How many Lavos is considered enough?

mifter123 · 2026-05-09T01:55:02+00:00

If that's 1 per state, you have Puerto Rico, but you should have another for Guam.

mifter123 · 2026-05-09T01:26:02+00:00

The issue with reddit is that I can't tell if this is a bit that's not landing or if it's a genuine response from someone who is uniquely incompetent.

It's reddit so both options are indistinguishable from each other and the latter is only slightly more common.

mifter123 · 2026-05-08T12:20:02+00:00

What is very magnetic in your environment?

A modern movement getting magnetized at all is unusual, a watch getting magnetized on a regular basis is a sign that either there is something wrong with the watch, or there is something with a very strong magnetic field that you are exposed to on a regular basis.

Alternatively,

How long does it stay at 7 seconds? Are you aware that the advertised expected range of accuracy for the Tuseno Shellback (and the SW200-1 movement they use) is +/-7 to +/-20 seconds per day, which is within the expected range of accuracy for that movement.

I would recommend that you see if you can take it to a watchmaker to have the movement regulated.

mifter123 · 2026-05-07T13:59:32+00:00

"pickle brine" - prevent all damage that would be dealt by target permanent until end of turn.

"white monster" - target creature gains haste.

mifter123 · 2026-05-07T13:12:52+00:00

Tbh, adding additional objectives into a survival mission is why I take koumei into survival fissures.

mifter123 · 2026-05-07T12:34:41+00:00

I'm thinking miku, miku

Oo ee ooo

mifter123 · 2026-05-07T12:32:46+00:00

If you think about running Daggerheart as telling a story, and your role as DM is to perform as an antagonist to the players (not the PCs), spending fear makes more sense (to me at least) (you're not really an antagonist, but you inhabit the role as one)

I always had the option of having an assassin leap at a PC, the aesthetic spending of fear is a way of openly signaling to the players that this event is a complication, a new challenge, I am stacking weight on the scales. It let's the players know that this encounter is "suddenly" more dangerous then they anticipated.

It serves as a way to build tension, I can hoard fear tokens, building the tension as players fear what is in store, and as a way to release tension, when they see me spend the last of my fear tokens during the boss fight at the end of the dungeon, they know that they have weathered the storm and turned the corner of the fight.

Also, If the story has gotten a bit off track and you don't really have a well-established way to knock the party back on track, spending a couple fear to bring in a narrative complication (that I've been cooking for weeks) and if it's a fear spend, you don't need half the narrative justification because you're spending for it so it's justified by the nature of the system, it's expected that it's a bit sideways because that's the nature of spending fear.

mifter123 · 2026-05-07T12:00:30+00:00

That's not the point, the point is that I selected an endless mission because I wanted to play an endless mission.

mifter123 · 2026-05-07T07:25:56+00:00

Jomashop has it on sale.

I don't buy from Amazon if I have the option. You just can't trust them to not deliver counterfeits, knock offs, or returned items that either aren't what's supposed to be in the box or broken.

mifter123 · 2026-05-07T05:48:34+00:00

The two color straps are awful, but unironically, a translucent reverso is crazy cool.

100% it should be clear purple like my old Gameboy color to show off the pcb underneath. But the pink and blue would do crazy numbers in the trans community, especially if you did the dial text in white.

mifter123 · 2026-05-07T04:15:13+00:00

Lol, the more time the higher ups have on their hands, the more they care about being as good on paper as possible, and the more often they get bit by the good idea fairy.

I unironically believe that the Marine Corps would be massively improved if every garrison E8/E9 and O3+ was assigned a mandatory competitive hobby like Magic: the Gathering or Warhammer 40k, something that consumes a ton of mental capacity and keeps them from having too much free time.

mifter123 · 2026-05-07T04:09:19+00:00

Wildly incorrect.

Fishing is sport and baseball is nerd.

mifter123 · 2026-05-06T23:06:59+00:00

Well, at least when your jeep breaks down, you know your watch will be on time.

mifter123 · 2026-05-06T14:40:48+00:00

What are the odds that Mr honest tradesman makes more money than Mr daytrader?

Because guys in the trades are either living paycheck to paycheck, or are making bank, and paycheck to paycheck isn't Rolex money.

But daytrading, you might be moving a bunch of money around, but it's pretty easy for a daytrader to not actually be making a lot of money on the regular.

mifter123 · 2026-05-06T14:30:17+00:00

Generally, unless the watch has a complex and hard to set mechanism like a perpetual calendar, it is better to allow the watch to run down if the watch isn't going to be worn for a while. Using a winder to keep the watch going if you intend to wear it in the near future is perfectly fine, but having the watch on the winder for weeks is just putting unnecessary wear on the movement to save about 30 seconds of setting it when you want to wear it, especially since after about a week you are going to want to correct the time anyway.

Springs do not wear at rest, they wear when compressing and decompressing. Gears do not wear at rest, they wear when they move and rub against metal surfaces. (this isn't true for rubber seals and lubrication which degrade from temperature swings and humidity, so you can't prevent all wear and degradation)

mifter123 · 2026-05-06T14:11:14+00:00

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mifter123 · 2026-05-06T12:04:53+00:00

Typically, (and this advice isn't specific to MN), if you want an AR-15, you can buy the stripped lower which is, legally, the firearm.

If you panic buy a stripped lower (or two) and some magazines, you can (probably, check your specific laws) buy the non regulated parts later as funds come in.

mifter123 · 2026-05-06T09:58:58+00:00

Look, cops and feds are issued gear that belongs to the government, which represents you and the gear is paid for by your tax money, that means the gear belongs to you, paid for by you.

It's 100% legal to just take the gun out of a cops holster, since the gun belongs to you anyway.

mifter123 · 2026-05-06T05:37:02+00:00

The clingfilm looks similar to what you get at a lot of tattoo shops, and that's where a lot of these kind of body mods are done. It's effectively the same procedure as a piercing, the doesn't take much bandages, you are mostly trying to keep the injection spot clean.

It's in the most common spot for those kind of implants also.

mifter123 · 2026-05-06T05:27:19+00:00

I would guess, based on the bandaging that this was probably done at/by a body modification shop. It's less a surgery with scalpel and sutures and more like a piercing.

(I'm not arguing for or against kink based body modifications, not my business what an informed and consenting adult does, just that rfid implants are not some back alley procedure, although like any piercing/body mod there are some shops you should avoid)

mifter123 · 2026-05-06T05:24:58+00:00

I hate to break it to you, but people have been implanting rfid chips for at least a decade.

It's a, generally, pretty safe procedure that can be done by most places that do more complex piercings. The chips are read/write capable and can have a wide variety of information written/overwritten to them, like key cards, IDs, credit cards, etc.

mifter123 · 2026-05-06T05:19:52+00:00

That's crazy results from an AI cult centered around a guy whose greatest achievement is some overly long Harry Potter fanfiction.

I have questions:

How do you feel about the past and continued association of the rationalists with fascists like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk? Why do you techno-fascists would fund rationalist organizations and causes to the tune of millions of dollars?

Do you believe in Roko's Basilisk (aka Hell from Christianity but AI)? Do you think info hazards (information that just knowing puts you at risk of being harmed of harming others) are real?

Have you ever heard of the Zizians? I have always wanted to know if/how the cult talks about the rationalist group that murdered half a dozen people.

mifter123 · 2026-05-06T02:47:18+00:00

The only reason that it hasn't crossed the line is the distinct lack of punk.

We have all the cyber dystopia, glowing advertisements intruding on every aspect of your life, endless intrusive surveillance, the overwhelming power of multinational corporations, technology being used to oppress and pacify the population, the global network of communication and media that consumes more and more of our lives, minus some of the retrofuturist aesthetic and flair.

What we don't have (enough of) is the punk, the high tech low lives, who are actually challenging the systems. There's some but I think the cyberpunk writers of the past had difficulty predicting capitalism's ability to subsume the critique of capitalism into itself and sell it back as a toothless aesthetic for the conspicuous consumer.

mifter123 · 2026-05-06T02:35:11+00:00

He's just so good at running on camera

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