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Laid things out to see how it looked so far : A few small things to print out and it should be good to get started on the smoothing and finishing. Although I've got to decide whether to find some design for a backplate and whether to re-do the helmet / mask properly....

Any excuse is a good excuse to watch T2. That movie absolutely still holds up today. It's the quintessential 90s action flick.

Drove up to Frisco. Passed by it many times but never actually stopped there until today. A little crooked, just like me

My Doggie Dragons: Dark Arisen character, Frundelstein: One of the few games that lets you make a fat, bald, old man character. 👍

A travelogue/reality show starring Jeff Goldblum? Sure, I'm in. Fair played, NatGeo.

Sith Army Knife.. SithArmyKnife.mp4

Once you reach the city of Gran Soren you can swap both yours & your pawn's vocation at the tavern. Alternatively I believe you can change it by going to the DLC area, which you can get to by finding the lady on the docks in Cassardis during midnight. Once there you should be able to change your vocation and then ask her to take you back to the mainland. "TIS WEAK TO FIRE!"

an extra month. based 'pon what we read from the test server feedback, the game will benefit from a bit more time... or at least one hopes such is the case. more time won't fix fundamental flaws and am not sure 'bout the gearing situation as described. regardless, for no good reason, we started a new guardian over the weekend. am level 55 and our t-7 is max influence. we like guardians/juggs 'cause they always seem kinda middle o' the pack for tank and dps efficiency. we can deal with ordinary as long as we not need endure extremes o' overt suckage or opness. (qualifier: there were a considerable period o' time when focus/rage guardian/juggs were a clear pvp win-button choice.) took us three days and 'bout 16 soul-numbing hours o' esseles, plus however long it took us to rush through tython, to reach level 55. has been so long since we played, figured we would start fresh. took a bit to relearn controls. were genuine awkward for the first 10 esseles runs. have been selling the purple gear drops from esseles. am perplexed as to why anybody would buy such with upcoming changes, but who are we to question? when finished with t-7 influence, we had +80 pieces o' gear, so am figuring a minimum o' 'bout 2 million credits. other nice thing 'bout leveling with esseles is the level adjust. with with nothing save the pioneer trailblazer armour and the frequent weapon/offhand drops, we stayed geared more than sufficient to breeze through the fp. switched over to the legacy level 55 devoted allies gear and will stick with such 'til 65. well, we got an extra month. with two months, am not doubting we will be able to advance many o' our level 65s to 70 and complete the content we missed during our absence. ... no more esseles or bt runs for awhile though. literal had an esseles dream last night, which were mild disturbing on multiple levels. color us embarrassed. HA! Good Fun!

Its a way of screening bot posts out from ever being seen by users. Occasionally one will get through and we'll have to handle on the backend. After enough posts on the non-Off Topic forums, you'll get out of the moderator queue.

Just doing the quest to clear out the room upstairs gets you more than enough money to hire a full party. I wonder if they did that on purpose.

^ #BoycottMulan

Onslaught release pushed back to late October

Yeah, they're whatever. Stop bothering if you know they're not for you - that's what I did, . Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975). Yes, that's the name of the film. Quite possibly the slowest movie I've ever seen and that I will ever see in my entire life. Clocking in at nearly 3 and a half hours, this film features zero camera movement - no panning or zooming of any kind, thereby moving only through hard cuts in between some ridiculously long single takes - and more or less just shows the daily routine of a mother going through her chores. There were a lot of really nice things about this film, including the aesthetic, the unique filming style, the main character portrayal, the presumed themes and symbology...but it kind of overstayed its welcome for me. I can easily see this being a great deal many people's "most boring film of all time" for how indulgently slow and long it is on top of how few events of typical movie noteworthiness happen (there's just about exactly one scene like that, actually, and it's arguably the weakest scene of the movie). Overall, it was more of an...interesting see than a necessarily strictly enjoyable one, but that's just me.

The scepter is like that 😄 . It will forever be broken. It can harvest health and mana from dead enemies, though.

On the non military matters... The thought for the day:

"Dead State". Good writing (so new Bloodlines will be fine in that department at least), meh gameplay loop and I'm saying that as someone who cannot resist hoarding. Also trying Baldur's Gate EE because I realized I cannot remember sh†t about it, started and now I see why. Some observations: 1) low level DnD sux, 2) Larian will be on par with their writing, 3) I forgot how much of a pain in the arse trying to climb up/down the stairs was.

True, during early game a large shield really hurts. Using Rapier, Spear, Dagger and other stuff with +5 ACC does help a bit.

Coincidentally, I've been playing a lot of DD too.

*runs away after signing Hulrshot up for a year-long subscription*

It's only 8 accuracy. That's manageable with some levels. I mean Blunderbuss wielders suffer -10 ACC and I don't consider them to be poor offensive characters. On the other hand you get more deflection, more reflex and an awesome modal (in my opinion). With a large shield modal activated you can get bombarded with AoE spells and only get damaged slightly. One weapon that is very good in combination with large shields is Scordeo's Egde because Adaptive counters the ACC loss easily and also Blade Cascade can remove the disadvantage of not having dual wielding speed. What also works well is fists. Especially Forbidden Fist and most of the Monk's wound-fueled attacks (which are primary). And actually if you use a large shield (and raise your defenses high - you get more deflection AND Reflex after all) you don't need that much of AR which means less armor penalty which means faster attacks. I'm currently using Aloth as my only tank (as a single class wizard) with Cadhu Scalth and only padded armor and he's still hitting stuff while being sturdy. Also if he nukes himself in order to damage the enemies around him his large shield modal helps a lot.

More Guillermo del Toro-produced horror films.

(Edit: Mandalorian looks like a cross between SW and Firefly, only without the humor. Well made trailer, certainly makes one curious) --------- Breaking Bad Netflix movie in early Oct. Written and directed by Vince Gilligan. I'm a little iffy re: whether a Pinkman coda is enough story to be riveting drama, but since it's Netflix and I can watch it right away, I'll tune in. Here's hoping it's at least good. (trailer doesn't show much, it's more of a teaser) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/24/arts/television/breaking-bad-movie-starring-aaron-paul-coming-to-netflix-in-october.html

I made some tests and this is actually really great 🤨 Takedown with power strike was a mistake, but scordeo and hunters fang works (with ranged weapons, if you build stacks earlier in melee) much better than i assumed, giving +50 accuracy, which in total makes more than 220. In this case monk would be better than devoted, because there is no need for that much hit-to-crit and weapon modal can be replaced with tunderous blows, so using frostseeker vs. larger groups isn't so painfully slow. Dichotomus soul helps to keep foes away, lightning strikes and turning wheel increase damage and stunning surge have almost guaranted crit with driving flight. Also skipping recovery with veilpiercer procs much often than 50%, sometimes chaining 5 (my record is 22 after few minutes of fun with dummies, tigers and bounties😲) or more hits without recovery. Stunning surge and tranquilizer with watershaper focus is even better than frostseeker, but this recovery...

Personally I would go with ranger/cipher. Besides Borrowed Instinct (20acc) you can lower enemies deflection even further (Phantom Foes -10def, Psychovampiric Shield -10def)

Diplomacy and brutal honesty don't work well together. I know from professional experience...

How would you define 'short'?

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algroth is a disney plant! How much are they paying you, corporate shill?