the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@lioness we haven't encountered enemies that heal much beyond the fact that scratch damage naturally heals over time, but the tutorials implied that would happen at some point

and yes, the idea is that scratch damage is ideal for lowering HP and then direct damage to finish them off. it's been more "have the character with a direct damage weapon do the final hit" than changing weapons though

i also neglected to mention that any scratch damage an enemy has is converted to direct damage as soon as they take direct damage at all

also most of this doesn't apply to player characters most of the time because that's just how this game works i dunno

for the players, all damage is scratch damage as long as you have at least one point in what the game calls the "hero gauge"; you start each battle with three points, you can spend points to do special attacks, regain points by killing enemies, and lose a point whenever a character's hp gets to zero, which then refills their hp

losing a point in that last manner also causes the container for the point to shatter and you can't regain that point until you pick up the four pieces that got scattered around the battlefield
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@judasiscariot666 @rey ground combat is not delicious.
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@rey ground coconut, on the other hand, is delicious
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today we learned: apparently there are places in the US where conduit ground is still legal

why. this is a terrible idea. do not do this.
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@witchfynder_finder @kat if someone has a way to hack autocorrect to stop capitalizing corporation names i would love to use it

actually, put corporations in even lower case. lowestcase
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this game (resonance of fate) has an interesting mechanic where there are two types of damage--some weapons do large amounts of "scratch damage", which can't kill enemies and is easier to heal (and heals on its own over time), while other weapons do small amounts of "direct damage", which requires different (rarer) items to heal and is capable of killing enemies.

not a mechanic we've seen before, but an interesting one
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@Kaffe@chitter.xyz don't give up, skeleton
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@noiob those would be the correct thing to use if you needed to use it on skin, but our use case is cooling semiconductor devices as a debugging method, and the medical sprays are going to be a lot more expensive to get
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you know those can duster things? the ones that are just aerosol spray cans full of nothing, pull the trigger and they squirt "air"?

what they're actually full of is liquid butane. Butane is a gas at room temperature and atmospheric pressure, but when compressed in a bottle like that it's liquid, except for a gaseous layer on top. If you open the valve (pull the trigger) the gaseous butane on top will rush out the nozzle, while the liquid part of the butane rapidly boils to keep the pressure constant

this has two immediate consequences: one, you should absolutely never use one of these near a source of heat or flame, because butane is very flammable; and two, if you turn the can upside down like it tells you not to do, you can get liquid butane out (because with it upside down, the liquid part is what's next to the nozzle)

A neat thing about physics is that when a liquid boils, it absorbs heat energy from all around it. Quite a lot of heat, in fact. Liquid butane, of course, will rapidly boil when not pressurized, and this boiling will quickly cool anything around it to the boiling point of butane at atmospheric pressure, which is approximately 0 °C/32 °F.

This is a very convenient way to rapidly cool something down if you ever need to do that.

As a warning: some spray dusters will use propane instead, which has a boiling point of around -42 °C/-44 °F, which will very quickly cause cold burns or frostbite if sprayed on skin. Do not do this on skin.

Other spray dusters use things like R-134a or other refrigerants, which have a variety of boiling points and generally should not be put on your body anyway
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@codl perpendicular bees
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this video game (resonance of fate) has needlessly edgy end-of-fight quotes. "hell just got a little more crowded" is pretty good though
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@starkatt I feel like the most ubiquitous things you could use at a couple different size scales are
- A AA battery, as you mentioned
- A CD jewel case (or just a CD)
- A lego brick or possibly a tic-tac (unsure how internationally common tic-tacs are)
- A USB connector (or a lightning connector, which has the added benefit of visible pads you can use kinda like a ruler)
- Or just use a ruler, but that's a bit less "obvious"
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@starkatt it wouldn't have been for us until recently, when we got one because waiting for the hot air gun to heat up and cool down just to do one tiny bit of heatshrink got annoying
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@hi_cial here's hoping it makes you feel better!
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@hi_cial i do remember we loved that story as a kid though

wonder if it was early genderfeels, or just something lse? -F

@hi_cial oh wow, we'd completely forgotten this book existed

it *is* a trans mom story isn't it?
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@starkatt @keisisqrl I.... can't say you're wrong there.
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@starkatt @lioness we were linked an SPLC article about the movement and the only reaction we can think of is "what the actual fuck"

it's apparently all rooted in white supremacy (because of course it is) and conspiracy theories about the US government having been secretly replaced with another government in 1933 (?????)
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@packbat what the actual fuck
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