Way back when, Slashdot had something like this to place in your signature. It was a code string that looked like a PGP/GPG signature but the letters were actually personal details.
I recall you could encode age, gender, and relationship status in it, and I think location and whether you worked in the tech industry
Save often and don’t worry about save scumming. There are a lot of gotcha traps, especially in the early game, that are funny when they don’t wreck all your progress by propelling you into a bottomless pit.
The game lets you save just about any time, even in dialog right before you pick something to say. Don’t worry too much about failing dialog choices though. Even a failed roll still gives you interesting story. Some interactions might only happen if you failed your roll.
But again, save often because the game can have bugs and can crash or mechanics can work differently than you expect.
There are almost no quests that have a time limit where they count how many long rests you’ve taken. Most of them the game will give you an indication that time is running out, but even if you ignore it the story still makes sense - you’re just too late to finish a quest a certain way.
Almost all quests don’t actually care about time so you can long rest whenever you like and in fact you should rest more often than most gamers probably do because a lot of the story events happen when you sleep.
Often the best tactic in combat is to run away, especially on higher difficulty settings.
P.S. If you’re playing with a controller (e.g. on console) there’s a puzzle in act two that is broken. If you get stuck on a puzzle with colorful lines and brains, it’s not because you’re dumb but because you have to click the left thumb stick to enter precision mode to click things like a computer mouse. Otherwise the things you need to click to solve the puzzle are too far away from the character and you can’t complete it
Actually, it’s implied in lore that Bhaal, the god of murder, is the one who cums. Into your mouth. I’m not making it up
In addition this was back when airlines had strong restrictions on wireless being used on planes, so many devices had physical switches to turn WiFi/Bluetooth off. Maybe it’s still turned off
Also an old fart, also love XFCE
I am a longtime fan of Debian Stable, for exactly that reason. I installed the XFCE version using the custom installer about 8 years ago and have had very few issues.
Initially my GPU wasn’t well supported so I had to use the installer from Nvidia, forcing me to manually reinstall the driver after every kernel update. That issue has been fixed in recent years so now I can just use the driver from the Debian repos.
I installed the unattended-updates package about 2 years ago and it has been smooth sailing since
I have some bad news for you - any random idiot with a driver’s license and a two-ton death machine already puts your ass at risk, all the time. We call it “traffic” because we’ve just gotten used to it
I came to the comments to mention that exact experience. There must be historical reasons that SCP uses -P and SSH uses -p but I certainly didn’t expect it since they’re both from the same package (openssh)
It sounds like this is your first playthrough so I’ll try to avoid giving spoilers.
In my opinion the best way to enjoy the game is to just do everything - explore the entire map and follow up any leads in your journal.
For example, you probably already know about an owlbear cave from the dying guy and his two cultists, the ones who first told you what a “True Soul” is.
I suggest following up on all of those leads, finding a way to the Underdark and exploring everything there. Once you find the part that prompts you that once you proceed you can’t turn back (the passage into Act 2) then you should backtrack and take the overland route.
Speak with Halsin for suggestions on how to find the Underdark. If he is dead you can get some info from notes on his body or in his office at the Grove.
If however, you prefer to only follow up on the most important quests or you want to strictly act immersively then my suggestion is to finish a few quests that have important outcomes that change how later acts play out (e.g., has this person been killed, did you rescue this other person) or have important decisions that define your character, or at least have good loot.
-Auntie Ethel seems to know something about your tadpole. Maybe meet up with her at her quaint teahouse
-Wyll is hunting a devil, which is even more important to him than the tadpole. Help him find his quarry
-The goblins are a threat to the Tieflings and the Grove (you’ve already started this one)
-There was a note in the apothecary in the blighted village. It mentioned a shipment being sent to the cellar. Maybe there’s good loot down there
-Lae’zel knows of a crèche nearby where her people can cure you. She is adamant that you find it
-There’s an old highway to the north called the Risen Road. It should go all the way to Baldur’s Gate. Maybe the path is still clear. Surely someone in the city could help you find a cure…
This game is huge and many things you do will affect the world later. Mechanically, how the game keeps track of that is based on the state of the world when you advance to the next act. For example, people will be absent from later acts if they die in Act 1. Your decisions have consequences for the world. So I say make sure you’re there to make those decisions
I first used XFCE on my old 700mhz processor Thinkpad back in the day. Back then, Gnome and especially KDE were known to use excessive resources on low-end machines so XFCE was preferred.
However, I actually quite liked the DE so I just switched to it permanently, even on my more capable machines. I’ve been running XFCE for around 15 years 😆
"Put yourself under the command of the United States, if it is still there"
JFC nuclear weapons are horrifying
For YouTube content I really like the Tubular app on Android. It has Sponsorblock built-in, which you mentioned, but it also has an option to skip silence.
I find it particularly nice for gaming content, or any point where the YouTuber is reading text aloud.
I must have skipped hundreds of hours of pointless silence by this point
Yes, the game supports split screen local co-op on consoles and even on PC.
You can play through the first 2/3rds of the game in split screen with no trouble. However, in my experience it gets unstable in act 3 on Xbox Series X (probably also on PS5). Presumably it is something to do with the limited memory on consoles, so if your PC has great specs it should work there.
They are planning an update due next month which is supposed to address the crashing, but it remains to be seen.
I think currently the best experience on consoles is to have two copies of the game on separate consoles.
The patch 7 update also will supposedly add cross platform multiplayer, so you could have one player on console and one on PC, since you probably don’t have two Xboxes, but again, it remains to be seen
Not to mention, OP didn’t specify where they live. Who knows defamation law for the whole world?
[Borat voice: wife!] right now
Lmao so he’s just swimming back across the river with the goat!
Someone should try animating these solutions. I’m picturing close-ups of the goat wondering why the man has lost his mind
I’d take it one step further; Feminist Appropriating Radical Transphobe
I recall using Web Spider on Netscape Navigator circa 1997 or so. Then Yahoo! was the big deal for a few years before Google
The -p <port> option can be used to specify the port number to connect to when using the ssh command on Linux. The -P <port> (note: capital P) option can be used with SFTP and scp.
Why is it that the switch on ssh is -p but in scp/sftp it is -P?
This has caused me a real headache in the past as ssh doesn’t throw an error message when you use a switch like “ssh -P 8080”
For a moment I thought that was the githyanki egg rather than a watermelon