@NautArch almost 2 years ago I built my first custom PC, and I took about 3 months to pick out all the parts and learn what everything did/how it fit together.
@NautArch I'll admit that picking out parts is very daunting, but putting stuff together is very easy and I'm a little annoyed that my sister refused to do even that.
@GreySage i haven't built one in a few years, but can scramble pretty quickly now to pull together parts. NOt sure if he's doing much OC on it, but it'll be ready for it if he does.
@Yuuki It only took me about 2 hours to get the parts list together. I only got slowed down by the Kaby Lake processor not playing nice with some of the mobos.
Once upon a time, motherboards were as good as the micro was, and it was measured in increasing numbers (was it frquency?)
Now, give me a octacore, a dual, whatever you have and analisys paralisys will eat me alive.
And this feeling is slowly killing me.
I tought I was good at this informatics thing but it turns out I'm really not (and not wanting to buy anything new before the old parts break [because I'm stingy] is making me even more of a dinosaur)
@GreySage Yes, but I'm hung up on both the semantics and intent of "help me build a gaming PC" and then peacing out and refusing to do anything until I do all the work.
I'm glad that's not the case with @NautArch and his nephew-in-law.
I find it a bit unfair that new users who ask questions that are likely to be redirected in chat don't actually get the privilege to join us here in chat.
@T.J.L. elected moderators have the ability to add a user manually to a room's read/write access lists; I wonder if moving that ability to all chat moderators (10K+) would help?
@godskook That's a good question. Because, of course, Room Owners (who need not be 10K+ nor need be elected) have "kick" ability. But in the back-end I don't know how those things are handled.
The pain-point that often comes up is that a <20 user can be presented the "comments are not for extended discussion, would you like to move this to chat?" link but then discover, on clicking it, that the system doesn't let them create the room.
Room-owners are rarer and if you want to allow semi-private rooms, its often more appropriate for that purpose. As far as general access for 10k+ people, I'm not making an argument here, I'm pointing out the possible bundled decision and making sure you consider it within your own knowledge-base.
@Baskakov_Dmitriy Why does every new user need to be able to chat? Remember that chat is both not the main function of SE or really even supposed to be a part of SE's function.
@Yuuki Have you ever commented on a new user's question where you see good things, but things that really need work, and after a few comments just thought "man, this'd be easier to workshop in chat, then just make one edit to 'fix' the question"?
(I assume that's the sort of experience @Baskakov_Dmitriy was thinking of, and is certainly one I've had.)
@A.B. On the other hand, if it's just adding in those links it doesn't seem like a terribly substantial edit. If its a newish question that's not a problem, but if you've got a bunch of old ones you want to do this to...?
@A.B. Ah. Then I'd just make myself a note to do it later. I try to avoid 3rd-party sources when 1st-party are available, personally. (Even when the 1st-party in question makes it oh-so difficult to link to their things. Curse you, Wizards!!!)
@godskook So once you've got that privilege you'll be able to edit any post (unless locked, which is super-rare) at will. Post-author will get an inbox-notification of the edit.
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I have hit the 2k-rep threshold recently, and hence my edits should now be automatically accepted without a peer review. However:
My English, though fluent, is very far from perfect. I can't edit a post written by a native speaker if I don't want to spoil it by a stupid mistake, even if I have ...
@nitsua60 But going back to this, if a comment thread goes long enough that you want to workshop in chat, that typically signifies a more complex problem and you should contact a diamond.
@Baskakov_Dmitriy Laura won't get a notification from that ping--she's not on the room's "recent users" list. I suggest you drop a comment on one of their posts.
@nitsua60 Perhaps I will have another such a move of that graph soon, if I manage to finally finish my mega-research on Vampire: The Masquerade shooting builds.
The research is so big that after a month of not working on it I reread the whole AnyDice code and research text as if it was something new to me, lol
@godskook So are you thinking about the case where you'd like to go ahead and make the edit (do the leg-work, as it were, of formatting, typing out, finding references, &c.) in case OP wants it, then they can decide?
@godskook In that case it's not unheard-of for someone to make an edit then leave a comment that says "I made the edit which I think is in line with your intent, because it seemed easier to just do it than to suggest/explain it in comments. Please feel free to roll it back [rollback link here] if I failed to capture your meaning."
@godskook Obviously there's a whole set of intersection of considerations as to when that's appropriate including, at least, size/nature of edit, interaction with existing answers, the mood of OP when they see the edit, &c.
An honest answer would be that it doesn't matter, it would still be a terrible EI to take unless a situation has been crafted specifically for you to require that spell. And even then it would be a waste for the rest of the game.
Another answer would be that not all options must be balanced. Just because dropping your weapon and punching the dragon is a terrible idea doesn't mean that you need to buff up unarmed damage. It is part of the game to figure out which options are good and which are not.
@A.B. I can't imagine why you would link to roll20. To my knowledge, it's a place where people play, not a collection of rules. And any collection of rules made by random users in forum posts (which I imagine is what you would likn but again, it's just because I don't know any better) risks being some infringment of PF's OGL-equivalent.
@T.J.L. well if the compendium is reputable and follows the rules, why not? Maybe the only reason to avoid it would be that it might be short lived based on the life of the gaming place itself, but hey, that's how the whole Internet works.
@T.J.L. I dunno... requires a login. If you're going to link, why not to the SRD itself with page indicated?
(Easy answer: because the moment we get a critical mass of links to the SRD here, WotC will completely rearrange their site in some completely-assed way.)
In fact, all the PHB, DMG, and MM data is already in Beyond's database (it shows up on text-based searches), it's just blocked from actual viewing at the moment.
I'm pretty sure the d20pfsrd is pretty up to date with everything that they are allowed to publish: they want to keep their base of visitors, after all.
WotC, instead... well, there's speculation that the only thing that keeps the whole thing together is that they sell licenses to videogame makers, and they've been famous for removing content as soon as the new edition came out.
@T.J.L. yeah it would. I hate not having a legal option to do something I want that others provide illegally (and often times in better quality.) Provide the service, do it right, and the money will come.
@NautArch In the past, I've done it myself. I take the book to Kinkos to have the binding sliced off, then run it through my scanner - it duplexes and has a sheet feeder.
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I have run a game with low-to-high initiative and implicit interrupts available to people with higher scores, but it was all about air-to-air combat, so knowing where the enemy was moving to was very important. And of course, everybody was moving every turn. There was no option for remaining stationary.
@godskook Unearthed Arcana is playtest. TO me, that goes a bit more into houserule because it hasn't been fully vetted and published as final. Compare to Flanking - which is.
But I guess that would still lead me to say that any changes from Core (variant, UA, or table-decisions) would qualify as House Rule.
@BESW Oh it's pretty awesome and I would definitely like seeing similar stuff. I guess I like quibbling (hopefully unaggressively) over completely meaningless things.
I would say that anything you must specify for a character to be rules-legal in your game, but that could be left unspecified to play in another in-progress game is a houserule
Hot and humid, my wife's birthday today, and we start a diet regiment tomorrow.
So we binge tonight. Fat Monday. Lunes Gras?
Loony Grass?
In better news, we may even get to play two weeks in a row in our current campaign, which has been curtailed due to our DM's RL job and my brother getting behind on his running in the shared world.
In curious news, I logged in today and saw exactly 40K rep, and then saw 4063 rep at Christianity.SE, which I guess means that RPG's are 10x as important to me as my faith. Hmm, pastor will not be pleased. :(
Actually, I'm grilling fish tonight, so we probably won't be quesoing much for a while. Using calcium and mag supplements while on the diet.
if anything, I'd be finding some way to generate a decent DEM and hydrology and then drag it into QGIS and work from there placing the various ecotones and man-made features
the hangup there is finding a good random terrain gen approach that also suits having a hydrology generator laid over it
and can then produce output suitable for QGIS
the former exists
the latter is surprisingly painful because of the "unprojection" operation involved
we have this data source that was generated based on a flat map, now we need to unproject it back onto a geoid
(a slightly nutty Cartographer's Guild member tried to pull a chunk of Golarion into ArcGIS. he got the absurd result that the only way he could make things work was by telling ArcGIS to assume the world was flat.)
@Zachiel roll20 has a compendium similar to other d&d sites, and as explained before it is one of the very few d&d related sites that my work's web filter allows. Understanding that it is not as preferred as other, more "official" sites, it's better than nothing.
Discussed my PC issues with the GM, got that sorted (he likes to "pick on player's weaknesses", and now understands that, at least in my case, do so with at least some form of a reason, not just because he can), and have learned that people are not capable of controlling motor vehicles.
3rd day in a row I have narrowly avoided a major vehicle accident
@Skyler Downloaded ETOPO data from NOAA, plotted it in 3d, wallpapered that with satellite images from Google Earth, then overlaid layers with hexes, population density (by race), settlements, roads/trade routes; built tools for real-time visualization from any point in any direction. I've fallen down that particular rabbit hole. Hard.
This question references dnd-spells.com, which is not an official WoTC and property and has even been temporarily shut down by them in the past.
What is the policy on these references?
