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Thoughts on spirit ashes in Elden ring?
  • I went arcane with dual whips and just rolled everything without trouble.

    The game gives you two hoslow petal whips in one run for a reason. Occult bleed whips feels so good right up until the bosses stop bleeding.

  • The price of fee-dom is steep.
  • Was recently talking about this with a friend who gets this from her doctor and is paying out the ass even with insurance, and another whose doctor refuses to prescribe it because "there is a shortage". Semaglutide is like $40 for a 5ml vial from Chinese labs (that's about 2 weeks at the highest dose), but we are trained to be afraid of self-medding or even talking to doctors about sourcing our meds outside of "official" pharmacies.

    The cost of pharmaceuticals is so artificial. A vial of estrogen is like...hundreds of dollars if you buy it from a pharmacy, like $65 if you get it from a Brazilian weeb, and cheap as hell if you buy raws from china and compound them yourself? Makes no sense.

  • Learn to Drone?
  • God she is so fucking cool sometimes. Just found that payload system, the "Screaming Fist".

    She also made a neat fpv monocular that clips on to a hat so you don't have to be blindfolded while flying. Given I don't have FPV goggles yet, I should look into making one of these.

  • Learn to Drone?
  • A BabyApe looks pretty neat - cheap enough, well-reviewed, comes with a PNP version so I can use my own tx/rx so I just need to figure out how it all plugs together. When I build a bot I just get a 4-channel receiver (I found one a super lightweight one that works with my tx) and plug each motor's ESC into an appropriate channel. I have a feeling flight controllers make that different.

    Can I fpv without buying goggles, using my phone or something? That's the newest thing for me I think - combat bots usually don't have cameras.

    God I need to do so much research.

  • Learn to Drone?

    So as we all know, it is impossible for man to soar through the heavens as a bird does. Any attempt will lead one to be struck down from the skies for their hubris. It can't be done, Boeing is proof of this. So what if I wanted to do the next best thing?

    I've heard the words "Learn to hack, learn to drone" echoed around these parts a few times. I've tried learning programming again and again, but it seems I'm just not that Type of trans woman. Instead I got really into CAD and 3d printing and remote control vehicles, so the "learn to drone" part really appeals to me. Problem is, I don't know where to start. Do I just buy a $300 DJI drone before they get banned? Do I learn how simulators work and practice a bunch first? Do fpv and bigger camera drones share a skillset? How do I not fuck up when I'm living in a big city? If I already have a transmitter, is that a cost I can save or do drones generally come with their own?

    I'm also interested in reading about the ways people use drones for revolutionary purposes, for lack of a better term. I know local orgs have a need for good protest footage, but flying a drone downtown is probably super duper illegal and the new Remote ID rules would make me copbait if I were to say, sit in the bed of a leading truck and follow a march from above. Drones are super cool, but less so if a cop just shoots it down with his scifi radio gun and then tracks me down and arrests me.

    By the way, has anyone ever built a drone? I already have a 3d printer and a transmitter I use for robot combat. And I'm pretty familiar with drone parts - motors made to spin propellers can also spin blades, and tiny receivers and batteries made for weight-limited flying vehicles are great for weight-limited fighting vehicles. I just don't understand flight controllers or cameras or propellers or how to pick parts or anything. It would also (with dubious legality) avoid the Remote ID issue and my homebrew drones wouldn't be banned for being Chinese spies.

    So hey sickos, how do I learn to drone?

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    Shadows of the Erdtree First Impressions Post
  • First experience was getting clowned on by a naked dude with bear claws. The lion boss was a lot of fun, liked the music. Got to a second boss, the carian knight with the two swords. Fun fight and I keep getting close, but it's bedtime.

    The invasions and npc-type enemies are way too hard compared to everything else. I wanna find more new weapons (I only have one of the perfume bottles). I like how the bosses have NPC assists (especially since I crash when summoning golds).

    I'm playing dual occult hoslow whips with arcane. Bleed is still good. I hope I can make a good arcane or faith martial arts build, those looks cool.

  • Looking for a TTRPG recommendation for absolute beginners
  • Fiasco is my favorite - you can adapt it to so many kinds of stories, as long as it's a Coen-brothers-esque disaster. Lots of laughs all around.

    Haven't had a chance to play it myself, but I've also heard lots of good things about Goblin Quest

  • Looking for a TTRPG recommendation for absolute beginners
  • Monster of the Week is pretty simple to play and run in my experience. My group sometimes uses it for one-shots when one of us is out of town because you can whip up characters and stories real quickly.

    A little oddball and not really a typical ttrpg, but Fiasco is a lot of fun for practicing those RP chops. No GM, just collaborative storytelling with a structure to ensure that whatever it is your character is trying to set up goes disastrously, for themselves or someone else.

    DnD 5e is also a great beginner system, if you have one really experienced player willing to DM and bear the weight of the (lack of) rules upon their mighty shoulders like Atlas. Very very easy as a player, but needs a good DM to make a lot of rulings on things the game rules don't actually cover.

    Do you have an idea of what setting you want to play in, and is anyone willing to be GM and guide the story or would you prefer a setting where you all get to be players (those exist!)?

  • Anyone donate plasma for cash?
  • I did it back in college but it kinda sucks. I had weird bruises all the time, sometimes I'd get turned away for not having juicy enough veins, sometimes it hurt to get jabbed. Not a fun experience but it got me by.

    It also sucks that they're allowed to call it "donating" when these companies primarily sell and export your plasma for profit. It's selling blood to vampires.

  • This weird thread in r/worldnews hasn't been flooded with hasbara yet.

    still posting in dunk tank cause it's !reddit-logo but I was really surprised to see this thread get out of zionist control and have people actually talking about israeli war crimes. maybe this refugee camp bombing is a turning point???

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