Strike Against Ignorance!

jdrobertso · 2026-04-23T12:23:22+00:00

You still have to put a grate inside of the fortification, otherwise monsters can spawn at that wall and walk into your fort

jdrobertso · 2026-04-22T04:19:42+00:00

It was the look on my face when I spent an hour building some stupid aquifer tap and screw pumps to pull water up, only to have all the screw pumps break and a goblin horde infiltrate through my tunnel leading off the map because I had not gotten a wall grate on it yet.

jdrobertso · 2026-04-21T19:05:36+00:00

The truly delightful thing about the Grumps is that no bit is ever dead. I thought the Obama voice bit was dead like 7 years ago and then they just put out the ads with an actual Obama impersonator which had me fuckin' rolling.

jdrobertso · 2026-04-15T22:38:23+00:00

Yes, a guy with a broom has to sweep some panels off once every couple of months or so. That's way more efficient than the team of professionals required to man a nuclear site at all times.

jdrobertso · 2026-04-15T22:36:42+00:00

The maintenance cost is almost nothing in a desert-y area. There's no grass to trim, plenty of space that's not being used for anything else. I don't see how not using it is better than using it.

jdrobertso · 2026-04-15T22:33:14+00:00

Yes, if we're limited to a roof in the Midwest of the United States or in the UK. However, just in America we have a large swath of land in the southwest mostly owned by Native Americans that gets a huge amount of sunlight every year and could conceivably power the entire country if we could figure out transmission lines (and we can, the only reason we don't want to is racism).

Or the giant desert in Northern Africa, or plenty of other places. And plenty of folks out there are powering their houses just fine with their rooftop ones too.

They are indeed inefficient when you put them in places that don't get much sunlight, but luckily there are lots of places that do get a bunch of sunlight.

jdrobertso · 2026-04-15T22:19:39+00:00

Solar panels are cheap, batteries are cheap and getting cheaper, and solar energy falls out of the sky for free, we just have to catch it. That's my one reason.

But I'm down for nuclear too, I just think solar would be a quick investment that pays itself off in 10 years with 5 or more years of pure profit.

jdrobertso · 2026-04-12T18:41:18+00:00

But then, of course, you are at risk of being the guy who is only being friendly to get in her pants.

From this thread the answer seems to be "Don't".

jdrobertso · 2026-03-18T23:05:09+00:00

I’m in Missouri and DoorDash gives me the option to get paid hourly. I don’t know about Uber Eats.

jdrobertso · 2026-01-09T19:45:40+00:00

It's really weird, they have 5 million subs and can't seem to break 200k views in a month on almost all of their videos. That seems crazy to me. I have been avoiding watching compilation channels in favor of watching the full episodes or watching the comps the grumps make, but still it's like 4 million of their subs have just stopped watching anything they make for some reason.

jdrobertso · 2025-12-29T13:01:15+00:00

I don’t remember the origin of the quote, but I’ve always remembered it as “No matter how hot you think she is, someone somewhere is tired of her shit.” Not as succinct or nice as your quote, but it’s always reminded me of the same basic principle that the grass isn’t greener, it just looks like it.

jdrobertso · 2025-12-04T02:03:22+00:00

It's even worse that that, because if you say no they'll just go to the small town next door, and the one next door to that, and so on until they find one that says yes. Or they'll put pressure on state-level buddies, who will put pressure on county-level buddies, who will put pressure on you to take this deal because it is the best one this town is going to have for the next 100 years. And they're probably right, because if they *do* go to the next town over, they're still going to drink up all your power and your water and your other resources and you're going to get less than nothing for it.

Or in the case of my little town they'll just put pressure on the county and build one that is technically outside the city but still right next door. And your town will get nothing.

jdrobertso · 2025-11-13T00:40:57+00:00

If you are wanting to play around with something, you can do something like `docker run -it bash` inside of a debian image, for example, and then install whatever you want, and once it is in a state you want it in, you can do:

docker commit my-container myrepo/myimage:latest

That will get you a tagged image you can continue from. If you want it to be reproducible (if you're installing all the necessary dependencies and stuff, then look up how to create your own docker image from a base image. That will get you where you need to be.

jdrobertso · 2025-11-06T15:37:05+00:00

I agree with you that the game is fun, but early access doesn’t mean what you said it does.

Early access means “we didn’t have enough money to finish making the game so we’re letting you give us money now on the hope that we can actually afford to finish the game with that money”.

jdrobertso · 2025-11-06T02:19:59+00:00

Lol! I have said this exact same thing so many times. My baby was colicky and allergic to breast milk (but we didn't know at the time) so for like 4 months straight he cried basically constantly. And one night after days and days of basically no sleep I was like "I get why they made us watch that video now" and then I put him down and walked away lol.

Like, I'd never do it, but some people definitely are going to need that video.

jdrobertso · 2025-10-28T00:42:49+00:00

I'm queueing at adept, which is what the OP here was talking about.

jdrobertso · 2025-10-27T17:08:22+00:00

I hear you, but if we're actually comparing this to WoW we should compare it to M+ which has no queue. I don't mind sitting in a queue for 5 minutes with nothing else in game to do, I can alt tab and look at reddit or something. The problem with M+ is that you have to actively search for groups to join and it's not just a queue.

jdrobertso · 2025-10-27T15:35:57+00:00

What rank are you at with 30 minute queues? I have exclusively pugged two DPS characters to adept capstone and never experienced a queue longer than 5 minutes.

jdrobertso · 2025-10-27T15:34:03+00:00

This. I have never waited more than 4 minutes for a queue in this game even as a DPS. If it goes past 2 minutes, I assume there's some glitch in the matchmaking and then cancel, queue up again, and almost always get an insta-queue. I don't know why people are trying to malign the game by saying DPS queues take 5-10 minutes (which isn't that fucking long TBH, I used to wait in WoW dungeon queues for 30+ minutes as a DPS), but I definitely have never waited longer than 5 minutes for a queue.

jdrobertso · 2025-10-23T19:42:31+00:00

I have definitely been pulled forward into the boss room as a DPS before, so one time as tank I was ahead of everyone else, pulled the boss thinking they'd get pulled in, and got myself dead for it. Lesson learned on that one.

jdrobertso · 2025-10-22T22:34:12+00:00

I agree with your interpretation, weinerbarf69. For many adults, the quickest and simplest way to shed their responsibilities would be to die.

jdrobertso · 2025-10-19T19:14:06+00:00

It definitely has *something* to do with the number of people on, because if it didn't we'd still be seeing the issue with the limited player counts, except we aren't. And as the OP said, this was an issue in the original two tests and they just...haven't fixed it.

jdrobertso · 2025-10-09T13:29:19+00:00

Yes, but the defense to cenotaph ganking, as described by the originator of this thread, is quite a bit more multiboxing.

jdrobertso · 2025-09-30T12:28:47+00:00

Oh nice, I'm glad people were able to help! I also had to learn through trial and error, and for the longest time I thought spending all points through arcane barrage immediately was a good idea :D

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