u/Middcore

Everyone always walks about the Porsche requiring a unique driving style compared to other cars due to being rear-engined, but I've had trouble finding any breakdown of exactly what that driving style should look like. Based on this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/LeMansUltimateWEC/s/LTksy0hwTn and a couple of others, I've heard a few pointers, but some seem contradictory to me?

-Separate brake, steering, and throttle inputs as much as possible so the tires are only doing "one thing at a time"

-Do most of your braking in a straight line, with little to no trail braking

-Coast into corners taking advantage of the power-off rotation, BUT some people also say you should never be totally off the gas and you always want a little bit of "maintenance" throttle because being totally off throttle upsets the car?

-Try to accelerate earlier coming out of the corner than other cars to take advantage of grip as the car squats down on the rear wheels, BUT people also say if you nail the throttle on exit you'll lose the rear?

-Avoid mid-corner corrections with braking while the wheel is turned, you have to get your line through the corner right and commit to it, BUT I've also seen people talk about modulating brake and throttle through the corner?

Unlike the OP in the linked thread, I don't really have issues with the car spinning out, and I find some of the things people say about the Porsche driving style kind of align with the way I tend to drive naturally anyway. But I'm also not at all fast (though in my defense I've only gotten back to sim racing in the past couple months after not doing any since a little dabbling 20 years ago), and I feel like since I'm neither fast nor having trouble with the car that's supposedly so hard to drive that must mean I'm driving it wrong. IE, if I was driving it right, I would be getting faster laps out of it when things worked but also losing control when things don't work out, rather than running consistent drama-free but slow laps, if that makes any sense. I spin less in the Porsche than some other cars, but my lap times in it are about the same as other cars, too.

Hi. I just had my first session. The DM explained that all of us meet in the wreckage of a crashed illithid ship and we all have mind flayer tadpoles in our heads that will eventually turn us into mind flayers.

I feel like the game is already over, and I don't see the point in continuing. I like to play games not for fighting monsters and getting loot, but for the story. This is an ending, not a beginning. An NPC we met asked us if we would rather have a short life of fame or a long, quiet life, and my character chose the long life. But now I can't have one because I'm already doomed.

Why keep playing the campaign if it's already over? It makes no sense to me, and it's a shame because I looked at this big map of the Sword Coast and got so excited, but now I'll never get to explore it. Is there some way to continue in this campaign that gives meaning to this broken narrative? Or was the best part of the game the DM's intro narration about all of this world of adventure we were about to enter?

Trying to be kind of a "big brother" for a 13-year-old boy whose family is going through some rough times. He's really into superheroes and I know his uncle takes him to a comic book store occasionally. Does anybody have any suggestions for any other places or activities in the KC metro he might enjoy? I used to be into comics but I sold or gave away all my books years ago and I don't think I've even been to an MCU movie since Endgame. I'm more of the gaming flavor of nerd at this point.

Thanks for any ideas!

What's an accountant beholder? lol idk. That's where you come in.

I want this to be the BBEG but need direction or angles. I know you would think that since I came up with this very specific idea I would have some concept of what the hell it actually means, but no, it's literally just that I thought of the phrase "accountant beholder" and it made me giggle so now I'm asking for strangers on the internet to free associate something of substance from this nonsense phrase like some sort of Rorschach test.

Open to whatever, it's just really important to me that I run something called an accountant beholder but I can't give you the slightest guidance on what I want that to be. You'll just have to guess! Isn't that fun?

TIA for all the effort you're going to put into amusing me, my players will love the game I'll run based on your work (or they would if I had any).

Can anyone share their experience using a bliss-box to use real console controllers with Batocera? Is there a lot of setup involved? Any problems going from one controller to another? Thanks!

Apologies if this is not allowed, but I figure this is as likely as anywhere to be a place where someone actually has first hand experience.

Has anyone ever bought any shirts from Hotfuel (Retroracingclub.com)? They have lots of vintage motorsport-themed designs I like, but there are zero photos of actual product on their site as far as I can tell, just digital mockups of the designs. They are obviously a print-on-demand operation, and that's fine, as long as the shirts are actually good quality screen prints that won't start coming off after being washed once.

Just trying to avoid wasting my money. Thanks.

If you attack and get a hit, how much damage do you do to the enemy?

I read each class has hit dice, but also different weapons seem to have different types of dice associated with them in some way? Do you add the hit die and the weapon die together?

My groups been playing for years and when I read about how to calculate damage they aren’t sure

Apologies if this type of post is not allowed. The sidebar says to use a weekly recommendations thread which does not seem to exist anymore (link just goes to the sub home). I sent a mod mail days ago about where to post this and have gotten no response.

I am looking for a case to put some "spare" parts in to use as a media center/emulation PC in my den. I don't need this thing to be nearly as tiny as some of the builds I see here, as impressive as they are.

The requirements are:

• Needs to fit within one shelf of something like an Ikea Kallax (approximately 14 inches/34cm square by 15in/38cm deep).
• Needs to fit an ITX board (this one is obvious I guess but just to be thorough)
• Needs to fit a 235mm-long, 45-mm thick GPU
• Needs to fit a cheap low-profile air cooler
• Needs to have I/O on the front
• Ideally would cost $100 or less

To give you an idea of what I am looking for, I have an old Thermaltake V1 in a closet that I considered re-using. But the only deal-breaker is that the I/O is on the side, which would be hard to reach and inconvenient.

I also looked at the Silverstone SG13, but it really seems to be designed for a 120mm AIO which I don't want and the interior seemed very messy in terms of cable management.

Thanks for any suggestions!

The J2 has RGB light strips on either side of it. Is there a way to set the color/behavior of these lights independently from the lighting on the keys? I don't see any way to do it after initial poking in the Keychron launcher. The side strips don't show up in the per-key RGB lighting settings. It seems like they just take on the behavior of whatever "zone 1" is set to.