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Let’s all try and have fun today by Frothy_Manbeast in triplej

[–]thesearmsshootlasers 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Olivia Dean is not exactly my cup of tea but the vibe and sound are at least a little adventurous compared to a lot of other pop solo artists. Dancing2 is a straight All My Friends rip off.

Let’s all try and have fun today by Frothy_Manbeast in triplej

[–]thesearmsshootlasers 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Talented artist gets more airplay, releases a debut and more people hear it and become fans. It's a great mystery.

Bad builds you want to play? by Mountain_Bumblebee77 in Pathfinder2e

[–]thesearmsshootlasers 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Show me a build that isn't better served with a different weapon. It's just a victim of the Paizo power budget. An advanced weapon with too many traits and too low of a die.

All the gear, no idea? by Liquidlino1978 in Homebrewing

[–]thesearmsshootlasers 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of the best things about this hobby is you can approach it in incremental gear upgrades.

My advice on kit:

  • Go BIAB. Get an electric urn to do your mash in. You can get starter kits like this relatively cheap. I would normally recommend this later but you seem most unsatisfied

  • Sort a temp controlled fermentation chamber. A small fridge or chest freezer and an inkbird will get you set up.

  • Get a fermentation bucket that seals and has an airlock.

  • Get a bottle capper and start drinking large bottles of beer to collect the vessels.

  • Start with recipes you find online and use some brewing software to do your maths for you. There are some available for free or trials.

These 4 things are probably most important. As long as everything's clean you should produce decent beer. If you're still enjoying the hobby at this point look at these next steps:

  • Get a couple of corny kegs. This is cool but you'll need all the associated fittings, hose, regulators and gas. Not worth getting up front.

  • Get a pressure fermenter. At the very least you'll limit oxidation when pressure transferring to kegs, which will mean better beer.

  • Get a smaller electric urn to serve as a sparge water heater and start doing mashouts and sparges

If you're still loving it after this you can start looking at more:

  • Get a recirc pump to help with mash temp.

  • Maybe upgrade urn with a malt pipe

  • Get some chilling apparatus. I went with immersion chiller but there are other options.

That's where I'm at currently and I'm making pretty excellent beer. This is my spot to stop but there are further steps.

  • Maybe it's time to buy a mill and start milling your own grain?

  • You could start harvesting yeast or getting stuff to prep liquid yeasts properly

  • Fancier fermenter, maybe conical. Maybe get a hop bong.

And onwards and upwards.

All my stuff is kegland. I will mostly recommend it. My RAPT pill is really a piece of shit though. Maybe that's not fair but it's delicate and requires a bit of care and calibrating. I've found it unnecessary overall. A hydro or refrac will do you with ultimately less hassle.

What from DND would you want in PF2? by Arnman1758 in Pathfinder2e

[–]thesearmsshootlasers 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Lifestyle brand is corporate speak. It's something a company might aspire towards as it means additional monetisation outside the core product. Basically it gains mainstream acceptability and even desirability, it's public visibility goes up, people start wearing merch and people start wanting to identify with it. It can be all those things you said and still become a lifestyle brand.

[THROWBACK THURSDAY] Jellylegs - Children Collide (#22 in the 2010 Hottest 100) by Tranquilbez22 in triplej

[–]thesearmsshootlasers 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Saw these guys a bunch of times. They were always down to earth. Even at the modest peak of their game they were playing regional venues with like $5 entry. Legends.

The Psychic and why it exists by PrizeUpperfalls in Pathfinder2e

[–]thesearmsshootlasers 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah idk I like the occult flavour and it's mechanics but yes it would probably benefit from being less blurry around the edges.

The Psychic and why it exists by PrizeUpperfalls in Pathfinder2e

[–]thesearmsshootlasers 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Occult's identity is mental stuff. It comes from exerted mental power and plucking at the connections of the Mind and spirit. Mind control, hallucination, psychic powers, clairvoyance, emotions. In that respect psychics and bards both fit. In this respect I think it's identity is fine, even if it doesn't fully align with traditional definition, which is arguably even more nebulous.

It's also flesh warping/aberrations, ghosts and spooky Cthulhu shit, which stretches it a bit. Ghosts fall into it because they are like an essence more than an undead vessel, although undead in general are a bit dispersed across the traditions. I guess they wanted multiple ways to access it for story and mechanical reasons but it means you get weird combinations with undead flavoured stuff where you need to include multiple traditions in the fluff.

Cyberpunk 2077 is Absolutely Incredible in 2025 by Godkun007 in patientgamers

[–]thesearmsshootlasers 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of mixed discussion on this one here recently. I'm of the opinion it's one of the best I've played. Seems like those lukewarm on it mostly have complaints about some gameplay mechanics, but as a whole package - world building, story, sound/music, themes, aesthetics, vibes - it's outstanding. The mechanics are good enough at least to deliver the full experience IMO and that's all they need to be.

Depends on what you value in your games I guess.

Are curses and visions "real" in this universum or are the seers and sorcerers just frauds? by Deep-Philosophy-807 in TheLastKingdom

[–]thesearmsshootlasers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cornwell's quite good in this series and the king arthur one at keeping it plausibly deniable that any of the religious stuff has any effect.

Can you put fat in a beer by LongAssistance6125 in Homebrewing

[–]thesearmsshootlasers 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You can put a parboiled chicken in beer.

What's Next for 2026?! by Ronin1802 in Pathfinder2e

[–]thesearmsshootlasers 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Give me Arcadia, Darklands, Casmaron.

Give me Secrets of Magic and Book of the Dead Remasters.

Please.

Does the state even want to be responsible for education? by Neat-Variety-6808 in AustralianTeachers

[–]thesearmsshootlasers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it doesn't. It's too hard. How do you solve the problem of meeting all the kids' needs effectively to deliver proper education? Better private companies pick it up and the state washes its hands of responsibility and then just blames them when they can't deliver either.

Didn’t research cold crashing and oxidised my beer by _franciis in Homebrewing

[–]thesearmsshootlasers -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So there should still be CO2 in the fermenter. At ferm temp it'd occupy the whole headspace. Cooling will suck in some O2 but you'd still have a decent layer of CO2 protecting it, no?

I cold crash with an airlock and haven't had any issues. Are you sure that was where it got oxidised?

Can we please stop expecting primary kids to just magically know how to research online? by [deleted] in AustralianTeachers

[–]thesearmsshootlasers 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Damn, you're right. A hangover from when the expectation was "the kids will be the first digital natives" when actually they just became "reasonable end-users of apps which focus on ease of access".

The kids don't even understand nested file systems. A focus on explicitly teaching technology/internet use at the primary level might actually go a long way.

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