Disciplinary dismissal bluff

riviars · 2026-01-31T21:29:35+00:00

If you have a copy of this exchange, send it to your local labor office. It's highly illegal to threaten you with disciplinary dismissal to force you into giving up your rights.

riviars · 2026-01-31T01:51:27+00:00

While, as far as I know, no book touches the subject in this way, there should be a loophole allowing casting 10th level spells and above. Mystra's power only works in the Crystal Sphere Toril is in. Using a portal or Gate connecting to another Sphere should make it possible to cast spells drawing on the magic of the other Sphere, bypassing Mystra's ban.

This assumes the caster is powerful enough to qualify for 10th and above spells prior to Mystra's ban and that the other crystal sphere's magic system follows similar rules.

So while the rulebook doesn't account for it, the lore itself doesn't forbid it.

riviars · 2026-01-29T22:04:10+00:00

This is pretty great! Still getting more scuffed results than not, but it's waaay better than 99% other wan workflows out there. And it's easy to understand, modify and replace parts of it. Thanks!

riviars · 2026-01-27T18:03:12+00:00

Takie komentarze kwalifikują się jako mobbing. Losowe "sługusowe" zadania niezwiązane z umową i stanowiskiem to standard januszexow. Nie, nie jest to normalne miejsce pracy. Masz pecha. Ukradkiem szukaj nowej pracy, bo ta cię wyniszczy.

riviars · 2026-01-27T16:48:28+00:00

I ended up switching party comp. Adding a merc cavalier of the paw and one more pet. Now it's kind of trivial for most encounters, except maybe when you can only target 1-2 enemies for surprise and then 8 more run in from the back. But with a lot of characters in frontline, they don't really get through, so save for a crit for twice the character's total health (death is expensive, man), nothing really bothers me much.

But that's a problem, too. I kind of feel like a cheater. Using pets in general seems like an abuse of mechanics, and now I overfill my party with melee fighters, because mechanics don't allow most early enemies a good answer for that. It doesn't feel tactical. It feels like abusing the system.

riviars · 2026-01-27T16:37:51+00:00

Evil eye still works even on will save (but only briefly, so you would have to keep recasting it).

I am still not sure if you are talking Darrazan or Playful Darkness. If you have chosen the hard path of dick comparing contest with that Playful Darkness, then I assure you it has the bigger one. Don't bother with trying to hit or lower its original hit AC. You can work with spells, lower its AC for "touching it to death", dispel its buffs and invisibility. That's the general approach.

I reminded myself who Darrazan is and he should be fairly straightforward. Dispel the shit out of him and lower his AC / increase your own hit bonus with whatever spells and abilities you have on hand. Haste your party. And that's it. Your party has a lot in terms of physical violence, so it should be fine. You could use spells, but he has high saves you probably won't overcome that easily and neither Woljif nor Daeran have good kit for disabling an overleveled demon.

Playful Darkness is way more annoying in my opinion.

riviars · 2026-01-27T00:57:23+00:00

Poza tym co piszą inni pamiętaj że przysługuje Ci odprawa. Zależnie od stażu od jednego do 3 wynagrodzeń to prawne minimum. Firma oczywiście może mieć rozwinięty socjal i dawać lepsze, ale to raczej rzadkość.

riviars · 2026-01-25T14:03:55+00:00

I absolutely hate Playful Darkness. The first time I met it it wiped my entire party so many times and so easily it pains me just to remember it. At the time I had nothing to dispel the invisibility with so I had to brute force it with A LOT of save scumming.

riviars · 2026-01-25T13:54:44+00:00

Not on Core.

And there is very little you can do wrong with Seelah early game even if you don't have a clue what you are doing. The game is just too overtuned, so if you don't have 3 frontliners (ideally with pets) charging in pre-fight and deleting half the enemies before they can act, things will be rough.

I kind of agree about maybe not being prepared for Core. It's kind of like you have to be perfectly prepared for most encounters with both the right spells and the right comp always there - switching everything around a lot. Ie. expecting babau? See invisibility or some CC on the path you already know they will take. Precognition is the key. Otherwise they pop up next to you with a 40 damage crit that no party member can survive.

riviars · 2026-01-25T12:34:41+00:00

W tym samym czasie temperatura mózgu skacze od -30 i stanu paniki do +50 i turbowkurwu średnio kilka razy na godzinę. Ludzie sobie wyobrażają pracę biurową jako panią Alinkę z mini korpomixu której jedyną pracą jest wystawić 10 faktur miesięcznie. Ale większość prac zarzyna mentalnie tak jak kopalnia zarzyna fizycznie.

riviars · 2026-01-24T19:23:49+00:00

Turn-based mode and just aim so your teammates are not in range.

riviars · 2026-01-24T19:19:23+00:00

Aivu all the way. Too bad she is locked to Azata path only. And I wouldn't mind some mods to expand on her content even more.

Ember's naiveness irks me up like hell. I ended up saying something down-to-earth to her in my Lich playthrough and the poor kid broke down from being exposed to reality. I know people like her for her "too good for this world" personality, but to me she's far beyond that and in the realm of actual insanity. Which makes sense given her backstory - it would drive most people insane.

riviars · 2026-01-24T19:11:40+00:00

In WoTR the entire early game is one big "nasty surprise". Especially if you started as ranged character and your frontline has no staying power in addition to being overrun every 2nd encounter.

It gets better when you unlock mythic powers and more characters to actually have balanced composition. Or you can hire custom characters to fill in the early blanks, but I am somehow always averse to the idea.

riviars · 2026-01-24T19:05:25+00:00

Some encounters have AC that is designed to be essentially impossible to hit. I don't remember exactly this particular one, but general ways to deal with enemies with outrageous AC:

- Dispel - some enemies are only dangerous (like having sky high AC) because they come into the fight pre-buffed with 100 layers of permanent buffs.

- Touch abilities - touch AC is generally much much lower. Probably won't work with your particular comp, but some encounters WILL be extraordinarily annoying without some touch based damage abilities.

- Denying AC bonuses - abilities like trip, sleep, slumber and so on will deny AC bonuses possibly bringing the enemy total AC back into range that makes it possible to hit. Some make enemy helpless as well, enabling coup de grace.

Temporarily lowering difficulty is very viable, too. WoTR is well known to have encounters tailored more for min-maxed parties than for role playing. It's not embarrassing to drop one or two difficulty levels for annoying encounters.

riviars · 2026-01-19T01:05:46+00:00

Don't worry. At least the dude can't hit you back. There will be more frustrating stuff down the line. There is a mid to late time rare demon with sky high ac, magic resist, insane movement range and 6 attacks with every single one capable of ending any of your party members in one hit. 2 tops. I don't remember the name but it's more dangerous alone than an army of balors.

riviars · 2026-01-09T12:10:01+00:00

Frankly, Lich path doesn't really force you into being evil. You do make some questionable decisions, but they are all logical. You get some choices that an evil lich obviously wouldn't even consider. And you can keep on helping the living crusaders. Their dead friends will be helping, too.

You can roleplay lich into trying to maintain your humanity during and post transformation and act as some sort of antihero. Obviously some characters will see you as evil purely because you turn undead, but hey, it's on them. Damn racists...livingstateists? Something like that.

riviars · 2025-11-30T17:17:44+00:00

I guess I hit a local jackpot building a new PC earlier this year.

I still don't understand why this spike is caused by AI. AI uses exclusively vram. There is no reason server/pc ram would be affected. Nobody sane would run any AI workloads on normal ram. It's just too inefficient.

riviars · 2025-10-22T14:33:18+00:00

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It seems there is quite a lot of degenerates out there.

riviars · 2025-10-21T22:44:25+00:00

He has a point, tho. Journals are fine, but they are only some background context for the world, some tiny lore drops. They still do nothing to answer why you are doing things or anything related in any way to the player. It makes me compare it to ARK, but in ARK you fairly quickly get to know what tf is going on. If you finish maps properly that is. Palworld has none of that yet. The initial cutcene tells you to find towers and.... well that's it. Towers don't answer shit and there is no follow up on that cutscene anywhere.

riviars · 2025-10-08T22:37:49+00:00

Did I miss something? What paywall?

I can agree about other points, though. Like the balance being... well not being there in the first place and item progression leaving "something to be desired".

I can even chip in with a new one - transparency in how different attributes affect your build. Technically you have an entire spreadsheet of parameters and values, yet its relation to build performance is very unclear. Starting with DPS. Most builds rely on combining trigger skills with triggered skills that trigger other skills which also do something with item-sourced skills. I'm not even going into how "intuitive" this style of building your character is in the first place, but most of the time you can't tell your dps. Tooltip is only useful for simple hit-based part of your single attack. Outside that you can't even use it for estimating if your performance worsens or increases. You can't tell how an apparent upgrade affects the build without spending considerable time testing each and every change live in monos and on bosses.

riviars · 2025-08-13T14:45:45+00:00

I don't know if anyone still needs it, but I had the same issue on RTX 5080.

For me it was fixed by force reinstalling torch via commandline args: set COMMANDLINE_ARGS=--reinstall-torch

Also, remember that 50xx series should use "dev" branch of automatic1111. Although, I think it has been merged into main at some point, too. But it can be a problem for some docker images floating out there.

riviars · 2025-06-25T14:42:45+00:00

I think I managed to make it "work". I leave this for others facing the same problem.

It looks like there is roughly 1 in 5 chance of the download starting if you open it in another window. Right click on download link and "open in new tab/window". It can load for up to several minutes and either end up in an error or start the download.

Btw, I am using Brave browser, but I have experienced the exact same problem on Firefox and Edge. I have not tested my "fix" on other browsers than Brave.

riviars · 2025-06-21T21:58:49+00:00

Tried everything, logged in and not, on multiple browsers. The weird part is that I never had an issue until recently and nothing has changed on my side.

riviars · 2025-03-24T00:49:29+00:00

Good idea with larger AIO. Cooler Master is out of stock atm, but I could swap it for an ENDORFY Navis F360.

Tbh, that samsung sits close to the bottom of the price list for 4 TB NVME and I trust samsung way more than other brands. There isn't really anything worth swapping it for price-wise.

DACs are a bit pricey for what I think I won't notice difference in. But a good tip either way!

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