ProfessorOwl_PhD

Linux is still for nerds but I hate windows 11 more than I hate being uncool so I'm just going to have to step down my rizz and learn more computer stuff.

1. My 3 concerns are, in order, gaming (mostly through steam or fitgirl), playing TTRPGs through Foundry Virtual Tabletop and Discord, and image editing (but really simple image editing. more paint.net than GIMP). What distro would be best for this? What are the actual differences in distros beyond appearances? Is it worth installing the Steam OS, or is that still really only useable with handhelds?

2. Can I just shove all the data I want to save on an external drive, install my chosen distro, and transfer stuff back on? Will the external drive need to be formatted in a specific way first? can I just slot stuff like program settings back in the new system or will I have to convert them to a different file format?

3. Do I have to buy the thigh highs or do they just appear? Will it still work if I don't wear them? I don't like wearing socks so I'd prefer a distro without them if possible.

If it helps I'm running a Ryzen 5 2600 and RX 7600, and my favourite colour is purple.

Edit: Thanks for the answers everyone, I'm going to do a bit more reading on distros before choosing one, but I have a better idea what I'm looking at now.

How do I convince them the robots are in league with the feds

They are nearly 70 so if you can find an analogy to the miner's strike it would help

Finally got my third kill of the campaign (ruined by the party now having the means to afford ressurection magic) and just spent 2 hours roleplaying out to process of taking the body back to town, finding people who could help, settting up the ritual, informing the deceased's next of kin that a) their daughter had been killed under their watch and b) they were bringing her back but probably as a different species, the ritual itself, and the fallout and discussion afterwards.

The second kill saw the body eaten by a monster, so there wasn't much could be done, but the first death also got a similar amount of roleplay - taking the body to the church, organising a funeral, and running the procession and funeral itself.

So how do deaths go in your campaign? Shallow grave and a quick prayer, or taking almost as long as a real funeral?

Make no mistake, it's a fully modern game, but a lot of it feels like an homage to the JRPGs the developers grew up with. Lost Odyssey is obviously a big influence on the combat while having much more modern cinematography, enemies and npcs have traces of Shadow Hearts to them while being gorgeously rendered, the overworld has lovingly oversized characters and npcs accentuated by a tilt-shift effect - it all beautifully emphasise the slightly retro-magical setting.

I'm only 5 or 6 hours in and I'm absolutely confident this is my GOTY.

It's all just so unrelentingly French. If I have to watch that man wiggle his head Frenchly one more time I'm not letting him dodge or parry for the rest of the game.

What a dickhead

I was busy keeping track of Black Tentacles and Crushing Despair's effects so I forgot about the second save for creatures who critically fail against Phantasmal Calamity, which could have stopped the two standing PCs from reviving the two downed PCs and led to a complete TPK. Just one of them failing the save would have guaranteed a dead party member, and they only had about a 20% chance each to succeed. After that they would have had to roll a 19 or 20 to escape the illusion thanks to their debuffs, which they'd need to get on their first attempt or lose both of the downed party members.

And now one of my players has pointed out Black Tentacles has been upgraded to Slither in the remaster so they should have been even more killed. With an extra 2d6 damage plus persistent poison every round I could have absolutely tpk'd them. This is so fucking upsetting. They should have all died and had to make new characters and the paladin player forced to write the backstory on why the help he requested took so long to arrive

i just wanna kill PCs and everyone said this AP would kill loads but I trained my players too well and now I missed my chance to kill them aaaaaaaAAAAAA

How's your Easter going?

Chain broke while commuting the other day - I managed to repair it at the time with a quick link, but the new link seems to be catching slightly when going through the derailleur. Every 4ish rotations of the pedals there's a very brief sound like I'm freewheeling, and the derailleur starts pulling back when in top gear, but I can't replicate any of it when the wheel's off the ground.

Might just be a dodgy quick link causing problems, but does anyone have suggestions while I wait for new ones to arrive?

I spent 3 hours putting my players through a tortuous fight against an invisible enemy and the freaks loved it. They were running in circles trying to find and counter it, only to get lured into aggroing and even harder encounter, at which point they fled. They got a piddly amount of xp for the handful of PL-4 enemies they downed along the way, then spent the last hour of the session reading rules to prepare for round 3.
All the invisible bastard did was hit and run, eating up their resources and wasting their time. We finished the session with them walking back into the exact setup they encountered almost 2 sessions ago when they first met it, and yet they're excited to face it again next week.

The last time my players were this excited about an enemy was fighting the Lamia sisters in Rise of the Runelords, who would dimension door away from fights they were losing. The players went absolutely wild with conspiracies and preparation for future encounters. Generally I struggle to get them to look at anything outside of sessions, while an enemy that runs away will even get the ADHD one to pour over lists of equipment.

So next time you want a villain to be memorable, just walk away. Mid fight, when it looks like the party are starting to get the villain on the ropes, just peace out. Say "nah man, I need some backup". And then when the backup dies, just peace out again. Buh-bye. You can do it for months without them tiring.

I haven't killed a PC in MONTHS, and the remaster not only stole my kill but taunted me by leaving them on 1 hp. this is bullshit