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  • Yeah, I figured that out eventually, but then I have to remember to go back to camp and pick up the dozens of mundane shortswords I sent to camp and sell them

  • I've never had that problem, I play Tactician and I consistently have a ton of food in my inventory, but then I'm a loot gremlin that picks up everything that isn't nailed down. I have more trouble spending all my food than picking it up. Even my max STR char was somehow always overencumbered :'(

  • The annoying thing about that is that if you don't long rest enough in BG3, you miss a lot of story beats. Unlike tabletop, it wants you to long rest, and will punish you for not long resting rather than punishing you for long resting.

    I'm doing a second playthrough and I'm realizing just how much I missed during my first playthrough where I used my tabletop mindset of "rest only when absolutely necessary". And even then sometimes watching other people's playthroughs I see scenes I never saw.

  • They even show up in Star Trek Into Darkness as furless cat girls that the writer claims are the same species even though they're clearly not. Memory Alpha dutifully lists them on the Unnamed Caitian page, but amusingly doesn't actually call them Caitians explicitly.

    To be fair, the text never refers to them as Caitians, it's just the writer saying it in an interview.

  • You can buy alcohol cheap from a store in real life, along with all the ingredients to make drinks, yet people still go to bars where cocktails cost more than a meal. They're not going just because of superior bartending skills, they're going as part of the experience of drinking with other people. Because on DS9, your other option is basically to drink in your quarters, which is no fun.

    There are more options for food on DS9, but people still go to Quark's for the atmosphere. It's lively and fun, which is probably hard to come by otherwise on a remote space station. I doubt people are coming to Quark's in droves for the food though, it's more just something you get if you're already there.

  • Well, the question still remains of "symbiotizing what"? Fungi on earth range from saprophages, which decompose dead matter into nutrients, to mycorrhizae, which form symbiotic relationships with plants which produce nutrients. In either case, they're feeding off of things, it's just the source that varies. All living things need to gain energy somehow.

    The mycelial network is spooky and probably feeds off something more abstract, since sci-fi and all that. That said, maybe it's in some sort of symbiotic relationship with the multiverse itself? There's so much energy in a galaxy, let alone a multiverse worth of galaxies, that it's not hard to imagine a fungal network feeding off just a tiny fraction of that energy. And interstellar space has relatively low energy, so it makes sense the network wouldn't build hyphae there.

    You're right that they never said it only works in the Milky Way, I had just assumed that since it peters out at the border of the galaxy that it ends there. And if it resumes in another galaxy, it seems like it would be discontinuous and thus a separate organism. But I suppose if you imagine it as a wholly separate subspace realm, with hyphae that connect out wherever there is sufficient "energy" of whatever sort it feeds off of, it makes sense. And jumping to another galaxy could be a cool twist indeed!

    I would give anything to be an astromycologist

  • I don't know about the other games, but The Expanse: A Telltale Series released this year.

  • That's true, it spans the entire multiverse but only within one galaxy. It's odd, but it's cool that the network is so deeply tied to the Milky Way, just in every reality.

    It makes me wonder what the network is actually feeding off of. Life? Some sort of nebulous "energy"?

    Not something that they need to (or should) answer, but it's just so cool to think about the mystery of it. I love fungi, and I love the mycelial network as this truly cosmic-scale organism living in subspace, holding the multiverse together. It's beautiful.

  • I'm confused how something could connect all of time and space together without being omnipresent. It seems to me that the network is omnipresent by definition, because it exists everywhere.

  • A video of someone playing the game, on somewhere like YouTube. You get to watch someone else (the "lets player") play, and use all the mechanics.

  • What incentive would a bank have to release their apps as FOSS?

    You probably could create an open source banking app and use it to run a bank on a primarily open source software stack. But banks are not software companies, and they have no reason to engage with the FOSS world. We could think up lots of potential reasons for why a bank might not want to release their apps as FOSS, but the simplest answer is "why would they?"

    I'd love to live in a world where free software is the norm, but we're not in that world. So if the bank has no incentive to do it other than the comparatively niche interests of the FOSS community, they just won't do it.

  • Marco has so much charisma. A huge part of his insidiousness is just how charming he is. There are points you almost wonder if he's really the bad guy.

    On the other hand, Winn isn't as charming, she's not particularly sympathetic for most of the series. She's kinda just hubristic and antagonistic, and isn't very good at pretending to care about anything other than her own power grabs.

    Plus she's way less hot.

  • You can't really anonymously use a credit card. Privacy.com will let you give bogus info to the FOSS project if you really don't trust the devs having your name, but you'll have to give Privacy a bunch of info which is arguably an even bigger invasion of privacy. I suppose it's a matter of who you trust.

    Most donations will go through an intermediary like PayPal so it's not like you're giving them your credit card info directly.

  • Generally CnD letters are not generated by the ISPs themselves. ISPs don't care what you do unless legally obligated to. When you get a CnD letter, it's usually because someone working for a copyright holder was on a torrent and snagged your IP, then sent an infringement notice to your ISP, who in turn sends a CnD to the current holder of the IP, i.e. you.

    At no point does your ISP have to read your digital communications themselves. Any one of your peers on a torrent can tell what your public IP address is, it's inherent to the BitTorrent protocol. Copyright holders take advantage of this to catch pirates.

  • Yeah, IPv6 adoption varies quite a bit by country and region. It's a shame that it's going so slow

  • IPv6 is actually widely implemented. Home ISPs are mixed on providing IPv6, but mobile providers widely embrace IPv6, some even running IPv6-only networks that rely on translation services to reach IPv4 destinations. T-Mobile is IPv6-only for example

  • Step 1.5) The bag of holding is destroyed and all your items are scattered across the Astral Plane

  • Coerces a guy into sex and then expects him to want to call her back smh...