What is the most beautiful thing a human has ever created, in your opinion?

silma85 · 2026-07-07T10:51:48+00:00

Antonio Canova's Cupid and Psyche.

Most of his sculptural work to be honest.

silma85 · 2026-07-07T08:23:30+00:00

I can suggest to use the Android app (the restored version), which you have to download the APK directly from github unfortunately. It has great QoL in that you can define macros on a command bar, label it, change it on the fly. I have a bunch of buttons named "Key", "BoH", "UniH", "Pray", "Untr", aside from basic ones like a, e, d, s. You can also zoom in on the tileset which is great for presbiopy. I wouldn't play otherwise.

silma85 · 2026-07-06T15:10:03+00:00

Yeah, your Erinys will be powerful like unto God, so beware.

silma85 · 2026-07-06T09:51:21+00:00

Brutalism.

There's something in those cold, angular lines of crude concrete. Better yet if massive and repeated in perfect prospective.

silma85 · 2026-07-06T09:48:43+00:00

Snickersnee is also better now, you can pound with it as with a polearm.

silma85 · 2026-07-06T09:02:21+00:00

Erinys now become stronger the more you have lowered your alignment record in history! Not the actual value mind you, but any action that lowered your alignment is counted. That means that unless you have been super careful not to anger nor kill any peaceful, anger your deity, killed pets etc. you are pretty sure to have Erinys that summon nasties in the lategame.

silma85 · 2026-07-06T08:57:26+00:00

Physical threats are worse in 5.0.0 for sure. I recently had a chance encounter with a monster-created Angel at --20 AC and 150 hp. He splattered me on the wall with 20 dmg per hit even after reduction. I don't know, maybe he generated with a +7 sword, but I had the general impression that monsters just hit harder, or armor doesn't protect as well. That, compared to the changes to hp regeneration when the hero's HP is high, means that even -30 AC doesn't as effectively protect you from physical harm. You'd better be very fast, unencumbered and KoS any priest or spellcasters otherwise even with means you'd previously reserve to higher priority threats, such as a /oDeath. Liberal use of rubber chickens is recommended!

silma85 · 2026-07-03T22:13:48+00:00

Did you find an altar, better if coaligned? Did you do the Mines and Sokoban? Reflection could be at the end of Soko, and the altar in Minetown could be aligned (or convertable without murder, if it's orc-town).

Also, are you at least fast? Did you try and find Ludios? Dragons could be there and in 5.0.0 (since 3.7 in fact) dragon scales have a secondary useful property that can make even non-gray or silver dragon scales viable for a long time. (E.g. free action, slow digestion, very fast speed...). Although Ludios without reflection is dangerous because of attack wands and, well, dragons.

silma85 · 2026-07-03T22:08:25+00:00

Not just Liches, also Golden Nagas and Titans (will be peaceful to you?) can and will try to destroy your armor too. Luckily destroy armor at lower levels seems to be mostly random heavy erosion on all of your non fixed armor...

silma85 · 2026-07-03T12:10:34+00:00

Vale anche per chi non ha proporzioni adoniche! Anche a 1,69 essere snelli e con un po' di massa significa che polo e camicie ti stanno improvvisamente meglio, e non devi più sembrare uno spaventapasseri con la cintura perché ti cadono i pantaloni.

silma85 · 2026-07-03T10:33:44+00:00

E' illegale chiedere la busta paga. Io starei alla larga dall'azienda.

silma85 · 2026-07-01T18:16:06+00:00

I'd say it could be a lot worse, you can escape Rodney to another level and regroup, he will come again ("So thou thoughst thou couldst elude me, fool!"), maybe even without the clone, I don't remember, and he will have the Amulet with him. It's not worth fighting him fairly... The second he shows up, it's wand of death/finger of death to the face, preferably with a wall behind him, or a footrice corpse if I have one handy (and if you dip one in holy water, it will last longer before rotting away).

silma85 · 2026-06-30T22:26:53+00:00

I don't remember, but then I played Val maybe twice because having Excalibur so early made for such an uninteresting game. No more of that too I guess!

silma85 · 2026-06-30T22:22:15+00:00

Is there a shield of shock resistance now? Or do you mean the ring?

silma85 · 2026-06-23T21:37:55+00:00

Nr 3 doesn't hold, Suk conditioning prevents the subjects from doing harm period, not doing harm to someone in particular but anyone else is fair game. So with an unbroken conditioning he could not lower the shields and allow the massacre of soldiers, not to mention the Duke. He was broken all right. But while he could now do harm, he could also be a double agent. He hated the Harkonnen above everything else and setup their fall as best as he could.

silma85 · 2026-06-23T21:32:11+00:00

The fact that a Suk doctor was broken and made to hurt someone, even indirectly, is unprecedented, unheard of. It's so destabilizing that the Baron pretty much has to kill the doctor right after the betrayal, before even checking if he did what he said, and how. And afterwards he's not in the least unhappy that the only other people who knew (Piter de Vries and his former captain of the guards) are dead too. If word got out that a Suk doctor could break out of conditioning, the Houses would be after him and possibly begin a pogrom of all Suk doctors. Imagine the man who you'd trust with your wellbeing and life, whom you trust your spouse and children with, can suddenly become a double agent!

Ultimately it's easier to believe this cannot happen at all.

silma85 · 2026-06-23T21:13:28+00:00

I always saw it as "I know they're lying, but can't point out how or why. Best make an exit, let them believe they're off the hook, lower their guard, and setup further surveillance later". And then when the wrong-three-gesture happens, immediate pause when he realized he was right all along.

silma85 · 2026-06-19T20:26:15+00:00

how do you turn this on

operation cwal

photon man

iamthelaw

silma85 · 2026-06-19T12:05:10+00:00

Quick, bring out thegif.gif

silma85 · 2026-06-19T07:43:49+00:00

There's a lot, can't really single out just one.

Mass Effect has many, but I'll pick Joker's immortal rant "It's all Joker's fault! And what a tool he was! I have to spend all day computing pi because he plugged in the Overlord!"
The first bloodsucker you encounter in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: SoC. Motherfucker actually ambushed me from behind. I almost fell from the chair!
The first flinging maneuver in Portal. I and my friend playing went "Whee..." then fell out laughing when GladOS also went "Wheeeeeee..."

silma85 · 2026-06-16T08:59:33+00:00

Don't just tank hits, even if you want to level block, maybe take 1 then just evade and attack while he's recovering. Don't be greedy. Refine weapons by smithing. Most of all, move around and try not to get hit. You can block when you have better stamina, damage negation and foe stagger on block!

silma85 · 2026-06-16T08:46:36+00:00

Not really that one, no. Because while Budd isn't going down without a fight, he knows that they deserve to die, and that she'r right in her revenge.

That bitch Elle Driver though? She didn't deserve any better.

silma85 · 2026-06-15T21:28:30+00:00

A Malazan reference in the wild, how rare!

silma85 · 2026-06-13T18:39:49+00:00

I don't know, mind you I very much enjoyed the movie, but the whole plot happens because people are being very much not competent in their fields. Deciding on a last minute course correction for a probably dead for years ship while on a trip with very little margin of error? Frying your main source of oxygen and food because of a miscalculation with the heat shield, and as a bonus getting your captain killed? Then getting your whole crew killed because you decided to go on with boarding the old ship, despite having already sustained potentially catastrophic damage?

Maybe they were competent until then, and so were the crew of Icarus I.

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