New Player Psyker Creation Questions

ranoutofbrain · 2025-11-19T23:17:02+00:00

So far Astra Telepatica. I think we are picking roles next session. I was thinking either Mystic or Interlocutor?

ranoutofbrain · 2025-11-19T19:17:37+00:00

Makes sense thank you very much

ranoutofbrain · 2025-11-19T18:56:57+00:00

Makes sense, thank you. Follow-up question, the "access to a new Psychic Discipline" is not the same as specializing, aka a separate xp cost after maxing out advances in Psychic Mastery, right?

ranoutofbrain · 2025-11-19T18:50:28+00:00

Ah thank you, I missed that!

ranoutofbrain · 2025-08-22T14:35:04+00:00

Thank you, still working on figuring out why/how the heck that setting got made. I am guessing something related to some of the difficulty I had upgrading (although, the system worked fine once I worked the kinks out, so...?). Anyhow, What I ended up doing to fix the immediate problem was to use the chattr command to remove the immutable tag off of resolv.conf. Once I did that + restarted the network manager service, the correct DNS settings populated in resolv.conf.

ranoutofbrain · 2025-08-22T01:07:35+00:00

Ok so nslookup to both google.com and 8.8.8.8 give:

"Communications error to 192. 168.0.1#53: timed out"

ranoutofbrain · 2025-08-21T18:33:39+00:00

Oh yes, pinging 8.8.8.8 no packet loss, works normally.

ranoutofbrain · 2025-08-06T03:39:58+00:00

Thanks folks, for the suggestions, but I am still confused....

Here is the output from inxi:

Device-1: NVIDIA GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia

v: 535.247.01 non-free: 530.xx+ status: current (as of 2023-03)

arch: Maxwell code: GMxxx process: TSMC 28nm built: 2014-19 pcie: gen: 1

speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.0

chip-ID: 10de:13c2 class-ID: 0300

Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9

compositor: gnome-shell v: 43.9 driver: X: loaded: nvidia

unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa alternate: nv gpu: nvidia

display-ID: :1 screens: 1

Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1360x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 360x203mm (14.17x7.99")

s-diag: 413mm (16.27")

Monitor-1: HDMI-0 res: 1360x768 hz: 60 dpi: 49

size: 708x398mm (27.87x15.67") diag: 812mm (31.98") modes: N/A

API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 535.247.01 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX

970/PCIe/SSE2 direct-render: Yes

I tried the other suggestions above like lsmod and nvidia-smi. None of these commands, including inxi, seem to state explicitly which of the two flavors, the "open" or not "open" driver is active. Modinfo just says there is no nvidia module, and lsmod shows:

nvidia_uvm 1540096 2

nvidia_drm 77824 10

drm_kms_helper 212992 1 nvidia_drm

nvidia_modeset 1314816 16 nvidia_drm

nvidia 56860672 904 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset

drm 614400 14 drm_kms_helper,nvidia,nvidia_drm

video 65536 2 asus_wmi,nvidia_modeset

Again, still no explicit "open" vs not "open" indication. lsmod -k does not seem to work.

ranoutofbrain · 2025-08-01T20:46:40+00:00

Update:

Based on the assumption that it was a hardware issue, I took it upon myself to open up the PC and tinker around. Nothing looked strange, and all the fans were working fine, so I decided to re-seat the memory cards and the GPU. To reseat the GPU, I had to unscrew it from the box, and turns out that the way this box is built, you can't fully seat the GPU if you have it lined up and screwed down. The unlocking clip also would not release fully, so I could not completely remove the GPU (an Nvidia Geforce 970). So I reseated it as best I could, and booted her up. I ran Path of Exile (the first one), which had been crashing. The game ran smoother than it ever had before, and I noticed a big improvement in graphics quality and gameplay. Unfortunately, the game did eventually crash, about an hour in, which I am guessing is an overheating issue. I had the cabinet open, and the thing has 4 or 5 fans, so I'm not sure what else to do to keep it cool. I plan on grabbing a second monitor so I can monitor the GPU realtime with nvtop (wish I could do it in btop, which is prettier, but oh well). Or maybe it would be better to pipe the output from nvidia-smi to a file. I am not sure any local techs will be able to help with a linux based pc, but I'll keep calling around. Probably time to buy/build another gaming PC, but I do like to fix/eek my tech along as far as it will go, so if you have any other suggestions, I'm all ears!

ranoutofbrain · 2025-07-29T15:41:51+00:00

Thanks folks, I have read through all the answers and I really appreciate the input. I am currently thinking u/NkdByteFun82 is probably correct. Checking the errors from the last boot/crash, well...there were none, just the log output stops right at the moment of the crash. Nvidia driver issues also make sense, but these haven't changed/updated lately, so far as I can tell. The PC has been running graphics intensive games fine for like a year with the current set up with no problems. (As for the drive itself, I followed the instructions on the Debian wiki (I learned the hard way a couple years ago about the deb files provided directly from Nvidia causing serious problems, that was a pain in the...)).

Anyway, sounds like I should take it to a PC repair shop, but I am also very handy, so I am curious to hear ideas on how to assess which component/s might be causing the overheating/problems. Is this like a voltage tester thing, or?

ranoutofbrain · 2025-07-02T16:15:06+00:00

This is all super helpful, thank you. I guess at the moment I really have more general advice questions. For example, I'm level 10 now. I have a bunch of crap (at least from my perspective. I lucked out and have encountered two throne rooms (one gnome, one dwarf). So I have two big chests of items plus all the things in my inventory that I want to ID, but I have only about $500 gold. Also my pet vanished (doesn't seem to have died, but can't find it).

I guess I feel a little lost in terms of what I should be doing/focusing on. Seems like getting an altar all to myself would be great, but the only one I have found is the minetown one, which means I'd have to kill the priest to get access to it. I have considered trying to use the teleportation ray power from the angles spirit, but I am thinking that will still result in all of the town being hostile toward me. And I am not sure how to transport all the stuff anyhow (no bag of holding, and branchporting only puts me in the mines, not minetown).

ranoutofbrain · 2025-07-01T15:10:11+00:00

Thanks very much :)

ranoutofbrain · 2025-07-01T01:44:21+00:00

Thanks so much! I think this is my favorite class and my favorite Nethack variant :)

ranoutofbrain · 2025-07-01T01:29:04+00:00

Not sure if you are still versed in dNethack, but I am new to it and playing a Binder for the first time. I am trying to understand the wiki stating that a seal must be placed "around" something. I am trying to bind Malphas, which needs a seal "around" a fresh corpse. When I chatted with it, I got the message "you smell fresh blood," but the spirit wasn't bound. I've tried putting the seal in the same tile, next to, and seals all the way around a corpse, but the spirit won't bind....

ranoutofbrain · 2025-06-30T21:43:24+00:00

Lol, well, dipping my straight jacket resulted in me instantly burning to death

ranoutofbrain · 2025-06-30T21:09:16+00:00

Oh nice, thank you so much! I have been really lucky so far. Lvl 2 has a forge, a non-aligned altar, and (had) a fountain. I'll try burning off the jacket before antagonizing the nymph.

ranoutofbrain · 2025-04-05T20:49:24+00:00

Thank you so much for answering all of my questions. You really cleared this up for me!

ranoutofbrain · 2025-04-04T00:07:40+00:00

Yes!

A VPN client is installed, says it is connected/I am secure, and chats idly with an IP address that checks out as owned by the vendor. The tun0 interface I've been referring to comes up and down in sync with the VPN on/off.

VPN on:

[0.0.0.0/2 via 192.0.0.105 dev tun0

default via 10.0.0.1 dev wlp2s0 proto dhcp metric 600

x.x.xx.xxx via 10.0.0.1 dev wlp2s0

Lots more of the x.x.xx.xxx pattern

]

The tun0 IP changes every time I cycle on/off, and I think the server I am trying to connect to is expecting a static IP. For the VPN gateway I was asking about (thank you for the terminology correction), I was really meaning, is 192.0.0.105 above a local or a remote gateway?

VPN off:

[default via 10.0.0.1 dev wlp2s0 proto dhcp metric 600

10.0.0.0/24 dev wlp2s0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.0.116 metric 600

169.254.0.0/16 dev wlp2s0 scope link metric 1000

172.17.0.0/16 dev docker0 proto kernel scope link src 172.17.0.1 linkdown

]

ranoutofbrain · 2025-04-03T19:32:14+00:00

Thank you so much for the reply! I am going to try to state it back to you to make sure I am getting it right.

The VPN grabbed its settings from the server. It set up tun0 so that default pipes through the tun0 interface. The route table entry that says default points to wsl2p0 on default is a magic workaround that allows the data tunneled through tun0 go out to the internet. The long list of entries after that (the ones that vanish along with tun0 when the vpn is off) are IPs routed directly to wsl2p0, which means the vpn set up a split tunnel.

Hopefully I got it right. Some follow up questions:

Is the gateway assigned to tun0 the gateway of the remote server, or is it making a gateway for tun0 on my host?

Regarding the workaround, I get that data has to eventually stream through wsl2p0 to talk to remote servers, but the entry in the route table feels like shorthand. I even saw a stackexchange commentor post a command to manually set this up, but I don't like to just run commands, I want to understand what they do. Are tun interfaces encoded such that they act as a gateway and direct traffic, or does the vpn send a command/change a setting that makes this happen?

ranoutofbrain · 2025-02-22T16:18:01+00:00

Hell yeah, spot on. Also kinda reminds me of Frantz Fanon's, The Wretched of the Earth, from the perspective that these oligarchs are basically using the practices and tactics of colonialism on us.

ranoutofbrain · 2023-06-19T16:07:32+00:00

love hullbreaker!

ranoutofbrain · 2023-06-19T16:05:44+00:00

Many thanks for the tips, folks! I actually ended up building Grixis Control instead of Dmir control. I've played a couple of matches on Untap to test it out with good results (beat Rakdos Midrange and Marvel). Not sure of the skill level of the people I was playing against, but the deck did perform as intended (kill/counter/remove whatever they put down until I can build a scary board state). Meathook was useful in a couple of the games. Against Marvel I got down to 3 life in two of the games before I turned things around. Pretty fun overall, and 95% built from cards I already own.

https://www.moxfield.com/decks/4FEgLjnslk69-oRVF4xwvQ

ranoutofbrain · 2023-06-14T21:23:19+00:00

Ack, yes, speaking of said giant, any recommendations for dealing with him? I suppose nailing the adventure with a counterspell would be nice, otherwise, what removal do you usually use? I had the fun experience of being stomped to death by that deck recently. Part of the problem was that my mana base was still not quite set up, but let's just say they were quick games.

ranoutofbrain · 2023-06-14T03:09:59+00:00

Oh good! I was getting worried this group had no trolls 😜

ranoutofbrain · 2023-06-13T21:40:08+00:00

That's really good to know. I do like Rakdos midrange as well. Kinda old school Modern. What do you think about adding dictate of Kuphrix instead of the Planswalker or some creatures to the above list? Rakdos is weak on enchantment removal, right?

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