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Someone_Evil

12:44 AM

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Apologies for the ping that caused for everyone. That convo should probably have been moved much sooner

BESW

Thank you. I'm chary about moving conversations I'm part of unless specifically asked.

Someone_Evil

I totally see that

No worries

Thomas Markov

1:14 AM

@Someone_Evil That was a neat trick on the backgrounds question.

Someone_Evil

Yeah, I remembered the site does have a lock type for this kind of not-quite-in-the-format question. I just hope it doesn't mess up too many other interactions

Someone_Evil

1:35 AM

Are there any updates on it still pending (that you know of)?

TheDragonOfFlame

@Feeds Me too, BW, me too…

BESW

Was up last night with a surprise midnight fountain show courtesy of a poorly-tightened fitting on what appears to be an amateur plumbing modification made to our apartment's meter vault.

But there was a lovely orangey-yellow waning gibbous moon, so that was nice.

Shalvenay

2:01 AM

hey again @TheDragonOfFlame

@BESW oof :/

BESW

@Shalvenay The waterworks guy says it looks like someone replaced a meter with a bit of hose, and last night the hose popped loose sending the water supply for half the building rocketing over the parked cars.

Shalvenay

@BESW wow, talk about a bodge job!

or worse, someone trying to rip the water utility off :/

I take it your water utility there is a municipal entity...?

BESW

Yeah, they are.

Shalvenay

yeah...some people, can't see that they're just ripping themselves off when they go to rip off a public service like that

BESW

And I'm not sure exactly what happened, because I don't remember ever seeing a meter in the place where the hose is now--the hose is definitely new though.

There's still the same number of meters as there are apartments the vault is servicing.

But then again, apparently the whole apartment complex's water is hooked up wrong in some way I don't understand but am not surprised by. Our water infrastructure is another case of something that the military installed fifty or more years ago and then turned over to the municipality without documentation, so the waterworks authority doesn't even know where or what all the infrastructure is. They update it as it breaks (which is sometimes how they find where it is).

Shalvenay

2:14 AM

@BESW oh boy :/ gotta love being the maintainer of an undocumented $thing

BESW

At least with this one we aren't saddled with paying the environmental impact fines for the military's mishandling, like we are with the --and I use this word generously-- landfills.

Shalvenay

@BESW yeah, the military was prone to applying field-expedient methods of waste disposal rather broadly

AncientSwordRage

2:38 AM

@BESW ouch

@BESW yay

Shalvenay

hey there @linksassin

linksassin

@Shalvenay G'day, how's things?

Shalvenay

@linksassin mostly OK here, as for you?

linksassin

Not too bad. Settling in at the new job and it's been pretty good so far.

Shalvenay

@linksassin cool. had a pretty stressful day at $work over here, glad it's over though. also, need to sit and have a think about how to handle the in-universe faiths for the game I'm DMing

can't run a scene I'd otherwise like to run as a side-scene because of it, but I guess that's OK, managed to improv a delivery means for an important plot point at least

we can talk more on Discord for a bit at least if that works for you?

linksassin

2:55 AM

@Shalvenay Always happy to chat. But as you're aware I'm not always the best at prompt replies.

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AncientSwordRage

That's a good list @BESW, thank for updating us on these ☺️

My update is that I had cheese, beans and fried mushrooms in toast and that it was delicious

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@HotRPGQuestions Yes, but there'll be an investigation by the Ethical Smiting Review Board.

goodguy5

Is it worth noting that with glyphs you can get multiple smites?

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goodguy5

Now you cut that out right now lol

Thomas Markov

2:44 PM

@goodguy5 I'd say it's worth a "Related" comment.

Stacking smites with glyphs is possible, but it is not at all feasible in the course of typical play.

Someone_Evil

Do we not have a question on ways to concentrate on two spells at a time and the like?

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Q: Are there ways to concentrate on more than one spell at a time?

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To be able to do it without the DM giving you a ring of three wishes, you have to do some multiclassiing that sacrifices a lot just for an expensive party trick.

And with a ring of three wishes, it still requires multiclassing.

Here is an answer where I used glpyh to stack smites.

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NGL, commenting on deleted posts would be a neat 25k feature.

Or 100k feature. I've very recently decided that I am okay with SE adding privileges at the 100k level.

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Deleted posts have very little oversight, so commenting on deleted posts would be a potential vector for abuse that could go undetected for a while. (With sites such as SO, yes, that's still a concern even at that rep level.) It's currently a moderator-only feature and likely to remain that way.

Thomas Markov

@Mithical Yeah, that's about what I figured.

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Higher rep privileges would also de-incentivize bounties, no?

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@BESW Could be, that's probably an easily testable theory.

I'll look into it on SEDE.

Average bounty per user per rep.

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goodguy5

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@ThomasMarkov I mean that's what they did in France

(focused on execution)

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