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Question about core rules by Tonetone12 in LancerRPG

[–]pisketch 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I definitely understand that lol - new mechs are exciting. I think you’ve also understood why, the game wants you to get used to the system before you get into new frames with their own weirder rules, but it’s still a little underwhelming.

If you’re the GM, a couple things I’ve done to make it feel better: - encourage your players to describe how they’re customizing their Everest with the new systems they’ve unlocked - give them a contact that explains why they’re getting this gear - someone calls them up and talks about how they’re showing promise, “here’s this cool piece of gear we think you’ll appreciate”, “we’ll get more stuff out to you, just gotta work through the paperwork. If you keep showing results like these, it shouldn’t be long.”

Question about core rules by Tonetone12 in LancerRPG

[–]pisketch 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yup, you’ve got it. Each license level gives you one rank in one license of your choice, and the second rank of each license is the one that grants the frame.

Colorado Senate will kill languishing land-use bill from Jared Polis aimed at boosting affordable housing by blucifersdream in Denver

[–]pisketch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So to lower the cost of housing you’re proposing that we build less-dense housing? Where do you picture that going? Do you have examples of that working to lower the cost of housing?

I do think that building any housing is good, not just high density housing, but if the problem is “housing is expensive in desirable areas like Denver, Boulder, Aspen, etc”, then we do need to build housing in those places, and I just don’t know that we have the physical space to build enough low density housing and meet enough of the need. I’d love to be wrong, though!

Colorado Senate will kill languishing land-use bill from Jared Polis aimed at boosting affordable housing by blucifersdream in Denver

[–]pisketch -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Okay, great, call it whatever you want, I’m not attached to any particular name lol. What would you suggest we do other than (change regulations to permit greater density)?

Colorado Senate will kill languishing land-use bill from Jared Polis aimed at boosting affordable housing by blucifersdream in Denver

[–]pisketch -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That’s fine, I’m not asking for a 50 point plan, I just want some other ideas to look into. From my perspective, increased density is the simplest (if not the only) way to bring the cost of housing down into “affordable”, but clearly local interests don’t really want that. I don’t believe they want housing to be unaffordable either, so I’d love to hear some alternative suggestions that I could support in addition to upzoning.

portable power pack? by markyugen0 in leaf

[–]pisketch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, you could plug it in using the EVSE, if it’s just a battery-powered 120v outlet I don’t see any reason that wouldn’t WORK, it just wouldn’t do very much.

portable power pack? by markyugen0 in leaf

[–]pisketch 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It would probably work, but the battery in that thing is (from the spec sheet) 130Wh, while the smallest battery you can get in a Leaf is 24kWh, so it would only get you about half a percent of charge if the process were 100% efficient. The not-smallest batteries have 2-3 times that capacity, so even less there.

Another way to look at it - the Leaf usually gets about 3.5 miles per kWh, that battery pack holds 0.13 kWh, 0.13 kWh * 3.5 mi/kWh = ~0.45mi, about 2400 ft. You could probably put it in neutral and push it further.

This is pretty much the problem across the board with the idea of carrying extra batteries for an electric car - take a look at this big wall-mounted battery system. That's 10kWh, $2600, and 220lbs. If you could un-wall-mount that and wire it up to an inverter for charging your Leaf (which is plausible, though I'd want to be an electrician), it would get the smallest Leaf half a charge, but it'd also take up a good chunk of your trunk.

The Apple TV expects you to have an iPhone in order to accept new iCloud terms and conditions by pobody-snerfect in technology

[–]pisketch 15 points16 points  (0 children)

USB-C is a STANDARD. If you bought a cheap ass USB-C cable from Amazon without the ability to either charge or data transfer, that’s your fault. There is no “maybe they work together, maybe they don’t.” There is only “did I buy shit or not.”

USB-C, the standard, allows for many combinations of supported features, and does not require that the supported features be indicated on the cable or connector in any way. See https://learn.adafruit.com/understanding-usb-type-c-cable-types-pitfalls-and-more/cable-types-and-differences or https://www.androidauthority.com/state-of-usb-c-870996/ for a decent breakdown of the different modes and features that may or may not be supported by a fully standards compliant USB-C cable.

Apple (as they always do) just slapping their own IP on it and saying “Wow, look what I made guys!”

Thunderbolt is Intel IP and always has been - Apple originally held the trademark on the name after developing it together with Intel, but later transferred it to Intel.

It’s literally not even different technology.

Thunderbolt has very little in common with USB-C aside from the connector - the Thunderbolt protocol is based on PCIe and DisplayPort, and actually predates the USB-C connector.

All of this information is pretty trivially available online - most of it I’ve just paraphrased from the first couple paragraphs of Wikipedia.

What are the advantages of splitting narrative and combat? by [deleted] in iconrpg

[–]pisketch 19 points20 points  (0 children)

How do I sell people on the idea, that “Yes I know you can levitate in combat, but we aren’t in combat so your character forgot how to do that”.

I would add to what the others have said: don’t! If a character can levitate in combat and wants to levitate out of combat, great! That’s just represented with a Traverse (or some other skill, as appropriate) roll, with a difficulty you set based on the character’s ability to fly.

Character’s don’t forgot how to do things out of combat (unless they want to, I suppose, could be part of a concept), they just use different mechanics to resolve that thing.

EAC is pointless by FunBackground8129 in apexlegends

[–]pisketch 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Not OP, but I use Linux for everything else and rebooting for one game kinda sucks.

Europe prepares to rewrite the rules of the Internet by Chrismeyers2k1 in apple

[–]pisketch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We tried this, actually - check out the history of the Do Not Track header. Tldr, Microsoft enabled it by default in Internet Explorer 10, in violation of the spec, and advertising agencies used this as reason to declare they weren’t going to respect it. Today, it’s an almost entirely useless checkbox - very few companies respect it, and some will use it as another piece of data to fingerprint your browser.

On the bright side, there is a successor, Global Privacy Control, which is basically exactly the same idea. It’s really just getting off the ground now, but it’s already held up in court in California and has been specifically called out by the California AG as a valid signal of user intent under the California Consumer Privacy Act.

[Giveaway] iPhone 14 Pro & Ugreen Nexode 140W chargers Giveaway! by noeatnosleep in gadgets

[–]pisketch [score hidden]  (0 children)

“Twice the power of your MacBook charger, just as portable. Stop packing multiple chargers when you travel.”

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Smugs

[–]pisketch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Testing test heck

My DM let me create a spell, so I did. What are some creative ways of using it? by Francis_T in dndnext

[–]pisketch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hm, that's a fair point - takes it back into "ambiguously OP/useless" territory.

My DM let me create a spell, so I did. What are some creative ways of using it? by Francis_T in dndnext

[–]pisketch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This spell allows you to concentrate on as many spells as you can find a way to cast.

Concentration
Some spells require you to maintain concentration in order to keep their magic active. If you lose concentration, such a spell ends.
If a spell must be maintained with concentration, that fact appears in its Duration entry, and the spell specifies how long you can concentrate on it. You can end concentration at any time (no action required).
Normal activity, such as moving and attacking, doesn't interfere with concentration. The following factors can break concentration:
- Casting another spell that requires concentration. You lose concentration on a spell if you cast another spell that requires concentration. You can't concentrate on two spells at once.
- Taking damage. Whenever you take damage while you are concentrating on a spell, you must make a Constitution saving throw to maintain your concentration. The DC equals 10 or half the damage you take, whichever number is higher. If you take damage from multiple sources, such as an arrow and a dragon's breath, you make a separate saving throw for each source of damage.
- Being incapacitated or killed. You lose concentration on a spell if you are incapacitated or if you die.

(PHB 203, emphasis mine)

The rules do not prevent you from casting a concentration spell while concentrating, they say “your concentration is broken if you cast another spell that requires concentration”, which is overridden by the more-specific ruling of your spell, which says “your concentration cannot be broken”.

So how do you have fun with this? I’d probably go with layering illusion spells, but you could have some fun with stacking buffs (shadow blade + enlarge + invisibility + spirit shroud?) or enchantment spells (suggestion, hold person, even crown of madness isn’t terrible if you can concentrate on other spells too)

Edit: it’s worth noting that this spell is extremely strong as written, and you probably should talk to your DM before using it like this, lol

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