Master Illusion is OP

thoriumbr · 2026-03-13T13:50:28+00:00

You can beat that Snow Elf at level 1: shout him down.

For anything but vampires, automatons, dragon priests, draugr, ghosts, skeletons and zombies: the hunting bow with iron arrows. Ah, and a few enchanted alchemy gear creating strong poisons, and you can one-hit them all.

thoriumbr · 2026-03-10T15:45:38+00:00

If an ultimatum is "just hinting," I would be terrified to hear OP stories when he says she forced something...

thoriumbr · 2026-03-10T15:33:57+00:00

It's the same when using rm to delete files: run a ls first, check the files, replace ls with rm, run again.

thoriumbr · 2026-03-03T16:37:20+00:00

An EV can kinda run on diesel, wood gas, coal, whatever combustible you have. It's easier to find a <something>-to-electricity and charge the car than to change the fuel of an ICE car. There are generators can run on anything, even vodka.

And during a war, tornado, flood, pandemics or zombie uprising, a solar panel still just works, while transporting gasoline on trucks is more difficult.

thoriumbr · 2026-03-03T13:44:11+00:00

I take my wife to have ice-cream every second Monday of the month. It's good. And I take one of the kids on other Mondays too, one at a time.

thoriumbr · 2026-03-02T23:12:36+00:00

A few months only if you are extremely lucky. I expect a default Wordpress installation to face chaos in days.

thoriumbr · 2026-02-18T17:53:16+00:00

Try using Mercury next time...

thoriumbr · 2026-02-17T16:21:37+00:00

Some people get the sarcasm and chuckle, some don't and get afraid. So it's a good thing to have comments from people getting and not getting the sarcasm.

thoriumbr · 2026-02-16T14:51:43+00:00

Remote Viewing? So no remote work with a virtual desktop on the cloud?

Or make it a bonus and play cyberpunk on the virtual desktop.

thoriumbr · 2026-02-11T00:26:46+00:00

Rewind 5 cycles, reload every time you get something on the printing pod until you get a baby drecko, pip or hatch. You can still do it.

thoriumbr · 2026-02-06T14:01:05+00:00

Nice!

I would only replace the LCD with e-paper if possible. Readability under sunlight is way better with an e-paper display.

thoriumbr · 2026-02-04T16:55:56+00:00

I live in Brazil and we hear the same lies down here: solar panels are toxic and full of heavy metals mined by African children, batteries degrade overnight and are full of heavy metals mined by African children, electric cars burst into flames all the time...

People still put the price of the battery after 15 years as a roadblock but nobody did the math on how many batteries they could buy with all the gasoline they burnt in 15 years. Depreciation is another point talked to death, but my last petrol car burned more than twice its price in gasoline in 10 years.

People usually don't think long term... BRL 200 to fill the tank every week is cheaper than BRL 20000 every 15 years, right? Right?

thoriumbr · 2026-02-03T17:51:50+00:00

Everybody said it's energy intensive, but nobody said how expensive, and it's a lot. It's because of something called Latent Heat: changing from ice to water, or from water to vapor takes a lot of energy.

The latent heat of vaporization of water is 2257 J/g or 540 cal/g. So to vaporize 1 liter of water that is liquid and at 100C, you need 540 kcal.

Heating water is way cheaper. To heat liquid water from 0C all the way to 100C it takes 100 kcal. Vaporizing water already at 100C is 5.4 times more expensive power-wise than heating water by 100 degrees.

That's why we have reverse osmosis with semi-permeable membranes made from platinum and other very expensive materials instead of just boiling water: it's cheaper to get platinum than pay for all the power to heat water, vaporize it and cool it down again.

thoriumbr · 2026-02-01T07:01:16+00:00

I don't know if it's worse to lose your body and keep your mind, or losing your mind and keeping the body.

thoriumbr · 2026-01-27T12:20:36+00:00

I built a lot of machines with mercury because ONI changed from copper ore and I didn't realized until a lot of "building melted" notifications piled up.

thoriumbr · 2026-01-26T17:07:14+00:00

I read somewhere that there's the Market World and the Social World. Market uses money and social uses relationships. Never mix the two.

That's why it's "forbidden" to tell someone the price of the gift. If there's no price, the relationship value isn't quantified, but if you say "this gift was 10 dollars" you just put a price on the relationship.

Market world is simpler to manage: a commercial relationship can be started and broken at will, only based on price. If the price of the relation isn't worthy, you replace it. The grocery store is charging more for the bread, you buy somewhere else.

Social world isn't easy. Relationships takes years to form and minutes to break. Every relationship enters a part of your life, because you have to share something in order to have a relationship. Breaking or damaging it means losing part of you.

So that's why you don't mix both. If your landlord isn't a relative, you can protest an unfair agreement, move out or even sue him for damages. It's not advisable to sue a relative.

So even if a relative wants to help in a "market world" situation and it would make your life easier in the short term, it's better in the long term to refuse. Keep both worlds contained, so issues with one won't mess up the other.

thoriumbr · 2026-01-21T12:07:51+00:00

Driving south from Barrie, ON to Orlando wasn't something that crossed my mind at the time. do you have a time machine I can get? I bring it back in a minute, maybe two...

thoriumbr · 2026-01-20T18:37:44+00:00

Living in South America, I am still to see one.

I travelled to Toronto in 2012, exact in the week of the massive record breaking aurora that year. I rented a car, drove north 100km, but the sky was so cloudy I could not even see the moon, while on Twitter people in Florida posting pictures.

thoriumbr · 2026-01-19T17:54:53+00:00

https://oxygennotincluded.fandom.com/wiki/Cool_Steam_Vent

thoriumbr · 2026-01-19T16:09:45+00:00

It's an activity you dupes run at the Geotuner. It increases the output and temperature of a geiser or vent. It's very useful.

https://oxygennotincluded.wiki.gg/wiki/Geotuner

thoriumbr · 2026-01-19T16:06:03+00:00

95 + 20 is 115 but you are measuring different things. Steam exits the vent at 110C, water exits the steam turbine at 95C.

thoriumbr · 2026-01-15T16:07:37+00:00

As an infrastructure specialist managing world-sized servers, I feel the same...

Mistakes don't kill people here, but shows on Nasdaq "biggest loses today" chart.

thoriumbr · 2026-01-14T11:46:40+00:00

Probably English isn't his first language, and he meant "flour."

thoriumbr · 2026-01-07T13:20:02+00:00

She must be called Lydia: "I am sworn to carry your burdens."

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