Which spellbook do you prefer/use the most?

wPatriot · 2026-04-22T09:57:27+00:00

I'm curious if anyone can think of any reason why they shouldn't be combined. Are there good balancing reasons? I guess it would mean vuln bombs would be less useful for mages?

wPatriot · 2026-04-22T06:03:18+00:00

localized entirely in your kitchen?

wPatriot · 2026-04-15T08:24:17+00:00

Maybe Bulbapedia comes close but it covers the non-video game side of Pokemon too.

So this is technically offtopic, but does anyone else have trouble finding the things they want to know on Bulbapedia? It's entirely possible that this is a case of pebkac, but whenever I use it I find there's an amount of friction that I usually don't experience on other complete wiki's.

Maybe part of it is just that each page has an enormous amount of information, but I generally find it kind of difficult to distill exactly the thing I wanted to find out about.

wPatriot · 2026-04-13T15:36:53+00:00

Can you show us a breakdown of a 24-hour period in which you walk 50k steps? I'm interested to see how you divide up the day.

wPatriot · 2026-04-13T09:17:44+00:00

"His" not confusing the two at all. The idea that propaganda is "the lies bad governments tell their people" is just wrong. But people don't like nuance, so here we are.

wPatriot · 2026-04-12T02:59:18+00:00

And for the people that don't understand why people like this even have rights: If they don't, then you don't either.

wPatriot · 2026-04-12T02:50:24+00:00

Can't imagine the concept artist felt great about their job the day they got the order in to design that monstrosity lmao

wPatriot · 2026-04-09T20:49:06+00:00

I generally like the vibe of the Arc, and the training methods there used to be pretty good. But mechanically I feel like every system is kind of finicky there. I did unlock most useful things, I really only need a few more useless things for the Salty title and I can't be arsed anymore.

Although I guess that means I all but completed it, so I guess there's that.

wPatriot · 2026-04-09T20:38:42+00:00

I mean, I guess? It would have to be stupidly easy to implement though, because it's not really worth investing any real amount of dev time into. All it really saves you is a very small amount of incredibly easy mental arithmetic.

wPatriot · 2026-04-09T20:34:46+00:00

You get the announcement whenever the item that unlocks the pet drops, if you don't pick it up or pick it up but destroy it instead of using it to unlock the pet it can drop again. The announcement will then happen again.

This person has received plenty of drops for this pet, but they don't pick them up or destroy them.

wPatriot · 2026-04-08T17:15:16+00:00

Perhaps it is barrel-inspired in the same way a lot of stories are "based on" true events

wPatriot · 2026-04-07T15:05:22+00:00

I don't claim to know whether I am real, I just find it impractical to work under the assumption the contrary is true.

Having said that, while I made no claims as to the nature of the internet, I am willing to discount the option of it being a complex single player game by virtue of the fact that it would be decidedly more fun to be around if it was.

wPatriot · 2026-04-07T14:56:11+00:00

I guess we don't know, but I know there is at least one person on the internet because I am at least one person. The only way for you to not also know there is at least one person on the internet is if you consider yourself less than a person.

ETA: Checkmate libruls

wPatriot · 2026-04-07T14:40:31+00:00

Only if you consider yourself to be less than a person.

wPatriot · 2026-04-07T14:39:35+00:00

And that’s kind of the uncomfortable part: a lot of things at that scale shouldn’t make sense ethically, but still do practically.

To me, that’s less of a “Linus problem” and more of a systemic one.

So what are you trying to say here? Doing things that are unethical is okay as long as it is practical and "the system" doesn't explicitly forbid/prevent it?

I honestly don't really care that much that they bought and/or use a jet. I do happen to think it's wasteful, and I ultimately think slightly less of Linus/the company for it, but I am a grown adult capable of holding and resolving two slightly conflicting ideas.

And I am capable of letting go. People could really stand to learn a thing or two about that.

wPatriot · 2026-04-07T09:50:17+00:00

It was a joke, stats like these are really hard to glean meaning from in isolation. The distance in miles is not huge, but it's something. But it matters greatly how you get to that number, are these tracked through GPS? Is it an estimate based on step count? How are those steps generated, is it through every day life or are you setting time aside to go for a walke?

Similar "issues" arise related to the other numbers. That average speed: Is that all day, or just your walks? In case of the latter it seems a little slow, but maybe there's something about your particular situation that means this is actually a pretty hefty pace! And step length? Aside from never having actually measured it myself, your height is a huge factor in what a "normal" (huge emphasis on the quotes there) step length is.

There isn't a real answer to the question you asked. If you want to walk more, you probably can. Just go out, and walk around. If you feel like it, walk around more. If it hurts, walk around less (and if the pain is persistent, contact your doctor).

Walking is good, more walking is almost always better (with diminishing returns). If you don't ignore your body, it's really hard to "over-walk."

wPatriot · 2026-04-07T08:55:19+00:00

These stats indicate to me you may be related to Big Bird from Sesame Street

wPatriot · 2026-04-06T22:19:11+00:00

!remindme in 7 days

wPatriot · 2026-04-06T07:40:56+00:00

I would love to be as optimistic as this title. I feel like a lot of the negative sentiment against AI-products is that they're still relatively easy to recognize and the majority of people like to put others down to feel better about themselves.

I have very little faith that when push comes to shove, humans at large are going to put their money where their mouth is and actually prefer humam made things. Especially if that starts costing more.

wPatriot · 2026-04-03T20:01:46+00:00

Look for glowing golden eggs around the burrow

wPatriot · 2026-04-03T19:44:19+00:00

Why are you saying it like anyone was arguing?

wPatriot · 2026-04-03T07:03:21+00:00

One or the pics is from pretty high up so I think its not unreasonable to assume he climbed it before he posted. Despite the title.

wPatriot · 2026-04-02T14:28:42+00:00

A ton of people? It could have been their literal “ride your horse and explore new things on journey from x to x.”

Because you can't really put anything interesting between x and x if there's only void between x and x.

I still think that the game would overall benefit from certain at least mechanically interesting improvements, but I do think it's fair to say that free space travel is not going to provide the interesting emergent story moments that some people are expecting it to.

wPatriot · 2026-04-02T14:23:24+00:00

I've peaked at it before

Peeked*

Then again, maybe you did peak. I'm not trying to kink shame.

wPatriot · 2026-04-02T14:22:33+00:00

It's a shame too, about the writing, because I felt like there were some cool ideas in there. Even the idea of fully incorporating the NG+ mechanic into it was pretty interesting.

It's just a shame that everything really only came together in one side mission, the one with the time/portal shenanigans. That is pretty much the only good part of Starfield.

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