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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • The book states ‘no one knows when’ several times; even in Revelations, the book literally about end times.

    And there are many times in modern human history that people were sure it had kicked off. But it didn’t and things just got better again. It’s like our thing to almost wipe ourselves out but miserably kick on for another day.

    We only just appeared here anyway so we’ll likely disappear just as recently as well and some other living thing will have its turn, and so on, and so on, until the sun takes out the atmosphere and then the planet. And fin.



  • My bank’s app does it all. Not sure how common that is around the world, though. Much nicer having all my primary finance stuff buometrically locked away, provided by the people actually holding my funds.

    If I use Wallet, it’s just for storing music tickets and that sort of thing, but I often forget it’s there to use for that anyway










  • Last organisation I worked for—not for profit, health—had around 17,500 employees. One of the cybersecurity managers had every employees details and devices on a Google Sheet private account that anyone could see if they had the share URL.

    Home addresses, phone numbers, MAC addresses, IMEIs, columns of PII…

    I started getting all sorts of unsolicited contact and 2-step authentication alerts “randomly” after two months there and 8 months later rEvil successfully ransomwared for $3.4M.

    So when I found this sheet and no one took it seriously, I declared an internal data breach, submitted it to the fed—as you legally must in this country—and shit hit the fan for that department.


  • Yeah, that argument falls apart when henry just randomly moves the pick even though you didn’t move the controller.

    Literally—well at least from the devs and ever since KCD1—that’s how it works.

    How else would they express how noob he is?

    Look at Henry like you look at yourself 10 years ago. So confident, knew so much less. He’s your intern. Interns are frustrating. You were also a frustrating fumbler at the beginning of everything you learned.

    That “random” movement increases the further through the lockpick acrion he gets. But when he’s skilled, it doesn’t. He’s patient and gentle with the tension.

    What more could you want from a lockpicking system that’s super basic for all gamers but still represents the reality of someone learning lockpicking?

    Edit: Also he picks locks in the first game doesn’t he? So he just forgets how locks work because of his fall? Bad design imo but a great game other than that one system.

    The immersion of this is all explained. I highly recommend you play KCD1, though it is more challenging and realistic in skilling and especially combat. You have to teach him to read before you can read lockpicking books, for example. Becaue obviously not many people knew how to then, especially a blacksmith’s boy in a small village. You can, yes. Henry can’t. And if you try read it appears as gibberish to you, slowly getting better as he learns.



  • Like all of Henry’s skills, he sucks at the start.

    You are him. So you’ve got some faint knowledge that it can be done, but no idea how exactly, and with rudimentary tools to boot.

    Just like you IRL, it takes Henry learning how locks fundamentally work, what picking is actually doing inside, then getting better at the feel of it. And just like IRL, Henry gets good at lock picking quite quickly after some practice and being shared knowledge. Sure enough, he too soon understands how easy mediaeval locks are.

    All of the skills are like this by design. You may think something is easy, but Henry don’t. He knows as much as you did before you looked into it.