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If it’s not made of tea, it’s not tea. It’s an infusion.

It’s extra annoying to me because in my first language there’s separate words for “tea-tea” and “some boiled herbs-tea” that are commonly used, but thanks to lazy translation people are beginning to call everything “tea”.

No, no, I know what hyperfocus is, it’s the reason I no longer touch creative writing with a ten foot pole after getting bombarded with “but you wrote this one in an hour and it is awesome! just write another one!” :D

I meant that I am wondering if normal people just get the same productivity but without it being flipped on or off randomly, provided they don’t get distracted by something. You know, kinda like learning that it’s not just a tv thing that people can say “okay, let’s do this” and actually sit down and do “this” and not have to beat their brain into submission first.

Oh yeah. Wonderful memories of psyching myself up to do Thing and then suddenly getting nagged to do Thing and dropping in absolute negatives on the good old motivation.

That’s a wonderful example at the end there, gotta remember it when I talk to people who don’t get why I was standing in doors dressed and couldn’t go outside.

I’m beginning to suspect “superfocus” is just what normal people do when they focus.

I mean, I clearly remember firefox being terrible back when Chrome was just beginning to take off.

It was a lumbering monolith that ate all your ram and loaded pages at a glacial pace. Chrome was a multi-process revolution from that.

Then, firefox got it’s shit together and chrome got overloaded with corpo bullshit.

Because when you’ve got like 4 hours a week of free time to prepare for the game, grabbing something 5e compatible and ad-libbing parts you didn’t feel like preparing ahead of time is easier than learning a whole new system.

Ah, Midnight Commander, how have I missed you.

And that’s how you get your whole party executed.

I mean, at that point just don’t roll con saves for them. Special NPC magic ™.

Break it up with the daily dungeons/raids. Also, ARR is the longest slog to ever have slogged - they cut it down significantly already and it’s still a massive slog.

Take a break, return for the actually good expansions later. It will still be there.

Huh, that’s interesting. In russian, the general word for “small fly” is “мошка” (moshka). And plural of those is “мошкара” (moshkara).

Always fun to see related words.

You linked to the image as opposed to the comic page.

Also cute goblin.

That is a sacrifice I am willing to make.

She needs like a whole bottle of shampoo.

Or some creative prestidigitation.

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The feeling when you consistently roll below 4 on the skill you have the highest bonus for.

Ooh, I recall reading it way back when. Time to dive in again!

What is it, JavaScript?

Reason is “Game state is hard”.

If you want to save, you gotta be able to take the current state of everything and serialize it, then read what you’ve serialized and put it back. If you only do checkpoints, you can make assumptions about game state and serialize less.

Generally, it is much easier to develop AI and such when you never have to pull it’s state out and then restore it, because if that is done improperly you get bugs like the bandits in STALKER forgetting they were chasing you after a quicksave-quickload because their state machine is reset.

With checkpoints, you can usually say “right, enemies before here? Dead or dealt with. Enemies after here? they’re in their default state. Player is at this position in space. Just write down the stats and ignore the rest.”

And autosaves just make it one less menu to fiddle with.

Yeah, that’s fair.