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some noteworthy support for your position. trump is most impacted by the bond market, and am not thinking the minneapolis situation will have too much o' a direct market influence unless protesters across the country do some kinda extended boycott/work walkout... or if a few more white US citizens get murdered? that said, this is all newish kinda territory for an old dog like ourselves, and so it is possible that if polls look bad enough (needs to include republican defections) and fox coverage becomes more critical o' the administration, trump may claim that all the violent illegal immigrant felons (not that dhs is primarily targeting violent felons,) has already been arrested and so there is no more need for ice and border patrol activities in minneapolis. declare "mission accomplished." regardless, is increasing signs via fox interviews and wsj opinion pieces which suggest that kristi noem might be the administration's sacrificial lamb... maybe. everything trump related maximizes the chaos, so am constant hedging. HA! Good Fun!

Hauani can merge back up into bigger oozes?? I've literally never seen this. Gross! Another good monk strategy for Hauani is Fire in the Hole (main), Mohora Tanga (off hand), WotW, and a source of Avenging Storm (scroll, Heaven's Cacophony) - you can sometimes one-shot with such a build if you can get some bonus accuracy and hit-to-crit, or lower its fortitude and deflection. I think only the first blob has resistance to might afflictions, so you can stun the lesser blobs if you use WotW with the stalking cloak. This can also work against Belranga to bounce mortar shots and WotW off the spiders, but her defenses are a good deal higher and the results aren't usually as spectacular until you kill a lot of the spiders and lower her defenses (though this happens quickly with this setup). On the other hand, I don't think she has any resistances, so you can sometimes get a lucky roll with one of the many attack rolls you will be making with WotW and stun her if wearing stalking cloak, even early in the fight.

VirtuaVerse was good, bit tricky I found, but was an interesting setting and the art and music is good (latter is personal taste, I like keygen music). Still find it funny the saviours (sort of) of humanity are basically a Scene group called "The Blade", no numbers at the end though.

am arguing with a five-year old. and it's understandable you didn't ask for cites to the 60 links, 'cause we didn't quote 'em (duh) and 'cause the population we produced is not gonna be fixed but necessarily changes by the minute as new stories is written. we did link to the singular pahlavi stories which we found in our initial search. would be pointless to cite all sixty non-relevant stories, but if you do an iran + protest search and achieve better results, results that do not undermine your ridiculous pahlavi embiggening contention, we would like to see such. if pahlavi is murdered tomorrow, maybe that happens, but it didn't happen for the past near two weeks, even when tv stations were shut down in his name and he held a news conference... though am suspecting you did such a search and realize the truth o' what am claiming. we already pointed out that a message board don't have same rigorous standards, but the sources for your quote list undermined your conclusion rather than supporting it. grammarly, your link for the complete tangential and irrelevant issue o' ledes, explains why it is essential to link and attribute quotes, and that reasoning applies just as much here as it does to a primary school class assignment or a journal article. rando quotes, unattributed and unlinked, is not particular persuasive, but in zor's greasy fingers, they is downright fraudulent. so why not tell us about western media efforts to embiggen pahlavi. invent more lies to cover the old ones and hope for some new deflection to avoid your original blunder o' posting, sans links and attributions, rando quotes from stories which when read undermine your position that western media were seeking to embiggen pahlavi. ... we used to think you werean ordinary board troll who spoke outta ignorance. took us a while to realize you are pathological deceptive. heck, you even make up nonsense about how ledes is "summary opinions?" why? it's taken time, but with each one o' these ridiculous confrontations, am suspecting more people realize just how frequent you invent positions from experts who actual said the opposite, or purposeful misrepresent quoted material or story conclusions. each o' the last half dozen conflicts has revealed your penchant for fibbery on a wide range o' subject matter. you are pathological. took a while for the locals to come around to the idea that attacking the character o' individuals before relevant facts has had been established all too often makes the accuser look like a fool in hindsight. that sorta behaviour happens less around these parts than it once did. am hopeful these continued exercises have a similar positive effect. most o' us take factual claims made by fellow posters at face value, 'cause who could be bothered to check every link and source, but zor is so utter incapable o' intellectual honesty that it is good practice to search every source and verify every quote... or just ignore you. HA! Good Fun!

Well, he certainly ain't alone in that. I'd even give some grudging respect for the strategy, since it's effectively zero risk and will only antagonise Canada and others who already hate him. It's a bit eight year old (hah I told you to keep breathing and you did) but... that's Trump and always has been. You're still wrong, but at least it ain't a dissertation where one word would have sufficed. You certainly weren't getting away from the accusations of throwing words at the screen in the hope the other person gives up previous. I mean lol. You're certainly correct that this isn't an academic discussion, except in the respect that you're getting schooled hoooooooo I_just_ended_his_whole_career.gif There's only one reason you want 'academic vigour' here: because it gives you something to complain about. You've already said the transcription of the quotes was accurate (dispute with the bbc one accepted, but it was an accurate quote) and we're talking newspaper articles- hence the grammerly quote- and forum posts, not PNAS/ Science/ Nature. In any case, the correct method for identifying a replicable trend is to give how you found it, not cite the individual data points. I don't ask you to cite the 60 or whatever articles that you said didn't have Pahlavi in them, after all. If I could be bothered I could check myself.

C'est une théorie vraiment solide ! Si le personnage est contrôlé par le système O.R.C., ça aurait du sens que seule sa famille proche puisse réellement atteindre l'essence de qui il est. Sa femme, en particulier, serait la personne idéale pour comprendre ses recherches et son passé, ce qui en ferait une alliée cruciale pour briser le contrôle. Le coffre enterré dans la casino Nine semble être un secret destiné à quelqu'un de proche — peut-être un indice pour elle ou les enfants pour résoudre ce mystère. Il y a clairement une grosse intrigue en cours dans le jeu ! Quant à savoir qui va affronter le système O.R.C., je pense que la femme pourrait être celle qui prend l'initiative. Si elle connaît suffisamment bien son mari et son passé, elle aurait une longueur d’avance pour comprendre comment le défaire. Mais, d’un autre côté, les enfants pourraient aussi jouer un rôle important. Si l’un d’eux a un lien plus direct avec le système, ou une capacité spéciale que leurs parents ignorent, ça pourrait être eux qui s’élèvent pour confronter ce contrôle. Tu penses que l’un des enfants pourrait avoir une capacité cachée, ou la femme va-t-elle être la clé de tout ça ?

It seems to be the case with the Steel Garrote healing as well. It will Heal-Lash from the main attack, not from any of the procs (even those which are actual "attacks") I couldn't confirm it it procs off from retaliation attacks (such as the proc from Riposte or Outward Spikes, I don't have access to the former, and barely can keep track of the latter). Later I'll try to find out if I can heal from Sun and Moon + Eothas upgrade or Magran's Favor healing lash from fire (Paladin's Fire Penetration coming in handy) if those damages come from SF or HBD attacks. If the extra attacks would heal from Old Siec, that'd be another feather on the Skald's hat. After all, what is a good monk without some inspiring words and poetry?

Oh wow, so Steven Erikson was very inspired by Glen Cooks writing style in The Black Company.

Against Belranga it's good to have summons (like Dichotomous Soul) so she can destroy them instead of you. For Huani you need interrupts such as Force of Anguish in order to prevent the merging process. If you use Edér's armor with "Veteran's Maneuver" and also use Keeper of the Flame as weapon and have picked "Imagined Pain" you can farm wounds while doing Whispers of the Wind and thus spam it endlessly. You will gain wounds because Keeper of the Flame's AoE does friendly fire and targets reflex. Because you will be immune to reflex based attacks (Veteran's Maneuver) every AoE roll against you will miss, granting a wound via Imagined Pain. If you can spam Whispers of the Wind you can mostly stay invisible. If you use Ajamuut's Stalking Cloak then all attacks made during Whispers of the Wind will stun enemies. This is very good in the Belranga fight to kill a lot of little spiders fast in order to drop the defenses of Belranga quickly. If you put Keeper of the Flame in the main hand and Mohora Tanga in the offhand like we described above you can do a lot of single target and AoE dmg + CC with Whispers of the Wind. Not necessarily against the mega bosses themselves (unless you brought Belranga's defenses down a lot) but the weaker spiderlings and the smaller split oozes. Against Belranga you can also just hide behind some rocks, use Enduring Dance and send Dichotomous Soul summons to Belranga & friends from hiding - over and over again. You can also resort to that tactic in the middle of the fight if you have a potion of invisibility.

The way bandages currently work disincentives using higher tier bandages. Due to the healing effect being cancelled upon hit, players are more likely to not want to "waste" bandages because they get hit. The players who can block/dodge the hits to get the full effect of the bandage are not likely to get hit as much. So higher tier bandages should be able to take a hit or two before "breaking." This will incentivise using the higher bandage tiers despite the cost, even if they don't get more healing. Then players who get better are rewarded by being able to use cheaper bandages.

trump's brand is what is important. he can never admit weakness or failure, so every loss is transformed into a kinda win. literal day two o' the administration were gaslighting about inaugural crowd size. why would somebody double-down about a lie? triple-down? quadruple-down? Gromnir laughed, and we weren't alone in our laughter. nobody would buy trump's transparent deceptions, right? doesn't matter. never admit mistake. never surrender. fight, fight, fight. if the media points out facts, call it fake news or ridicule reporters for focusing on incidental issues when there is an immigration crisis to deal with. trump fighting and being outraged is what his base wants from him. beyond all reason, they see him as a warrior who never surrenders, so 'course every capitulation is magical transformed into an unparalleled 4d chess win, and now there is an entire media and political ecosystem which supports trump's gaslighting efforts. am admitting we gross underestimated trump in 2016... no, that ain't quite right. we overestimated everybody else. we thought more republican politicians would resist. we thought americans were less bigoted and angry than they are. we thought democrats were less o' a keystone cops sh!t show. etc. we saw trump for what he was and the dangers he presented since the day he did his muslim ban bit and the crowd cheered. however, without an intervening war or an economic collapse, we had expected more o' everybody else. edit: we ordinary watch markets when they have a guest who is intriguing, but we were interested 'bout the reaction to carney's davos speech. HA! Good Fun!

nope. wow, that were ez. + your opinion that the western media were seeking to embiggen pahlavi. is not meaningful context. also, grammerly explained why links and attributions is essential. your sources were most certainly not clear and given how you simple search-engine slap-jerked a rando list o' quotes sans attribution into your post (a fact we only learned afterwards,) you sure as heck didn't build trust with your audience. the fact that people could go and look up each individual quote source does not in any way diminish the need to link and attribute. why does students, doctors and lawyers need ever attribute quotes when search engines make it possible to look up and verify sources? message board posts didn't require the same academic rigor, but you are the joker who linked Grammarly. in any event, the rational for attributions is the same here as is for one o' hurlshot's students... is particular noteworthy 'cause as shown numerous times now, anybody who went through the actual effort to read your not linked and not attributed articles would realize your offerings did not embiggen pahlavi. is unlikely anybody but Gromnir would go through the effort to read each unlinked article, which am guessing is precise why you did not link or attribute. oh and the more we write, the more opportunities there are for you to show ignorance or deceit. as already noted, your lazy search-engine population admission were enlightening and will be remembered. your misunderstanding o' strawman were amusing to us. zor not realizing that 'course doing a targeted search for pahlavi is gonna necessarily result in a link population where pahlavi is disproportional relevant. duh. your bizarre lede and summary tangent revealed unbelievable ignorance and yet you did double down at every opportunity; am still baffled by your comical effort to conflate "essential facts" and "summary opinions." etc. you are a bottomless well o' ignorance and deception, each new lie and deception you provide us is indeed pathetic entertainment, but entertaining even so. and so we come to the final zor deflection? as noted from us continuing to link relevant western stories about pahlavi, Gromnir at least makes an effort to argue your original point o' contention, which you has abandoned in favor o' sophistry, deception and your ordinary practical admission o' ultimate failure where you try and transform your lack o' meaningful response as equating some kinda juvenile owned meme. congrats on staying true to form and repeating the cycle. HA! Good Fun!

Remarkable how Trump successfully spins nothing as a victory.

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You had the context. Repeatedly complaining about a lack of citation for a trend is solely being done because it's all you have. Since it's proving a trend the bulk result is important and complaining about lack of individual attributions means nothing when you can replicate the method used. Fact. I mean, you're the one writing dissertations to restate the same thing over and over. At least I'm spending two minutes on it. Children's entertainer, remove thine own red nose.

shame is dead... and vance is justifiable becoming the daily hypocrisy punching bag. recall, vance were a never-trumper a few years past, so there is loads o' vance comments where he did a 180... but it doesn't matter since he had a road to damascus moment on trump and saw the light any issue where you may frame as us v. them removes reason and accountability from the equation. HA! Good Fun!

Hello everyone, Could someone advise on tactics against the megabosses. FF Nature Godlike, solo PotD upscaled, with the community patch. Is this even possible in a legit way, melee or ranged? I have defeated Auranic, but Belranga and Huani seem impossible, and I haven’t tried Dorudugan yet. I’m playing with minor role-play restrictions (always a good guy, etc.), so I may be missing some important equipment. Maybe I should try again, with multiclasses, like a Herald. Thanks in advance!

That was dependent upon Canada reaching a free trade deal with China though, which was never really on the cards. Those sort of things (as opposed to some tariff relief on certain items) take multiple years to work out. Carney saying there won't be a free trade deal makes it look like a 'win' for Trump, at least to his supporters.

*chuckle* how many posts did you make going on and on about your search engine efforts (methodology. HA!) and the inherent definition o' ledes as providing the context for your list o' quotes? now, somehow an earlier and unreferenced post which is offering no more insight than providing a restatement o' your embiggen conclusions, is s'posed to enlighten a reader about the specific context o' the quotes you did not link or attribute? the context o' how those specific quotes were actual used in the story is limited to: the previous post in no way resurrects the moldering corpse o' your original ignorant, deceptive and lazy list o' quotes proof. regardless, it is difficult to take you serious about your sophistry complaint given just how deep down the rabbit hole am having been chasing you. again, we showed that many o' the quotes you shared in your rando list were from stories, stories you purposeful did not attribute nor link, that when read did not embiggen but were instead equivocal and ambivalent regarding pahlavi's influence. we had previous posted more than a half dozen western stories, linked and attributed, that expressed similar suspicion regarding pahlavi relevance. pahlavi, in spite o' a news conference and iranian tv being hacked and shut down in his name, is getting hardly any meaningful attention from western media, and as already shown, the attention he is getting is not overwhelming positive but is ambivalent at best. is it possible to find overwhelming positive stories about pahlavi? you ain't provided any, but we would be shocked if it were not true. of course there is gonna be somebody cheering for pahlavi and making him seem more relevant than he is. duh. 'course it wouldn't much matter if you did find such 'cause Gromnir has provided a whole bunch o' not positive western stories from prominent western sources, the existence o' which knee-caps considerable your generalization that western media as a whole is attempting to embiggen pahalavi. for funsies, from a today search specific for pahlavi, two returns from the first ten (none o' which is less than 2 days old btw, so...) "While some Iranians perceived Pahlavi as an opposition leader, others considered him an opportunistic figure with monarchical designs and a mixed track record." (a paragraph 3 lede) the concluding opinions and summary portion o' the article For the last 15 years, Pahlavi has intensified his efforts to unify the political opposition and gain greater exposure, culminating in him emerging as a central figure in the latest protests. Yet there remain questions about whether he is viable as an opposition leader or is simply an opportunist. His message about a democratic future for Iran has been largely consistent. However, his father’s repressive and imperial legacy, combined with his own royal pedigree and American and Israeli proximity, prevent him from finding favor with Iranians who oppose monarchy and prioritize sovereignty. Now, the prospect of Iranians across the country rallying around Pahlavi remains as much of an open question as whether they will succeed in creating the conditions for his return by toppling the regime. also, Reza Pahlavi says Iran is undergoing a revolution again, the summary and concluding opinions is equivocal at best. The man who would be king Diplomats fear the collapse of another Middle Eastern state. Democrats aspire to a constitutional assembly and wonder why they should trade one supreme leader for another. “Death to the satemgar (tyrant)," goes another chant in Tehran, “whether Pahlavi or the rahbar (leader)." Mr Pahlavi wants a perch above others, not a place beside them, says an academic who tried but failed to include him in a coalition. In our interview Mr Pahlavi emphasises that Iran’s fate is in the hands of Iranians: “Iran’s destiny is not sealed by what any other country does... Our fighting will not stop." From afar, he sounds confident that this is a revolution. But what his role will be remains unclear. already posted npr article remains a top ten return after weeks Who is Reza Pahlavi, the exiled crown prince encouraging demonstrations across Iran? summary and concluding opinions? A leader for a future Iran? Pahlavi's efforts to position himself as a leader for a future Iran have prompted sometimes heated debates inside and outside the country. And while protesters have shouted in support of the shah in some protests, it is not clear whether that is support for Pahlavi himself or a desire to return to a time before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. His public support of Israel has prompted significant criticism in the past from ordinary Iranians and other members of opposition groups, particularly after the 12-day war launched by Israel in June 2025. He has sought to have a voice through social media videos, and Farsi-language news channels such as Iran International have highlighted his calls for protests. In press interviews, Pahlavi has repeatedly raised the idea of a constitutional monarchy, perhaps with an elected rather than a hereditary ruler, but has also stated it is up to Iranians to choose. An exiled crown prince says he can lead Iran to democracy, but Trump hasn't endorsed him concluding opinions Some opposition activists are wary of forging ties with Pahlavi due to what they say is the fanaticism of some of his followers. But other activists say there is no room for internal feuding at a moment when the regime appears so weak and adrift, and that Pahlavi has to be part of any opposition coalition. Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, head of the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation, a think tank that studies Iranian politics, said there’s no doubt Pahlavi “is the most recognized leader within the opposition.” But he said Pahlavi, who has not set foot in Iran since his family was pushed into exile in 1979, lacked a genuine political organization inside Iran “that is able to provide leadership for the protests, not just on social media, but actually at the street level.” Such an organization would ensure that the protests are disciplined and sustainable over time, Batmanghelidj said. The way that Pahlavi and other opposition activists have approached the protests “raises questions about their readiness to really lead a political movement.” He drew a comparison to Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who despite years of experience mobilizing resistance to authoritarian rule could not secure President Trump’s support. “If Machado, with her deep organizing experience, couldn’t win the trust of the Trump administration, how can Pahlavi?” etc. perhaps you are dragging this bit o' zor intransigence and deceit out for so long 'cause you are hopeful a day will come when pahlavi sudden does gain relevance in western sources? maybe is not true today or yesterday, but the ever optimistic zor is waiting for his pure and beautiful tomorrow? ok, no source you has provided says such. slip in "opinions" don't make it so. also, you didn't even provide such context that you were taking ledes or summaries. all you did were post the list after saying you did a search... + now we are s'posed to believe your previous posts, which functional is a restatement o' your conclusion that the west is embiggening pahlavi, provides meaningful context to your unattributed and unlinked list o' quotes. we didn't have any idea where in the story those quotes came from or what the stories actual said about pahlavi. your context was, again, 'cause clear you need repetition for this to sink in... followed by a list o' otherwise random quotes that you conclude is revealing the western effort to embiggen pahlavi. you take it as self evident that that 'cause those quotes were provided by search engine efforts and that you personal read 'em as positive depictions o' pahlavi, that they reveal a generalized effort by the western media to embiggen pahlavi... in spite o' the fact same kinda quotes exist in non western media, that pahlavi is yet again nowhere to be seen in the first sixty western media returns for iran + protests, recognizing that numerous western media sources is clear suspicious o' pahlavi's relevance in spite o' the fact that some iranians is calling out his name, and... whatever, you never did show support for the contention that western media is providing pahlavi, other than a list o' out of context quotes from rando stories you failed to link and attribute. could keep going on, but you are just gonna clown yourself. do it s'more. HA! Good Fun!

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Then I assume Lightning Strikes is better in that case. Lashes do generate Focus.

what about the 100 percent tariff usa threaten to put on canada maybe it will be implemented in 1 week maybe it will be walk back maybe most would forget this happened in 1 week

I don't think so, not in the sense that Trump will not sacrifice Noem, but in the sense that he'd back down. This is what Magats want, to see "blue" cities and states conquered by Trump's paramilitary (****, you can scratch off the para) and occupied to bring them in line. The killings of "antifa supersoldier domestic terrorists" is an intrinsic part of this, not an unfortunate accident, and if you look at what the magats are saying to each other they do view this as part of "taking the country back". Trump and the Republicans are almost certain to get bulldozed in the midterms, but you have to keep in mind that Trump is a dementia-addled omegaboomer who consumes almost exclusively Fox News and Truth Social posts so he probably thinks this is the most popular thing in the history of our country. To boot, whoever is in the room at any given time is effectively the president and that seems to mostly be Stephen Miller.

They don't generate focus Stalker's patience very good for souldblade/monk with that extra attacks.