Balrogs. All the way down.

LOL

It varies by army, so this won’t be exact.

A platoon has around 30 people in it. It has around 20 privates, about 7 non commissioned officers and one commissioned officer. Say 3 lance(junior) corporals, 3 corporals and a sergeant. In overall command is a commissioned officer.

When you join the army you typically go in as non commissioned as a private or commissioned as a leuitenant.

Officers are trained to lead people from the start. The lieutenant may have 1-2 years experience and the sergeant may have 16 years experience.

The next level up is a captain who commands say 3-5 platoons. At the start of saving private Ryan, Tom Hanks character was a captain in command of around 100 soldiers.

I think around 5 companies make a battalion. And that’s just soldiers.

You can also make a unit out of soldiers, engineers, artillery, transport and some other specialists like medical and cooks.

I believe a brigadier general would command a unit around this size.

To get there I would expect he worked his way up the rank, working at each level for around 2-3 years.

He would have been in the army around 15-20 years, but some people could get promoted faster.

Do you want and can deal with no compression at all?, what if you made an ISO of each CD and then archived that as a lossless option.

Should I be worried if I can hear this meme? Asking for a friend…

Well, that’s another way to be sure. When taking off and nuking the site from orbit isn’t quite enough.

Instructions very clear. https://youtu.be/KFiXReaYEj8

Want me to dim the lights and get you an aspirin?

I think we might have different definitions of minimalist, but have a look at a Raspberry Pi 500 (or a pi 5 if you want to keep your own keyboard) and an external 3.5inch USB hard drive. I am pretty happy with a 400 and would use it as a nettop/netbook.

I haven’t got my hands on one, bur I remember reading it can do two 4k monitors.

In that setup youx could keep the os on the microsd and also get a SSD for a high speed work area, copy to HDD when finished with projects.

And the dinghy got him all the way to dock. What more could anyone want.

I wasn’t trying to say that fault tolerant practices like journaling file systems wouldn’t be used, but to use an analogy, the system knows that when it’s low on power and tired to the point it needs a recharge, it can stop and lie down deliberately rather than keep running until it drops and maybe fall over and hit it’s head.

With the dot matrix?

I’m not a switch expert but can think of a reason why it might do this.

The system might show it’s battery level to you as 100% to 0% when it might actually be draining from 100% to 5%. That last 5% might be used as a sort of internal Uninterruptible Power System .

When the system boots up it might be doing some things where a power failure could have severe consequences like bricking the unit if the plug was pulled out and there was no battery.

The system might use some swap space like storage or have some key variables kept in RAM which needs to be written out to non-volatile memory before the chips are powered down.

For example let’s say it hibernates and it doesn’t or incorrectly writes the wrong instructions pointer address When the system poweres up, it might try and execute game data instead of instructions and not recover.

Nintendo wouldn’t want to handle heaps of complaints of bricked systems due to exceptional circumstances like a power outage if it let the switch play off mains alone.

That’s my theory, I could be wrong and I’m sorry it’s frustrating you.

Is there a third options like scissors which can defeat one of these but not the other?

The first thing I’d recommend is try to figure out which genre to play first. I think cyberpunk is way different from DND which is also has different rules than pathfinder. Warhammer 40k is also a. Tabletop game that is more combat oriented and no role playing.

Starting a new group could be hard. Some games shops have play areas for people and I guess they sort of rent space to regular and adhoc groups. I know of three shops which not only sell games, but are setup for people to play there on a Thurs night etc. repeat sales of drinks and may a small charge for the table and game sets could be used from a communal library.

Some games are role playing heavy and others are combat focused. In some groups the DM is always the DM but in others they take turns. There might be a long campaign where the players control the same character from novice to expert/demigod or one shots could be used to fill in some nights, eg dm might be a teacher and one shots are run on school holiday weeks if the group meets.

I would say the trick is to find a group that’s in the same page as you. This can be assisted by having a :Session zero where players meet and discuss what they want from the game so that someone who wants to play a more role playing game and want to actually try and talk their way out of being robbed by bandits instead of ‘rolk a d20. 3, everyone draws weapons and combat begins’.

The aim would be that everyone at the table looks forward to sessions and has fun, and as for rules there’s always ‘the rule of cool’. Where the DM can ignore what’s in the book if it fits with what the players expect. Players jumping off a cliff to escape a fight might not necessarily die from fall damage if it fits the story line, however if a player is about to do something overly careless, the DM might ask the question ’ are you sure you want to do that?’ and the correct thing to do is stop and reconsider as that phrase is usually a warning of the character will probably die if you do.

Thanks for the link, that’s pretty much what I was thinking of, but I remember reading at ‘the other place’ about downstream creators being upset about features of a new license (open gaming license?) that could have insisted on a cut of revenue from 3rd party packages, so wizards published a copy of their handbook under an open license. I was meant to read it cover to cover one day, but that day hasn’t arrived. hope OP gets the chance to though.

You mightnt even have to buy a book. Im pretty sure a DND players handbook was published under a creative commons license about 2 years ago.

Maybe OP can buy one when they find a group and system they like.

I feel communities can be put in 3 categories.

1. Everything here is safe for work

2. Things here are not safe for work, e.g. adult communities. There might be a bit of safe for work, but anyone browsing it knows what to expect

3. The third is a combination. It might have a community rule that anything NSFW is tagged as such. With my browsing setup I have to click on NSFW posts to reveal them.

I’d have a look around for an art sharing community. I think theres one on world and they might allow NSFW content and people would be more likely to give you relevant feedback.

Crikey!

I like that model. You get to try the software for free and have a way to thank the developer and get something extra, rather than just a pure donation.