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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • I’d love a useful heads up display with things like navigation, search (as in, “where the fuck did I leave my keys, they should be in my field of view”, not “what’s the capital of italy”), and something like a dashcam, where you can retroactively playback the last X minutes if something happened, but otherwise it gets deleted automatically.

    And nothing gets off the device without my consent of course.




  • What do you mean official statblock? As in it’s a statblock from the dmg/mm? Then they can still just tack in things they want/need (as can you, as dm).

    I agree they probably could (and should) have better specified that this diverges from the stat block, but the point of the module is to try and cater to everyone, including rewarding players that took points in perception here apparently.

    I think it’s got its pros and cons, I’m very fond of seeing all the rules and following them, even as a dm, so 3e (and Pathfinder) were always more my thing, but having played 5e nowadays (and other, even more “you have a 5 damage power, flavour it however you like” like mutants & masterminds) I kind of like the dm style of “know your players, make exceptions where it would increase enjoyment and/or add an interesting challenge without breaking the future fun of the game” too.

    Arguably that’s the difference between DM and GM. A DM is just running a dungeon. A GM is running the whole game, rules and all.






  • Why do you wish to live with such a high footprint? Why not a modest apartment and a public swimming pool nearby? (Still unachievable for many, sadly, but much more realistic for anyone except the super wealthy.)

    Not trying to bash on you, I really want to understand where you’re coming from.




  • Tldw: piracy is a service problem. If you have a product that’s not available in your local language, but the pirates localise it days after release instead of months, and at a much better quality too (and without all the crappy drm that forces always online etc), that’s a game developer/distributor/… problem, not a piracy problem.

    I also recall (not in this vid though) gaben (or maybe someone else?) saying something about piracy actually increasing sales of games, as a form of demo or try before you buy (for good games anyway lol). I know I’ve done that, pirate a game when I was a poor student (no sales money lost because otherwise I just wouldn’t have bought it) and then bought it on steam years later and never played it there, just because I believe the devs deserve it.








  • I have some steelseries (I believe maybe arctis 7 or 9? I should check, not the one that also does Bluetooth), and it works fine after using the accompanying software once years ago to set mic loopback to the level I like.

    It has

    • mic loopback (adjustable with the windows only software but set and forget)
    • 2 channels, one for chat and one for “gaming” i.e. anything else. Perfect to set gaming as default output and slack or teams or discord or whatever you use to voice chat to the chat channel and you can use the knob to dial between 0% chat & 100% game <-> 100% both <-> 0% game & 100% chat
    • another knob for the global volume which then combined with the other knob allows all possible configurations
    • mic mute button
    • usb micro-b charging
    • some weird specific cable that does 3.5mm jack iirc, never used it but then you can use it for your phone I guess
    • connects to your computer using wireless (2.4ghz usb dongle at computer side)

    All of those in hardware so no software needed, except for the mic loopback, so pretty happy with that. I’ve had it since my windows 7 days, and I refused to “upgrade” to a higher version of windows, instead upgraded to linux, so it’s been going strong for years and years now

    Only thing was that I replaced the over ear pads

    9/10, easily