It’s been a while since I have disagreed so hard with anyone. With all due respect of course, can’t really debate taste.

I disagree with the story being awful or awkward acting. Story is the best one of out the 3 (if you don’t count Witcher 3’s DLCs, those were superb.) and has the most innovative story quests. Also, not to spoil too much, but your decisions in that game actually affect the entire world and story a lot, what you do in act 2 can change the entire story, my mate and I had completely different stories because of what we decided in act 2, and I have to respect that. Not like that Mass Effect kind of “you were evil or whatever, which colour do you want as your ending?”

I agree, combat is terrible, engine is terrible, everything is unintuitive and clunky. I’d say for the best experience, drop difficulty to the easiest one and play for the story. Also, change voice acting to Polish, I can’t stand Geralt in English in any of the games (Sorry Doug, cool guy, doesn’t fit as Geralt IMO.) and the Polish really adds to the atmosphere, kinda like playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. in Russian.

After a dwarf in the slums told me that my mother sucks dwarf cocks in hell, I haven’t been the same as a person.

Good for you to give it a go even though it’s pretty rough by today’s standards. Totally worth it, love the game even with it’s massive faults.

Well, not specifically because I want to make them feel included, it is to stimulate them and satisfy their curiosity. Also helps skittish cats and dogs to gain confidence by introducing them to new smells constantly in a safe way.

Smells are way more important to both cats and dogs than humans, and more than most people realize. Example: I see a lot of people around walk their dogs and not letting them sniff properly but just tug them along, thinking that the physical exercise and waste management are the sole purpose of walks.

We have a retired hunting dog, turned 11 on Sunday actually, and she’s still ridiculously hard to tire by physical exercise. The only way to get her proper tired is mental stimulation. Sniffing is a big part of that. 30min calm patient walk is way better than 60min of “COME OON” -hurried impatient walk.

Disclaimer: not all dogs etc., but… most dogs.

I did not know this exists! I will be using this at least weekly from now on. Thank you!

Got a non-spotify link? Love me some synthwave.

I did in the end end up painting it a nice blue colour with a rust protect metallic paint. First layer looked awful, second layer looked quite nice already, but I’m gonna add a third one today. The paint can recommended 3 layers for proper rust proof, so that’s what I’m going by.

I am sincerely apologetic of posting content that you found not to be dull enough. I will try to be better in the future. Tool restoration indeed is interesting, but I thought merely soaking a tool in deruster for days would be dull enough :(

I will keep this advice in mind the next time I need to derust something. Thank you very much. Bought a house from the 80’s from a family of the previous owner, and they left a whole bunch of potentially good tools and other stuff in there.

A badly maintained, clogged, greasy electric chainsaw is on my list of things to open up, clean and lube up as well. Looking forward to that. As a mainly electronics guy, I only very recently started doing simple mechanical repairs. Opened up a fan that had a hard time turning, found out there were no bearings, just a rod acting as the iron core inside a DC motor. Disassembled, applied generous amounts of acetone to relevant parts, dried it up and greased it up. Worked like a charm afterwards, and didn’t even lose any screws.

After some research, apparently my local auto store does sell a store brand rust removal gel. As a bonus, in my local language it’s apparently called “Rust eater”.

Hmm, looks like it’s the US spelling for a gripping tool, whereas UK uses vice for both a personal failing or a bad habit, and a gripping tool. I’m most familiar with US spelling since I learned most of my English from video games and TV shows as wee lad.

I checked the biggest retailers in my neck of the woods, doesn’t look like any of them sell it.

Not native English speaker, so I checked the dictionary first, and saw that vise is an accepted alternative spelling. Might not be that common apparently.

I did not want anyone to think I was derusting my personal failings.

I am considering framing this comment. Never have I gotten such a compliment.

Yes. Thank you for noticing.

I mean, that’s what makes it fun? Do you play games without rules too? In my mind, it’s not worth much thought if there’s no rules to it. Otherwise you could just say “I will go into the future where they’ve invented how to become a god and then come back with my godlike powers and do whatever I want.”

it’s the wishing-for-more-wishes kind of boring thing to do. Boundaries and restrictions breed creativity. That’s what’s fun for me.

Come on, can’t ask this kind of question without giving us the rules.

Paradox free? Does the future change? Do I go as my current self or is age adjusted? Do I keep my current knowledge and memories and skills? Do I get to go back? Do I get multiple tries to get the optimal outcome?

So many variables with these kinds of hypotheticals, I can’t give you any meaningful answer without general outlines of the rules. Can’t play the game if I don’t know the rules.

I mean, our friend group still uses IRC. Go back to the roots, discord is merely a fancy IRC anyway. Quakenet is still up and running, working as smoothly as ever! (So at least one netsplit* a day… :D)