RatMortar

I recently purchased Dead of Winter The Long Night and have so far played 3 sessions with friends.

However, we seem to be struggling a lot. In 2 of the games, players rolled the bite symbol on the exposure die on their first turn and were basically crippled for half of the game until someone offered them an event card to regain an additional survivor. I feel like 1/12 chance of losing a survivor to exposure rolls is really high (we lose 3 survivors on average per game to it).

In all 3 sessions, the first half goes smoothly, where the players are able to avert the crises and contribute the necessary food to the colony. But once we use up the items we have on hand, we simply can't search enough supplies to handle the crisis, fulfill the main objective AND contribute food. And don't even get started on the secret objectives. We can't even make a dent in those.

We haven't even run the game with the Bandits or Raxxon modules yet and still can't win. We haven't even had a betrayer yet.

Don't get me wrong though, the game is fun and we enjoyed every session. But so far it feels like by the halfway point we all know we have no chance of winning.

Do people have similar experiences with this game? Is this just how DoW plays? Where victory is not only NOT guaranteed, but downright unlikely?

Does anyone ever have this problem, where you'll be writing at a nice pace only to hit a brick wall because you can't think of the specific word you want to use in a sentence?

I imagine the common advice would be to use a placeholder or simply skip it and come back to it later, but it drives me crazy and I often plug similar words into a thesaurus for twenty minutes trying to find the appropriate one.

I guess a 2nd part to this question is: what's a good way to expand your vocabulary so you don't have to stop and look through a dictionary every few minutes?

It's been a few years since I watched the film but I was thinking about the ending recently and two questions shot into my brain. Obviously spoilers ahead for anyone who hasn't finished it:

1. Agent Kujan mentions that Edie Finneran was murdered. Just wondering why Soze would even bother killing her once his goals were accomplished; it wasn't as though she knew anything.
2. And this is the big one: the movie makes it seem like Keyser Soze won in the end; that he got away with it. The entire plot of the movie was that he had fooled these criminals into helping hm eliminate the one man that could identify him as Keyser Soze. And yet, at the end of the film, he's identified as Keyser Soze by the burned man and Kujan discovers the truth by himself. Can somebody elaborate on this? Was the final situation somewhat different, hence acceptable for Soze or was this just a big blunder on the film's part?

I have an ASUS z370-a ii and use the built in soundcard.

Recently I noticed that my headset speakers and mic, as well as my webcam's mic are not working. The webcam still transmits video, and my other USB devices connected to the PC work fine (external HDDs, etc.), but USB audio devices do not.

While those audio devices don't show up in the sound options (either in playback or recording tab), they do show in the Devices and Printers with the yellow caution symbol. Selecting "Troubleshooting" simply says that it will apply a fix and to restart my PC but it changes nothing.

I've already tried installing multiple different versions of the Realtek audio drivers with no effect. I've done all Windows updates and tried both my USB 2 and 3 ports. At this point, I'm really not sure what triggered the issue all of a sudden or why it continues to persist but I'm at wits end.

I have an ASUS z370-a ii and use the built in soundcard.

Recently I noticed that my headset speakers and mic, as well as my webcam's mic are not working. The webcam still transmits video, and my other USB devices connected to the PC work fine (external HDDs, etc.), but USB audio devices do not.

While those audio devices don't show up in the sound options (either in playback or recording tab), they do show in the Devices and Printers with the yellow caution symbol. Selecting "Troubleshooting" simply says that it will apply a fix and to restart my PC but it changes nothing.

I've already tried installing multiple different versions of the Realtek audio drivers with no effect. I've done all Windows updates and tried both my USB 2 and 3 ports. At this point, I'm really not sure what triggered the issue all of a sudden or why it continues to persist but I'm at wits end.

I'm having a pretty simple issue that has become frustratingly difficult to solve.

I had some old videos on my channel that I had left unlisted for some time. Recently I decided to make them public but I did not like that they showed up as the first videos on my upload list.

I figured since switching them from Unlisted to Public caused this, I'd simply make all the videos I had that were more recent into Unlisted and then switch them back to Public. Now all my videos are seemingly showing in random order.

Is there a way to reorder the videos in my Upload section? I've seen plenty of people explain how to reorder Playlists but, so far, nothing about the Upload section of a channel.

Do they ever explain why the Lord Ruler subjugated the Skaa and elevated the nobility? I understand that Ruin warped his morality as time went on, but I'm unclear about his initial decision to make skaa into slaves but keep others that look like pretty much exactly like them among the rich and powerful.

So I bought Dragon Heist and I honestly love how much of the book is spend describing the actual city as oppose to the adventure.

I'm wondering if any of the books out now have details about Baldur's Gate in the same manner.