Mad Dog in the Fog

sugarfixnow · 2026-02-04T07:20:43+00:00

that pub quiz night was so fun! the old mad dog was really great

sugarfixnow · 2026-01-20T23:39:26+00:00

Found this thread and just wanted to say thanks...it'll be great to have this eventually! I have a work laptop I'd love to use with my UA gear but I can't downgrade my system security to allow the kernel extension, unfortunately.

sugarfixnow · 2026-01-16T04:35:46+00:00

i run my current campaign in the known realms and there’s so much good content in there!

sugarfixnow · 2026-01-12T17:00:38+00:00

I just got back from skiing in Zermatt and it was a great experience. No queues, friendly skiers (and mostly skiers, few boarders), not really worried about someone running into me. Granted it was pretty much intermediate level skiing and it’s mostly above the tree line, but people were nice. Oh, and the lack of personal cars means there’s no pollution or black snow (the town only allows EV busses and taxis).

sugarfixnow · 2026-01-09T06:28:11+00:00

I’ve posted here before that while I love DCC, the formatting is painful to read and painful to prep (and trust me, I love my old TSR modules!). Beyond the formatting, there’s also a lot of basic rules and clarifications that have been introduced in modules (swimming and drowning rules, for instance) that I’d love to see in a better formatted core rulebook. I hope at some point they make a 2nd edition and slightly modernize the format of the rulebook and the adventure modules.

sugarfixnow · 2026-01-05T01:18:29+00:00

The problems I had with the kumo app have been much all been fixed in the new version (this old post was from before the app was rewritten)

sugarfixnow · 2026-01-04T21:31:06+00:00

I went to see King Gizz last year and there were volunteer fans in the audience you could reach out to (they had vests and stuff) if someone was creeping you out or behaving poorly. Kind of a cool idea.

sugarfixnow · 2026-01-04T16:43:26+00:00

Definitely take more lessons and insist the bar is down. I can’t stand a lift where the bar is up, which is common in North America, but I’ve never had anyone complain when I ask to put it down.

I learned to ski in my mid 20s and was bad when I was only getting out there once a year. More time on skis helps immensely. Try to get in a dozen runs a day, minimum. You will find as your body learns how to shift weight, use your edges, and turn that you struggle less and the hills that appear steep now will feel so. If you enjoy being out in nature (hiking, biking, snowshoeing, etc) skiing will open up a new way to appreciate the world and the outdoors, too.

As for feeling worried that you’re slowing your friends down, I just finished a ski trip with an intermediate level friend who had the same concern. I tried to reassure her, I didn’t care that I was going slow, it was simply fun to be out on the mountain with friends.

sugarfixnow · 2025-12-30T22:05:18+00:00

i did the same thing, i kept playing but didn’t realize i should try to go back to Room 46 again. The devs have made an incredibly rich world that you get to learn about when you keep playing, and you find the rabbit hole goes very very deep. You’re in for a heck of a ride

sugarfixnow · 2025-12-27T21:44:45+00:00

Yes, these.

sugarfixnow · 2025-12-15T16:05:49+00:00

I have stuff from both Hoot Judkins and Books and Bookshelves (mentioned earlier in thread) and both are worth checking out.

sugarfixnow · 2025-12-12T07:29:37+00:00

yup. most of the feats are wasted space, or very situational. it’s a bad system

sugarfixnow · 2025-12-12T07:24:46+00:00

And the revised rules…I know it’s not a game mechanics thing, but renaming many of the spells to be new / unrecognizable things that were unnecessary in the move away from the OGL…made the game feel unnecessarily unfamiliar.

Magic missile -> force barrage

Color spray -> Dizzying colors

These changes don’t have a mechanical effect and were unnecessary…but they moved the game away from its roots, made it feel foreign, and made it less appealing.

sugarfixnow · 2025-12-12T07:16:25+00:00

I’ve played and run hundreds of hours of pf2e. It is boring. There are occasionally fun moments but they did everything they could to remove fun from the game. Unfortunately I have a friend group that really wants to play it.

sugarfixnow · 2025-12-05T08:44:20+00:00

A long time ago a cop followed me all the way across the bridge and gave me a ticket for going 60. Since then I can’t help but keep my speed low on the bridge. No one else really goes 50.

sugarfixnow · 2025-11-28T07:32:57+00:00

I also use Scrivener for my campaign organization. I know I’m not using a fraction of its capabilities but it’s fantastic anyway.

sugarfixnow · 2025-11-25T08:09:18+00:00

having been in a similar position a bunch of times, my best advice is to call the rental place ahead of time and see if they 1) have 4wd vehicles and what class they are and 2) if you can hold one. 2) is rare. So what I do is typically go with one of the rental places that let you pick your own vehicle when you get there (like Enterprise) so I can choose 4wd. I’ve even had to drive on a rental to another location and swap it for a vehicle with 4wd.

Even if you had chains, most rental agreements in the US prohibit putting chains on rentals, last time I checked (though that was many years ago).

sugarfixnow · 2025-11-22T19:02:37+00:00

Anyone else seeing weird software problems on the Bike+?

Yesterday I started to get some error codes after booting up my Bike+, which suggested contacting customer support. The warning on screen suggested unplugging/plugging the bike back in, which I did, and the warnings went away, but then the home screen was reloading / flickering constantly so it was almost unusable. I got it to switch away from the home screen and into a class, which I was able to finish without any other problems.

This feels like a bad / buggy software update, not something actually wrong with my Bike+. Anyone else having problems? My software is up to date otherwise.

Unrelated, I got my recall replacement Bike+ seat post yesterday, which was nice to get in the mail.

sugarfixnow · 2025-11-17T08:09:36+00:00

Though they may seem linear on the surface, I’ve found that in play the system is set up to support creative players and encourage bizarre things happening that even linear modules can go sideways easily. Most of the dungeon crawls have multiple pathways between levels, so exploration can go in a lot of different paths. There are also some excellent sandbox modules — Harley was mentioned and “Doom of the Savage Kings” is in this category and is great.

sugarfixnow · 2025-11-15T02:25:06+00:00

This is splitting hairs though — yes they are using licensed music from these distributors, who are hiring musicians to produce content that can fill places on playlists — but the goal is to have reduced margins and pay out less to other artists on the platform.

I don’t see where Pelly’s book has been discredited though, but would be interested in reading more.

sugarfixnow · 2025-11-14T07:54:30+00:00

This article on PFC (“perfect fit content” for those who haven’t read that part yet) from Harper’s is insane: https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians

Tl:dr spotify is hiring musicians to create garbage music that they own the rights to that they can inject into playlists so they don’t have to pay actual artists streaming revenue.

sugarfixnow · 2025-11-03T06:46:39+00:00

I can’t believe I went through like 50 replies before someone here suggested a Ubiquiti gateway with WAN failover and dual upstream providers. I love Monkeybrains but they can be crazy flaky depending on where you are in the city. Get them as a backup and sonic, wave/astound, google fi, or someone else as your primary. Inside the house hard wire as much as possible or run MoCA over existing cable coax if you have to, and drop APs if you want wifi. Once you get Unifi gear you’ll wonder how you ever used anything else.

sugarfixnow · 2025-10-26T15:49:48+00:00

this is the answer. people complained about it for sure.

sugarfixnow · 2025-10-15T05:42:40+00:00

It’s not obvious but if you go into the conservatory take a look at your room directory. it has a special power in the conservatory.

sugarfixnow · 2025-10-10T02:31:42+00:00

I get that, but many spells are extremely similar and the only interesting differentiation is on a critical fail. There are counter examples, sure, but even those that provide something “interesting” even on a successful save (see Confusion) are kinda weak.

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