u/Boah_met

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Looking for a game with a JRPG feel and centered on out-of-combat mechanics

Hi there.

Me and my players like the aesthetics of JRPGs and also like to play them. However in TTRPGs we like more narrative games rather than combat-centered ones. Fabula Ultima and BREAK!! were almost entirely combat-focused in mechanics which is kind of a bummer.

@edit1: Equipment slots or boardless combat (or their lack thereof) aren't important, it's more about support for familiar themes (Red Mages, a hundred kemonomimi species, etc).

@edit2: Leaning towards ICON and Storypath Ultra. Open to other suggestions.

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u/Boah_met — 3 days ago

Corrupted VirtIO drivers during QEMU SP2 WinXP install BSOD

Hello, I followed the guide on https://computernewb.com/wiki/QEMU/Guests/Windows_XP to make a WinXP VM in an Ubuntu 24.04 host.

However, when it gets on the "Press F6 if you need to install a third-party SCSI or RAID driver...." step, upon selecting both of "Intel ICH9R/DO/DH SATA ACHI Controller" and "Red Hat VirtIO Block Disk Device" options the system would warn me that viostor.sys and iastor.sys are corrupted and would not proceed on the installation. Continuining the installation regardless results in a BSOD.

I wonder if this is a problem because I got a non-English .ISO.

The commands I used were the following:

qemu-img create -f qcow2 winxp.qcow2 20G

qemu-system-x86_64 -M q35,usb=on,acpi=on,hpet=off -global q35-pcihost.x-pci-hole64-fix=false -m 6G -cpu host -accel kvm -drive if=virtio,file=winxp.qcow2 -drive if=floppy,file=xp_q35_x64.img,format=raw -device usb-tablet -device VGA,vgamem_mb=64 -nic user,model=virtio -monitor stdio -cdrom VX2POEM_BR.ISO -boot d

u/Boah_met — 6 days ago

The safety of Windows 7 in 2026

Hi there. I run Ubuntu as my daily driver, but one of the apps I code plugins for requires an open-source Windows compiler utility which I haven't managed to get running under Wine. The easiest solution so far was to use a Windows system just for this one program, which I want to do on KVM.

For better VM performance, I want to run the most lightweight Windows version possible. The earliest Windows version the compiler runs is probably Windows 7.

So I'd use the VM with a Linux host, with network enabled but access to host filesystem disabled, where the only credentials on the Windows system are my username and password (not reused anywhere) for an extremely niche indie app. The web browsing on it would be solely looking for design assets for plugins, which is light web browsing on random websites indexed by my search engine which might or not be safe.

Do I really have anything relevant to fear? Windows 11 is significantly bulkier.

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u/Boah_met — 6 days ago

Hello there. I got diagnosed as twice-exceptional as an adult and I'm currently at NEET status. I currently live in Brazil but have a Spanish citizenship by descent, which I plan to take advantage to and move there (do note that, as it's by descent, I don't need a work visa, so I don't need to go there in IT or nursing to meet the crazy market demand for immigrants in Europe).

I absolutely love sociologyanthrophologyhistory (roughly in that order). Sometimes I end up searching for some information online just to pass the time ("ah I just want to read on reproductive labor today") and end up downloading a whole PDF about the subject and reading a 300-page book in one sitting with no pause to eat or drink water. I 100% lock in that.

I also want to get a comfortable wage. I suspect that wage to me might either be higher or lower than standard. In one side I absolutely have a lot of finnickies that drain money. I need to go to a specialist doctor every 3 months to get a restricted prescription for lifelong biweekly medicine and I fare much better living alone and in silent areas than with others or loud areas (very high psychological need for control of my surroundings and noise sensivity due to the autism). In the other hand, college is free on my country, I won't have children and although a car would be nice I don't really need one if public transport and pedestrial transportation systems are efficient. I think I ideally would earn above-average pay, but it doesn't need to be a doctor's pay either.

Important to note that I also like computers, but not particularly in a profitable way. I joined a CS major as a teen who thought he'd love to be a dev, but dropped from a CS major because I realized I don't love coding by itself (also because I was depressed). I'm neutral to it, it's a tool. It's weird and hard to explain, but thinking deep down I think it's on morals. It's pointless work for a company that probably didn't even need to exist. It's not even what about the act of coding, but the sheer pointlessness behind doing something I don't like or dislike in a tight timeline with a boss on my neck for a product that didn't even need to exist. It's Sisyphean: There are good reasons for moving rocks around, but doing it for no good reason at all is torture. I'm pretty much not motivated by money or luxury. Life would be easier if I was because then I wouldn't be stuck at this connudrum.

I thought on going to med school some times. It's not the worst option on the table but I'm somewhat bothered by the idea. There's probably something better for me out there. I'm very sensitive to my environment and can't really lie or pretend to save my life. The dettachment from my peers is one of the reasons I left CompSci and I don't mingle with 95% of doctors or med students either. I wouldn't be able to network.

I also got interested to work in library science/museum work even though I'm not exactly passionate about it because the work sounds comfortable and I like the idea of overseeing a system and keeping it working, but the area has pretty shit pay where I live, so I turned the idea down.

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u/Boah_met — 25 days ago