Here is one of my favourites, a Di Cao Qing Zi Ni clay teapot by Gu Xiao Ming (顾小明).
I saw a poor, filthy teapot on Reddit the other day, so I decided to dust off mines.
Even after a thorough cleaning, there are still some spots, as you can see here.
And you can't use any harsh chemicals on Zisha clay! So how are you supposed to clean it properly, especially hard-to-reach places like the inside of the spout?
I’ve played this game many times, mostly as a pure mage or a mage with some tech of varying depth. Now I decided to play as a pure technician and what do I see?! With magic, on the very first level, you get a MASSIVE 4-point buff to your stats, and by level 4-5 you can become a juggernaut if you take one spell from every school of magic.
Tech? You get a pistol. A PISTOL!!! Not even the best pistol, because you can be rewarded with a seriously better revolver right after completing one of the first quests about a bank robbery!
OR, hear me out! You can get A LIGHTBULB! A DAMN LIGHTBULB THAT IS THE MOST SITUATIONAL THING IN THE GAME!!
Alright, alright, there are useful things in an early tech build, for sure. Healing stuff? Minor buffs? Yeah, but you have to run around like a B**** looking for ingredients, and if you’re a mage, you get the same thing for FREE! YOU CAN JUST SPAM THE SHIT OUT OF LESSER HEALING!!!
You can open locks, buff or heal yourself, seriously harm enemies or debuff them, stun them, summon beasts, and all of this for FREE! Right at the beginning, around level 4-5. You don’t have to buy or search for any pesky ingredients, you just press the button! Worst case, you have to wait a bit to restore your mana! Oh, the horrors!!
But wait, maybe tech is better in the endgame? Let’s see...
As a mage, you can:
What do you get as a tech guy?
Dynamite. A bunch of different buffs and garbage armor/weapons. That’s it. That’s the whole thing, and you have to WORK for it! Drag around a pile of crap like the hobo you are, spend gold, craft it, and then sell it because there are better things in the game!
One thing that soothes the pain is knowing that we, tech guys, have our own unique tech-only CITY! We don’t allow dirty magicians into our very cool and secret city, and if you play as a magician, you’re forced to skip a HUGE location, a bunch of content, and quests...
What? You’re saying it’s the other way around? MAGES HAVE THE WHOLE SECRET CITY WHERE TECHNICIANS ARE NOT ALLOWED!!! SUCK ON IT!!!
Hey, at least a mage can NEVER do the same thing a technician does. He can’t craft a bunch of crap and stuff...
What do you say? THEY ACTUALLY CAN, JUST FOR 750 GOLD PER TOME!!!
Sing with me:
Everything tech does, wizard does better!
Wizard does everything better than tech!!!
Amazing game, 10/10.
So I tried to play FNV as a character based on myself IRL (stupid, I know). Ofc everything on hardcore. My three primary stats are: explosives, science, repair. (doofus skillset for post-apocalyptic world) So in combat my only option is explosives. Long story short, I ran out of explosives. I was able to craft some but it's never enough. I blow myself up all the time. I had to resort to some other weapons but they are ridiculously ineffective (I refuse to spend points in any othe combat skills). Is explosive build not viable? I'm lvl 12 and struggle HARD. Should I just drop difficulty lvl or invest some points in small arms? (I refuse to level up speech, sneakiness etc because that would not be me!)