Month: September 2020

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etirabys:

Been spending kinda-scary-when-I’m-not-sure-when-I’ll-make-money-again amounts of money on new house stuff because we need all sorts of things likes oven mitts and bleach and plungers, etc. It’s interesting to see how much stuff is out of stock on Amazon because of the pandemic, and I really wish I had visibility into what bottlenecks are responsible. Why is this kitchen stool available in red tend days from now, but indefinitely unavailable in black? Is it some dye shortage? Why is this hand mixer available with attachments X, but not Y? What happened? I want to know but I’m destined not to

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#yes this #covid19 #adventures in human capitalism #illness tw #this probably deserves some other warning tag but I am not sure what

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prokopetz:

I just realised that I’ve suffered every D&D damage type except force and thunder at least once in my life.

 

sidneyia:

radiant?? so you’ve been burnt by a god?

 

prokopetz:

Radiant isn’t specifically a “holy” damage type in D&D; holy magic often inflicts radiant damage, but there’s holy magic with non-radiant damage types (typically fire), and non-holy sources that inflict radiant damage – most relevantly, lasers!

 

ozzieofthedawn:

please explain how you’ve taken necrotic damage

 

prokopetz:

D&D classifies radiation burns as necrotic damage.

 

chicoqore:

now you’ve piqued my interest. how tf did you get radiation burns?

 

prokopetz:

Really bad sunburn.

 

jarl-deathwolf:

It feels… wrong that the sun inflicts necrotic damage. Like Pelor’s life is a lie.

Did you take any concussive injuries like a sound blast? That’d probably qualify for force or thunder.

 

prokopetz:

Maybe Pelor should stop making people’s skin peel off, then. =P

As for the latter, nah, force is D&D‘s “pure magic” damage type, and has the specific attribute of being able to strike intangible or ethereal targets. I don’t know what real phenomenon would be analogous to that, but whatever it is, I’m reasonably certain I’ve never been injured by it!

 

eclairs-of-emptiness:

Wait, how do you take IRL psychic damage?

 

prokopetz:

Posting on Tumblr.

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#D&D #injury cw #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #fun with loopholes #overly literal interpretations

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jadagul:

weaponized-mathematics

Which browser? I remember Chrome on Ubuntu specifically being very memory hoggy and refusing to free up even after closing (even more than on windows) but it’s also been a while

I use Vivaldi, which is a Chrome derivative, as my main browser, and Firefox as the other one that is usually open with a few hundred tabs.

I feel like Firefox generally lags less than Vivaldi does, but swapping their use cases would be a huge pain.

(And it seems almost like there’s a bleed among Vivaldi, Chromium, and google-chrome, which are all installed and used separately.)

But yeah, the “won’t free up after closing” thing is super goddamn annoying.

In Chromium settings, under “Advanced –> System”, there’s a toggle for “Continue running background apps when Chromium is closed”. Does Vivaldi have an analogous toggle? Does it help to switch it off?

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