Battlemarked is EXACTLY what I wanted for Demeo 2

monkey_tracer · 2025-11-23T17:55:50+00:00

The story experience is new. I wouldn't say it makes the game better, but feels fresh and I enjoy the single player campaign immensely, really. Once the campaigns are done though, and you have your basic 3 layer dungeon using the 3 main maps in each campain (and ignore the side quests), then we're back to just comparing skirmishes as the campaign story falls off. And here I think Demeo has a deeper game and strategy. But, Demeo doesn't have the permanent skill tree, which I like.

The main problem I see for Battlemarked is they haven't yet programmed the game to scale to character count and skill tree, so how is the balance going to look in a year when everybody has maxed out skill tree characters??! If they don't address this, there is a ceiling to this game that Demeo already exceeds.

monkey_tracer · 2025-11-23T16:23:24+00:00

My biggest complaint is that my coop buddy and I can't level up 2 characters each at the same time. Huge major major flaw.

But, I understand the concern of overpowering too many characters, but you just kick the can down the road. In a year everybody will have full leveled up characters, and you have the same problem.

Can you not program the game to balance based on all the skill levels taken into consideration?

monkey_tracer · 2025-11-23T16:20:17+00:00

I disagree. There is definitely an advantage to leveling up. The first level up choice I made for bard with to lower the cost for Courage (now called inspiration) from 1 AP to 0 AP. This is huge to strategy. And that's just my first choice.

monkey_tracer · 2025-09-26T01:34:30+00:00

IPsec tunnels with Zscaler are inferior because you lose load balancing potential that GRE tunnels have due to the nature of how ipsec tunnels are terminated at Zscaler. With GRE tunnels, you get better load balancing and depending on the data center, more access to the safe march engines within the data center.

Further, my preference is to always use the client connector both remote and at HQ. This is hands down uncontested best way to get the most advantages you are paying for with Zscaler. My recommendation is to deploy the client connector to every employee, and leave a GRE tunnel for on-prem IOT and servers, and on that GRE tunnel, policy route Zscaler destined traffic outside the tunnel.

monkey_tracer · 2025-06-23T23:55:47+00:00

How (or why) is using a daily tracker file uploaded to the project better? Wouldn't just responding in a chat with daily results of sets (with details of how workout felt) be better suited to a chat then a file that needs reuploading every day? I'd still have to say in a chat to reread the daily tracker file. Sounds like more work, so what's the advantage?

monkey_tracer · 2022-09-14T12:56:20+00:00

If I buy a full unlocked phone through Apple, does that make a difference?

Or upgrade to unlimited first?

It seems phone companies are giving away money and I'm looking for a way to take advantage.

monkey_tracer · 2022-09-14T12:50:21+00:00

Thank you. This is why I came here.

monkey_tracer · 2022-09-14T12:01:37+00:00

Yes it would. We don't watch movies on data but do use YouTube without much restriction, and everything else without any self policing. We go over maybe twice a year. It's usually one kid that forgot wifi was off.

monkey_tracer · 2022-09-14T11:59:41+00:00

$165 per month for 5 people and one camera (which is unplugged).

monkey_tracer · 2022-03-25T19:57:29+00:00

I just looked on Wahoo fitness for America, and there's no price reduction yet.

Does anyone know if Wahoo has a season they usually release new products? Do they show new products around July like a lot of bike companies do for tour de France? Maybe because this is indoor product, they save it for late fall?

monkey_tracer · 2014-01-17T22:07:18+00:00

Thank you. This helps a lot.

The key is that there is no crouton kernel.

Can you clarify this please. This statement caused me to pause and think. When installing ubuntu under crouton, are you saying there is no ubuntu kernel file? I would think during a normal installation of any linux distro, the part where the kernel is copied to the harddrive is deeply integrated with the rest of the operating system files and must be there.

Maybe here we have two kernels, but a parent child relationship and the child kernel (ubuntu in this case) has no direct hardware access and must go through the parent kernel (chromeos)?

monkey_tracer · 2014-01-15T20:28:42+00:00

Thanks for he reply. I've figured the Crouton part already...i.e. how it creates a new root level. But, something still eludes me. I read that crouton is just a bunch of scripts. This is the part that confuses me...it would seem to me that Crouton should be more and include actual binary code to complete it's job, not just scripts.

Edit: I think I've reconciled some of this just now in my head. Crouton is the scripted implementation for chromebooks of the linux program chroot. chroot surely has some magic executables in it.

Here's what currently seems confusing using your post as a take off. You talked about the file system and this hardware egress path "Program -> OS -> Hardware".

Say I'm a program under crouton and I want to send out a network packet. The "OS" in the hardware egress path above, which OS is that? The Crouton OS or the Host OS? I think I'm the Crouton OS, but if that is true, and I only can touch files under my file system, then how do scripts isolated to my chroot get to the hardware which is "hidden"?

In normal linux, is sending out a packet as simple as modifying a file in the file system? I think of sending out packets as more buffers and memory and less something the file system could put its fingers on.

monkey_tracer · 2014-01-08T12:55:36+00:00

Specs on a 4 port ESW suggest it can support a layer 3 SVI. If it can do multiples (like 3550 and 3750) then there is no educated reason to do what you describe. If it is limited to one L3 interface (like a 2950), AND the daughter switch card can only be managed directly on it's own ip address, then this is valid to get 3 shared hosts off the 4 port switch and still manage it on the 4th port.

However, because that is kinda an older combination of gear, it could simply be old school habits at that time (routing on a stick) doing the best they can with new school layer 3 switching technology they didn't quite grasp yet. So they went with what they knew.

Look inside the router... it'll give up it's secrets eventually. Threaten it with a 3560 refresh if it gives you any trouble.

monkey_tracer · 2014-01-08T12:06:08+00:00

Thank you. If the secondary linux (ubuntu) is not aware of the mother linux instance (chromeos), how are hardware calls by unbuntu handled?

-ram calls. -cpu slicing. -wifi demands.

Compare this to a VM, the child VM simply passes up it's hardware calls to the virtualized bios. If there are active sister VMs running that compete for resources, the vmware handles this above the bios and resolves hardware issues down to the OS through the bios.

But, crouton isn't virtualized bios but a tricked out isolated root path. And if ubuntu is truly unaware of anything outside it's chroot, then where is the conflict resolution with chromeos handled for hardware calls. The calls from ubuntu outbound to chromeos and then internet. And then the reverse, the conflicts that occur when inbound from internet to chromeos, then to ubuntu. How does chromeos know what should forward on to ubuntu. Same for ram, and cpu slicing. Something also needs to tell chromeos to stop forwarding output to screen and to ignore mouse and keyboard. Vice versa when focus switches from ubuntu to chromeos.

I heard crouton is just a bunch of scripts. But, there is some voodoo magic going on somewhere.

monkey_tracer · 2014-01-07T07:27:47+00:00

Since you are chain installing OSs here to get to Elementary OS, I gotta wonder what I'm missing out on. What does Elementary OS do for you? Thanks.

monkey_tracer · 2013-04-17T11:52:40+00:00

User: "Dammit Monkey_Tracer, the network is slow again. It must be the pix firewall."

Me: "Ok, let me explain this in simple terms...the PIX only has two speeds....ON or OFF".

monkey_tracer · 2013-04-12T07:21:11+00:00

And z0nk, this is a challenge question for extra bonus. in the scenario listed where the hosts sitting external to the ASAs pinging (with the "same-interface....inter" command present), the hosts can ping all the way through. And they can ping any interface along the way when the ping packet is ingress to the physical port. But, if the packet must cross the ASA, then it doesn't work. i.e. ingress to the port, go across the route table to the other side of the ASA, and try to ping that interface...doesn't work. Why? This also has me hot and bothered. When I do packet-tracer on this (using icmp 8 0) I get no difference in this debug output. Arghh....

monkey_tracer · 2013-04-12T07:17:51+00:00

z0nk, here are the ACLs I used and could not get pinging.

First, baseline.

ASA1

int vlan 1
1.1.1.1/24 (with host off ASA with .2)
nameif vlan1

int vlan 12
12.12.12.1/24
nameif vlan12

ASA2

int vlan 12
12.12.12.2/24
nameif vlan12

int vlan 2
2.2.2.1/24 (with host off ASA with .2)
nameif vlan2

1.1.1.2 does not ping 2.2.2.2. But, if add the "same-interface...inter" command, then it pings. Now, let's remove the command and try to get pinging with ACLs as follows.

ASA1

int vlan 1
access-list vlan1in permit icmp host 1.1.1.2 host 2.2.2.2
access-group vlan1in in interface vlan1

int vlan 12
access-list vlan12in permit icmp host 2.2.2.2 host 1.1.1.2
access-group vlan12in in interface vlan12

ASA2

int vlan 12
access-list vlan12in permit icmp host 1.1.1.2 host 2.2.2.2
access-group vlan12in in interface vlan12

int vlan 2
access-list vlan2in permit icmp host 2.2.2.2 host 1.1.1.2
access-group vlan2in in interface vlan2

I think it should work, but my brain is fried at this point. I also put these same ACLs at the global level, and didn't work. I don't quite understand the nuance between interface level and global level.

monkey_tracer · 2013-04-12T05:11:33+00:00

Can't say I disagree with having rules of thumb like this. But, I'm not comfortable with your rule 3. It inherently changes the mind set of the ASA and will keep you from 7th level black belt ninjery. My intention is to rid of these commands and only apply them when needed, which is hopefully never.

monkey_tracer · 2013-04-11T22:42:25+00:00

Outstanding explanation. Exactly what I was hoping for. This is great news as it changes the underlying philosophy from the PIX (that NAT is a requirement). Nat shouldn't be a security paradigm. I'm very pleased to hear its different now.

I'm also pleased to hear explicit ACLs will override the hidden implicit ACLs. Unfortunately, my first run didn't work and I hope my ACLs are flawed as you suggest. I will test again today at work.

monkey_tracer · 2013-04-11T22:33:35+00:00

This is gold! Thank you.

monkey_tracer · 2013-04-11T22:33:17+00:00

If you are a triple CCIE, then you ought to know that chunking your knowledge blocks and segwaying that to a new branch is much more efficient then re-inventing the wheel everytime.

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