Redonkulation

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[–] Redonkulation 3 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Rift crystals are earned by playing just like the first game. Their only purpose is to hire higher level pawns, but you earn them when people pay for your pawn or you complete their quests. It's part of the interplay of players exchange pawns.

Recent Capcom games have all done this where it's a great game and right on release they stuff a bunch of micro transactions in for in-game currency but you would have to be an absolute chud to buy any of it because it's so trivial to earn.

DMCV did the same thing with trying to sell red orbs, the primary upgrade currency, but if you didn't see people complain about it online, you wouldn't even notice it in game.

They are ticking a checkbox for the suits.

[–] Redonkulation 2 points 8 months ago

Oolimo, the website and phone app is a great resource for me. It lets you enter notes on a fretboard to identify chords.

[–] Redonkulation 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Anything not tech/Linux related. It's 90% of my feed.

[–] Redonkulation 5 points 8 months ago

That's about how well it fits in. You produce and find guns and can equip yourself and the pals with certain weapons. Modern firearms in a generic fantasy setting. It's like a meme game that has too much production budget.

[–] Redonkulation 12 points 8 months ago

Your phone does the same thing just without communicating it. Samsung phones let you change the percentage of the battery is "100%" charged.

[–] Redonkulation 9 points 9 months ago

A reasonable comment in this community? Get out!

[–] Redonkulation 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's cool that YouTube started doing a recap. It's fun.

[–] Redonkulation 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Top song is Comin Around by Andrew Duhon.

Top artist is The Tedeschi Trucks band, no surprise there. Best God damn band on tour right now. Listened to them so much this year as I got tickets to one of their shows this past July.

It was a good year of listening for me.

Edit: after scrolling through the comments, pretty cool seeing very few repeated bands.

[–] Redonkulation 7 points 10 months ago

Make them better coffee and then don't comment on it until they ask.

Most people seem to connect bitter and strong and it's a hard habit to break out of. People are used to crappy coffee.

Just getting them to a stage where they buy quality beans and grind them fresh is a big leap, but once they reach that baseline you can introduce roast levels.

[–] Redonkulation 40 points 10 months ago

When Firefox announced that a ton of their add-ons/extensions were coming to the mobile app, it got me to switch from chrome after almost 15 years.

[–] Redonkulation 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Any RPG with dialogue and choices. Bonus points for custom characters or male/female options.

Before my girlfriend got into games, I would often play a new game with her and ask her to design the create-a-character and ask for her input on dialogue choices. Sometimes we would take turns reading aloud in game text and documents. It got her invested without the stress of having to handle the game.

She eventually bought herself a switch and blasted out 500 hours of animal crossing during the pandemic lockdown and now she is all in on games.

[–] Redonkulation 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately it's fully supported by the statistics and multiple large channels have tried to get away from the shitty thumbnails, but those videos get significantly less clicks.

We can hate it, but it works.

 

This week we read section 1. The Theater.

This post will serve as a backup discussion for anyone that is not able to join us during the meeting time.

After going through this short section, what are your thoughts so far?

  • Did you have any prior knowledge of this book or the HBO adaptation before we started?
  • What do you think of Jeevan
  • What are your predictions for the next section?

Want to join, or have any other questions? Message the mods.

Happy Reading.

 

BOOK CLUB SEASON 3:

Today we wrapped up Ice Planet Barbarians and overall its been a positive experience and a nice break after 11/22/63.

Books in the running today:

  • Station Eleven by Emily St. John-Mandel
  • Project Hail Mary by Andy Weird
  • Manacled - Fanfic
  • Last Days by Adam Neville

After rolling a D4 we landed on 1. Station Eleven by Emily St. John-Mandel

The book is broken down into Sections and chapters. Chapters are very short, so the group has decided to do it as 1 section per week. 9 sections total. We may go to 2 sections a week depending on how it goes.

Happy reading.

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Week 7: Americana

This week we are reading and discussing chapter 14 and 15.

 

Week 5-6: Living in the Past

We will not be meeting on Sunday 8/7/2023 due to most of us being busy with travel but we are planning on meeting the next Sunday 8/14/2023.

With that, the group has agreed that our next reading selection is all of Part 3, chapters 9-13.

This post will serve as a backup on-going discussion for anyone that is not able to join us during the meeting time.

Some discussion questions to get started:

  • Do you think Jake did the right thing in this first trip to 1958
  • Will Jakes cell-phone in the lake come up again? (it is a Nokia after all)
  • Is the past going to get more obturate the longer he stays there?
  • did he cause any massive changed in 2011?

Want to join, or have any other questions? Message the mods.

Happy Reading.

 

Week 4: The Past is Obdurate.

This is a catchup post for the community. I forgot to make a the week 3 post and the week 4 post is being made after the discussion. I will post the next discussion this week.

Questions for this week:

  • Did you suspect No Suspenders to be involved?
  • How did you feel about Dunning's choice of weapon?
  • How will Harry be different in 2011?
  • Did you make the connection to Steven Kings IT and Derry?
  • Are the associations with IT working for you?

Want to join, or have any other questions? Message the mods.

Happy Reading.

 

Week 2: Life Turns on a Dime.

This week we are reading and discussing chapters 3 and 4 of 11/22/63 by Steven King.

Week 2 meeting will be on Sunday 7/16/2023 at 9pm EST / 6pm PST.

We are considering recording our meeting sessions but we will see how that goes. It may turn in to a twitch stream.

This post will serve as a backup discussion for anyone that is not able to join us during the meeting time.

Some of our discussion questions to get started:

  • Did you have any preconceived notions about Steven King and his writing?
  • Have you read any of his previous works?
  • Where do you think the story is going?
  • What do you think of the main character?
  • Does anything stand out to you about the writing style?
  • Any particular lines that stood out to you?

Want to join, or have any other questions? Message the mods.

Happy Reading.

 

Testing how this appears for @[email protected] on Mastodon.

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Week 1 WELCOME

This is our first post. It will be updated with a basic summary of what was covered and serve as a backup discussion for anyone that cant make our usual Sunday meeting.

The club has nominated 11/22/63 by Steven King as our first book. Our first discussion will be Sunday 7/9/2023 covering chapters 1-2.

If you need a copy of the book we can provide a pdf.

Happy reading.

EDIT UPDATE:

First meeting down. We covered the prologue and chapters 1-2.

We have decided to stick with the Sunday 9pm meeting time. This week we will be reading chapters 3-4 and discuss this Sunday 7/16/2023 at 9pm EST / 6pm PST. That discussion will continue on the Week 2 post.

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