It’s not an MLM or pyramid scheme; it is regular sales employment. You’re not getting other people to sell them for you nor are you encouraged to find others looking to join the sales team. It just sucks dick because the pay is shit (and they go through hoops to pay you less or nothing; which is where the scam part comes in), they treat you like shit, and you have to basically sell them door-to-door.

It’s stupid because the knives are great products; I still have my sample set because they actually rock. They just only sell them like Tupperware clubs and only market them via word of mouth. They’d be making bank if they just sold them to retailers instead of fucking with young people looking for their first job.

I sold cutco knives for a month.

If you’re looking for a job, stay the fuck away from anything dealing with “CutCo” or “Vector Marketing.”

Edit: Its not really a pyramid scheme… They just do everything they can to weasel out of giving you your paycheck on payday and because it’s sales commission, I don’t think they have to follow minimum wage laws since you’re not paid hourly.

Unless they’ve seriously changed how it fundamentally works (this was when I was 18). They never encouraged or paid extra for getting others to sell for you, like a typical MLM thing.

I would go back in time to 1995 and give John Carmack modern tools and maybe UE5 and see what happens.

Dwarf Fortress.

Not just best indie game, but best game period.

Can’t necessarily make it dumb, but you can change how the smart works without buying a whole new TV by getting something like a Roku stick or any other device similar that runs on android that you can then hack/modify to run side loaded apps and such to get around the bullshit built into the TV.

Of course if you’re already planning on getting a new TV you could just get one that runs on Android already and do the same thing. Basically if it runs on Android, there are tons of tools to make it not suck all over GitHub.

I think BG3 already has the highest rating available, so I don’t think it’d be affected.

It can go one higher (AO). They wouldn’t want it to tho.

I didn’t mean to imply it’s not also concerning tech. I think it would fit in both spheres. Just commenting on the whole “stop making trans people political” notion, like the issue isn’t and hasn’t been political the entire time.

They’re trying to make laws to hurt trans people, and it’s a hot issue among the populace… That is the very definition of political.

I get excited that I have a girlfriend. Although I don’t know what she wants with my game saves. 🤷🏻‍♂️

It’s a skill, like concentration. It’s used like concentration is, with it being checked when you’re attacked during a performance for a buff or other bard spell you’ve cast that requires focus. The game does do this (like, it checks your performance skill when attacked while concentrating on a spell), but instead of actually showing your character playing continuously while having one of these spells cast, you just pick a song to play as a free action to just add flavor totally optionally. Now, in, say, Neverwinter Nights when you are concentrating on a skill, your character will play their instrument until they fail a check or the spell ends completely automatically.

Also: You can make money playing instruments. There is even an achievement to make so much.

I found a Brass Oil Lamp, but it has no genie :(

Thought it was funny that my character commented on it and the description says that the sides are shiner than the rest, as if they’ve been frequently rubbed. lol

Having a grand old time insulting everyone I meet with Vicious Mockery, killing them, and then playing The Bard Dance over their corpse.

I think her using the spell just proves my point. Just use your Wish to do it, butthole! 🤣

Speaking of the PC’s eyes… I’m kinda upset I couldn’t change my eye color at character creation. IDK if I missed it or it just wasn’t an option for my race (dragonborn). They look cool being flames, but they’re blue and I’d rather them be gold or green.

I don’t want to just fix it. I want to find the Eye of Vecna and use that.

I think it’s a travesty you can switch characters in dialogue but it doesn’t actually do anything except prevent you from selecting the dialogue options until you switch back. It’s extremely frustrating when the conversation was started by just walking into an area because sometimes it starts it with a character I wasn’t even controlling.

Is this the fight that happens in the Harper’s little camp? I first thought due to how many dudes it kept spawning every turn and how I couldn’t flee from it, I was supposed to lose, but no. Dying there just gives game over. 😬

I’ve been everywhere else, obtained every magical item (and only fed like 3 to Gale), and should have gotten as much XP as possible and this fight still seems impossible or that I was supposed to have a McMuffin to help win it that for whatever reason I don’t. Plus, I killed that winged dude in 2 hits right off the bat, but this just triggered him to knock out the woman and take off, which made me start to question how this game handled script triggers because it’s so jarring to complete one action, and then have a cutscene trigger showing something else happening.

There is no debate. If you think save scumming is wrong: you’re wrong; just don’t do it yourself at that point since someone else doing it doesn’t affect you at all. Saving and reloading is the one, universal thing about video games that makes them so great. You can keep trying different things until you succeed, without all the tedium of starting completely from scratch every time.

This keeps happening to me as well. The way around it is to quicksave and quickload right then and there. Thankfully it lets you do that anywhere because it happens a lot. I didn’t kill her or anything tho. She broke entirely on her own. Now almost every 3rd encounter, when it’s her turn she is stuck in a dialogue state with no text (the text background appears) and the skip button does nothing.

Critical Failure is when you roll a 1. 1 always fails, even if your modifiers would be higher than the DC.

Critical success is just a natural 20, or a 20 with just the die alone and no modifiers and is always a success.

However generally in the PnP game or other CRPGs that use it, critical fail and critical success not only just fail or succeed the thing, they fail it worse or succeed it better. It might come with extra rewards or just more flavor text to make it different than a regular success or failure.

Critically failing at picking a lock, for example, might break the lock preventing another attempt at picking or even using a key.

Critically succeeding an intimidation check to extort money from an NPC might get you a little more gold or items.

BG3 doesn’t do this. Critical fail is a regular fail, but it’s telling you that you rolled a 1 on the die. Critical success is just success but you rolled a nat 20. They don’t make the rarity of the die roll special in any way other than telling you it was critically good or bad during the roll.

Same the other way around, where my largest possible modded roll can’t beat the DC… I can still roll a 20 to pass it.

While you’re right about the fail and in PnP, this isn’t how it works in BG3. If your modifiers aren’t high enough to succeed, it doesn’t even let you make the attempt. It straight up says “impossible.”