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These power outages in NDG are seriously affecting my ability to do my job. It doesn't look like there's any reason to believe Hydro-Quebec will get the situation under control ... ever. I'm told it's been like this for over a decade.

I'd like to hear from people who know something about or have had installed a home battery system like the Tesla Powerwall. How much did it cost, who did the work, etc.

Does anyone know if there's any significant improvements planned for space combat? I'm finding it extremely tedious and painful.

Spotify has always been a bit finicky with Alexa but lately I've been having to repeat myself quite a bit to get it to start playing music.

What I've noticed is that if go to spotify in my browser when alexa fails to start playing music the song will be playing in the browser with the output device set to my alexa speaker group. So the instructions got properly sent to Spotify but Alexa isn't playing what it's receiving.

Does anyone have any tips to get alexa and spotify to play nice?

I don't know if this is going to be a common opinion but I find the political map is far too static for my taste. Getting into something like the US is very difficult but once you're in you become nearly unnasaillable. In reality a country without a very authoritarian government would be very difficult to hold on to, it should at least take a full time operative to hold on to it. Instead the bigger then country the easier it is to keep it.

Also, the idea that to get into the US you have to start by getting into Guatemala feels a bit absurd. Major movements don't migrate from third world countries to industrialized countries, they go the other direction. If you want to effect change on a glo

The AI in this game makes me rip my hair out. I get that in a way it's balanced because the same dumb as shit AI is being used against you but as much as I want to love this game I can't play it for more than an hour at a time due to how frustrating the AI is.

Rail guns are a bit out of context for me so who knows how fast their ammunition is but PDCs look to be some sort of space-based HMG equivalent. Now I don't know much about machine guns but I suspect that HMG wont pierce a tanks the way we see those bullets fly clean through those ships.

I get that in space there's no friction once the bullet leaves the barrel but the amount of energy that bullet has when it leaves the barrel is going to be the same in space as in an atmosphere. I also imagine that you'd want to build your ship;s hull thick enough that not every random pebble you might hit floating around in there ends your trip.

So how the hell are PDCs so damned effective against ships?

I've been working on a system that uses cards to resolve combat instead of dice. My objective here is to give the players more control over what will succeed or fail and to build tension before actions are resolved by having the player recognize he's in trouble by looking at his hands or smile with cockiness when he has a killer set of cards.

I'm assuming this has been done before, does anyone know what I can look up for inspiration?

Let me start by saying that, in principle, I love the addition of stability damage to the game. It does a good job of differentiating the weapon types, tones down the power of bulwark, adds a whole dimension of suitability, balances the otherwise over heat-costed PPC and gives the game a second angle to use when formulating strategies.

With that said, I have a big problem with how it works out in practice. When you first start the game stability is a bit of a non-issue, your weapons rarely do enough to knock someone down and when they do that mech is very nearly dead anyway, it just helps avoid having the fight be too tedious. We've all experienced that light mech that just.wont.die! and I

I'm currently reading Sword of the Iron Throne since I read it has an interesting combat system and I was struct by how complex it's character creation process is compared to, well, to what it could be.

There's a few games I can think of that have not only rules for how many points you can put on the sheet but elaborate rules on how you arrive at this final point layout or rules on how many points you get. I'm thinking ars magica, rogue trader, among others.

Until recently I had kind of taken for granted that the more straightforward character creation process could be made the better. But that might not be a given, I just can't really grasp what might be so advantageous about making a gam

I've been brainstorming a system over the past few months in an attempt to make a system particularly well adapted to my group's playstyle.

One piece that I'm having problems with is a way to represent physical space without a mat. I've never come across a system I liked in any of the games I've played so I was hoping someone could point me to an elegant system they've come across that I could use for inspiration.

I'm hoping to come up with something that will have just enough crunch that movement and ranged based powers feel satisfying without requiring much bookkeeping or a mat.

Has the site moved or been renamed? I remember seeing something useful I wanted to reference just now and noticed it's not accessible.

To help understand the combat rules we ran a little simulations with characters thrown together really quick. We had one fast dual wielder facing off against an armored brute with a warhammer. A fairly typical scene for many of you I'm sure.

As I'm typically fairly resistant to extreme stats the basic stats we used were 4 dex 3 melee with a chopping sword and a short sword vs 2 dex 3 melee with a huge two handed mace and the strength to back it up. My big brute had plenty of resistance charms too.

The fight wasn't even close, complete domination from the dex monkey.

Now, this is strictly a first impression thing but I was wondering if this matches what people are seeing so far. I was kind

Has anyone been brave enough to upgrade to windows 10 yet? I'd like to hear from people who might have tried using sap gui on windows 10. Any problems so far?

I've found that sap gui is a bit finiky on windows 8.1; the size of the font on the UI keep changing, either being too large or too small. I was able to fix that eventually (now it's just always too small :P ). I'm hoping to avoid headaches with the upgrade.

A weapon of mass destruction that developed a conscience, powerful enough to to break time locks and open windows to someone's past or future. You'd think that's the kind of thing the Doctor wouldn't want to just leave laying around.

He didn't want the Tardis to see it and he couldn't put it back in the vaults so.....where is it?