Baldur’s Gate 3.
Shall I buy the game as someone who has only ever played Stardew Valley, Nintendo games, and MMORPGs like Club Penguin?
It’s very built on the Dungeons and Dragons combat/spell rules, which has been a for and against factor for many friends. I played about 100 hours and sort of put it down. I like it. I like the story, I prefer action games. BG3 is turn based and you can save as often as you want so as much as there’s strategic pressure like chess, there’s less immediate pressure like hungry hungry hippos.
You won’t regret it. It’s vast, and has so much to discover. The romances are great, the combat is fun (I play on easy/story), and you won’t need to know DnD to have a great time.
I haven’t done it justice in this blurb, but seriously, it’s such a great game. It’s different from the games you’ve listed, but I’d say it’s most similar to Stardew with its NPC interactions/romances and dungeoning, with the added bonus of:
- nudity
- eldritch beings
- nude eldritch beings
- swearing, and
- Karlach
Edit: this is the last game you’ll ever need to buy!
I’m sold.
Karlach. Enough said.
Learning modules through work are always a terrible experience. Why are they so clunky and difficult to use? They could just be forms with embedded images and videos
ours is proper dog shit. You can largely just bruit force the answers
State government ones are pretty bad as well, so much time wasting and they require you to click everything on the page to even be allowed to proceed to the next slide.
I did accessibility testing on some when I worked at the DET. They were so bad. All I had to do is be able to use a screen reader and TAB through all the options, so many failed at that.
Apparently accessibility needs to be scoped into these things from the start, they don’t build them with those features in mind
…and now I’m looking up custom brass faceplates 'cos I want to steampunk my network patch panel. I don’t want a snake of cables out the wall, I want an inset row of ports ports ports
that sounds cool
will be if I can pull it off
another 15 cds went out to the footpath for freebies for passersby 👍
If anyone needs the coolest woman in Finland to tell you that shame can get fucked, here’s Erika Vikman.
https://youtu.be/SPDpUaa3qmw?si=tpmmHr87I5BbdN05
I love her 🙌
Someone broke GitHub :(
How am I meant to argue with people about things I don’t really understand now???
Edit: also that unicorn is very very angry
I think the FAFO unicorn may be the one who broke it. I mean look at them! That’s the face of someone who just rage-trashed the place!
Ooft. Yeah. Good point
I got some bad news from the TAFE company. Apparently they’ve run out of funded places for the course I wanted to take, but I was able to get a place before they did. Unfortunately apparently without as many free TAFE people, and the absence of many paying people, they don’t have enough people to start the course anymore. Is this a normal thing in the TAFE world? It sounds odd
They offered me a few other options. There’s a few courses I could switch to, notably a dual cert IV in community services + AOD. I was planning on taking a dual IV in AOD + Mental health next year, so I’m open to the option, but I’m not confident I have the skills and capacity to do that. It’s still 1 night a week, but 3 hours instead of 2, and for 15 months.
The other 3 options are essentially all variations for cancelling in some capacity. I can either go take an induction to community services course, which doesn’t really give me anything, although I can then do a credit transfer in a cert III/IV, or I can cancel and find a different provider (I have not sentimentalities for these ones, they were just the first one suggested to me and seemed decent enough), or I can cancel and go on a waitlist for their next cert III, probably next year
That’s nuts. I’m sorry Baku. Idk what the right solution is, but if it were me, I’d just cancel and find a different institution.
Is this a bigger place (like Box Hill, holmsglen, Swinburne etc) If so ask them about advice on alternate courses and could they help you enrol at another institution, seeing as they cancelled the course. No guarantee they will say yes, but hopefully they may be able to help. No harm in asking. But from your previous comments though, sounds like there was lots of stuffing around anyway, so I’m wondering if it was a smaller organisation or private college? If so, probably for the best. You might have dodged a bullet on having a bad experience, they sound very disorganised. Use your motentum to find an enrolment elsewhere. You got this! It’s just a blip, don’t let it get in the way of your goals.
Is there another training organisation in your area offering the course you want? Because I say go for it, you’re ready to do it so get it happening.
Got my lighter doona out tonight, guess I’m going to play the doona swap game for the rest of spring.
Throw a blanket over the doona. Easier to take that on or off as required.
I’m way ahead of you.
I was playing doona swap last night and the night before.
Didn’t sleep till 2am :(
I woke up at about 2 am overheated. Did fall back to sleep, somewhat…
Dark circles under my eyes today though.
Really hoping to get a better night’s sleep tonight. We both could do with it.
😝 The Daily Chair. I gave the chair a rub down using the finest sandpaper and then applied the 3rd coat with long strokes being careful for drips.
It’s look so glossy and awesome. Can’t wait to use it on a daily basis. 🙂
Great Ted Cat update.
Ted asked to have his face brushed and the rest of him brushed too. He likes it and I think he sees the need for it. Sadly he isn’t a low maintenance Neeb he’s a high maintenance Blue Himalayan, which explains his very cute face.
He has knots that we are working on. 😿
Muscle memory is a heck of a thing hey. I got a coffee at the drive through, used my right hand to put it in the cup holder so used my left foot to go for the break, my brain recoiled cause I guess it was expecting a clutch to go all the way to the floor. Looked down at the gear selector and there was a 3 second delay (though it felt like an eternity) where my brain goes “P? D?! the fuck is this, what do I do?” before it finally clicks and go “oh. Select D you idiot”.
2 years we’ve had some form of auto car now, and for 10 months its been my primary daily driver.
I’ve been in an auto for 10 years. Some days I still push the clutch in at the roundabout near home.
School is great when I get to spend the day with beautiful Labradors! 😍😍
So jealous!
I wish I could post photos, but they’re not my dogs 😭
Has anyone picked up one of those refurbed dell optiplexes before? I’m thinking of getting one, putting a massive HDD I have in it, and using it to torrent and watch things through kodi.
It seems like the biggest issue is finding that balance of price and specs. I don’t need anything fancy but it’s always nice to have some headroom for things like emulation
Both Dell and HP make great micro PCs. I’ve used both as my work PCs for years (~5 years for the Dell, ~3 years for the HP).
No hesitation recommending either as a file server/media box. Keep in mind they use 2.5" disks, though.
If anyone has, please loop me in on the experience too. They’re always recommended as good NAS servers, as they’re usually cheap and have fine hardware.
I have heard that it’s better to go with a full size one rather than one of those mini/SFFs, as there’s more drive bays, so more potential storage capacity and you can more easily put everything into a decent sized RAID array. But if you don’t mind just having one giant drive, it should be fine. I think full size ones are easier to modify, but that’s just my assumption
“Eat my fuck” is a delicious phrase that I don’t hear enough of.
I love telling people to ‘eat my fuck’ and watch get offended and confused.
I think it’d more be licking it up than eating… but sure.
Leck mich im Arsch
Mozart’s best
at the time it was rumoured he had a few kinks
the stories about Salieri were also contemporary rumours
I choose to believe that Wolfie was a kinky scoundrel :)
He was , he was also a hard worker from a young age.
Truly his opus magnum
I realised I haven’t had Vegemite in a long time. I’m ashamed to admit it, but it’s been about 1-2 years since I last had it. I remedied that with some Vegemite toast. I dont usually eat breakfast, but sometimes you just need that nice kick to start the day. And it’s useful because it’s actually got some food value, especially with wholemeal or high fibre bread. Unlike most cereals which are essentially just flavoured sugar
Baku ♥️ vegemite
I have vegemite every day! It’s the breakfast of champions, although mine is on a home made spelt sourdough.
Sourdough 🤤🤤🤤🤤
I only have sourdough on a fancy day when I get eggs Benny from a nice cafe. There’s one near be that does a bleeding Jane one or something like that. Basically just eggs Benedict, but they put sriracha in the eggs and over the top. Pretty good with a tall OJ!
It’s easy and cheap to make sourdough at home Baku, a few of us here do it. I’m sure we could set you up with some starter!
I’m not sure I quite have the brain (or consumption) capacity to make bread at home. I usually only eat bread a couple times a week, and wouldn’t eat sourdough enough to be worth it
