The production value is fantastic but itemization seems a bit dull to me. I was hoping for something to split the difference between D2 and POE in terms of no-lifing required, but it feels a bit closer to a very casual experience like D3. Also not a fan of the dynamic scaling, it's awul to feel stronger in the same zone at level 10 than level 30.

But I'm optimistic, they're going to be building on a solid platform. There's tons of potential here.

+1 for the bread maker. We scored one for 10 bucks off the local craigslist equivalent and probably use it 3 or 4 times a week now. It took a couple weeks of fine tuning the proofing and baking time, but now we're churning out loaves for about 60 cents a pop that would cost 3 or 4 dollars at the local bakery.

You should post this on the new communities page to try and grab some people. There could be dozens of us!

They did SUCH a good job with it. It's a love letter to the original game but done in a very modern and approachable way.

Learning to parry. Baaaaaad reaction time here.

Pretty! Are those things actually fully hollow? I never saw one in person but always assumed they were semis because of the fixed bridge.

Sucking it up and actually learning the fretboard and how to spell chords so I can do cool voice leading stuff with inversions and upper structure triads. Painful, but already paying dividends!

Completely agree. On a tangential note, I've noticed that the same crypto influencer hucksters from the last couple years on LinkedIn are now shilling AI miracle solutions for everything. The grift never sleeps!

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I've heard good things about that book, but never had a look myself. I definitely put really learning the fretboard off for way too long - felt like an asshole once I put in the time on it and realized how much it opened things up for me!

Not sure about Docker integration but I use Asana for this sort of thing.

One of the best heavy guitar tones ever, this shit rules so much.

Just happened to walk by a Lamy display in a store while I was killing time before a lunch, tried the tester and loved how smooth it was to write with one. I have a safari and an al-star now and they're basically all I write with at this point.

If you like platformers and haven't done it already you should play both Super Mario 3 on NES and Super Mario World on SNES. Still really great to play but also a good history lesson - a lot of staple design concepts were pioneered in those games!

Staying in the platformer genre, the original Rayman on PSX wil always be one of my favorites. Wonderful, unique art and sound design. Starts off very slow but becomes fiendishly difficult as you keep going. Be advised that it was designed with limited lives and some brutal gauntlets between save points. Save scumming with your emulator is probably going to be good for your sanity here.

Yeah, I'm a guitar guy but I learned theory completely by visualizing it in a linear way like on a piano and then sorting out how to make it work on the frets. Would be a nightmare trying to sort that out purely in a 2D guitar fretboard setting.

Transcribing was so frustrating when I started, but oh man is it good for your ears!

It used to be not embarrassing myself at the next rehearsal, but nowadays a big motivator is setting a good example for my kid and showing him the value of putting in the work to get results.

Oh God I think I spent more on batteries for that thing in 3 months than I did for the actual handheld.

Cool, TIL, thanks for sharing!

Super cool! Can we get a picture of the controls?

I picked up one of the full hollowbody jazz boxes from Ibanez a couple months ago and love it. Really great value for the money!