Vlc is also hosted in France, where software patents aren't legal.

WSL2 is essentially a VM, and doesn't seem to have any weird bugs or gotcha's anymore (at least for command line programs). I don't use it for work, but playing around with it as a hobby, it seems fairly solid.

They're not different to the consumer. Either way they're a surcharge to the store price of the item, and most places in the world include it on the sticker.

Honestly, given how they seem to drop off at higher levels I've been considering homebrewing different rules for summons.

My current idea is to keep the scaling consistent, so something like (spell level * 2) - 3. Level 1/2 would be the same (-1, 1 receptively), but then it'd keep incrementing by 2 every level up till a max of level 17 for a level 10 spell. Another option is (spell level * 2) - 2, but I think that might be too strong at the level you get the creature.

I'll have to actually play with this rule at a higher level to see if it unbalances it, but IMO it looks like summons just get worse and worse at high level.

Riding other players is always a terrible idea, and already possible due to stuff like wild shape (or enlarge I suppose).

I can see the reach issue being a problem, one potential solution they could use is to add it as a level 5 heritage feat. Ruling it as needing practice to use your reach effectively or something.

Honestly, removing the damage dice mechanic from PF1 (and a similar problem in 5e), already solves one of the biggest issues of large creatures.

I'm tentatively excited about it, multiplayer is great, though I do worry they're going to "mobile gamify" it too much - think D3.

I do wish someone would make a PF2 game though. Kingmaker/WOTR are really fun (needs multiplayer), but PF1 just feels so clunky, even through a CRPG.

Honestly, essentials shouldn't be (majority) privately owned. This includes water, sewage, electricity, most roads, and internet.

To me, as the cables in the US are privately owned it seems that unless you "luck out", you essentially have 1 realistic option for internet. I've been told that it's fairly regional, so apparently it's not so bad in the major cities.

In ~99% of NZ the internet (fibre) cables are either crown-company owned (essentially state), or joint owned by private/public. This essentially makes EVERY ISP buy their bandwidth off the cable owner. There is no ISP monopoly (only a physical cable monopoly), and just like power companies, changing ISP's is trivial. I think a lot of europe does something similar too, and apparently some cities in the US do this too.

AFAIK NZ has no more 24 hour supermakets. I remember brisbane used to, but a quick google search shows that might not be true anymore?

When I was staying in South Bank, restaurants were regularly open until 9:30/10pm. Finding places like that in christchurch is much harder, outside of thursday/friday/saturday. Auckland might be better, but it's been a while since I've stayed there.

TBH, maybe it's not that brisbane is good for late night stuff, maybe it's just that NZ is even worse.

In NZ, the only time I've boiled water is when we had an earthquake that screwed up a bunch of stuff, including the water & sewage pipes.

It's not really a pride month thing, but I flew my partner over from aussie to snuggle for 3 weeks, it was great having someone to warm up my freezing toes. Saying goodbye at the airport sucks though.

I usually just use KeePassXC, which is open source and self hosted (kinda). It's synced over onedrive, though something like syncthing would work fine too.

No backups per-se, but onedrive should handle accidentally deleted files, and the database is on a few machines anyway so the chances of anything permanently happening to all copies are rather slim.

Downvotes have a lot of issues, but IMO are a better alternative than anything else I can think of. No downvotes means there's no real way to get rid of spam, or incorrect advice, or hatespeech. Reporting sometimes works, but moderators don't have the time to go through every complaint and find out if it's valid or not.