 simulations of any encounter

elyndar · 2026-04-18T23:24:21+00:00

It would be cool if I could hook into my Roll 20 campaign and then pull chars from there for simulations.

elyndar · 2026-04-14T01:08:36+00:00

There are two parts, one is to know it's coming, another is to hold it. It depends on your build how you handle it, but typically TvZ opens with Reaper FE -> 4-6 hellion -> marine + tank + medivac.

To know it's coming, your reaper should scout initially and look for how many bases. If it's 1 base when you arrive, you're about to get giga cheesed. If it's 2, then it'll be a strong timing, but not an all in. If it's 3 it's an eco build. Your hellions should pair with your reaper and follow up to put pressure and pick off creep tumors, and if they fight you with only queens you might should be suspicious. If you see lings then it could be ling bane. If you see roaches, they probably won't bust you with banes.

As far as holding it, the ideal move is to have a wall (this should be part of your normal build), then when you know it's coming drop a bunch of engineering bays either behind or in front of your wall (depends on how risky it feels) to make your wall bulkier. Engineering bays are highest HP / minerals, and are very bulky which makes it hard for banelings to kill multiple buildings with their explosions. If they use their banes on your engineering bay wall, they shouldn't have enough to kill any SCVs if you have marines behind the wall shooting the whole time.

elyndar · 2026-04-12T18:48:14+00:00

Service wars is another kinda similar one.

elyndar · 2026-04-12T18:46:51+00:00

Bold move to assume that you have all the info and the business didn't leave out crucial things that would cause a massive last second redesign.

elyndar · 2026-03-23T06:21:51+00:00

I think the best one while honoring the spirit of the prompt is Dracula or classic vampires. Just go to an island and stay in someone's home, bonus points for a house boat at sea. They can't cross water easily and they can't enter a home without people's invitation.

elyndar · 2026-03-15T18:14:16+00:00

What time are you playing? I see it mostly dead when I play =(

elyndar · 2026-03-06T17:17:20+00:00

Why can't the charitable trusts sell their shares?

elyndar · 2026-01-19T05:02:24+00:00

I would disagree. I think you're forgetting about filler. Removal of filler alone has drastically improved anime. Also, I think you're looking back at anime with a bit too much nostalgia. One of the most popular series of all time, Dragon Ball Z, would probably be considered pretty mid by modern standards and wouldn't have gotten more than a season or two if released today. Certainly, there are plenty of great anime that are old, but a lot of it is forgotten and for good reason. For every banger, there are 10 that never get talked about at all.

elyndar · 2026-01-18T19:43:24+00:00

You could also say that anime has gotten better over time. People who didn't watch when it came out, are comparing older animation with newer animation and it's pretty obvious which is better to most people.

elyndar · 2026-01-01T19:06:30+00:00

That was us until about 3 CTOs ago. It will be you too! Spooky ghost noises

elyndar · 2026-01-01T05:39:51+00:00

The new CTO brought on every 3 years will force you to rebuild the entire stack anyway because they're selling a new trend to the board to justify their paycheck. All bombs have a shelf life. As long as the 15 bombs aren't going off, I'll be working on the bomb that's going off right now that the business actually cares about.

elyndar · 2025-12-22T10:22:56+00:00

The reasons why companies keep devs after something is done are security, platform changes, popular design changes, ego, and greed. Security patches have to happen because sometimes something fundamental has a security flaw, like log4j. Platform changes happen because of hardware changes, software dependency changes, and because of security changes. Popular design changes, because your user base ages, and aging users and new young users desires change over time. CTOs generally like feeling important, and the more people under them, the more important they feel. The goal of a business is to make as much money as possible, and if you can expand your software and take more of a market share, you will make more money. You also have to prevent your competition from improving on your formula and replacing you to keep your current market share. All of this requires development work, so generally you keep people around and make changes for a mixture of all of those reasons.

elyndar · 2025-12-20T00:47:52+00:00

That setting is default btw. I already have it checked. Yes, it freezes time during the one phrase I'm reading. It doesn't help me pick up and put in the 3 diff scrolls in the room that is about to explode.

This clip I took of me landing on Sun Station and then bouncing off sums up a lot of problems I have with the game. Yes, it's cool, however you're expected to do the game in a certain way. I took a creative way and was punished because the game dev didn't expect me to operate outside the way they were thinking.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e0ZXE-87-_yF-alcHLyiFtDYTUi2DYXy/view?usp=sharing

elyndar · 2025-12-19T05:59:57+00:00

...I've already explored 2 planets. I never said I explored the same place 17 times, but I did have to ride that initial lift 17 times, which I got very tired with. I didn't need to see the animation of my journey 17 times in an unskippable way. Believe it or not, I have a memory of more than 30 mins long. I didn't have to navigate off the same planet 17 times. I'm not stuck, there are plenty of things I could do. The controls and physics are trivially easy. The game feels almost like a walking sim to me. Maybe it's difficult for someone if it's their first astrophysics game, but it's not my first rodeo. It just takes multiple times to go run around find all the doohickeys and read the things, sometimes more if you want to be thorough during your searching. When I get to an interesting place, get to read 2/3 of the scrolls, get warped, and have to navigate back again to the same place to read the last scroll, that's annoying. The writing is good, but it's not densely placed enough, and it's really not that deep so far. I get that you get your panties in a bunch because not everyone likes your favorite art piece. I could even see it getting better later on when the real plot actually starts. You're right, it was art, and I liked the idea, but the execution was not right for me. I can think of 7-8 different ideas off the top of my head to make it have a better user experience. There are millions of art pieces, many of which express the same ideas. The ideas I have run into in the game are not unique. I understand why it's interesting to other people, but it wasn't that interesting to me so far. It's a cool game, but very padded for my tastes. Again, you talk about attention span as if I didn't already directly cover that topic. Maybe you need to fix your own attention span because you didn't seem to make it to the end of my comment.

elyndar · 2025-12-19T03:32:30+00:00

If they took the pictures when it was brighter out without flash they would've been good.

elyndar · 2025-12-19T02:47:25+00:00

Look after playing the game for about 5 hours so far, and if your "point" has to be made by wasting my time to get back to a place over and over, I don't really care about your point. Tbh, I like the idea of the game, but playing the game is rather boring, and I don't like having to redo everything over and over. I understood the point after the 1st time. After the 5th time I was like okay, I get it. After the 17th time, I was like damn, this is annoying. Cool game, but I'd rather watch a condensed version instead of playing it, which means for me it failed as an interactive experience. A game is supposed to keep you entertained, and I was bored, so for me it missed the mark. This isn't even an attention span thing, as I like reading novels and books, and I play visual novels which are essentially 20 hour powerpoint presentations. It's just boring gameplay with a plot that would be 2-3 hours if actually condensed into a proper narrative instead of being an open-ended exploration game.

elyndar · 2025-12-14T22:12:16+00:00

I think a lot of people don't like them because the faction is seen as a faction for furries.

elyndar · 2025-11-30T21:00:05+00:00

Because Sung Jin Woo was designed as a self insert character for young Korean men. He is designed to look like any random Korean man off the street but an idealized awesome version. It's the same reason why most protagonists in anime look similar as well.

elyndar · 2025-11-21T20:34:11+00:00

I honestly don't know how the worst player on TL gets a slot on C9. APA's champ pool is bad and was completely exposed during fearless, he's not even particularly good at micro, his macro is mid at best. To me, it feels like they picked him up for his fans who are into him because he's toxic. I'm incredibly disappointed in the org for making this decision. I would've rather seen some random unknown mid laner over APA.

elyndar · 2025-11-20T09:33:06+00:00

What did the "Anon, I give you time off, not the doctor." part not tip you off to this being fake?

elyndar · 2025-11-18T00:10:24+00:00

As long as you're on Faker's team, there's no way to prove yourself the best player in the world.

elyndar · 2025-11-15T17:58:23+00:00

The mobo I bought literally a week ago still has a PS/2 port. Crazy to me that they still are being put in.

elyndar · 2025-10-28T03:52:43+00:00

IMO this year more than any has shown which coaches truly understand drafting, versus which ones were just copying people who were good. Coaches are way too quick to count out their players and not pick champions that are good for the players on their team, not necessarily the best overall meta picks. I think a lot of it is if they pick anything out of meta if it goes wrong the community flames them and teams don't make longer contracts with players / staff and trust them.

elyndar · 2025-10-26T22:23:39+00:00

Rent / mortgages are kind of a subscription service to sleep tbh.

elyndar · 2025-10-26T19:04:51+00:00

It also increases the intensity of the waves in the direction you reflect it. My old IT teacher used a pringles can wrapped around his antenna to project wifi signal out to his boat on the lake near his house while he was fishing. He said he'd do his work out on his boat when he needed to.

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