These are the natural results of their actions. This is how they learn.

The SD card? I have to track down my SD card reader, copy the pictures over, and then upload them to my photo service. It’s not a huge amount of work, but I’m pretty lazy.

My rx100 doesn’t have Wi-Fi. I assume newer cameras would do that automatically, but I don’t want to spend $600+ to get another good point n shoot.

I find that my Sony RX100 produces better photos than my Pixel phone. It has an auto mode that generally picks the right settings.

The pictures are more detailed and less blurry, especially in low light.

The only post processing necessary is copying the pictures from the SD card, which is admittedly a pretty big hassle.

You’re right about buying one second hand, since they’re incredibly expensive.

I’m still using an original Sony RX100. I think it’s something like ten or twelve years old.

The photos it produces look better than smartphone pictures, especially in low light.

It’s the kind of thing that’s a hassle to carry around, so I usually just bring it to family gatherings or my kids milestone events. Otherwise, I use phone pics.

I like that the sight lines are interrupted for most of the map, but there’s also a central thoroughfare.

it is kind of a gold colour

Nonsuccessful attempts are exhausting and can be kind of soul destroying. After a certain point you realize you’re not so much learning as reconfirming what you already know.

I agree with the sentiment to keep trying, but the end of each try hurts.

Not automatically pass/fail, because the consequences of that are bonkers.

Agreed

I think being romantically or sexually available is an important part of the trope: that’s what takes the character from being an interesting and experienced mentor, to a weird and creepy fantasy for the writer.

For stuff that isn’t story related, and if the group is in the right frame of mind, I’d ham up 1 and 20 on social roles. Nobody is selling their estate, but they might decide they take a shine to the PC or something else that’s fun. Similarly, a nat-1 could get the NPC offended, so they refuse a request grumpily or only help grudgingly.

Otherwise, I think what you’re saying is how I’d play it.

You’re right, but I don’t know most of my PCs stats. If the DC on a lock is 21, I’d expect a rogue might make it, but another PC who has never picked a lock wouldn’t.

Agreed, auto success on a skill check nerfs challenges.

If the DC is so high that the PC doesn’t succeed with a 20, it seems too random to give it to them.

Then again, it depends on the situation: a nat 20 trying to convince the penny pinching tavern owner to give you a discount seems like fun even if the DC should be infinite; but when dealing with something story related, I’d stick a little closer to the rules.

Google was ordered to make it possible to install new app stores as apps, so you could go into Google Play, search for a different app store, and, with a single click, install it on your phone, and switch to getting your apps from that store, rather than Google’s.

That’s what’s behind Google’s new ban on “sideloading”: this is a form of malicious compliance with the court orders stemming from its losses to Epic Games. In fact, it’s not even malicious compliance – it’s malicious noncompliance, a move that so obviously fails to satisfy the court order that I think it’s only a matter of time until Google gets hit with fines so large that they’ll actually affect Google’s operations.

The plant will generate about 880,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year—enough to help run a nearby desalination facility and supply around 220 homes. That equals the output of two soccer fields of solar panels, but osmotic power keeps running day and night, in any weather.

Piefed sounds awesome. Producing a fraction of the load with a less complicated server is awesome.

That’s an amazing track.

1-2 weeks. I’ve gotten one prescription for “everyday glasses” that never took. I basically suffered dizziness and nausea whenever I wore them.

I went back to the glasses place and got a weaker prescription.

Optometry is an art. They don’t always get it right.

What’s with the toxicity? Don’t make Lemmy a shitty place.

I last played a Rogue. As fun as the sneaky stuff is, I prefer Wizard. Probably take a wiz next time through.

The princess is neither Sync nor Send.