In fairness, I still play 5e

I haven’t given WotC a dime since that fiasco, though.

The last thing I bought from them directly was the R20 integrated Out of the Abyss digital campaign for me to DM with some friends.

We got halfway and it was kinda mid. I tossed a big ass boss fight at them along with the mid-game boss and it felt final enough.

Once it releases in full, we’ll be a Cosmere RPG group for a good while.

Ask WoTC how they feel about sending thugs to people’s doors

“learned some things like Linux, command line, docker, and networking/pfsense” “I don’t consider myself technical”

Don’t sell yourself short, I work in IT and have colleagues on our helpdesk who would struggle endlessly with those concepts.

I hereby dub you a tech person, like it or not, those skills can and do pay the bills.

Totally agreed

She just has some games she wants to play on it that don’t even have an entry on protondb (COD Black ops 4… I was shocked when I searched and couldn’t find it). So I’ll have to do some research.

We’ll see about that lol

She’s not at all the Linux person I am, so that might be a hard sell even if the software is bad

It’s definitely an option that I’ll keep in mind, though. I’ve tried Bazzite on my desktop and it seems like a really great project.

Ah fuck

The wife wants an Ally X for her birthday when they release them in a few days. Hopefully these issues are cleared up soon

(Believe me I tried steering her away from it but she likes the smaller form factor too much vs other offerings.)

As a furry

The Heritage Foundation can get absolutely fucked.

Nintendo is just on their own planet when it comes to… Basically everything, including game pricing.

Pyre was arguably a miss

But I see it as more of a red-headed-stepchild of their games.

It still has the trademark excellent writing and gameplay, but it didn’t sell well because it’s just a quirky game.

There was no market for a “wizard-basketball visual novel” (their words, not mine)

The tech test was already feeling really solid. New characters, more detailed art, continuation of the story from Hades 1 with a new big bad…

I’m a fan of Supergiant in general, so I’m really excited to get further into it.

Syncthing is fantastic. Loving it so far.

The customer is only right if they threaten to cancel their service

Even then, if the cost of improving service is more than one customer’s cancellation, the customer can kick rocks

Better yet - mine keeps trying to push me to the new version, but the (new) version is blocked in my org.

So every time it tries to open, I get a “teams (new) is blocked in your organization.” And I have to fight it to go back to the old version.

“disable your adblocker”

No, I don’t think I will

Sounds like enough to pay all those workers they laid off

Free hardware is the best hardware!

I’ve had trouble using any kind of VPN on ABB. It’s pretty frustrating.

Second time Sony has done this in almost as many months. Fuck Sony.

Guess I’ll be putting Helluva Boss on my Plex server.

Meh.

My prime was already cancelled because they billed me in early January, when that extra $100 could be used on Christmas gifts, so it always snuck up on me.

I didn’t use it enough to justify it anyway.

I’m able to get a lot of gear secondhand through my job, so I’ve got:

One 2u Intel server running proxmox in a ‘cluster’ (circa 2013ish. Added RAM and upgraded the CPU/storage.)

One Intel nuc with an i7-7th gen as the other host in the cluster - only one VM is set to fail over between the two if needed.

VMs:

• Plex
• 2x PiHoles (one of these is the failover VM) (these also have a few docker containers like Uptime Kuma.)
• Windows arr box (I know it’s blasphemy but I felt more comfortable doing that stuff in windows)
• anything else I want to mess with because the server really doesn’t run that hard.

Network:

• Sonicwall TZ 300 (incl a perpetual VPN license)
• Unifi 24 port switch (it’s gigabit and POE but doesn’t output enough power for the…)
• single Unifi AP.

All acquired over the last couple years for the low low price of “it was going into the trash anyway”