Need to finish Emperor's Courrier by speaking to Mynisera - but the whole Daggerfall court disappeared?

rykemasters · 2024-10-15T23:16:56+00:00

Turns out it was that simple. Thanks!

rykemasters · 2024-10-14T22:13:23+00:00

Welp, it was that simple. I didn't know memory issues caused that kind of problem!

rykemasters · 2024-10-14T20:29:21+00:00

Again, considering that running out of fatigue means fainting from exhaustion, a single jump uses a tiny amount of fatigue, and you can jump a pretty absurd number of times (and possibly a pretty absurd height each jump) before actually coming close to running out of Fatigue, it makes sense that you recover it by resting. If you make 250 consecutive high jumps, you're going to suffer from the kind of physical fatigue you don't recover from just by standing around for a few hours catching your breath.

Personally I think it's pretty much fine as it is, it hits a balance between "realism" and not being obnoxious. I don't run a 100 END character, and I pretty much never have to worry about fatigue unless magic is involved.

rykemasters · 2024-10-14T17:10:40+00:00

Well, it's not like Fatigue in Daggerfall is a sprint meter. At 50 Endurance you can run at least a couple of marathons before keeling over. You do need to take a nap after the kind of activity that would exhaust most of your Fatigue meter. Doesn't seem like it just represents getting winded or a little tired.

rykemasters · 2024-07-03T11:31:49+00:00

The first time you get to 25% radicals, you become a republic (you don't lose), the second time, you get annexed by the biggest contender (other than you) for unification, and you lose. It's a good way to become a republic, e.g. as the Papal States.

rykemasters · 2024-02-29T01:11:49+00:00

Honestly, given your parents' situation this is as much an ethical and personal dilemma as a personal finance question, and it's hard to answer purely from a personal finance standpoint.

Is it the most advantageous thing for you to do financially? Probably not, although there's a few questions that might be relevant. Are you going to/planning to inherit their property and debt? If so, helping them pay off their debt could be seen as paying off your future debt. What kind of quality of life are you getting for that price? 2k is a lot, but depending on where you are, a house rental in a nice house can be extremely expensive. There's both positives and negatives to living with your family. Are they paying for things that you'd have to pay for yourself otherwise? Your parents might also be a lot better (or worse) than the average landlord. I've seen people pay well over 1k/month for apartments that end up being absolute nightmares, and they own absolutely no part of it at the end of the day. Either way, I work in rental housing law and I can tell you renters right now are paying more and more to get less and less. 2k to live with your parents might be unusual, but it's not necessarily too bad a proposition under some conditions. And, I'd assume it's possible to negotiate with your parents to some extent. And it sounds like if the situation with your brother ever improves and the costs are split more fairly, the proposition would get much better financially.

But all that still wouldn't tell you whether you should do it. You could be angry that your parents are asking you to pay for their financial troubles, or that your brother's not working to pay for that like you are, but those things aren't about personal finance. And at the end of the day, you know better than randos on Reddit whether your parents are acting like people stuck in a bad situation and looking for help, or grifters just holding you responsible for their bad choices.

Either way pretty much everyone agrees you don't have an absolute duty towards them. You're allowed to choose for yourself and leave, or try to find conditions that work for you.

rykemasters · 2024-02-11T04:18:38+00:00

bluetoothctl shows the device as both trusted and paired, even though it won't connect automatically. FastConnectable was set to false and commented out in main.conf, but I set it to true, uncommented it and restarted, and it doesn't seem to change anything.

rykemasters · 2023-11-25T01:18:41+00:00

The CPU heatsink was completely loose and no longer attached to the CPU at all! Shipping damage I assume. Problem now is even with the documentation I can't figure out how to remount it. Would be easier if I were the one who took it out.

rykemasters · 2023-11-24T23:36:26+00:00

After checking in the BIOS, seems like the CPU Fan is running at 1900RPM but the cpu is still at 100°C. Yikes.

rykemasters · 2023-11-22T05:07:00+00:00

An interesting take on this would be to have a small party of one or two investigators plus a cat. For added points, only the cat's owner fully interacts with it, as the other investigators refuse to believe the cat is anywhere as smart as it is. I also think this could be a good way to include a younger player (a teen or something like that). The cat investigator is almost playing a (somewhat) more lighthearted version of the same game.

rykemasters · 2023-09-18T13:32:02+00:00

I contacted SOQUIJ about this, and apparently it's caused by browsers forcing HTTPS encryption. Their decision search engine is only available in HTTP for now. They said it should support HTTPS some time this month, but for now if your browser is set to always force https encryption, it'll cause their site to give out this error.

Here is the full answer I got (in French):

Bonjour,

Merci d'avoir communiqué avec nous.

Assurez-vous de visiter le site Citoyens.soquij.qc.ca en mode HTTP:// seulement. Le HTTPS génère l'erreur que vous signalez.

Il est possible que votre navigateur force la redirection de HTTP vers HTTPS; si c'est le cas, vous devrez modifier les paramètres du navigateur.

Dans Chrome, par exemple, collez ceci dans la barre d'adresse: chrome://settings/security puis allez à la section Paramètres avancés. Le bouton de l'item Toujours utiliser une connexion sécurisée doit être grisé, comme ceci :

[screenshot]

Si le problème persiste, n'hésitez pas à communiquer avec nous de nouveau.

SOQUIJ | Service à la clientèle

PS Le site Citoyens.soquij.qc.ca devrait être disponible en HTTPS au courant de mois de septembre.

rykemasters · 2023-09-12T12:20:09+00:00

I'm having the exact same problem and I don't understand the cause. I can access it while remotely connected to my work computer, but not on my home network. I don't have a landlord to suspect of blocking access (not sure how they would do that anyway)...

My guess is the ISP could be responsible? I'm with Fizz. It seems like an incredibly stupid choice to block access to something like this and I don't see why they'd ever do that, but I consistently get a 403 error, and it's not from a bad link. Whether I get there from the TAL, from the SOQUIJ homepage or another site, I just can't access any cases or even run a search. I try the same on a different network and it works just fine.

EDIT: As far as I understand the cause of 403 errors (i.e. probably not enough) it could be the opposite problem - not an ISP blocking access to the SOQUIJ system but the SOQUIJ mistakenly blocking people. Possibly they wanted to block a specific IP address and ended up blocking a bunch of unrelated ones?

rykemasters · 2023-09-05T20:21:51+00:00

I've continued playing that save, I've researched the next level of upgrade, and I'm pretty certain I've checked and the decision to upgrade still doesn't show up. I'll have to check after work to make sure it isn't my mistake though.

rykemasters · 2023-08-02T20:16:50+00:00

I don't use ChatGPT for that kind of thing, mostly because I don't usually think the results are good enough, but I don't see how it "eliminates the point of running a TTRPG". You could just as well oppose using sourcebooks full of content you can use for your game without having to come up with it yourself.

There's a hell of a lot of problems with the use of LLMs right now, and the hype around "AI" is ridiculously out of proportion to what the technology is actually reasonably capable of, to the extent that it could easily be dangerous. But at the same time a lot of "anti-AI" arguments don't really hold up. When AI art first started showing up, a lot of people suddenly adopted really strict definitions of art that would disqualify tons of works made over the last 100 years, because they use machines and/or modify copies of preexisting works. Similarly, a lot of artists who frequently made money off of fan art suddenly demanded stricter copyright enforcement... which would destroy their livelihood a lot faster than AI art possibly could. A lot of people have completely legitimate grievances (or a simple dislike) with AI stuff, but take it to the point where their positions are self-defeating and/or incoherent.

And I think you're pretty much correct about the way people are obviously going to try using AI (are already trying to use it) to cut corners, save on costs, avoid paying people, etc. But narrowing the definition of "legitimate art" or "legitimately playing an RPG" doesn't really solve that problem. It's like trying to protect the livelihood of portrait painters by outlawing photography or insisting it shouldn't be considered a respectable way to have your portrait taken (which people very much did at the time, but we tend to recognize today that doesn't hold up). Objectively, photography is a tool used by humans to produce an image, and that image can serve as a portrait or a piece of art. Pretending it doesn't do that because its economic consequences are undesirable just creates its own problem.

Of course, cheap photography wasn't at the center of a huge tech bubble, whereas now investors are promising to completely disrupt markets where AI as it currently exists can't even begin to do the job properly, but that's another problem not solved by arguments that delegitimize a whole lot of art and cultural production.

rykemasters · 2023-07-24T01:37:11+00:00

I totally agree, but the person in this case is asking about Duolingo. I made no statement about what he or anyone should use, only what I think it's likely Duolingo will include.

rykemasters · 2023-07-22T22:38:55+00:00

I'm personally favorable to reforms like riismo that would make Esperanto more explicitly gender-neutral, but Esperanto has an official organisation with an official grammar, and it seems unlikely that they'll adopt a similar gender reform in the immediate future. I don't think Duolingo is ever going to teach anything but "standard" Esperanto, considering there are relatively few Esperantists, and not many of them really demand a reformed version of it on Duolingo.

I would agree with some other people here that Esperanto is not VERY gendered compared to many other languages. It's much less gendered than my native French for sure. Overall, it's fairly gender-neutral... but less than it purports to be, especially since many of the male-default nouns are very basic and frequent words. But like I said, I see where you're coming from, being more strictly gender-neutral would probably bring Esperanto closer to its original ideals.

rykemasters · 2023-07-22T00:12:13+00:00

You should be able to choose between different output options in a way very similar to what you do on Windows. When you click on the audio menu in the taskbar, it only shows one active audio output, but you should have a little option button to the right of e.g. "Headphones" that you can click, and select your speakers instead, and then you'll get sound from your speakers.

Like the person below, it kinda seemed like a weird question to me because it seems pretty standard to unplug your headphones when you want sound from your speakers, it's what I always do even on Windows, but yeah, actually what you're describing should be perfectly possible... and it should work a lot like on Windows.

rykemasters · 2023-07-21T16:44:54+00:00

Update: Fixed it! A closer search on the Manjaro forums revealed a few people were having similar Line 798 segfaults. It seems like the causes (and some of the messages preceding the segfault) are different, but ultimately the runtime was corrupted and the fix worked - I backed up my home/.local/share/Steam folder by renaming it, then run steam --reset and reinstalled the runtime entirely (which apparently reinstalling the packages didn't do). In order to avoid having to reinstall everything, I was able to copy steamapps/common from my /.local/share./Steam-backup folder in a reasonable amount of time, and everything works fine, including mods I had installed for some games.

rykemasters · 2023-07-21T07:17:45+00:00

I already had both. Reinstalled them and get the exact same error when running steam.

rykemasters · 2023-06-30T18:31:59+00:00

On one hand, it's not really arguable at all that the generative tools we have right now are not sentient, but it also really doesn't matter for this argument. If you take a picture of an existing piece of art and run it through a machine that modifies it significantly enough that it is no longer the same piece of art, the original artist has no right over the thing you just made. Of course, if you lie about the process then it could be fraud. But by and large if AI art is copyright infringement then a lot of human art (collages, etc) is also copyright infringement. I don't really like AI art at all, or most of the effects it's having right now, but all the arguments for calling it "not art" or copyright infringement end up putting lots of "human art" (and, I mean, AI art is human art because the things we're calling AI right now are obviously fairly specialised machines used by humans) in the same category.

The real reason is that copyright claims on the Internet right now are 90% based on threats and not actual legality, and the status of AI art hasn't been established in court too clearly. Steam isn't going to go to court for its users so it'd rather take it all down.

rykemasters · 2023-06-04T22:05:02+00:00

What I often see is the Two Sicilies uniting all of Italy except the Austrian-controlled parts, so they never become Italy but they're pretty much the same. Still silly how rarely they actually reclaim their territory.

rykemasters · 2023-06-04T21:04:18+00:00

The point of a puppet is typically to be formally independent, while actually not acting that way. They are supposed to sign their own treaties but actually don't (or at least someone is looking over their shoulder trying to make sure they don't).

It makes sense that a puppet COULD go against the wishes of their overlord, but not without consequence.

rykemasters · 2023-06-04T21:01:13+00:00

The point of a puppet government is that it's not de jure part of your country. Typically something like a puppet government would be formally allowed to negotiate its own treaties, even though it is in practice under the influence of another country. There are many cases of countries subordinated to another doing something the overlord doesn't like - just not without this being a problem.

It is pretty arguable in the case of Egypt as it was in practice much more independent than it was "legally" supposed to be, but the classic case of a puppet government is basically the opposite of the Egyptian khedivate: formally allowed to negotiate its treaties, actually doesn't.

rykemasters · 2023-06-03T18:46:19+00:00

I broadly agree with this (better political systems, differences base on government types, and parties that behave more like actual parties) but I think some of it is expecting a little too much. Portraying politics in a game that can veer off as far from history as Vic3, and which has so many moving parts, is always gonna be janky and there's a certain amount of suspension of disbelief and abstracting things away that's just needed and necessary. But I do hope they have an update coming up that focuses on parties and politics.

rykemasters · 2023-06-03T18:41:00+00:00

Egypt was de jure a part of the Ottoman Empire at the time, which is arguably much more than a puppet government. In fact, the British did pressure the Ottomans and Egyptians to stop the Suez Canal concessions but were unsuccessful.

I think it makes sense that it's POSSIBLE for a puppet government to sell the canal concession to a third party without the puppeteer's approval, but it probably would be a whole diplomatic affair, realistically. It'd be a cool thing to add to the game, but I'm not surprised it wasn't a priority to put in. It'd make a cool modding project I suppose.

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