Look upon my woods, ye mighty, and despair!

As always, it works at the Speed of Plot™.

Which somehow becomes much slower the second players come up with a use for an infinite source of unclean water.

It’s A Cauldron of Endless Bog Water. The merchant lost it a while back and came here to retrieve it after tales spread of a new swamp popping up out of nowhere.

The Gods Must Be Crazy?

Deniable encryption like that will be a lifesaver if things get bad enough. Though I’m thinking more the kind where the encrypted content on a computer disk is indistinguishable from free space, and you have multiple passwords that decrypt different parts of the filesystem. That way you can be interrogated and/or beaten, “give up” and unlock your computer (using the decoy password), and still hide any incriminating evidence since those files remain hidden with no way for adversaries to even detect that they exist.

Nothing.

My cat is asleep on my lap. I am now trapped for all eternity.

Is this close enough?

Make sure to use lye soap! Old-fashioned dishware requires old-fashioned cleaning!

If they didn’t want players to do this, they wouldn’t have included a drum magazine upgrade for the assault rifle.

The nobility of the sea. True blue bloods, if you will.

They don’t shove them onto spikes so they’re not quite at shrike level, but leopards sometimes drag their kills up into the trees to hide them. Imagine walking by during a windy day and it starts raining monkeys and antelope.

ChatGPT

Cybersecurity

So you know how to fix all the security holes the AI left in your codebase, right? Right?

I remember reading sketchy guides on how to add custom ringtones without needing to pay for the privilege. Arbitrary restrictions on user folder access predate Android.

Once a week? Those things could go pretty much forever on a single charge so long as you weren’t making calls, even with batteries that had a tiny fraction of modern capacity due to their simple hardware.

Nowadays even a completely idle smartphone on extreme power saving mode is lucky to last a couple of days, especially if you don’t/can’t disable the vendor-mandated bloatware that periodically wakes it up to phone home. When used regularly, it’s not uncommon for a phone to drain within a single day.

Sometimes I miss the simple, rugged designs - right up until I remember how much better smartphones are at literally everything else. Still wish companies would get the memo and focus on bigger batteries rather than smaller phones, though.

Thanks for getting the intro theme stuck in my head for the rest of the day, you monster (username checks out?).

It also helps protect against biting insects.

They’re testing the costume for Dogma 2.

We’re all standing on the shoulders of giants, but there are so many layers of giants that it’s hard to see the ground.

With a full party of casters? One hour IC, a couple years OOC.

I’m right there with you. They’re basically saying “things could be worse, so there’s no point in wanting them better.” It’s a nonsensical thought-terminating cliché.