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I am not sure if people are aware of this combo but it is game breakingly strong. Ajamuut's Stalking Cloak + Boots of the Stone+ Ring of the Marksman +Ring of Focused Flame (if not nature godlike then add Acina's Tricorn) + Scordeo's Edge+ Keeper of the Flame + Saint's War Armor all on a Monk with Whispers of the Wind + Imagined Pain is absolutely ridiculous. Keeper of the Flame does a religion scaling area of effect burn damage attack that is both friend or foe on hit. The area of effect attack is treated as a ranged attack therefore Ring of the Marksman will increase it's penetration and accuracy, Ring of Focused Flame increases accuracy another 10 since it is a fire attack, and Scordeo's Edge can increase the accuracy by 20 or 30 depending on your upgrade (the +20 upgrade is probably better because you still need your first hit not to miss and vs Mega bosses you need all the accuracy you can get). The Stalking Cloak gives extra accuracy for attacks from stealth and your attacks will stun which is already excellent with Whispers of the Wind. The amazing thing is that the area of effect attack from Keeper of the Flame will hit you and it is vs Reflex, and Saint's War Armor is immune to Reflex until hit by something else two times. This means that the attacks from Keeper of the Flame AOE will count as a miss vs you and Imagined Pain turns these misses into wounds! You can now spam Whispers of the Winds non stop and will constantly trigger Rooting Pain. Keeper of the Flame AOE doesn't have the highest penetration however you can get the accuracy up to around 180 and the flail modal reduces reflex by 25 which will make you crit all the time getting your penetration above 20. The Boots of the Stone are there to protect you, in case you some how get hit twice you wont be stunning your self all the time. I would also put on Gauntlets of Greater Reliability vs some of the Megabosses so you are guaranteed to get some grazes in which will in turn inprove your accuracy but really any gloves can be effective. Sadly for some reason using Avenging Storm some how causes you to hit yourself but that means you can put your skills into Alchemy and have some potions and drugs last all fight. While under the effects of Blade Cascade you can gulp down potions like no tomorrow. Don't forget you will be doing a ridiculous number of hits for Resonant Touch. A tight group of enemies will end up with over 20 stacks after only one use of Wispers of the Wind. I think the best build for this would be a Nature Godlike Hellwalker. Although it also works fine on Xoti.

considering I am unemployed I decided I will go on overnight trip with friend for fishing last 2 days, here are some highlights arrival: overnight catch (this is my friend): morning:

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Wouldn't it be funny if Flatearthers documentary won a Golden Globe award?

Don't listen to the critics. This is a true XCOM:

Made a club. Purple flame torch with club fighting animation stance. Reveals fog of war just like a regular torch. Day time Smack em Around - Ability is "Regular John's" ( -7 seconds duration beneficial effects when hitting enemy, -7 seconds hostile effects when hitting ally) Night time Dominatrix - Ability is " VIP treatment" (25% chance to Dominate Kith enemy on critical hit) Ladyboy Special - adds Give'em Herps. Herpes doesn't discriminate, it works day and night.

I'm not going to watch a 54 minute video. Turns out I might listen to (most of) it while I do other things though. TLDR; the science is not all that compelling. The video is rather like the presentation of evidence for WMD in Iraq from old asterisks Cheney; you can make it seem compelling by removing every bit of equivocation or counter evidence. It still may have come from a lab, but it isn't anywhere near proven. 1) No full tracing of origin is to be expected. In the early stages you're looking only at data only from cases serious enough to have been treated in hospital for pneumonia, which make up a small number of covid19 cases. Non severe cases would be treated as if it were flu or the cold, ie stay home for a bit or tough it out, forget about it a week later. Since only a small proportion require hospitalisation you'd have the large majority of cases being silent ones making tracing extremely hard. 2) Assuming an animal origin bats are probably the ultimate source, but may not be the proximal source. 3) 100% gene sequence similarity may mean that it's under very strong selective pressure, ie the env protein and virus simply won't function properly with significant alterations. There's a reason we still share 50% of our genes with bananas, as an illustration. 4) Natural strains don't infect humans but it has the spike protein of SARS (1) which did, therefore... what? SARS did infect humans, it just had very low transmission rates. 'Natural' animal viruses most definitively do infect humans from time to time- if they want to leave out SARS because sinophobia there's also near relative MERS (ex camellids) or the less related SIV which seems to have crossed into humans at least 11 (!) times in the creation of HIV. Or Ebola/ Marburg. All of which are ssRNA viruses. 5) No, bat coronavirus having spike proteins that can infect humans does not mean there's no intermediate host full stop, it means there doesn't have to be an intermediate host. 6) Meta: isn't it nice of the Chinese to have left all these breadcrumbs, and in articles to journals like Nature or Science to boot. 7) Yes, amazingly scientists do build viruses out of bits of other viruses to test what they do and have done for rather a long time. It's even a suggested (approved now?) mechanism for gene therapy in humans. cool) No, that does not mean that sarscov2 is artificial. Classic non sequitor, we show this and that, therefore you can draw a conclusion that does not actually follow the data gained from this or that. You've already admitted that SARS1 infected humans and working in mice != working in humans. 9) My god, they experimented on mice! And planned to on primates! In a research lab! I'm, uh, flabbergasted at this, er, revelation. What next, some poor innocent fruitflies or a big toad? 10) Retrovirus that infects humans has similarity to another retrovirus that infects humans, that's... not exactly surprising. 11) Suspicious that the lab kept quiet- but I'd bet it would also be 'suspicious' if they said anything too. 12) And we're off into direct sinophobia not related to the coronavirus which I can't be bothered listening to for 15 minutes. Sheesh, I think the Chinese government are complete garbage but anyone naive enough to think that the US government isn't doing exactly the same sort of biological experiments is naive, and didn't watch the same video 5 minutes earlier.

That was the idea. That was also why I got the chickens. Now they all have names and follow me around and I wouldn't harm a feather on them even if I was starving. But I will take the eggs though. Clearly I'm not much good at this farming thing. I get too attached to the livestock.

Work is allowing us expenses for a monitor and other WFH supplies. Feel like getting a new monitor, even if 16:10 means it'll be rare, I think. Then again, my laptop has one HDMI port, so would need a docking station or something to use 2 monitors. Ah, right, forgot display ports exist, have one. So, hm, could be worth it.

That is national secret which one should not speak about

I swear, Godmother still speaks with Vailian accent.

I had one a little while back. I married her too. Didn't work out well. Not well at all.

Credit where it's due, a pistol blowing up half a wall would at least make sense in a DW game.

Bit of a better/ more relevant illustration: the vaccine undergoing trials in the UK at the moment is sarscov2 antigens (proteins) engineered onto a benign virus in order to promote an immune response. Indeed, the antigen chosen is the spike protein the video found so suspicious. Oh dear, he's endorsed flushing your lungs with plain old detergent instead I'm afraid.

I'd like to take this time to notify everyone that if you type ":p" with a lowercase "p", you get a "" instead of a "", which is what you get when you use an uppercase "P" in ":P". I think we can all agree that "" looks a hundred times better and more dignified than the weird emoji-like "". I would also like you to know that I will be silently judging you if you continue to use "" after learning this.

I have a friend who works at an OfficeDepot, says he's had to 'yell at' customers (whatever that actually means since obviously literally yelling at customers would never happen in retail) many times over the last month to respect people's personal space, including his own, and not sit on workspaces, etc. Has anyone ever seen one of those "list of insane laws that are never enforced that prohibit something suspiciously very specific"? That's because somewhere, sometime, people were dumb enough to do those suspiciously specific things, and the state didn't want any part of having to protect such idiots for such brazenly stupid behavior. I hate seeing personal liberties infringed upon, too, but there are way too many irresponsible, uncaring, unsympathetic morons that will unfortunately do brazenly stupid things that endanger the rest of us if there are no consequences. They still are even now, but there are less of them, and a few of them have had to face consequences for it. In a situation like this where such restrictions obviously chafe on *everybody*, I feel pretty comfortable saying that those restrictions will not last forever, but if that's not the case and a few years down the line this crap is still going on, you can say "I told you so" to all of us, Guard Dog. (e): For goodness' sake, I even have that friend that works at a local hospital, and even she has said that it has been nearly impossible to get her coworkers to not needlessly touch other or get up in each other's personal space. These are health professionals that work in the field, have seen footage of hospitals in other areas and seen how bad it is, who should absolutely know better, and many of them are *still* being idiots and not treating it seriously. They should be thankful that their governor pre-emptively called for a stay-at-home order before it started getting really bad, because it likely saved at least a couple of their hides (plus an insane amount of work even if not), but that's not how many of them see it. They just see it as people "overreacting" and them being infringed upon.

Upworthy - Grim Reaper on Florida Beaches

history and recent photographic evidence suggest otherwise. "i wouldn't be doing..." is irrelevant. as we noted, takes one libertarian who knows covid is a hoax in a supermarket to infect many. takes one libertarian capitalist dumping toxic waste on his own private land to poison an entire community. takes one drunk driver to cause an accident resulting in death o' a woman and her kids. assume most people is responsible is nice and swell and maybe even accurate, but it don't matter. the costs o' having a minority o' folks acting like ignoramuses is too high in too many cases. yeah, the argument that no cost is too high when human lives are at stake is also bs. like it or not, liberty does have an attendant body count. sounds callous but is unavoidable. we wouldn't have a reasonable person standard in law if people were invariable reasonable. would be no point in identifying behaviour as reckless if such recklessness never happened. a large enough sampling o' people results in a functional gurantee o' stoopid and selfish. people is predictable stoopid and selfish in enough numbers that it is irresponsible to ignore the need to protect innocent citizens from the stoopid and selfish. the costs is too high. HA! Good Fun!

Had a first go at making my own watercolour (first time using gimp, actually ^^). Not sure they turned out very well, maybe someone can do a better job?

If I set it to use torch animation the mod's that add on hit proc's stop working. Something about the connection between animation - model - itemods needs to be altered at a level I am unable to modify. I won't change the effect but I will change the enchant name away from ladyboy special to something more friendly. Possibilities: Love's Reward Get what you pay for Brothel Gift Ondra's Gift Sailors Traumatic Disease

It's great, don't get me wrong, but does not bring anything new on the table for helwalker or nalpazca. But looks spicy for FF. Against who it will riposte???

Whispers of the Wind with Stalking Cloak and all sorts of AoE weapons is really strong (and that has been known for a while now), same with Scordeo's Edge being one of the most OP weapons, BUT your combo of Imagined Pain + Keeper of the Flame + Saint's War Armor is something new, clever and really neat. Never read about that here and also never thought about it myself. I think offensively the same setup but with Hand Mortar (+Blinding Smoke) + Fire in the Hole (+ Chain Shot) has more damage potential due to being able to use Poweder Burns and more importantly Avenging Storm (Blinding Smoke cones - which will trigger hundrets of extra hit rolls with enough enemies around - trigger Avenging Storm as well!) which you can't do with Keeper of the Flame (because for some reason it messes up Avenging Storm) and thus more Resonant Touches being generated: However: the constant wound generation from Imagined Pain + Saint's War armor should be very handy - especially vs. bosses. I also didn't take Swift Flurry into account - no idea if that makes a huge difference since it usually doesn't proc the AoE but only the discrete flail/crush attack roll...? You could also try Sungrazer + Keeper of the Flame. Sometimes the two (pretty hefty) burn AoEs of Sungrazer proc multiple times (especially when Swift Flurry procs) which then do craaazy dmg. Another nice candidate for WotW is Current's Rush (scepter). It's very potent if its "High Tide "procs - because High Tide seems to be able to proc off itself which can lead to a deadly chain reactions. High Tide also procs Avenging Storm. I also had good effects with Watershaper's Focus + Blast and Ondra's Wrath (+Avenging Storm). By the way: Keeper of the Flame + Scordeo's Edge is my most favorite combo for Ranger's Whirling Strikes. Really powerful. The only (albeit huge) disadvantage compared to Monk is that Ranger's can't get Bond back (besides Brilliant) - so no spamming against Megabosses unfortunately (all by yourself).

I did military service

all the games you like suck

Feasibility and reasonability of conscription depends lots of country's general defensive situation. For example for Finland other options really aren't feasible if we want to maintain ability to defend most of our country. Also Israel and South Korea have similar geopolitical location where other options aren't really options at least today. It is easier to not have conscription when your neighboring country doesn't have several battalions of attack ready troops 50 km of your border

Not to mention that they have a badass colour scheme. And all the coolest toys. Edit; Thought with the current fluff being where it is, I suspect that DW is pretty much effed, as in truly ass-invaded.

Deathwatch would fit the bill. It's literally the 40k's version of XCOM.

... am such a nerd 'cause we immediately thought o'... HA! Good Fun!

Adeptus Arbites?

Gromnir has no defense from people in supermarkets ignoring social distancing. again, a bunch o' folks may be maintaining social distancing and all it takes is one idjit to infect all the people being reasonable. with asymptomatic people spreading, we may never know who were the person who infected us. handful o' obtuse libertarians is actual a common problem we face when shopping. am personal maintaining social distance when a jackarse comes up from behind, brushing past us to get at yogurts or a box o' facial tissue, coughing w/o wearing a mask. wtf? is a story that chris cuomo might o' been out o' his home during his self-imposed quarantine, and you know he ain't alone. quarantine means different things to different people, or so it seems. is stories, more than one, o' infected people going to grocery stores and gas stations 'cause, y'know, they have to get gas and food. infected person touches a gas pump handle and six hour later Gromnir might get the virus 'cause we used same gas pump? wtf? seen those images from how a single infected person in a restaurant in china infected nine people 'cause o' air conditioning? wtf? sorry, but this is just so wrong. the guidelines has been communicated and these folks is doing anyways. who doesn't know guidelines and reasons for guidelines at this point? heck, guidelines don't matter if the libertarians clowns genuine believe the current situation is a panic-driven hoax and that covid-19 is no worse than the flu. so wrong. HA! Good Fun!

"One can't decide whether to join the Bard's College or the Thieves Guild. One will just have to weigh the prose and the cons."

Honestly, when I saw the reviews on it, my brain declared that his needs to be the basis for a 40k game.

I've said before, the last time this came up, that I think increased national service opportunities would be a good thing so long as it isn't mandatory, which is my sticking point. I don't think I ever argued that Calax was wrong about national service not being limited to the military as that was in response to Bruce and ktchong. I don't think that conscription will have kt's desired effect as it will probably be sidestepped by those with the means to do so and if not then that's what champagne units are for. Not sure if something is getting mixed or not because I have been drinking since I don't know when. That reminds me, I need another drink

Yes I did, in 1993. One year before our Democratic election, I did my basics in 1 SSB which is an armored car regiment and then I was transferred to maintenance which is a non-combative unit that involved drivers, stores and other supportive units. But SA wasnt at war anymore as the Cold War has ended in 1989 in Africa so no one was fighting actively but we had real violence in the country as numerous groups wanted to prevent our first Democratic election

all too often the libertarian explanation is requiring a level o' selfish stoopid untenable by most people. is why we speak o' personal liberties when we mention our libertarian streak. smoke in a crowded restaurant and describe as the smoker's choice is false, 'cause is every other proximate customer who will also suffer, and smoking is hardly a unique example. drunk driving. worker safety. toxic waste removal. etc. say is a choice for private citizens and business owners ignores fact we do not live like jeremiah johnson alone and independent. a libertarian's stoopid choices has costs for other people and is no financial or liberty punishment which will make those others whole. dump toxic waste and a bunch o' kids get cancer? depend on market to balance is obtuse. even a fine or imprisonment is hardly balancing the scales. free speech? the cost to community is typical that individuals may need hear a message they don't wanna hear. covid-19 is hardly as ez as free speech. how much liberty is you willing to give up to save lives? how many lives? social distance as a choice is aspirational but ignores realities. got five people genuine maintaining social distancing in a supermarket and all it takes is one libertarian making a (bad) choice to result in six people becoming infected. and yeah, all laws which is written facial neutral is gonna have injustice at the margins, which is why we don't have hal 2000 dispensing justice. sure, some overzealous cop may levy a citation 'pon a citizen for an innocuous behaviour which nobody ever contemplated would be punishable. human judges is s'posed to be able to recognize the place where injustice and the law inevitably overlap and make a ruling which protects citizens from law. regardless, depend on libertarians making choices or market forces to save us from covid-19 or secondhand smoke is an auto fail. HA! Good Fun!

It would be nice if he advocates Traumakine next, hydroxychloroquine boom already increased my stock value quite lot (about +39%) (as Finland's largest pharmaceutical company Orion is one of the largest manufactures of hydroxychloroquine in world), and Traumakine is new drug from another big Finnish pharma company Faron that is tested to help in respiratory diseases. Its value has already increased during corona crisis for 20%, but I believe that it could even double its market value if Trump gives its drug free advertisement

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9 Conclusions In the midst of the global COVID-19 public-health emergency, it is reasonable to wonder why the origins of the pandemic matter. Detailed understanding of how an animal virus jumped species boundaries to infect humans so productively will help in the prevention of future zoonotic events. For example, if SARS-CoV-2 pre-adapted in another animal species, then there is the risk of future re-emergence events. In contrast, if the adaptive process occurred in humans, then even if repeated zoonotic transfers occur, they are unlikely to take off without the same series of mutations. In addition, identifying the closest viral relatives of SARS-CoV-2 circulating in animals will greatly assist studies of viral function. Indeed, the availability of the RaTG13 bat sequence helped reveal key RBD mutations and the polybasic cleavage site. The genomic features described here may explain in part the infectiousness and transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 in humans. Although the evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 is not a purposefully manipulated virus, it is currently impossible to prove or disprove the other theories of its origin described here. However, since we observed all notable SARS-CoV-2 features, including the optimized RBD and polybasic cleavage site, in related coronaviruses in nature, we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible. More scientific data could swing the balance of evidence to favor one hypothesis over another. Obtaining related viral sequences from animal sources would be the most definitive way of revealing viral origins. For example, a future observation of an intermediate or fully formed polybasic cleavage site in a SARS-CoV-2-like virus from animals would lend even further support to the natural-selection hypotheses. It would also be helpful to obtain more genetic and functional data about SARS-CoV-2, including animal studies. The identification of a potential intermediate host of SARS-CoV-2, as well as sequencing of the virus from very early cases, would similarly be highly informative. Irrespective of the exact mechanisms by which SARS-CoV-2 originated via natural selection, the ongoing surveillance of pneumonia in humans and other animals is clearly of utmost importance.

unfortunately no - i tested it myself a week or so ago. it's actually a little bit more broken than one might think - I thought it still might be OK for a non-dualwielded setup, but in practice it's not even great for that because the recovery bonus doesn't start applying until the next reload after it triggers, which means given its extremely short duration buff, you'll waste most of it reloading as normal, and then have like one shot with a short (still non-zero) reload.

You could drop Resolve, I didn't because I wanted a little bit more will-solo I was the only target for arcane dampener so that 4 points to spend somewhere. If you want to cast for dmg maybe put more in might, but sacrifice could be scary, if gish is what you want throw it into dex. Overall it won't make a huuuuge difference.

Finally got around to seeing Redline. Was fun to watch, basically a popcorn flick. I liked the art style as well. Now I want to play Rollcage, though.

It's very good in general - but especially good in my opinion as Steel Garrote/Bloodmage with Whispers of the Endless Paths + Offensive Parry. Offensive Parry triggers on every melee miss (like a 100% Riposte basically) and it dazes the enemy, thus automatically unlocking the draining effect for the Steel Garrote. You can cast spells while dishing out Offensive Parries at the same time which heal you and damage foes. The constant draining also means that Blood Sacrifice is not a problem since you are healed up most of times automatically. If not: Lay on Hands/Exalted Endurance/Concelhaut's Corrosive Siphon do the trick. Usually the drainig + healing is so strong that I can run Sacred Immolation + Alacrity with not problem. It's a fun and powerful combo defense- as offense-wise. The only thing that messes it up (that messes most Arcane Knights up) is Arcane Dampener. By the way (not related to Arcane Knight) : Offensive Parry (and Riposte) also works with Swift Flurry/Heartbeat Drumming.

(Updated 24-Feb-2020) Have been looking at the characters.gamedatabundle and discovered that it is possible to make spiritshift essentially unlimited, and also to make it useable outside of combat. It’s possible many of you know this already? 1. Open characters.gamedatabundle in PillarsOfEternityII_Data\exported\design\gamedata 2. Ctrl-F find DebugName":"Spiritshift_Bear","ID":"0db41697-d8b9-49fa-b31e-67eb9c3a9693 3. There is a line of code, "IsCombatOnly":"true” Change this to "IsCombatOnly":"false" 4. This makes spiritshift available outside of combat. 5. Then there is a line of code just after this "DurationOverride" make this "DurationOverride":9999999 6. This makes the duration of the spiritshift essentially unlimited. You could input any number you wish. It also works for turn-based mode. If you remain in your spiritshifted form then when you enter a new area, you can walk around as a werewolf or werestag etc. but not in combat pose, rather just in normal pose, which is cool. There is something awesome about walking around town as a giant were-stag... like a Watcher Baphomet... or a big bad wolf... I'll try to get this presentable as a mod. This would be ideal for multiclass druid-monk or caster class, as you can cast spells whilst spiritshifted.

FYI I have made this into a mod, which can be downloaded here: https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/405/