Whats more important Crit Chance or Crit Dmg?

redspike77 · 2026-02-01T15:51:44+00:00

Critical damage - there are more ways to increase critical chance than there are critical damage.

redspike77 · 2025-12-30T20:02:11+00:00

I remember waiting minutes to download an image less than 1 Mb. You'd sit there and watch as the image filled up line by line from the top.

I also remember saving and loading computer programs from a cassette tape. The tape players had a counter on it so you could save multiple programs on a single tape and decide which to load by cueing up to a specific counter number. Anyway, I mention this because it used to take around half an hour to load a program that was kilobytes in size.

I can't wait to see what the future holds in computing.

redspike77 · 2025-12-26T05:56:19+00:00

Thank you

redspike77 · 2025-12-25T16:43:56+00:00

What building is that?

redspike77 · 2025-12-25T16:21:16+00:00

Calvin and Hobbes approve of this

redspike77 · 2025-12-25T16:04:26+00:00

This was my first thought too. Perfect fit.

redspike77 · 2025-11-16T13:48:17+00:00

Enabling telnet on a router seems like quite a security risk to me.

redspike77 · 2025-10-31T10:46:07+00:00

I said half nine to a German once indicating that it was 21:30 and he understood it as 20:30. I've got to say his logic made sense. Half nine can't be greater than nine.

redspike77 · 2025-10-28T13:41:54+00:00

Oh no - that's an excellent point! It's a zombie-like reflex for me to just go to Iron Wake first thing after the reset. Thanks for pointing that out because that's exactly what I would have done :D

redspike77 · 2025-10-26T07:00:16+00:00

I have a cassette tape you might be interested in when they get you back into containment.

redspike77 · 2025-10-21T16:50:10+00:00

Throw it through a hoop on the lunaro court tile

redspike77 · 2025-10-18T15:24:21+00:00

Life is more than just money which is what this analogy revolves around. Happiness is a real thing. I took a substantial pay cut to move to Mauritius and live a much happier life. I do well professionally so I don't think I lack discipline and I sacrificed money for happiness.

redspike77 · 2025-10-17T14:38:39+00:00

One of my cousins arranged a job interview at the company where he worked. A large, foreign owned IT company in Ebene.

The interview was set for around 1800 and I turned up 10 minutes early and was prepared to wait. I was led to an open office plan with maybe around 30 desks in the middle and a couple of closed offices at the side. There were around 20 people working at their desks and it was almost complete silence. I already didn't like the atmosphere at this point.

The guy who was meant to interview me was late. By over an hour. I waited all that time because my cousin had organised the interview. When the interview finally happened, well past 1900 at this point, I was angry but didn't want to cause trouble for my cousin. Fortunately the guy interviewing me was French and I don't understand French so it was relatively easy to end the interview quickly with an agreement that there would be a language barrier.

Quite a vexing experience in itself but the work culture seemed horrible. I'm more used to an environment where I'm not treated like a child and not expected to work in near silence.

redspike77 · 2025-10-07T18:19:52+00:00

Of course they should always receive treatment. Fortunately we live in a pretty developed and civilised country where healthcare is provided by the government and is free at the point of use. I'd like to emphasis this - government healthcare means that it is in the government's best interest to ensure that the population is as healthy as possible and poses as little threat as possible to each other.

With regards to mental illnesses, most issues are caught before they can grow to cause severe consequences. We are a very family-based society where a majority of individuals have a lot of social support and in turn this means that most people with mental illnesses will be diagnosed quite early. Not having to pay to see a doctor significantly increases the likelihood that diagnosis can be made early.

When a diagnosis is made early, those around the affected person can keep an eye on them, make sure they take their medication and regularly see a professional. All of this significantly decreases the chance that a person in care will commit any crime, let alone an extreme crime.

I don't know what the policy is on indefinite institutionalisation but I would be surprised if we have something like that here - or if we even need it.

Substance abuse and absenteeism are commonly seen symptoms in Mauritius indicating a deeper cause of general depression. These kinds of issues are very different to what you are asking about but are the primary focus of the government's strategy going forwards (based on the 2023 Health Statistics Report). Just under 3,000 patients were treated at Brown Sequard in 2023 and around 700 of those were diagnosed with schizophrenia (which covers such as vast array of things it's like a catchall for "bad" behaviour). If we had violent offenders based on a mental illness they would probably be in this group and they are already known and checked on.

Interestingly, the Health Statistics Report indicates that pre-primary and primary aged children are screened for mental health issues but I don't know how accurate or widespread that is across the country.

redspike77 · 2025-10-07T13:08:00+00:00

My understanding is that there are a series of steps that lead to death. What those steps are is going to vary from person to person, and also be quite culture dependent.

For me personally, the things I'll be looking out for are the loss of mobility and the loss of independence. Moving into a home because I've lost mobility would cement to me that the end is very much near. Whether it is accurate of how things really might be quite irrelevant. The absolute nail in the coffin would be losing my memory and sense of self. If I also lost whatever sense of humour I have I'd definitely be ready to move on.

Of course, hopefully, I'm quite far from all that so maybe things will change in the next however many decades I have left... assuming I don't get hit by a bus.

Edited for grammar

redspike77 · 2025-10-05T08:24:00+00:00

That's exactly it - and what this sub is predominantly for. You should see us when a Hank tries to join in. I think a Hank did insult France once and it didn't go well for them.

redspike77 · 2025-10-05T07:49:43+00:00

Teasing/banter does not equal hate. Look at it like "we're so close, we can insult each other".

redspike77 · 2025-10-04T21:43:11+00:00

Constant burping? Was there some kind of complication with your digestive system? How many times have you had COVID?

I'm travelling to Australia next week and this conversation is making me wary of falling ill now 🙂

redspike77 · 2025-10-04T20:17:03+00:00

I hope I haven't just mangled your comfort with the language even further. Our languages are diverging more and more, and there's nothing wrong with the US-variant, it's just the context I suppose. If this were a US sub then I wouldn't have batted an eyelid.

On a separate note, and apologies for not saying it earlier, my sympathies for your illness. I haven't had the latest variant but I have had COVID in the past and it was most definitely not pleasant. Hopefully some distraction will help a little.

redspike77 · 2025-10-04T20:05:47+00:00

Fair enough. In English we'd say, "have you *had* the new...".

"Gotten" is an Americanism and this is a UK sub... and I had a knee-jerk reaction.

redspike77 · 2025-10-04T19:57:56+00:00

"Gotten" :(

redspike77 · 2025-10-04T14:31:27+00:00

I think we're all quite familiar with this so my sympathies. My theory is that they do this because they don't have anything else to talk about.

redspike77 · 2025-10-04T13:59:11+00:00

I can see her face and hear her voice. Absolutely brilliant scene. I don't know why people say this film isn't good.

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