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And yet we still seem to catch up to it relatively often anyway. Kinda' makes you think a lil'. Or start rambling about not!superman.

Oh god no. Potato skins are not just plain non-edible man.

You know not of what you speak. The skin's the best part. Potatoes are meant to be cleaned, not skinned. Maybe cut up, if it's for fries or soup or whatev'. But the skin stays.

... actually, wait, you're right. The skins aren't non-edible. They are plainly edible, haha! Canny semantics, I guess...

Anyway. Baked potatoes are a finger food. Clean it, bake it, cut it in half, season to taste, eat. To hell with your forks and your spoons and sporks. Take that blighter by hand and consume.

Top to bottom (chronologically, in other words), following the entries made by Pusakuronu. More or less. Some of the stuff by other authors are interesting enough, but it should basically be treated as written by that pusa fellow.

Well. That was silly. Elven ruins. Full power!Sasshy died from three bomb hits. Three. Total. She never hit me. Did a little damage to the golem, but. Yeah.

That was...

... that was a thing. Kinda' a sad thing, though. I'm now sitting on the maxed out crown of burning pain (+35% fire damage!) with a frost-spec'd alchemist. And I picked up firewalker on an earlier level of the ruins, iirc. Between everything, could be looking at a +% fire damage of around 80% (probably higher, actually)... at level 27. Pre-dreadfell. Also a good 30% fire penetration. In comparison, my cold right now is at 56/20, and that's only because I'm running the draconian addon and ended up as a lapis lasuli one giving a passive 20/20 boost. 25% of the remainder is coming from the staff.

What I'm saying is fire is ridiculous in this game And alchies remain kinda' silly. Bit boring, but good gods, those delicious numbers.

... also, does anyone know what happens if your golem is wearing kit with a slow projectile effect on it? Half thinking of poking its dex up so it can offhand the stormblade.

Quote from: Naxza on February 03, 2014, 09:51:37 am

A) Spice coffee. It's mentioned rather frequently in terms of comestibles, but the logic of it baffles me. On a desert planet, its natives are inclined to make.. A hot water beverage? Why would they consume spice in this manner?

I don't see why it baffles you so. Is it because you think people in a hot climate would not drink hot beverages?
If so, then do keep in mind two things. One, it's freezing cold after the sunset. Similarly, the cavernous
sietches can be expected to be cool places - cool enough to allow living without stillsuits.
The second thing to remember, is that the Fremen culture was modelled on various Arab and Persian nomadic tribes, most notably the Bedouin. These are the people who "invented" coffee drinking. Google for history of coffee, or coffee in the Arab world.

Yeah. To add to that, if you've ever actually had a hot drink during hot weather (I'm partial to hot chocolate when it's >100F, m'self), you'd know it tends to make the ambient temperature feel less oppressive. Is old, old trick. Drink hot when hot, drink cold when cold. It'll feel cooler or warmer, respectively.

Burning star + 25 radius track + 900+ damage bomb crits (and 53% spellcrit, yes, thankyou) at level 24. I don't think I've had a crypt run that easy in a long, looong time. Got hit, like, maybe five or six times total, most of that coming from the fifth level's starting cultists. Never went below half heath.

It's great how apparently bone shield buggers up the AI's damage awareness, ha. You can sit around corners and throw bombs at corruptors until the shield breaks without them starting to come at you.

And then they die before they can do anything anyway, because the bombs one-shot them once the shield's down. Wheeee~

E: Oh. Oh shit. If you're controlling the golem when you hit, you know, that special farportal event. The golem gets kicked out. And you stick around.
E2: Talking to it again kicks you out, though. Should have done inspections and whatnot, see what attacking it did and stuff, but eh.

And power fantasies are pretty disgusting, particularly violent ones. That's a level of immaturity we should be trying to move away from, not foster.

I'd pretty strongly contest both those statements. Power fantasies include pretty close to every bloody video game that's ever existed -- almost anything that exceeds the limits of the human body, and even more specifically the current capabilities of the individual player, falls under that purview to some degree. I would say, very strongly, that there is absolutely nothing disgusting about wanting to experience, even at the fairly distant level that games allow, more than one is capable of -- to want to have power, even by proxy, and exercise it. The violence porn that characterizes certain genres could be labeled as disgusting, sure, but stuff like freaking ToME? Mario? The brush strokes of that statement is entirely too broad.

And immaturity definitely isn't the word I'd use to describe an enjoyment of power fantasies. Immaturity comes from letting some of the themes involved with them influence other action, not the enjoyment itself. Level of maturity doesn't have a bloody thing to do with what is or isn't enjoyable. What is fun at five is fun at fifty, physical limitations and potentially moral considerations notwithstanding. If "maturity" shrinks what you're capable of enjoying instead of expanding it, something has gone wrong.

... harsh, but probably fairly true, or at least a lack of familiarity with data compression or somethin'. ToME's latest incarnation uses a similar system, except the packed up data is a simple compressed file that can be opened by pretty much any compression software (7zip, winrar, whatever) and is more or less entirely painless to mess with. Not sure what's stopping Starbound from doing something similar... s'even using more or less the same sorts of data, looking at it. Y'd half think it a case of attempting to protect code, but that's completely silly in the face of what it's packing up and the whole providing an unpacker thing.

Strange they didn't go ahead and pack up the music too, though. Might as well save some more space, yeah? Hell, it half looks like it's not even compressed, looking at the before and after hard drive footprint... poking the .pak with 7zip dropped cut the file size by a bit more than a third. Not sure if I'd call it general incompetence, but specific incompetence...

... not that I could do any better, so more power to 'em, I guess. It's interesting, but I'm not complaining. To complain is to offer to help fix the problem, ha.