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troyunrau

@troyunrau@lemmy.ca

Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.

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troyunrau,

Yeah, the drama that comes with it is probably the biggest issue – it will occupy some part of your cognitive energy.

So this goblin in the cage was upset that his tribe converted. I hope this brings him closure. (lemmy.ca)

Brakkal is in a cage in the goblin camp. I decided to kill all the Absolute worshipping goblins so he would feel better. Brought him the dead goblins like a cat would. I left him in his cage though, because he worships Maglubiyet and he is probably evil. Right? ;)

troyunrau,

Running with Astarion as my main, this made the goblin camp super fun. Used Gale’s cat familiar to draw goblins out one at a time, then ambushed them. None of them could bang on any of the drums to cause the camp to turn on me, but I just slowly picked off one goblin at a time and dropped them here. I’d like to imagine the goblins started noticing their missing friends and panicking about a vampire. By the time I dealt with the three bosses, there were maybe 6 goblins left in the camp (immune to being lured by the cat). Fun RP ;)

troyunrau,

Priestess Gut. If you butchered your way in you killed her to get to the others :)

troyunrau,

It’s so interesting seeing the prison in the warg pit with the chests that you know are meant for player gear during a prison escape sequence. And wondering how in the hell a player gets imprisoned in the goblin camp. Now I know :)

troyunrau,

Bring him in as a camp follower, at minimum, during a evil campaign.

troyunrau,

Excellent work folks. Bug fixing is not sexy (even more so in open source projects), but greatly appreciated 👍

troyunrau,

Y tho

Prepare for Mass Outbreaks of Hard-to-Find Pokémon! (Scarlet/Violet) (i.imgur.com)

Catch Version-Exclusive Pokémon to Help Complete Your Pokédex! Get ready to track down some Pokémon you may have had trouble finding! From Friday, January 26, 2024, at 00:00 UTC to Sunday, January 28, 2024, at 23:59 UTC, mass outbreaks of Gulpin, Stunky, Skrelp, and Clauncher will be appearing throughout the Paldea region....

troyunrau,

Time locked pokemon? How long has this been a thing. Yes, there have always been event pokemon…

troyunrau,

I suppose that is a minor improvement to my old system of: buying both, and catching them all, then getting a friend to help me trade them over.

troyunrau,

A succulent Chinese meal?

troyunrau,

nerd ;)

troyunrau,

Sam, what are you putting in my ass?

Po. Tay. Toes.

troyunrau,

Konsole and xterm, although I haven’t had to use xterm in a while. Actually, circa 1997 I used kterm, the predecessor to konsole. ;)

Straight up Linux ttys are also quite common for me. Most old school distros still let you escape to the terminal, with CTRL-ALT-F1 or similar. I haven’t distro hopped in a long time, so I don’t know if other distros still do this.

troyunrau,

I keep containers in camp with “one of everything” cause I’m that kind of collector. In my first playthrough I just grabbed random containers and sent them to camp, but that was a mistake because they all looked the same. Second playthrough, I tried using only unique containers and tried to associate them with their contents. For example, the container you get on the illithid ship contained “weird unique shit”; and the pre-order bonus gilded container you find in camp contained only unique armor; and a mundane container contained crap like silverware you looted.

Every once in a while I’d sort the container contents and restack if there were duplicates. This happened regularly in my container with books, for example.

So my QoL request (on top of naming containers) is a restack option, which combines stacks of identical items.

troyunrau,

My stovetop is a light emitting resistor. And compared to LEDs, it is multifrequency! Checkmate atheists.

troyunrau,

Ask for a refund

troyunrau,

Wow, you’re the most entitled user of free software I’ve met in a while. Just but a windows license next time.

troyunrau,

In 2024 so far (to the best of my memory), we had one crash on a runway in Japan, but zero casualties (on the jet – several casualties on the other plane – not a jet). And a door fell off a plane in Alaska with zero casualties.

There are always a small number of bush plane or private small plane casualties every year, but they don’t count against jets either.

troyunrau,

Wall of rant incoming, sorry ;)

The website is a general aviation news source, and a decent one. Caveats: Given the size of Boeing in the global market, I have no doubt that they cover a lot of Boeing stories. Furthermore, given the size of Boeing in the global market, I would suspect they also advertise within, causing a bias to creep in there. However, none of the major bias reporting websites indicate anything about Simply Flying being bought and paid for. Furthermore, the numbers they are reporting are not their own.

Air incident doom and gloom stories make for excellent attention grabbing articles for news organizations – clicks sell advertising, so of course they’ll publish every doom and gloom article they can find, and Boeing makes an excellent target. Statistically speaking, due to the number of Boeing planes in the air, a good percentage of aviation related incidents will involve Boeing. But, even more so, there’s now a narrative, and media organizations love articles that reinforce narratives. The narrative may be partially or wholly true, but it is often disproportionately reported.

Simple example: how many Tesla fires are reported my major media organizations, versus Ford fires, even though statistically there are far more Ford fires out there (both in terms of absolute numbers, and once normalized by the total number of vehicles). But that wouldn’t fit the narrative and thus drive clicks.

The narrative in the media is that aviation is dangerous, and Boeing in particular. But the reality is that you’re far more likely to die in a car crash on the way to the airport than you are in an aviation related incident. That, however, is not sexy to report and doesn’t drive clicks.

The reason I’m posting this is because it’s not doom and gloom. People should feel comforted getting into modern aircraft that there are a ridiculous number of safety systems, regulations, inspections, and more going on and flying is literally the safest form of transportation.

(I’d add some exceptions for private bush planes, remote access to the Arctic and Antarctic, etc., where there is added risk due to lack of infrastructure or “cowboy” outfits operating ancient equipment, like the DC-3.)

troyunrau,

No. Commercial passenger Jets are pretty much the safest form of travel that exists by almost every metric. Comparing them against three seater Cessnas that Billybob from Oregon uses for sight-seeing expeditions is not fair. You don’t compare SUVs to bicycles when talking about safety because they both have tires.

Note that military aircraft are also not included. There were a lot of people who died in Jets this year in military contexts. But would you call that fair when putting together the safety metrics?

What about passengers that suffered heart attacks while flying in a commercial plane? Actually, that might be an interesting example, but not in the context of this article. (Tangent: there’s probably a metric here. If you have a heart attack in a vehicle, what are the odds you’re driving, and what are the odds your heart attack causes multiple fatalities as a result. But your travel time to hospital and survival rate might be higher as a passenger – it takes more time for a plane to make an emergency landing. I’d bet those numbers come in close, but it’ll depend on the metric used.)

You always need to pick a reasonable metric. In this case, commercial passenger jets is a good one, because it’s the largest group.

troyunrau,

Seatbelts are also a thing, assuming you actually follow the safety recommendations.

Cant unequip mainhand weapon.

It’s the Knife of the Undermountain King, if that is relevant. I’m not a druid, so I don’t think it has anything to do with wild shape. I have had Jahiera in my party a few times. I did get disarmed once about 20 hours ago, so it might be related to that. Anyways, I cannot unequip, disarm, throw, or drop that knife. I’ve...

troyunrau,

No it’s a magic sword. But is it also cursed? ;)

troyunrau,

Dunno. Trying casting remove curse on the character and see what happens. That’s how it works on the handful of other cursed weapons and armor I’ve seen in game. The game is so complex that I’d never say with confidence that there isn’t some way to end up with a curse in some questline I didn’t pursue. :)

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