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Cake day: March 12th, 2025

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  • It depends, the rules vary by country. Some court houses even have their own house rules. Weapons in particular are very ruleset-specific.

    Even without knowing the exact ruleset, I can still give some general advice:

    Party composition

    • At least 1 (one) lawyer. You can make do with one of your high wis party members, like a wizard, subclassing as one, but this is not recommended. A dedicated defense lawyer lets the rest of your party focus on their own roles.
    • In case the rules do not allow purchasing a judge directly, a thief can be useful to discreetly bribe one instead.
    • While paldins can be powerful, especially in theocracies with the same religious alignment, many jurisdictions ban the use of their main healing ability, “lay on hands”. Note that in the “USA” area, this ability can be used on children with only a slight karma loss, if your reputation with the “ruling class” faction is “liked” or greater.
    • The rest of your party composition is up to you, as it depends too much on the ruleset. (for example, 7th edition nerfed bards greatly: bard songs can no longer buff sneak, beatboxing is no longer a valid instrument and non-religious bard music is now classified as satanic)

    Solo builds

    Not recommended for new players, but can be a fun challenge for when you’re more experienced:

    • Barter builds are typically pretty difficult to play, often requiring a high lie stat, good connections and lots of gold.
    • If your charisma and luck are high, you can try your hand at a speech build. This does still require careful preparation and perk selection. The idiot savant perk is not optional for this build. As the perk benefits greatly from low intelligence, you can use consumables, like lead & reddit to lower it temporarily. Though as this build is typically played with the politician class, intelligence should not be a problem.
    • Agility builds are tricky to pull off. The main one requires great investment to pickpocket & disguise. First, reverse-pickpocket an emetic poison into the judge’s inventory. When the judge goes to the bathroom, enter sneak mode by crouching and follow them if you’re wearing armor or clothes heavier than “light clothing”, remove all of it to get rid of the sneak penalty. When they’re alone, pickpocket the judges equipment[1]. You should kill the judge now to be safe. If you’re doing a zero-kills run for the achievement, you can let the judge be for now, but you have to be quick. Equipping the judge’s gear disguises you as a “judges” faction member. Be careful as some members of the audience might be hostile towards the judges faction and your current equipment has low AC. You should now go take the original judge’s place and rule in your favor.

    [1]: Pickpocketing equipped equipment requires high skill. If your skill isn’t high enough, reverse-pickpocket stronger gear to them, and pickpocket their original equipment once they change into their new gear.





  • No. It doesn’t mean deep as in deep sea, but rather deep as in deep in the earth or perhaps more accurately, deep space. The U.S. is ruled by alien dwarves, who came to earth to hollow out the planet.

    They fund climate activists & oil lobbyists, even foreign propaganda & terrorists. Their purpose in this is to create discord & strife to distract earthlings from their true goals.

    They don’t care about this planet or its people, as neither will exist anymore after the extraction is complete.

    I know the truth, and now you do too. Even if nothing can be done to stop this grand plan, it’s better to die knowing than to live foolishly in blissful ignorance.

    Let’s just hope that our lives are not cut too short.



  • No problem!

    I just checked, and keepassxc does publish official AppImages.

    In case you have permission issues on the drive on Linux, create another, small partition with ext4 or other filesystem that supports Unix permissions natively. Linux & other Unix-like operating systems use separate permissions for reading, writing and executing files/entering folders, unlike Windows. I don’t store programs on NTFS or any of the FATs, so I’m not completely sure how it works with the default settings.







    1. I’ve heard good things about CUPS for printing, not sure about the wd drive app & msi dragon center.
    2. Not really, with exceptions:
    • Appimages are a Linux equivalent of Windows’ EXE files. Everything the program requires to run is contained in a single file, which can be run anywhere.
    • Statically linked applications, for example, a lot of software written in Rust & Go, also include everything needed to run, but in a different, more compact way.
    • Not what you want or mean, but source-based distributions, like Gentoo do not distribute ready-to-run software*, but rather scripts/instructions for building for source in an automatic manner. This decouples the file you get from your distribution from the required library versions somewhat, in a way, increasing backwards compatibility a bit.
    1. You can, although you should use the system’s package manager, if possible. You can just download an appimage or a statically linked executable and give it the executable permission (chmod +x <path-to-program>) and run the file.
    2. First, beware that Wine is malware compatible! Wine — upon which Valve’s Proton is based — can be used to run Windows programs & games on Linux (and MacOS). Alternatively, you can use umu-launcher to launch non-steam programs with Proton. If you encounter problems with Wine, you could try looking into the Lutris launcher, winetricks & the winedb website.
    3. You ask multiple things here: 5.1. Flag emojis: Yes, so long as you have fonts with them installed. (They probably are on Ubuntu) Flag emojis are interesting that they’re just 2 special characters, representing a country code. If you have a font that specifies a flag for a country with the code “FR”, you get support for the French flag emoji. There is also nothing stopping a font from including flag emojis for fictional or historical flags. 5.2 Codecs: Yup, HEVC (H.265) and others are supported at no cost. FFmpeg supports it, so you can transcode video on Linux. Just be aware of the quality loss from lossy->lossy conversion.
    4. Yes, Wine works offline.
    5. See points 2 & 3. Also, if you have a package file (.deb for Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu), you can use the package manager to install it. Well, so long as you have its dependencies either installed or as package files stored offline. You can also run a repository offline, but that’s probably not really useful to you. Be aware that you should assume package files to be distro-specific, unless otherwise specified. (A .deb file without dependencies could run on both Debian & Ubuntu. If I remember, EndeavourOS uses Arch’s repositories, so it should be compatible with Arch.)
    6. Yes, Wine can run .bat files. Wine contains a terminal program (windecmd or winecommand I think), which works like a windows command prompt window.

    *With exceptions

    If you have other questions or if anything remains unclear, ask away!