Bahnd

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[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Yep, if you own a bank 10 thousand dollars, thats a you problem. If you owe a band 10 billion dollars, thats a them problem.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Never inturupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I only play scout, and my primary build has always been special powder and supercooling. (Max bag space, vampire, thorns, jet boots, and the medic perks)

This is the way.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That would be perfect for monitoring a home assistant instance.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Good, that is a beautiful movie, that you will only watch once. More people need to see it.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Holy URLs Batman!

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I would love that, I dont think the movie is terrible, its just that everything after Ford and Arthur get thrown out the airlock isnt as funny or absurd as the books. The main issue is the first 2ish books are unadaptable because there is no central conflict (or arleast the main cast dosent care or know there was supposed to be one).

Zaphod is the only person with motivation to do anything other than to continue existing, and he is unaware (or dosen't care) he is being hunted until they meet those suprisingly progessive law enforcment officers on Magrathea and when he visits the guides publishing offices.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Im sure its fine, Carthage will be back on its feet any day now.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Also according to an angry Italians fanfic of hell, its not really that hot there either. Some little bits of it are, mostly revolving around people who were generally assholes in life, and a non-zero number of recently deceased (See the 14th century) popes the author had an axe to grind with.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Painting in broad strokes here as its been over a decade since D&D v4 and WoWs high-water mark, I think people call it that because of several factors, not all of them in the game design of v4.

  • It was the begining of the trends that we see today in 5e where the stock classes were designed to fit the archtype, not the style. If you played something out of the base books, it just had to work and character progression was boiled down, you had to try to brick your character.
  • This was also around the time when WoW was changing its mentality to "bring the player, not the class". This still holds up today where they design content around the players being there, not what was there. Fewer class specific shortcuts or tricks, unique traits. No one single common ability is unique to a class. For example, need temporary invuln to eat one hit that causes max damage, bring a pally, mage, or hunters.
  • The migration from 3.5 to 4 left a void in class/race variety as the prestige classes took a while to convert to the new system, many were lost. Like when Disney bought Starwars and threw all the extended universe content out. D&D 3.5 had an alarmingly high number of suplimental books.
  • The increase in charts in v4 felt like they could have fit more in with a PC RPG, I do realize the irony in the success of Pathfinder 1 as it just took that "charts for days" concept and ran with it.

D&D v4 to me will always be the MMO version because it was a product of its time, and also WotC scrapped pretty quickly, relativly speaking.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the clairifcation on the EU ballot initiative thing, that clears that up pretty well. The US sorta just threw the baby out with the bathwater in terms of departmental regulation but thats an entirely other can of worms.

Your second point about DDOSing, Thor comes from a cyber security background and the legality isnt as much of a factor, nor is he stating stating that this would make it legal. Security people have to treat it like "defense against the dark arts", if its possible to do someone will, therefore you have to be able to do it too to prevent it. He is stating that actors would DDOS things because they can, and potentially do so smartly to secretly ruin others enterprises by abusing the regulations if the get made poorly.

But your point clears that up a bit, the initiative has to be vague by design so that lawmakers/regulators can do their job should it pass its initial poll. I think Thor also has a point in that it if the final rulings are made poorly it opens the industry up to abuse. (see amazons patent issues as an example of companies and agencies not thinking things through)

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It felt like they were trying to make an MMO be a table-top game at the time when WoW was at the height of its popularity (that WotLK nostalgia). Its not that it was overly bad, it was a square peg, round hole situation.

These days I feel like 5E has no teeth, very good intro but beyond the first few campaigns and the endless art books its mechanically uninteresting. Pathfinder 2e has been what most of my games have converted to.

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