thedirtyknapkin

from what I understand the majority of spice trade man then was for dyes and perfumes rather than seasoning food.

huh, i live in a town North of Denver, so not the city, and i have like 8 of them nearby. half the gas stations that have atms have them.

there is a lot of tech work around here, maybe that's why.

yeah, but they have an easy instant right click to send to camp button. it's really not a hindrance.

hbo's Rome did it right. they show it one time and it's in response to arrow fire.

otherwise they have legates organizing spear lines and using whistles to time and position them. it was actually quite well done.

honestly, I always feel so much more part of the conversation here. on Reddit, unless you time it just right and browse young posts, chances are your comment will never be seen. on here you'll be one of 50 top level comments at most. and that's only the biggest threads. it would be nice to see more activity on more threads, but often when i comment on something with no comments it's enough to start the conversation.

almost none of my comments here get ignored, and the conversations that come out of them feel better. unless it's about Linux. you people are insane and unapproachable when it comes to operating systems. not because you're wrong, you're just... a lot.

lol, America is nearly equal in size to ALL of Europe. they are within 5% of each other.

but there's so many other ways to change difficulty.

change number of enemies and where they spawn change gear and abilities, the Witcher did that one with how the stamina system worked. it didn't drain on the lower difficulties. horizon zero dawn made everything in the shops more expensive and made the enemies drop less money. honestly, that one also sucked. only served to make the game grindier.

point is, there's other options.

eh, as a photographer that works weddings, any wedding without a planner is hell for me. i might actually just say no if that's the case.

if you hire people to work it you should have a person who can be their go to while you are getting married.

if you go for an event like you describe people will be unhappy at the lack of food and leave after not long. if that's what you want, good for you. go for it. if you want people to stick around and have a good time, you need to feed them. that's expensive, even if you somehow make it all yourself with food from the farmers market, it's still going to be over a thousand dollars for most people. again, unless you only invite like five people, but most people care about more than 5 people. throwing a big party of any kind isn't cheap unless you throw a terrible party.

you don't have to have a traditional wedding at all though. my sister got married during COVID in her backyard on video call. it was lovely. a big beautiful wedding with lots of people is also lovely and uniquely fun. just don't let you relatives pressure you into things you don't want. there's where it always goes wrong.

yeah, it really does give put on and hike vibes, doesn't it?

i mean... it's a big game. an hour is definitely not enough time to get the feel of a game like that.

hell I've never played it and have no strong feelings for or against it, but saying you quit after an hour is not much more than saying you never tried it at all.

like maybe it would be enough time to figure out it wasn't for you if you don't like shooters or complicated games in general, but to say it like you did. like you can't understand how anyone could enjoy it is a bit... it makes you come of badly.

a small tip from someone that has been at this for a while.

watch your highlights when you're pushing the contrast. you have some very delicate texture and detail in the whites on those plans the you don't want to lose. try pushing your highlights and shadows separately, if you aren't, instead of using the contrast slider. that way you can push the shadows down more than you push the highlights up. creating the same amount of contrast while preserving the highlights.

of course, the same can an be said in reverse for shadows. it's all a balancing act.

loose gunpowder* but yes, gunpowder actually burns very slowly. in fact, we have designed gunpowder to burn slower than old blackpowder from the musket days. it's the containment and pressure that makes it work in a gun. but it's also why it's not uncommon to actually shoot some amount of unburned powder from many guns. a thing that was difficult to know or prove before high speed cameras.