They all challenge you on different ways.

DS3 is actually quite interesting to finish on SL1. You can cast one basic spell, lots of weapons are available to you, but you need to think carefully about your loadout so you've got a good set of resistance and buffs for each area.

DS1 limits you to terrible weapons with boring movesets, and by the time you've heard the pyromancy noise for the ten thousandth time, you'll be ready to chuck your monitor out the window.

DS2 is hellish. Your dodge is tied to your agility, which only a few items boost, and for the first 3/4 of the game, you'll only get that from a crap armour set. Only a couple of weapons are available to you. You'll need to know basically every boss inside out; some of the ones that were comedic before are no longer so funny.

Scholar is like DS2, but you can't run into the DLC early on any more to get some of the powerful rings that are in there. I almost cried when I finally got the ring of the embedded.

Wouldn't know about finishing ER on RL1/no summons. Cleared out the four demigods easily enough, but Morgott was a run ender. RL1 does not leave you a lot of room for mistakes, put it like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliant_Robin

The three wheels and the fibreglass construction meant that it was light enough to count as a tricycle, so that you could drive one on a motorcycle license rather than a full driving license. Plus they sip quite gently at the petrol by the standards of the 1970s. You still saw a few on the roads when I was growing up in the 80s, but it's been a long time.

The thought of doing 85 mph in one of them is enough to make me fill my trousers, though. Couldn't pay me enough.

Well, the universe is expanding, and we don't know why. Dark energy has come to dominate the energy balance of universe, and we don't know what that is. We've a theory that's great for describing small things, and a different theory that's great for describing large or fast things, but they don't line up, so we can't have them quite right.

If the universe did have a period of greatly increased expansion shortly after the big bang, it doesn't seem too crazy to suggest that you could do it again, at least in theory. Might require some absurd energy density. That much energy in one place is likely to collapse into a black hole, which would sort out contacting the universe again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe

Well, at least one one foot. She might still have ten total, ofc.

And that very unusual lowercase 'g'. https://www.emigre.com/Fonts/Matrix-II lets you compare them all.

Joke is, that he's counted six toes on her foot. Normally TLP stops at the one that went home.

Don't take your bad day out on me, sunshine ;-)

I'd probably recommend mint cake for the hiking, it's traditional, but that's because it's calorie dense. And tasty.

Would probably recommend anyone on a diet to stay on the left-hand side, you'll feel full faster. Obviously, poor people on a diet, bottom left. Bit more disposable income, top left.

If you're poor, eat stuff near the bottom. It will cost less for your daily requirements.

If you're going hiking, eat stuff on the right. You won't have to carry so much to meet your daily requirements.

Your daily calorie requirements vary based on how active and how big you are. The chart for men and women based on height is basically the same line; the average woman's requirements are lower since they're smaller on average, but we're made out of the same stuff and need the same food.

As a diabetic, I would like this chart, but instead showing carbohydrates v. dietary fibre for common foods, so that I'd know what's best to eat without spiking my blood sugar.

Some high-end professional monitors have really sophisticated colour calibration tools, and perhaps a gaming monitor might allow you to automatically configure HDR or refresh rate on a per-app basis. I don't think it's unreasonable that a monitor might have some software. The problem is automatic installation of shitware that you can't get rid of again. Fuck LG, fuck Windows for allowing it.

Suspends disbelief a little that the food is still rotting in centuries-old dungeons. Maybe should have some completely dried-out fungus in the vague shape of the food, that collapses into dust when your presence moves the air that's sat motionless for decades.

Not that the DnD economy makes any sense anyway, of course. Bret Devereaux, in amongst his other excellent writings, did an excellent explanation of why "gold currency" wasn't a thing in historical times; he's written specifically about BG3's armour problems as well.

Really traditional vampires are super OCD; one of the ways to get rid of them is to spill a big bag of eg. rice in front of them, and they'll spend so long counting every grain that they'll get caught by the rising sun. Salt ought to work as well?

One grain of salt, two grains of salt. Ah ha ha ha. Three grains of salt...

Was in the Steam sale recently - bought it, completed it. It's pretty good - revisits a lot of MI1 and 2 with the hindsight that comes with age. There's a lot to like, but it's also fairly blatantly unfinished, some of the puzzles seem like placeholders for the much bigger puzzles that ought to be there, if you see what I mean?

It's not quite as good as any of the original trilogy, but it's not far off. Massively better than 4, obviously. I quite enjoyed the Telltale ones, tho - the episodic structure forced them to keep the puzzles tight, and they had some really good moments.