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Portius · Likes big books, cannot lie

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  • I'll agree that if Trem is town, claiming this early is probably a misplay. Even in the case of scenario 2, I am not convinced it makes Trem safer. In the absence of any night actions or lynches to look at, they can just as easily decide that T…
  • I am pretty sure that not lynching is optimal. Mafia with six people is almost a math problem.

    Numbers given as town/scum. Ignoring powers, since we can't count on anything specific being in play or hitt…
  • In  the hope of having useful brainings while we give everyone time to chime in and confirm that they've noticed the game is up, let's pick at the setup a little and see if we can get reasonable assumptions going. It's late and I probably shoul…
  • Ah, mafia gifs. How I missed thee.
  • Did Monster Prom with my wife, mostly at her urging and Sylandra saying it was good. Multiplayer dating sim is better than the concept first appeared! And the game itself is just a magnet for crude puns.
  • More forged armor that isn't pure plate would probably be useful.

    That probably means mail, because the noun for scale appears to be "jacket" and that seems limiting.

    (Dear Charites, …
  • I suppose I can fill in, if you need another dude.
  • When the harness says butcher, does it mean kill, or does it mean turn into commodities?

    Also, it seems like more or less a straight upgrade on the Cowhide boots that cause you to not bump into cattle, assuming…
  • My understanding was that implementing both of them as they were would be fairly easy, but bardics were waiting on the admin deciding if they wanted to integrate them into the library or not. In fact, have a quote from in Tweets VIII: Knocks Me Off My Tweet Comment by Portius May 2018
  • Libation sacrifices have been pretty common throughout history. Mostly alcohol, admittedly. Within the realm of Lusternia, it'd be reasonable to include potions and whatnot, since they are so important. That gets alchemists and poisonists.

    in Simple Ideas Comment by Portius May 2018
  • Two new abilities in every trade:

    REFINE-Convert X of a commodity into Y of a 'pure' commodity. I like a 100:1 ratio, but numbers are whatever. Designs can call for a minimum number of pure commodities as distinct from normal ones. Each t…
    in Simple Ideas Comment by Portius May 2018
  • If the broad goal is to switch over from bashing for gold to questing for gold, I generally approve. I like that goal!

    That having been said, I share the concern about the good gold quests mostly being in low levels. It seems like there …
  • I have so, so many questions about these gnomish weapons. Some for Ianir, some for people who are better at math and know more about the bashing mechanics than I do.

    Can we detach gearboxes from them?

    How much damage do they d…
  • Dear Bambi, you glorified tree rat,

    Today the nice law enforcement officer stopped by my home to remind me that baiting deer with food is illegal. Now, he recognized that I was not trying to attract your kind, on account of me growing man…
  • And I am Portius.4867, because I forgot to post mine.
  • Apparently there are more Guild Wars 2 players in Lusternia than I thought. If you're in it and open to playing with other Lusternians, please leave your name after the beep.

    BEEP
  • (Quote) Which daily quest is this? I can't find an announce for one anywhere, but questevent is telling me that April has one. Am I blind?
  • The weather dude promised me a terrible storm that was likely to knock out power for days. Here's what actually happened:

    About six hours after they expected it to hit, they tell us that it'll be another six. Apparently storm was running …
  • I've assumed Hyacinth Clarramore is in reference to Keeping Up Appearances. The personality fits, anyway.

    The Gourmet Ghetto's use of Gordo and Rammy for chefs presumably plays on Gordon Ramsey.
  • Base game is currently free on Steam, if there's anyone here that wants and doesn't have it. Fairly large sale on the DLC, too.
  • Random aside: If the gold cap stays, add a command to check how much gold you've earned since it reset so we can tell if we're close to hitting it or not.
  • (Quote) I've kind of always assumed that every guild hands out free plate. The Consortium certainly keeps some 1 gold plate in its shop, and I used to mail it out to new Sentinels back when they still existed. Is this not more or less univers…
  • I'm still a proponent of automated raffles/lotteries every week or two. Prizes should mostly be consumables that are relatively hard to get now, like goldentonics. Maybe ikons, since those are in a wierd place where they're kind of consumables and k…
  • (Quote)
    Did they ever get rid of the restriction that you can only offer 1000 gold per command with it? If that is still there, it should go away if people are supposed to be offering gold.
  • Upgrade, which I think was the problem. Fresh installed last night to fix things, but prior to that it was back in 15.1.
  • I feel like it's less a matter of don't run Ubuntu as it is don't let Portius set it up. I also have problems with Mint, just a different set of them.

    I figure that if I keep learning things the hard way, eventually I'll hit the point wh…
  • In today's episode of "Portius Can't Be Trusted With Computers" he tries to get GW2 working.

    First, he notices that there is a Lutris script that allegedly works better than the PoL one. He decides to reinstall Lutris and try it.
  • (Quote)
    Finally made the jump to 17.10. Still no idea why it refused to play nice with the other monitor. It seemed to think it was using a built-in monitor and refused to go into anything resembling a sane resolution. It also broke my …
  • Beast saddles. Put them on a beast, they add an extra section to the description, just like hair curios do for players. Stick them in a trade skill or release them as curios.
  • Just once I want to be able to update Ubuntu without breaking something.


    EDIT: Wow, only start to finish of about 5 hours to make the update work, at the low, low cost of having to switch to a different monitor!