loopgru

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Surprised no one has mentioned revenant yet. GS is fantastic, and SB is both a ranged condition weapon and- sadly - better than hammer even for power. Herald is a big winner here, ren/vin less so but still solid. I'd say it's between this and ele for the biggest benefit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Always nice to meet another dad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Seconding this. Garuda has been great, all of the advantages of aur and bleeding edge with some fool proofing and ease of use features. It's like pop_os for folks who don't want to jump on the Ubuntu train.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is awesome. It's great to see the modernization of the rule set for the setting, but the potential for cross pollination and romps through genres is amazing, or blends of the two like Shadowrun or 40k... I'm looking forward to it a lot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Unless they're the oceangoing variety, in which case they just hide it under their sea beds.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Imagine all that Obama didn't accomplish facing a GOP controlled Congress, then amplify that tenfold. That's the best case scenario for a 3rd party candidate for president. If you want to pull us politics to the left- I sure as hell do- you have to start with Congress. Otherwise your next case is a lame duck while your likely outcome is a spoiler.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Did FW ever solve the issue with battery drain during sleep? I owned one of the original batch and sold it because I couldn't effectively use it as a laptop. Other than that it was awesome, great build quality, loved the ethics of it and the form factor, but being unable to use it as a portable computer was a deal breaker.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I mained druid in pre, and while I enjoyed it enough, it was annoying having pretty much all of the build diversity locked behind unique rng. Similarly, while I enjoyed HotA barb, the fact that literally no other build is appealing makes that a non-starter.

So consequently I'll be going with necro for S1. Sever, spear, surge, and lance are all solid builds not locked behind uniques (though they can absolutely benefit from them), so I'm covered both from boredom and balance changes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All things you mentioned are hardware issues. [...] Because no one will buy an expensive GNU/Linux phone.

There's a difference between budget or low end components and flawed implementation or design. I didn't go in expecting a newer Snapdragon and a 144hz display- but neither did I go in expecting that it couldn't charge when dead. I didn't go to Denny's expecting filet mignon, but neither was I expecting a dirty tennis shoe on a plate. That was the whole point of my comment. The last thing mobile Linux needs is for people's first experience of it to be a semi-functional piece of hacked-together hardware- even if someone's willing to deal with in-dev software, when the thing straight up won't work it's not a good look.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

For sheer hilarity, my vote has to go to the Ork Rok:

https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Rok

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I owned a Pine Phone Pro for a while and it was a disaster. The software is still coming together, which is expected, but the hardware was also hobby project grade. As the previous poster mentioned, battery, camera, and screen were all bad, and on top of that the phone would refuse to charge with most chargers and could not charge at all while not booted, so once the battery was dead you had zero recourse beyond an external charger. The clamshell keyboard also wouldn't work without shimming the pogo pin connectors forward, and even then it was hit or miss. The company was terrible to deal with and only finally accepted a return after escalating a dispute with Paypal. I hate dumping on a company providing hardware for mobile Linux, but these guys seriously do more harm than good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is it for me, too. Back before I got into Linux I was forever tinkering with third party stuff to try to make the UI more efficient with things like Enso and Docker, and make it prettier with other stuff, but it was always a ramshackle cludged together mess. GNOME just resolves all of those issues neatly for me, runs faster, and isn't crammed full of bloatware ad crap like modern versions of Windows. And it's more secure, free, and ethically satisfying as a cooperative, trans-national project.

 

I'm level 76 on my main and rngesus has not seen fit to bless me with a tempest roar, crone, or vasily's, so I've been using the same pulverslide build since around lv40.

My build is basically NF capstone with symbiosis and nature's savagery to reduce all of my CDs and run around with constant tramples, bulwark, hurricane, etc, all while dropping pulverize shockwave bombs. It works pretty well and is fun and satisfying, but I'll admit after close to 40 levels of it I'm kind of bored.

For the other unlucky souls out there, what have you been running without uniques?

 

So, I love me some smoky, peaty, briny Islay... but for a variety of reasons I'm looking for something without the booze. I'm not expecting a whole lot here, but hoping there's something better than what I've investigated so far.

Things I've looked at:

  • Teas. There are a couple (Edinburgh & Harney) that do reasonably well as a general 'lightly smoked tea with a hint of whiskey flavor,' probably the best option I've found. The Harney & Sons in particular has enough smoke to it, though it's more of a bourbon than a scotch, so nothing there for peat/brine.
  • Non-alcoholic spirits. For my nickel these are basically the same as teas, just dramatically more expensive- not on the level of a good bottle of scotch, but still a chunk of change for what's really flavored water. Some of them try to replicate the ethanol burn with peppercorn or capsaicin, which is interesting, but I've not found one that really excites me.
  • Extract. Yet to actually try this, it'll be here next week. At best I could see a few drops in some carbonated water, but I'm not expecting a lot.
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