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General Discussion / Re: Food Thread: Kitchen Chemistry
« on: April 15, 2022, 02:15:15 pm »
Those chocolate easter egg things, maybe? My immediate response to the proper use of coconut flakes is "burn them and the hell they spawned from", but apparently people make chocolate easter eggs with them as part of the filling. My grandparents liked the last one they had.

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now you're just inviting hole interjections

please no

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Other Games / Re: Oooohhhhhhh, Elden Ring. Bay12 Group Password: MAGMA
« on: April 14, 2022, 12:36:11 pm »
Yeah, that. Like said, lobos has over a dozen hours of video of him trying to figure that fight out for RL1, and then a few more to actually do it. Three parries in a row for the stagger, but it's at least looks like it's fairly easy timing with the buckler... dunno about other parries.

She does heal for blocks, but it's largely better for her to heal a little than for you to get gibbed by the dance, heh. You can dodge the dance entirely from melee range, but it seems to be a lot easier to just block the hard part and dodge the rest.

... though easiest seems to just be bow it up, ha. Haven't seen a spell attempt yet but jump shot just immiserates the poor thing in both phases.

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Other Games / Re: Oooohhhhhhh, Elden Ring. Bay12 Group Password: MAGMA
« on: April 14, 2022, 07:27:10 am »
Iirc her (non-dance) combos have tells that let you know exactly how many attacks it's going to be, as well as how fast they're going to come out... something about sparks prior to the attack starting. They're also the primary window for parries, and a buckler parry can manage it fairly easily.

The dance is actually somewhat trivially handled... with a shield (or some other means of 100% physblock). You can block the first bit and then pretty consistently roll dodge the rest of it, though there's a specific pattern to do it. Lobo's first and second runs are a bunch of video eventually showing a piece by piece breakdown of how to rek sister stabby arm in melee, and do so consistently enough to do it at rl1.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 13, 2022, 11:44:08 am »
congrats?

I honestly would rather have it and get over it than not and be afraid of it tbh
sadly reinfections are a thing so even if you catch the plague there's no guarantee you're going to get anything out of it except sickness with a chance of permanent organ damage or death

here's hoping it's not major or lingering, td1, no one deserves either :-\

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Eh, FO's fairly close in playstyle to bloodborne or sekiro in particular, from looking at it, iirc. It's faster than the older ones and a bit more mobile/explore-y overall, but still close enough design wise to draw the comparison to the general sort of material.

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Fallen Order is also supposed to be good, being a sort of SW-themed soulslike, but I have not personally tried it because it requires signing your soul over to EA to play.
It's a decent one to watch, from doing just that. Can't speak for the actual playing, but it looks fun enough as such things go. It also has this to speak for it, so.

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Inconsistency is the UI Devil. Remember that, live by it. Be better than Quickbooks.

E: Also, escape should always back you up a layer/function as a cancel button. If you're going really menu heavy, remember to make sure you can tab between fields and your tabbing works like it does basically every goddamn where else. I'm currently pestering our tech administration folks over a change in our working software that killed tab confirmation and tabbing between dropdown menus -- don't do that. If you're going to have tab navigation, have it work well. If you're not going to have it work well just don't bother >:(

E2: But seriously, if you have access to quickbooks or similar software, fire that up and then do better than them (as far as I'm aware they haven't changed significantly since I was trained on them, so this isn't actually going to be a high bar). If you have that as a baseline you're going to be doing pretty decently.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: April 11, 2022, 07:31:53 am »
I mean, it'd probably be okay-ish if you stay out of the red states, at least as okay as K-12 gets in this country (anecdotally, my K-12 teacher mother threatened me with death if I tried to get on the K-12 teacher track when I was in college, and was only somewhat joking)? As a fallback position, there's worse options.

You'd largely want to do that anyway, as pay and general support is usually (significantly) better in the blue states regardless...

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momma skull timeshare

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Other Games / Re: Oooohhhhhhh, Elden Ring. Bay12 Group Password: MAGMA
« on: April 10, 2022, 07:19:52 pm »
You both appear to be blind, that's clearly gggrrrrmmmmmmm.

... it's also missing at least sister stabby arm's brother, which roughly no one who has fought her should forget, so. Distrust! AND THE TURTLE POPE! Not just distrust, but disdain!

E: Also isn't there a S line, too? Sellen, Seluvis, Shabriri.

E2: Anyway, an actual full named NPC list according to the first list of NPCs I could find with a google search looks like this:
Spoiler: obviously spoilers (click to show/hide)
And it's missing at least a bunch of ash/summons/boss related names, like stabby arm's brother. There's more multiple repeats besides the Gs, Rs, and Ms, heh.

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General Discussion / Re: Capitalism and Socialism discussion thread
« on: April 10, 2022, 12:42:55 am »
Frankly, I think any government claims of supporting small business are lies.
You'd have to have a wildly myopic outlook to think this. The carveouts and assistances for smaller businesses in most of the major developed countries are there for the looking, and it's almost always more substantial than what's available to the non-business individual. Generally less than what big business sees, sure (that's capitalism for you :P), but the support's usually pretty substantial once you jump through the hoops to get to it, if you're actually running a legitimate business.

Incorporation in general, any of the business forms that limit fiscal or criminal liability, is a major one, just off the top of my head. Stateside there's a pile of help for smaller businesses, relatively sweet deal loans, tax breaks/writeoffs, and so on, if you can figure out how to ask for it in your region.

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Other Games / Re: Oooohhhhhhh, Elden Ring. Bay12 Group Password: MAGMA
« on: April 10, 2022, 12:30:58 am »
Fun extra bit:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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General Discussion / Re: Socialism discussion thread
« on: April 09, 2022, 06:13:03 pm »
Like... your business probably would have failed with or without government intervention. Plenty of businesses have even in areas where restrictions were functionally nonexistent, because we've been in a bloody plague and lots of folks don't actually need a mandate from on high to cut back on being out and about in the middle of a highly infectious pandemic.

Meanwhile, if you want covid based reasons to hate capitalism, well *gestures at profit motive and healthcare in the US alone*. There's tens to hundreds of thousands of people dead or crippled because capitalist horseshit kept them away from medical care or preventative measures (i.e. staying at home) through one means or another, and then more that are probably going to be buried in medical debt for decades, just as a sort of start to the cavalcade of horseshit.

...

Anyway, I don't actually hate capitalism per se, personally, there's just a lot of shit about it that needs to be hard shackled or it starts screwing everyone involved over. It has its uses under certain circumstances, it just needs to be kept well the hell away from everywhere it doesn't (i.e. anything vital, like infrastructure, agriculture, healthcare, education, basically anything involving monopoly of force, etc).

It's really as simple as that, one thing you can trust a successful capitalist to do is start fucking over everyone around them if you don't keep them watched, regulated, and cut down to size, so... do that. Keep the harm inherent to the system under control. Then it's mostly okay to let 'em stick around.

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General Discussion / Re: Capitalism and Socialism discussion thread
« on: April 09, 2022, 05:08:46 pm »
I mean, there's reasons to distrust stuff calling itself the state (or at least trust cautiously), but one of the things even less trustworthy than a state is a corporation or business person, so...

The examples of a farm owned privately fairly often don't exactly have pretty answers to those questions, heh.

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