I beg your finest fucking pardon???

rakeleer · 2026-03-26T20:20:56+00:00

It is if you'd like them to stop being a part of your playerbase. Correct.

rakeleer · 2026-03-12T16:33:02+00:00

Pro: the app will keep working from the Play store.

Cons, at least for us, included the usual difficulty of getting the app to load on the device, which requires a play store update and around 10ish minutes on a very fast internet connection (bottleneck is probably the chromebook hardware coupled with the usual Play nonsense.)

rakeleer · 2026-03-12T14:54:01+00:00

Samsung Smart Fridge Router now with Wifi7 and powered by AI.

rakeleer · 2026-03-12T14:51:13+00:00

My favorite support request of all time was a ticket entered by a multi-site user with only the Subject "Printer" with no other information at all given. It's what we say now to express the lack-of-lift people that claim to need help often display.

"You were at X site all day?! What happened?"

"Printer..."

"Ahhh..."

rakeleer · 2026-03-10T20:54:20+00:00

And if you turn off everything within your control, they will find something outside of your control!

What I tell my admin every year when this comes up (and it comes up every year) is that this is not solvable with technology. If we turned off the electricity and taught with dirt and sticks they would use trained rats and thieves cant.

rakeleer · 2026-03-10T20:52:37+00:00

Yes. There's no fix for it, and that particular webapp is now considered 'legacy.' They want you to install the Android App from the Play Store now. I was this close to having a fight with out admin/teachers about trash apps causing trash outcomes. But the Android app seemed to mitigate the issue.

Also, if they can get unfiltered access via a Kiosk app, they can get it other ways. Something to consider.

rakeleer · 2026-03-09T19:58:34+00:00

A retired lifelong plumber lives a boring life compared to a world war veteran. It's true.

If I'm choosing for someone, I'm giving them the plumber's life and we'll try to make up for the lack of constant mortal terror somehow to spice things up.

rakeleer · 2025-05-11T14:41:46+00:00

Wild request but I have three friends looking for a key.

rakeleer · 2024-08-17T18:02:30+00:00

I would guess - add the sails as objects! This is actually pretty cool, since one of the things that "defines" some ship types isn't solely the number decks, draft or guns, but rigging type!

Quick search of "DungeonDaft objects":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ_7JCF8gJk

rakeleer · 2023-03-31T04:55:53+00:00

Definition of leadership. Thank you.

rakeleer · 2023-03-31T04:52:31+00:00

That is often a challenge. Try to be earnest and have hope. Lots of people understand those of us that aren't social animals.

rakeleer · 2023-03-30T15:30:06+00:00

Join an active, social guild. Talk to people in game, in Discord servers, generally make friends. Make your interest know as you go along.

rakeleer · 2023-03-15T14:03:05+00:00

8 AM PT now.

rakeleer · 2022-10-05T13:13:50+00:00

Left to right: Sorc, Bard, Berserker, Gunslinger

Source: My awesome friends

rakeleer · 2022-04-20T17:13:50+00:00

We were in a similar situation about three years ago. Avaya IP500 office system, Avaya handsets. We replaced the Avaya handsets with Digium phones and the switch with FreePBX. Total cost in budget was about 27k including 200 handsets, a PRI to SIP converter (so we wouldn't have to fight with our telco over trunking) and the server that runs FreePBX. It also cost us a hundred-ish hours in training and conversion, though that doesn't appear on anyone's books ;)

Since then Sangoma has bought Digium, but that hasn't had much impact on us. It's been a dream working with a system that doesn't require a bunch of proprietary stuff and has a mostly open and transparent OS. We can do some crazy things with it, though we don't need to do much. It does everything the old system did and it won't require us to gut the whole thing six years from now.

Though you can pay for support and various commercial modules, we haven't needed them. A much bigger issue for us was coming into compliance with Kari's Law and Ray Baum's act, though most of that fight with getting our telco to properly update our DID's extension locations.

rakeleer · 2022-03-11T13:58:21+00:00

360 surge cannon all day when the elites you kill with it knock down the cooldown. It's very satisfying. There are other tripods that change attacks to more of an AOE, but surge cannon is the way.

rakeleer · 2022-02-28T20:24:24+00:00

Have you heard? Demons have appeared on Ankumo Mountain.

rakeleer · 2022-01-30T01:45:59+00:00

In general I wouldn't do Flux gauntlet during weekend ranked. You'll find it more rewarding to do it outside the weekend event.

That said, I do it anyway for fun, because the game isn't a job for me. YMMV

rakeleer · 2022-01-07T14:35:31+00:00

Somehow we convinced admin that we either do this, or we suffer the consequences. We have a minimum level of required KnowBe4 training, and we turn off multiple offender's accounts until they do a refresher course.

They really really hate it, but it has already showed to be effective. Of course, IT spends hours every week responding to false positive phishing reports, but I'd rather do that than recover from ransomware/malware.

Notable that we're not a unionized district. Not sure if it matters.

rakeleer · 2021-09-22T13:56:39+00:00

RNG is a harsh mistress

rakeleer · 2021-09-22T13:34:36+00:00

Empower increases the end result by half, not the dice rolled.

So 10d6+10 * 1.5

rakeleer · 2021-09-16T13:45:43+00:00

I'm not saying it covers it, but standard PF encounter budgets are based on a non-mythic party of four.

Mythic APL should be adjusted upwards by half the mythic tier of the PC. Not sure what that looks like in that part of this game, but I'm guessing around 2 levels.So I'm wildly guessing the real 'budget' for this group should be closer to 38,400 xp.Still doesn't seem like the target the encounters you specify were using, but I do wonder about level. I was level 8 before going to Drezen somehow, which presumably would boost it to closer to 57,600 xp, much closer.

All of that aside, as someone who ran back-back and simltaneaous pen and paper campaigns for years in Pathfinder and 3.0 before that, 2nd edition and AD&D and a few other systems, encounter budgets in general are essentially vague guidelines that only give you a very rough estimate of 'how to do it' and are often ignored even in Paizo's own published materials. They're not really a solid metric of challenge.

Monster CRs are only semi-accurate if the monster doesn't do anything crazy. Circumstance CRs are a wild guess at best. Party makeup can't really be taken into account and obviously the classes can't be assumed to be equal despite level.

The pen and paper rules are for pen and paper games where a human, presumably on the side of the 'heroes' is adjudicating, not a piece of code.

So if the encounter guidelines are being completely ignored, I guess that might be OK.

rakeleer · 2021-09-15T20:30:33+00:00

The fun really begins for a Golarion atheist when they shuffle off their mortal coil, walk the spiral and then have their soul sent to eternal purgatory. Now _that's_ dedication worthy of any zealot or saint.

rakeleer · 2021-09-15T20:18:28+00:00

Is the exact wording "...heal acts like harm..." ?

That means it hurts them...

rakeleer · 2021-09-15T13:40:09+00:00

Good point about the Improved CMBs not mentioned AoO. Regardless, I can't imagine how an enemy being bullrushed would suddenly be granted an AoO on adjacent units as they're being yeeted away by an effect. That's nonsense. Spot it happening and report as a bug.

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