Valve argued in court that you do not own any title in your library and that they are a subscription based service. That’s not very ethical.

Kubuntu? Whore.

Windows being easy to pirate wasnt the reason for it’s popularity. It had market share because they allowed for it to be preinstalled on machines for virtually nothing. They allowed it to be preinstalled on machines for virtually nothing because the OS wasn’t the flagship product.

MS Office has always been the major flagship product for the company. This was true in 1994 and still is today. Office is so important to their revenue streams that it’s fairly common knowledge and has been mentioned by former employees that OS development would focus on compatibility with Office programs, not the other way around.

Specifically if you look at the years around Office XP and 2003, that suite is used very much as a CVS. They deprecate their operating systems using Office.

I had a few networking and docker guides up, but I nuked the account with shreddit. Still, the institutional knowledge that those guides were based on left with me. We can rebuild.

That might have been me asking for it, but if you find a mod to that, please let me know! https://lemm.ee/comment/2161312

There are some people who actually study probability patterns in randomness. That subjects beyond me, but a quick summary of what they usually say is that something like what you’re describing or triplets or various other things are actually quite common and don’t disprove randomness.

Just one example of a conversation like that: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1132058/why-does-randomness-exhibit-a-pattern-in-the-long-run

Because you’ve already expended your spell slots for that level.

I disagree with some of their assessment. Specifically the point that you really aren’t given enough information to weigh out which decisions you go with and that is something problematic. Unknowns are pretty inherent with Dungeons and Dragons. In tabletop, you typically don’t know what the outcome is going to be. You can only veer towards decisions you think will be a net positive and then hope you make your rolls.

With a couple of exceptions, no decision you make is really game over for you. It just changes how the story unfolds.

Before Baldur’s Gate was a thing, I remember reading Homeland by RA Salvatore. It was 1994 and my sister gave it to be as a bday present. I couldn’t put it down and it firmly cemented me into Dungeons & Dragons. I already had been playing some gold box games like Hillsfar, but that book got me seriously addicted.

I just read that in my mind in the narrator’s voice.

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My take on this is that Shar knew about the prism, but simply just did not care. Sharran documents like to refer to the Dead Three as “godlings” which makes a lot of sense from the perspective of Shar. She’s old. Like really old. To her the Dead Three are not much more than mortals who tricked their way into a fractional amount of power, so their machinations are childlike at best and nowhere near on the scope of what Shar is capable of.

I agree though that Shar wouldn’t thematically ever make any personal appearance or have any direct involvement with any of her plots. That isn’t her style. She would whisper commands to super high level followers, but even then never divulge the why of it. You would just get orders not explanations.

Probably not relevant to the console players, but mods and patches always interest me.

That sounds like a mod request haha

You can always bite his hand off…

I really love the lore, especially as it pertains to the Planescape setting. It’s part of the Proclamation of Two Skies:

After the gith destroyed the illithid empire, Gith, a warrior-queen and leader of the rebellion, declared that the People would not rest until they had discovered and destroyed all remaining illithids in the multiverse; then, the People would be free to conquer all of the planes of existence and bring war to all other races. Many of the People’s hearts shared this goal. Zerthimon argued that the People already knew freedom and should begin to mend the damage done to their race. He too expressed a goal that was in the hearts of many of the People. Still, Gith insisted that hers was the only path and that they would be “under the same sky” in the matter.

I use Lae’zel for my evil run, but she does have kind of that evil cat vibe. Like how every cat not only acknowledges it is a cat, but somehow feels that it is the epitome of what it means to be a cat.

Also, as I think it’s pointed out, githyanki are canonically space Nazis. Early in her character arc there is definitely the notion that she is only helping you to help herself and that she has no problem with “final solutioning” you.

Unarmored defence is CON for barbarians.

How dare you have fun and enjoy something you purchased differently than me?! I’m appalled! Appalled, I tell you!!

I scum only high risk big decisions. Even then I will try to just roll with what I get. Lots of unintended fights. Some of which are very challenging, but the story feels much better than if it’s done "perfectly’.