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Skill 99/99
Uniqueness 1 in 157

Yeah that’s definitely the most straightforward and intuitive option. It’s what I thought it might be until I read the rules closer.

The closer read of the rules (“Success For an item…you get a sense of what it does”) leaves me with what I think could be a really cool dramatic bit of storytelling if they don’t know exactly what the spell does, but do know roughly what it does.

I’d sooner take the opinion of a head of lettuce than this wet noodle.

I would say it contracted a terminal illness at some point around 2006±1 and went into palliative care in 2008±1, but didn’t fully die for another 5ish years. The death of Google Reader seems a good landmark to use, since RSS was a really helpful tool that became less necessary as sites became more centralised.

Since Identify Magic is a Secret action, I prerolled the Arcana roll for the player I’m expecting to try to identify the scroll, so I could plan a misdirect on the spell if they critical failed. As it happens, they got a natural 20, so the question is kinda moot, though it’s something that may come up again so I’m still curious about how it should be played.

I put a bug report in on the official forums.

I had a quick look at your instance with traceroute and it seems to be hosted in the US. Which matches up well with the administrator being (according to his bio linked in the sidebar) American.

I might just be misremembering, but I don’t think the fine itself increased, it’s just that their total costs have increased since they have to pay the legal costs for both sides.

No, it’s only an issue with instances that are geographically a long way away from them because Lemmy sends one action at a time, so if the round trip time of sending and acknowledging receipt of an action (a comment, post, vote, etc.) is longer than the average speed at which actions are done, the backlog builds up and federation falls behind. It’s a problem for my instance hosted in Australia, and it was a problem for the NZ instance until they developed a hack that lets LW send its federation messages to a proxy in Europe that sends them batched to NZ as a workaround.

What does this mean in practice? Will union staff not be allowed to work for Boeing centres and other companies sending weapons to Israel? Is there a process by which the unions can specifically pressure the unis themselves to divest?

What’s concerning to me is that this Australian court is considering the intricate details of Nevada’s merger law at all. From reading this article, it sounds to me that if Nevada changed its merger law so that an acquiring company didn’t keep legal liabilities imposed by other countries on the acquired party, the Australian court would have decided that indeed, X doesn’t have to pay Twitter’s fine. Which is an insane takeaway IMO.

We should be looking at this through the lens of Australian law only, and trying to figure out what Australian merger process is mostly closely related to the Nevada one which was used.

Nah I think they’re more or less right. I’d maybe pull it back 3 or 4 years, but not as far as 2004.

What killed off the old wild web was the popularity of centralised platforms. Facebook (open since 2006, really started taking off more around 2008/9), YouTube (first video 2005, really takes off from 2007/8), and Reddit (self posts first allowed in 2008), and other things like that which were admittedly great for allowing more people to share their creations with the world, but we’re disastrous for the open web, because they killed off independent blogs, forums, and other smaller websites.

Yes but only among girls.

considering most of the accounts I’ve seen doing this are from lemmy.world

Ah, that explains (in part) why I haven’t seen very much of this myself. Their instance is failing to properly federate comments and votes, so I often don’t see comments from LW users unless I come across a post that’s a week old—or they reply to my own comments, in which case I see it a week later.

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Skill 97/99
Uniqueness 1 in 177

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The base game comes with Fall of the Trident, The Golden Gift, and The New Atlantis campaigns, which all existed previously but have been remastered in terms of balance. The Freyr expansion additionally comes with “Reginleif’s Rally”, which I haven’t done yet but from its description I think is set in the middle of Fall of the Trident, as an explanation for why the Norse party was sent down to Egypt.

If you’re someone who mainly likes to play single player, one specific change you might really like is that you can now build 16 houses, up from the previous limit of 10 (8 manors for Atlanteans, up from 5), and Fortified Town Centres now provide 25 population (up from 20). That, plus myth units getting automatic bonuses when you age up (so Classical Age MUs are still relevant in Mythic Age), and the reusability of god powers (for a Favour cost) mean you can get some big armies doing big dramatic battles, way more than you ever could before.

I’m absolutely loving it. In the time since it’s come out a month ago, I’ve played 42 ranked 1v1 matches and I’m a little over 50% of the way through the first campaign. From a total of 64 hours played.

I’m really taking my time with the campaign, because I know I can only go through it for the first time (well, first time in Retold…) once. So I’ve set myself the challenge of doing every level on maximum difficulty. At first they were really quite easy, but the difficulty since I got towards the end of the Egyptian portion of the campaign has really ramped up.

And the competitive feels really good. The quality of life improvements with things like hotkeys is so nice, and the new civ bonuses etc. really feel like they fit in so well, unlike some of the changes which Extended Edition brought.

I would definitely highly recommend getting the game. And not just that, I’d recommend getting the Premium Edition. You’ve already missed the opportunity to get one of the bonuses of the Premium Edition (that being 1 week early access), but it also will give you the first 2 expansions (one of which is Chinese, and should be out before the end of the year) and the brand new Freyr 4th major god for the Norse. The cost of buying those separately is quite a bit more than the cost difference of Premium Edition.

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