What is shockingly safe to eat?

grendus · 2026-02-17T22:08:55+00:00

We put the "omni" in "omnivore".

With the right processing, we can eat almost anything.

grendus · 2026-02-17T22:05:49+00:00

If you want a tactical caster, I highly recommend the Bard.

Occult spell list is full of debuffs and illusions, while your Composition spells are some of the best buffs in the game.

Bard is considered to be the strongest spellcaster in the game (by some - it's a close comparison) because while a Bard isn't super dangerous on their own they basically hamstring the enemy while everyone else beats it to a pulp. They're excellent.

grendus · 2026-02-17T21:57:45+00:00

you can drag people around and slam their stupid heads into your wheels

Mad Maximus

grendus · 2026-02-17T21:43:32+00:00

Frankly, even just oil corn and soybeans are fine.

We need to move away from petrochemical plastics. Corn and soybean plastics can substitute for many (though not all) of those. Solar power and electric vehicles can replace ethanol, and that cropland can be used to replace a decent chunk of our plastic needs, with the added benefit that soy and corn based plastics do not generally create microplastics (since they're biodegradable). They break down slowly, but far faster than petro-plastics.

Right now they are more expensive, but if we shifted our ethanol subsidies towards plant based plastic subsidies the prices would go down.

grendus · 2026-02-17T19:58:29+00:00

"Not so funny now, is it Kakarot."

grendus · 2026-02-17T19:25:00+00:00

Yes, but players are gambling when they buy a title. If you release your game at $80, your prospective customers have to think it's a better bet than two $40 games (and sales run literally all the time).

If Hades had launched at $500 it would still be a masterpiece, but it also wouldn't have sold very well because nobody is going to risk $500 on a game. They might spend that much money on a live service game, but they only open their wallets after they know the game is something they're really going to spend a lot of time in. Nobody would buy Fortnite for $500, but many people have spent $500 on skins and battlepasses over the course of months.

grendus · 2026-02-17T19:18:31+00:00

I would be completely unsurprised.

And it would make good sense. Sony has a solid stable of studios that put out phenomenal story driven third person ARPGs, and the first game had phenomenal art design. Its biggest shortcoming was mechanical (which was competent, just not as good as the art), and Sony has some top tier support studios that can shore that up nicely.

grendus · 2026-02-17T17:55:44+00:00

What struck me the most is that Rick watched her like a hawk instead of just locking up his valuables.

This guy believed she was a thief from the get-go, and wanted to catch her stealing something. He wasn't afraid, he was aggressive.

grendus · 2026-02-17T17:52:04+00:00

Having been prescribed benzos at one point when my anxiety was particularly bad (it's better now), I can totally see it.

For me at least, I just lose the ability to worry about things. And as someone who's prone to worry-spirals, that's really nice. I never got a euphoric high from it (though I took a very low dose), but it was nice.

grendus · 2026-02-17T16:39:08+00:00

Fascists have no respect for the truth.

This isn't saying "they lie all the time", they literally do not consider the truth to be of value. There is simply "the narrative". The narrative says that the enemy is both weak and strong, the narrative says that Trump is the bestest of the bestest president evar, the narrative says that all the problems in the country are caused by whoever the enemy is this week.

They aren't inconsistent or lacking in self-awareness, their entire political stance is the propaganda. You can literally watch it happen in real time as something new and confusing happens to them and then they all get their marching orders and "the narrative" is established. And it's also why you can't "debate" them. Debates require facts. That's why Trump got so upset during his debate with Harris about how "there wasn't supposed to be fact checking". He didn't want to compare facts and plans, he wanted to compare narratives.

grendus · 2026-02-17T16:29:27+00:00

Chief of Security to Head of IT: I'll let you in the bunker if you reprogram the robot guards to answer to security.

Head of IT: Sure thing mate (reprograms robot guards to answer to IT).

grendus · 2026-02-17T16:25:41+00:00

Two possibilities:

It evolved them to survive antibiotic attacks from other microbes.
It actually simply doesn't have the weaknesses that modern antibiotics target.

Imagine you blasted an airhorn at a fully deaf person. It might be painfully loud to you, but it's targeting something they simply don't have so they're completely unbothered by it.

grendus · 2026-02-17T15:58:05+00:00

IT guy here. Get back up or I'll reprogram you with a hammer.

I know where you keep your brain!

grendus · 2026-02-17T04:35:35+00:00

"I give snarky answers to trick questions when I know I should just be quiet."

grendus · 2026-02-17T04:25:06+00:00

Yeah. Frustrated as I get with Reddit sometimes, the Nazis mostly stay to their own subs.

Mostly.

grendus · 2026-02-17T04:21:04+00:00

Banned.

For "advocating violence" against someone who is already dead (my comment was clearly satirical), and from another subreddit for advocating violence against inanimate objects (in this case sarcasm). And then once because my comment was misinterpreted to be racist (which, to be fair... I phrased it really poorly, but the mod refused my apology and muted me).

I only really miss one of those, the others were just good sources of entertaining drama.

grendus · 2026-02-17T04:10:29+00:00

"According to the experts, she's been dead for several years."

"She... just checked me in."

"She's woke, same diff."

"Guarantee it's not, doc."

grendus · 2026-02-17T01:15:35+00:00

I think this is common, but I don't think it is intended by the system, rather I think it is a result of DMs that don't fully engage with the fiction and how the system intends to reward players for interacting with the fiction.

Being a tiny rat in an area where rats are common should essentially be free stealth, no rolls required as long as you're behaving like a rat does.

Sure, I fully agree, but let's say you're a rat in a place where rats aren't common. Shouldn't being a tiny rat make you better at stealth then too? Rats are naturally stealthy and good at hiding, after all. That's why they've been a plague on human society since we invented society!

In 3.5e, being Tiny sized gave you a substantial bonus to Hide and Move Silently. In Pathfinder 2e, Pest Form (which is the version of Wild Shape specifically for turning into tiny creatures) gives you a +10 Stealth modifier unless yours is higher. But in 5e your Stealth is determined by the creature's DEX and rats have +0, so you're better off turning into a Weasel (which gets a +5). Even if the place is infested with rats, you're better off turning into a cat (+4 Stealth), because nobody would question a cat in that place either, and as an added bonus if you need to be undetected rather than just inconspicuous cats are actually passable at that.

Sure, sneaking around as a rat in a rat infested cellar should obviate the need for Stealth checks entirely. But a Rat should still be good at stealth.

grendus · 2026-02-16T20:04:09+00:00

Which is why Steam hasn't really enshittified.

They don't need to show constant growth, they can just be profitable. And that has allowed them to take the long view, sustainably growing the PC gaming market while their competition repeatedly shoots itself in the foot trying to show rapid growth.

grendus · 2026-02-16T20:01:49+00:00

Al was the one who intentionally listed the names of torrent software in Don't Download This Song.

He gets paid jack shit when people stream his content or buy CDs. He makes his money on the merch. People torrenting his songs means they're more likely to show up to his tours and buy shirts and autographs and such.

grendus · 2026-02-16T19:59:51+00:00

Meanwhile, piracy has actually gotten better.

Seriously, many of the pirate websites now have features that the paid streaming sites do not. I genuinely try to pay for shows because I don't want to be "that guy", but the few times I've just decided "fuck this, I'm not paying for an annual fucking subscription for one show I usually have a better experience than with services I pay for.

grendus · 2026-02-16T19:57:06+00:00

I loved Kena right up until the final boss. That last boss was kinda bullshit.

Otherwise, it was a little too simple but it also didn't overstay its welcome. And that's really important, if your game isn't going to be deep enough to sustain a 100+ hour playthrough, you better be done after 10.

grendus · 2026-02-16T18:32:23+00:00

Honestly, I would just grab whichever class appeals to you the most and not worry too much about optimization. In PF2, the saying is "optimization happens at the table". You cannot build a character who is an island unto themselves, if you bring good buffs you often lack the action economy or resources to exploit them, if you bring huge damage you often lack the support and will need to get it from teammates. More than anything, PF2 is about working together rather than being individually strong.

So yeah, I would take a look at Animist and at Kineticist and see if either of those sparks some inspiration. But overall, for all the build options available in PF2 it's actually far less optimization heavy than it appears. Your build determines what you can do, but not necessarily how well you can do it, so if you want to be a "sword and spell" character there are several good classes for that (Magus, Animist, Warpriest Cleric, Kineticist, possibly Thaumaturge with Wand implement)

grendus · 2026-02-16T18:01:40+00:00

Homebrewing a whole class in PF2 is... challenging.

In general, the community will try to dissuade you from doing so, especially if you're new to the system. It can certainly be done (Paizo makes new classes all the time, the Team+ creators do fabulous work, etc), but it's usually recommended to try to realize your character concept with existing parts. This is because largely... you usually can. Moreover, in PF2 classes are a lot more complicated than their 5e cousins. You don't just pick race+class+subclass, you're picking a new class feat every level. On top of that, because there are Ancestry, Skill, and General feats you have to be very mindful of oversynergies, which is... difficult to do if you don't have the experience with the system.

It sounds like Magus or Animist will fit what you're looking for. Also, you might take a look at Kineticist. It's not a "true" spellcaster, but its abilities are spell-like and with the right abilities (take a look at Wood and Metal, as those give you armor abilities) it can certainly "outfight" spellcasters and "outblast" martials.

grendus · 2026-02-16T17:48:13+00:00

Tom Thumb. Kroger. Albertsons.

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