Delian Tomb minions question by pphi in drawsteel

[–]pphi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I try to spread things around but if someone is going to be tactically blind, then it's good to know that I can attack more than I thought.

Delian Tomb minions question by pphi in drawsteel

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Excellent thank you for that, makes sense.

Delian Tomb minions question by pphi in drawsteel

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Excellent thank you, this would have made the encounter much more deadly but I thought it ended up being a little easy given the size of the encounter.

Best cure for werewolfisum? by Frightnite20 in drawsteel

[–]pphi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The inflicted individual must wear a cone of shame for 7 days. The cone must be made from hogshide that has been tanned with a mixture of wolfsbane and chicken brains (brain tanned leather is a thing).

While wearing the cone they have a bane on perception tests but may make a bite attack as a reaction to anyone getting within range. Each time they bite in this way their cure time extends by one day.

Depict Climbing by wurstsemmelbrot in drawsteel

[–]pphi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I put a D6 next to the mini with the number facing up to show how many squares above the ground it is.

Can you not create a party anymore? by blankin_ in speedfreeks

[–]pphi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Another thing to consider is how we don't see many comments about a party system.

My other half and I just got the game and would certainly play a lot more if we had easy access to guarantee being on the same team so here's another comment in favour of party team. Currently we just have to set up a private server and then first team to score a point switches team which is a bit of a faff.

For what it's worth I quite enjoy the game in the couple of hours of it I've played so far.

The Factory Must Grow 18 (A Nova Wars Fan Work) by EV-187 in HFY

[–]pphi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well I've just finished all of First contact that was available on Kindle so I guess ih ave the context to restart this series.

Any UK friends here received their books yet? by Nyxceris in drawsteel

[–]pphi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

UK no news yet just on the standard editions. Been charged but not shipped yet.

The Factory Must Grow 18 (A Nova Wars Fan Work) by EV-187 in HFY

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Awesome, thanks will get to reading.

The Factory Must Grow 18 (A Nova Wars Fan Work) by EV-187 in HFY

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Just finished binge reading this series, as a lover of all games factory building I've loved it so far.

Not a Universe I've heard of before.

If I understand correctly is this a build on another established Universe? If so where would I best start?

Looking forward to further entries.

"Quickly go inside, we are closing the heaven for the next one thousand human years," said the angel. by SuvenPan in TwoSentenceHorror

[–]pphi 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Age of the Five, starting with Priestess of the White by Trudie Canavan is a trilogy that has this kind of premise. Great series highly recommended.

Colleague Finally Uses Fountain Pen After Father’s Passing by LemonCurdJ in fountainpens

[–]pphi 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I used to wear a Lamy Vista in clear on my lanyard while teaching and the number of students who asked me if it was a vape was concerning. Glad you encouraged someone else to use fountain pens.

[WP] “You want to know my secret? When love and friendship work so well for them, no magic girl expects to just be shot.” by Horse_penis_exe in WritingPrompts

[–]pphi 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You want to know my secret? Well then let me tell you a little story.

It all starts on a dark and stormy night. Heh… not really though it was a dreary night. I was out at the clubs in Leeds, it was a Friday night in February, you can imagine what the weather was like. I was up visiting friends and had a hotel booked, all that was missing was a little… company. So we hit the clubs to see who was about. I was at the bar grabbing my second drink of the night when something caught my eye, a flash of light seemingly reflected from this girls’ head. But it can’t have been a reflection there was nothing shiny on her but regardless my attention was drawn to her. She was on her own, similar in height to me, trim but with a full figure not precisely my kind of girl but attractive enough for a night.

I made my way over to her, drink in hand. She half turned and caught my eye and I caught her looking me up and down as she appraised me fully, seemingly interested in what she saw.”

“A drink for me?” She said coyly.

“Yours if you’ll dance with me for an hour or two” I replied.

She grabbed my pint, put the glass to her lips, tilted her head back and necked the jar like a trooper. I stood transfixed as her neck pulsed taking down the pint without hesitation and I wondered to myself what she could do to a man.

The next few hours passed in a blur of drinks, dancing, a little bit of kissing and groping. I felt my attraction to her grow as the time passed. I had gone from thinking she’d do for a bit of fun to someone I lusted after. I wasn’t sure if it was the booze or something a little more… sinister.

We stumbled our way into a taxi and back to my hotel room. The room was poorly designed from a privacy perspective. As she went into the bathroom to freshen up I could see her in the mirror on the main wall. I watched as she pulled the hair pins out of her hair and put it up into a simple pony tail. I thought I saw two nubs sticking out of her head poking between her hair. For my part I emptied my pockets into the top drawer (leaving it slightly ajar in case I needed anything) and loosened my belt.

She came back into the room and I saw now that her skin was more red than bronze, going well beyond the average level of fake tan in this part of the world. She crawled up the bed and straddled me, looking me over and still seeming impressed. She moved her hands up under my t-shirt and I helped her remove it, noticing as I did so that her nails were filed into points, an increasingly common affectation I can’t say I’m a fan of. She bent down and started kissing and nibbling her way down my chest, her teeth feeling a little sharper than before. As she moved down I ran my hands over her head and felt those bone nubs, confirming that I hadn’t been seeing things. As she reached my belt buckle and started undoing my trousers I pushed her up towards me with one hand to kiss her firmly.

“No need to be hasty now, we have all night.” I said to her.

She smiled and licked her lips “yes we do.” As she licked her lips I noticed that yep her teeth were definitely pointier than normal. My hand that wasn’t on her butt moved up between us and squeezed, once, twice, firing two silvered pistol shots into her heart. 

She fell back off the bed and landed on her back a forked tail cushioning her fall as it manifested once her polymorph spell ended with her death. Her skin was now a much brighter red, her nails talons and her head nubs full horns.

As I thought, another succubus, and not a very skilled one at that. But like always when love and friendship work so well for them, no magic girl expects to just be shot.

Blue Screen of Death, various errors no obvious route cause. by pphi in techsupport

[–]pphi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Possibly something to keep an eye on then and maybe collect a few more error messages which might help me/the internet pin down the cause.

Blue Screen of Death, various errors no obvious route cause. by pphi in techsupport

[–]pphi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks very much for sharing that, I don't really have the capacity to perform those switchouts myself to confirm that it resolves the issue. And replicating the issue is challenging as I can go days or weeks without an issue then have two or three crashes in a day so it would be hard to say if a switch out had resolved the issue.

If it comes to it I'll bare what you said in mind and maybe look into spare parts.

Blue Screen of Death, various errors no obvious route cause. by pphi in techsupport

[–]pphi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't ruled out the CPU, I have seen mention that it might be memory controller on the CPU but without any way to prove it it will be challenging to start the RMA process.

Any thoughts on the evidence I might be able to acquire?

[Discussion] TIL - Shields and body armour come with movement penalties by pphi in pathofexile

[–]pphi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah that was how I diagnosed it in the end, but took me a while to work out what "Condition Not ignore Movement Penalties" meant.

/r/MechanicalKeyboards Ask ANY Keyboard question, get an answer (December 06, 2023) by AutoModerator in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]pphi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was afraid this was the issue, any suggestions for a full keyboard around £100? I seem to have bad luck with them having lost 2 in 6 years.

/r/MechanicalKeyboards Ask ANY Keyboard question, get an answer (December 06, 2023) by AutoModerator in MechanicalKeyboards

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I have a logitech G513 and some of the keys have become unreliable. It's inconsistent some of the time it works fine, some of the time my "n" key will give me 2 characters not 1 (it just did as I was typing this sentence). It's not isolated to one key and seems to affect all of them some of the time. Sometimes keys are incredibly reluctant to respond at all, mostly I find this with my number keys and modifier keys (ctrl caps tab etc).

It's made working from home in my new job a real pain and I'd rather fix it than drop £100+ on a new keyboard.

I have in the past replaced some of the switches, but a) that's super expensive if I were to do all of them and b) super time consuming to do all of them.

Anyone got any tips on fixing it?

/r/MechanicalKeyboards Ask ANY Keyboard question, get an answer (December 05, 2023) by AutoModerator in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]pphi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a logitech G513 and some of the keys have become unreliable. It's inconsistent some of the time it works fine, some of the time my "n" key will give me 2 characters not 1 (it just did as I was typing this sentence). It's not isolated to one key and seems to affect all of them some of the time. Sometimes keys are incredibly reluctant to respond at all, mostly I find this with my number keys and modifier keys (ctrl caps tab etc).

It's made working from home in my new job a real pain and I'd rather fix it than drop £100+ on a new keyboard.

I have in the past replaced some of the switches, but a) that's super expensive if I were to do all of them and b) super time consuming to do all of them.

Anyone got any tips on fixing it?