Definitely not disagreeing with that. I made the comment after reading the title, but before I saw the associated image.
That's the one! I knew I got it at the Harper safe house, but couldn't remember at what point in act 2 or who I talked to.
Oh I could definitely take it further. But I like the look of the hat on my character.
I genuinely thought it did. Interesting.
My dad tells stories of snowstorms back in the 70s & 80s where they would leave their truck at the end of the driveway with the keys in it and unlocked.
We live very rural (my grandparents were my neighbours growing up), and snowstorms could get bad. So everyone left their vehicles out with the keys in case someone broke down on the side of the road so that they could hop in the truck and turn it on to stay warm. Never had a vehicle so much as damaged, much less stolen.
I was aware monks can (at the very least I was aware of Kensei), I'd just never considered it as advantageous enough to go Defensive Duelist, I guess.
In an MP save I'm in, I'm playing an open hand monk and am currently using that staff you can buy from Auntie Ethel in the grove because of the bonuses to unarmed damage.
Eldritch Blast Appreciation Post
I've been playing DnD since 5e came out, and I've always been a warlock fan. By far my favourite class to play, there's just so much versatility in the class.
I started playing BG3 with my table top group a few weeks ago, and to make sure that I don't miss out on story and stuff I started my own single player campaign. Created a Great Old One/Blade warlock that would mirror one of my favourite builds I've ever done (polearm master hexblade).
I'm now level 10 in game, and my Tav's Eldritch blast is absolutely terrifying. Between magic items and other features, I can pump out a minimum of 39 damage per cast (math at the bottom of this post).
It's just so useful, and allows me to have a proper DnD party where not everyone is combat optimized. I have a Dungeon Delver Astarion for dealing with traps and locked doors, Laezel and Karlach are different kinds of tanks, Gale casts Magic Missile and utility spells. I can actually take my "non-combat companions" into combat and not worry.
Now for the math:
Eldritch Blast:
- 1d10 per beam on hit.
Level 9:
- 3 Beams per cast
Agonizing Blast:
- Add CHA mod damage to each beam.
Magic Clothing from Act 2 (can't remember name or how I got it):
- Add CHA mod damage to every cantrip (basically duplicate of Agonizing blast)
Ring that grants advantage on all attacks:
- Can't miss most targets
Ring that allows you to cast a cantrip as a bonus action once per short rest:
- Double the number of beams
Hat that gives +2 CHA (max 22):
- Gives 22 CHA (+6 mod)
With all of these buffs, eldritch blast becomes:
3 attack rolls +10 to hit /w advantage (1/400 to critical fail, 399/400 minimum 12 to hit) 1d10+12 damage per hit 1/short rest cast twice in one round.
Final damage totals:
Normal round: 39 - 66 (Avg. 54) Double round: 78 - 132 (Avg. 108)
I don't have an answer for you, but would defensive duelist work with a monk? Doesn't it require a weapon in the main hand and an empty off hand?
My sibling ran into this issue once. I'm not sure if it's a setting or a default, but vscode would assume they were working in a blank repo until they made a commit.
Sounds like this person had the project (without source control) in another IDE, tried out VSCode, and it assumed that it was all 'changes'. I don't use VSCode, do I can't say for certain, but I know my sibling lost ~4 hours of project set up for the same reason (though they immediately realized it was their fault).
That's basically how I did it.
To properly learn it using this method, create a directory that contains only text files and sub directories and treat it like a real project. Add files, delete them, play around with updating the repository. Try and go back a few updates and see how the things react. Since it's not a real project there's no risk of loss, but you'll still get to see the effects of what you do.
I spent the last 6 months working on a feature. Found out 2 weeks before release that it was being postponed.
Water St. Ch'Town
In case anyone sees this and is heading to town this morning, Water St. has been closed, plan on taking Grafton St. or Riverside Dr.
Absolute genius, doing construction on all three routes off the bridge at the same time.
"...and tweet 'Donald Trump is a human toilet'."
A really good way to do linux is to play around and break things, but to have a backup you can restore from.
I don't know about other distros specifically, but Mint comes shipped with Timeshift, which is easily configurable and can be set up to include your home directory. Make a backup on an external drive every now and again so that if you break everything, you only lose a bit of work instead of all of it.
Search engines are your friend. If you want to do something, look it up first (ex/ "How do I [x] on linux") and read some of the answers. Don't just go with the first option you see, and if it looks decent but you don't understand it try looking up the commands it uses to find some documentation.
Learning linux isn't something you can do as passively as you can with Windows, so take time to really try and learn things you're looking to do.
And a good rule of thumb is that if you think your system should be able to do something, it probably can.
I have terrible but defined habits for my ROMs. I use the same folder structure for all of them.
./[platform]/[game]/[game].zip ./[platform]/[game]/[game].iso ./[platform]/[game]/saves/...
If it's a series, using Pokémon as an example, I also have:
./Pokemon/Backups/[game].zip ./Pokemon/[generation]/[game]/[game].iso
So it's not that good of a backup, mainly there in case the iso corrupts, but I think it's better than nothing.
I just had to go and check because I got my 2 year subscription for ~$0.75 a month ($1 CAD) back in April. When I check their pricing page while not logged in, it shows me that I can save 50% on my first year and pay $6 monthly.
I think at this point I am more excited for, and have higher expectations of, Skywind.
Liz is one of my favourite poorly adjusted gremlins.
As a Jr. Full Stack, I'm in this picture and I don't like it.
This may be shit advice, but it may help.
I have a mint laptop and was also linux illiterate when I started. The way I did most of my learning was by googling (or duckduckgo-ing) "How do I [x] linux mint" and reading through stack overflow threads. If this doesn't return results, (almost) any solution for Debian or Ubuntu will work on Mint.
In general, I just assumed that if I thought the computer could do it, there would be a way to do it.
Thank you 7th Prime Minister of Canada, Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
I work with Java. And I'm definitely 'rose tinted glasses' because I also learned to code in Java. But I'm the opposite.
Do you use Java at home?
Fuck no, I want to stay sane.
Cache Appears to Exceed Maximum Cache Size
I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, and it doesn't bother me, but I noticed this while messing around in the settings and figured I should mention it here.
My current cache is at 157.1 MB and maximum cache is set to 128 MB.
This might just be a nothing burger, but if it isn't I'd rather speak up than not. Loving the app