Xylaria

As an intro for this account, Hi!

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even if you get ones with a heatsink, your graphics card blocks all of them from airflow. it seems like, if anything, the heat sink would make heat problems worse because it can go both ways

i know gravis did a post on this but i

1. just installed TWO m.2
2. and
3. had to prioritize which slot the only one with a heatsink was going into

Frankly all of modern motherboard design is so fucked.

We need a new layout, but capitalism prioritizes momentum for mass production and cost reduction, so people are going to keep using ATX until the sun burns out. Meanwhile, GPUs are getting so big they practically need their own table, hanging out of a slot meant for something less than 1/4 their weight, ready to snap off because their entire design is borderline psychopathic, and THEN you have things like m.2 slots getting blocked by the chonky fuckers because there's no more goddamn room.

Something's going to have to break - either GPUs will need their own stands, presumably with bus cables back to the PCIe ports, or we're going to have to invent new cases to support the bastards. And m.2 is going to have to adapt - I virtually guarantee we'll see new form factors or adapter types for them sooner rather than later, because they need heat sink room for ideal performance but dear god are they too useful/good not to have.

The thing about Kim Kitsuragi is that yes, he is a deadpan straight man to Harry's eccentricity, but it's very clear that he's not oblivious -- just gifted with an infinite capacity for forgiveness and unconditional support. Which is why it hurts so much to disappoint him.

I think it's crucial, from a design and storytelling perspective, that Kim is specifically capable of being disappointed but also not guaranteed to be. He is legitimately judging your actions and choices, but he also shows up willing to give you the benefit of the doubt—he's heard of the 41st and he's heard of you, so he's inclined to believe that there's method to your madness. He's not a cartoon character who will always react with disparagement or unconditionally support your craziest rambles.

And because he's willing to judge Harry's actions by their intent and outcome rather than their method, he ends up effectively judging the player themself—who is only able to express their intent through Harry's deranged methodology. So when the achievement pops up and you learn that Kim truly trusts you, you as a player feel seen and validated in a way that video games seldom achieve.

While I feel quite bad for future generations of players that will inevitably suckered into buying subscription services, endless reprints of books with tweaked rule sets, merchandise, and microtransactions on WotC's official tabletop RPG, I'm glad the hobby is relatively independent of what any company does, much more so than something like Magic the Gathering. Nothing WotC can do will ruin the game for anyone willing to pirate a PDF of the player's handbook and use a little imagination.

The article's claim that any dungeon master needs to buy the player's handbook, the monster manual, and the dungeon master's guide is completely ridiculous. You can find the stats to monsters online on a whole host of websites, and the DMG is basically just advice and little minigames. You're probably better off taking inspiration from it at best, and house-ruling things like chases. No wonder 5e is having a dungeon master shortage if DMs are expected to shell out so much cash, as well as host a game a lot of the time.

because it comes at a time where economists are saying we're nearing recession because we're making everyone pay too much

Hasbro has always been really bad about knowing its monetary limits but ESPECIALLY now.

It’s funny how they’ve been consistently advised they’re overcharging and overproducing for MtG and they’re going “yeah, let’s kill D&D too just like that”, simply incredible dumbfuckery.

Especially when, unlike MtG, D&D has strong competition AND doesn’t rely on needing products to play. Fan-created works literally rule the D&D space and making it more expensive just pushes people to those fanworks instead of official sources.

The brains on these jackasses are like walnuts.