MisterDee wrote:I strongly suspect my router is dying on me. It gave me years and years of faithful service with its proud wireless-G components, so I think I will finally let it go to its rest.
Now - obviously, I need a replacement. Ideally one that works well for really cheap.
My main issue is that we now have way more than 4 devices that want connectivty. Old Faithful really had trouble with that - the TV can't connect to Netflix without kicking one of the tablets out of the wifi, and lately it's gotten worse. I was under the impression that the router could only handle four devices (you know, exactly the same amount of potential cabled connections & series of blinking lights - which would made sense since it was bought in the pre-tablet, pre-SmartTV and pre-smartphone era.)
Now, after some reading on the subject, I gather that my cargo-cultist belief in the Holy Truth of Router Holes may be misguided, at least as far a modern routers go.
In other words, can I buy the basic thirty-bucks four-slot router and still manage to have more than four devices connected to it via wi-fi?
I suspect probably so. We have DSL, so our modem and router are the same device, but they've always been able to handle more than four wireless devices.
Right now, we have hooked up three computers and a Roku via cable (4 hard connections). And two Kindle Fires, an iPod, a wifi printer, Ess' laptop, and my mom's phone. When we've had more guests than that, they've all been able to connect, no problem.
Yeah, uh, it had nothing to do with the number of holes on your router. I suspect if you hung an ethernet switch on it, it could handle many more wired connections than the four ports would imply.
The issue you were facing, I'm certain, was with saturation of the radiobands and a low-quality transceiver. This kind of radio pollution is anticipated in newly manufactured devices, and though there is of course a limit to the sort of quality you can get with thirty bucks, failure to handle more than four devices is pretty chickenshit.
In any event, I'd look into running wire to that television. It's not like you're bringing it with you when you leave the house, right?
This signature is here just so you don't otherwise mistake the last sentence of my post for one.
Prak wrote:
So, since Gygax (if not before), orcs are basically often treated as "fantasy black people," or rather, orcs are basically "stereotypes about blacks made into a species." The other day, while thinking about this, I got the idea to sort of double down on the "orcs are fantasy black people" idea for a setting and set up that they are marginalized, highly discriminated against, and suffer many of the prejudices that blacks do in the real world. This could set up for a sort of "Black Displacer Beasts" or "Green Lives Matter" plot where orcs are fighting for civil rights.
I remember when Obama was running for president some WotC post was about "are we ready for a half orc president?" talking about orc rights movements in games and... I just didn't touch that mess. Forgotten Realms kind of did that with Many-Arrows establishing Orc-City and trade with 'good races'. It felt awkward to read.
Then again I prefer my greenskins spelled with a 'K' as hooligan monster men you can kill without guilt as they don't have mommies or daddies and pop out of the ground as war-ready adults.
If you want to do Black civil rights, how about using Black humans. Even Robert E Howard had a bit where Conan finds out those nasty not-Arabs had enslaved his old crew of not-Africans, so he went and broke their chains in an orgy of liberating violence until "the only White man alive on the boat was Conan!".
I've never gotten the feeling that D&D world has a lot of people that care much about dark-skinned humans. The closest you get there is the surface elf-drow thing. D&D world has always seemed to take the same stance as Discworld, where dwarves and goblins and such means that people care more about your species than your actual race.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
Prak wrote:
So, since Gygax (if not before), orcs are basically often treated as "fantasy black people," or rather, orcs are basically "stereotypes about blacks made into a species." The other day, while thinking about this, I got the idea to sort of double down on the "orcs are fantasy black people" idea for a setting and set up that they are marginalized, highly discriminated against, and suffer many of the prejudices that blacks do in the real world. This could set up for a sort of "Black Displacer Beasts" or "Green Lives Matter" plot where orcs are fighting for civil rights.
I remember when Obama was running for president some WotC post was about "are we ready for a half orc president?" talking about orc rights movements in games and... I just didn't touch that mess. Forgotten Realms kind of did that with Many-Arrows establishing Orc-City and trade with 'good races'. It felt awkward to read.
Then again I prefer my greenskins spelled with a 'K' as hooligan monster men you can kill without guilt as they don't have mommies or daddies and pop out of the ground as war-ready adults.
If you want to do Black civil rights, how about using Black humans. Even Robert E Howard had a bit where Conan finds out those nasty not-Arabs had enslaved his old crew of not-Africans, so he went and broke their chains in an orgy of liberating violence until "the only White man alive on the boat was Conan!".
I've never gotten the feeling that D&D world has a lot of people that care much about dark-skinned humans. The closest you get there is the surface elf-drow thing. D&D world has always seemed to take the same stance as Discworld, where dwarves and goblins and such means that people care more about your species than your actual race.
When the Dominicans discriminate against the Haitians I'm tempted to sarcastically tell them that they're both [EDITED]. I don't because that could be taken the wrong way.
One shouldn't underestimate humanity's ability to divide into camps and hate each other for minuscule differences. If anything, the existence of fantasy races would likely make human racism worse, not better.
We noble elves might see all the humans as the same, but I assumre we that they can divide themselves into a seemingly infinite array of sub-races with differences so subtle that only another human can discern them.
Edit: And apparently I've discovered the auto-filter.
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hyzmarca wrote:
Edit: And apparently I've discovered the auto-filter.
Yeah, it tends to ping on words like [EDITED], [EDITED], and [EDITED] [EDITED] [EDITED] son of a [EDITED]
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
That and a few other things appearantly happen when you watch the series with closed captions according to reddit.
Take it with a grain of salt, i don't watch the series nor netflix and reddit is . . reddit . .
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Shrapnel wrote:
TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
What sort of protective gear with an inch-tall person need to successfully navigate the human digestive system from start to finish without suffering significant injury?
Don't drug mules commonly swallow condoms of cocaine and heroin to transport them and then pass them? I know that they can burst, but that would be a start, wouldn't it?
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
hyzmarca wrote:What sort of protective gear with an inch-tall person need to successfully navigate the human digestive system from start to finish without suffering significant injury?
If you avoid teeth and don't stick in the stomach for weeks - none. Goggles and some form of oxygen mask would be helpful, but humans aren't xenomorphs, we don't really melt solid objects with our fluids.
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I can't imagine hanging out in the stomach for any amount of time would be comfortable.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
The hypothetical 1-inch person would probably be more vulnerable to the acid, and more susceptible to internal pressures and forces.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
Frank does his shipping exclusively during hunting season.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
Anyone have any advice on places to stay in Philly? I got some relatives going out there for the Shriner's Hospital and they were wondering.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
