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The Homeworld series: The Void/Turgor:

New videos of Empire of Sin. The second one dives a bit more into wars between gangs.

For Australia, it's a blessing. The Morrison government is hopelessly inept, so the more the states decide to shoulder the responsibility of decision making, the better for all Australians. The governing Liberal Party, not to be confused with the American use of the word 'liberal', is very much a social conservative and fiscally.... owned by the local mining and fossil fuel industry and wont do anything without the blessings and encouragement of their masters, regardless of how ridiculous and irresponsible those decisions are.

still stacks for me with regular escape and with the cape, it wont show in char screen only in combat log because it's conditional bonus (against non veil piercing)

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Not sure yet. I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

Our primary for the Senate is today and our choices are between Hickenlooper and Romanoff. Quite literally everyone I know voted Romanoff so I look forward to Hickenlooper's victory late tonight

Hey Keyrock, you can probably do this without the misanthopic paranoia that drives some of us but that would be like popcorn with no butter!

more water. less bourbon. HA! Good Fun!

It will stack, but not additively. Instead, each will be checked separately (in practice once you have Berserker Frenzy 30%, Disciplined Strikes will add 17,5% critical chance to land at total 47,5%). Each new effect will add less practical crit chance, for example Power of Money ring with lots of gold would normally provide 15% crit conversion, but once you have this 47,5%, it will only give you additional 7,88% (55,38% total).

Everyone should celebrate Hugo Weaving.

That's not how it works and in this case I'm all for "defunding" the police. They could then have a department that deals with stupid issues like this one and you know, so armed tough guys don't have to show up at every single little thing. That way the cops can respond to the stuff that only cops can respond to.

Interestingly enough their is a real African diaspora, some BLM activists go on news networks and believe the African diaspora is there lived experiences in first world countries where they are often second , third and older generation. Many valid concerns are raised and Im not dismissing racism or discrimination, but the real suffering of black people is not in first world countries ....terms like " micro-aggression " and " structural racism " become more relevant than what you have raised unintentionally and in a joking way African people that immigrate to countries like Sweden come from certain African countries where in most cases there is no future due to bad leadership, wars and or egregious corruption and lack of governance. But its not all African countries, for example how many people become African refugees and look to Europe from Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Rwanda, Kenya and many others There are real rising stars in Africa but you cant compare them to any first world country because that is an unfair comparison. South Africa is a hybrid country where some people live between first world and third world in the sense we are well aware of the poverty and levels of inequality that exists due many factors....but in closing no one ever wants to leave there country and go somewhere else. I never understood this until I started travelling for work in Africa and the ME and I met many immigrants But end of the day the real problem and question all of us living in Africa need to ask and address is " why are citizens leaving certain African countries and immigrating to places like Sweden " Its not sustainable, it doesnt help the objective of the true African renaissance that many of us support and it undermines the institutions like the African Union which lack any political will to address internal problems. I wish BLM was about the problems of the African continent because all that energy and effort would be much more appreciated and constructive in the goal of " Black Lives Matter " which should start on the African continent

We brought all of Africa here instead 😁 Telling, dont you think?

Touche. That would be none.

It's inversions. Basically - virtually anything in the game with a negative symbol in front of it gets "inverted" and is much stronger than positive values. A full, ugly dissection is here: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/227477-pillars-of-eternity-ii-deadfire/faqs/76599/inversions For your case, a -35% modifier from dual-wielding is equivalent to a -53.8% additive penalty (1/(1-.35)). Combine that with the other positive additive modifiers, and do any appropriute re-inversions and you end up doing 13.11-ish damage (rounded to 13.1). Inversions are basically the worst part of deadfire's mechanics in terms of ease of use and intuitiveness. edit2: the math is ugly. at this point I've done it enough that a few negative modifers I know exactly how to invert them off the top of my head. But for an approximation, you can say that a single negative modifier is roughly equivalent to it being a single multiplicative penalty, if you want to be able to do calculations yourself. (there are no convenient rules of thumbs for multiple negative modifiers and/or when combined with lots of positive modifiers) edit: when I say "virtually anything" I really do mean anything. Healing modifiers, area of effect modifiers, beneficia/hostile effect durations, health penalties from low con, even paladin and priest disposition scaling. There are many places in the game where you can tell that the designers themselves didn't quite grasp their own inversion system and the balancing is a little screwy.

Not sure about jerk chicken, am from Trinidad - which I think is actually more unsafe than Jamaica is right now, hah. EDIT - Okay, it is not. Jamaica has near double the murders. For Scotch Bonnet hot sauce I like Bertie's.

Oh, God. I still remember how blown away I was by the visuals of both of these games as a kid. Nostalgia mode: I miss Amiga.

So games are weird, because I find how game controls and animations to be very much within "beautiful" presentation. So for example Owlboy which looks and animated beautifully but controls like piss doesn't work for me. Same with Cuphead which I liked to took at, but didn't particulalry feel great to control. As such screenshots don't mean much, as how game moves and responds to imputs is rather important. So: Rayman Legends Anything Supergiant Trines Bayonetta Disco Elysium Darkest Dungeon Dishonored Firewatch Hollow Knight Shovel Knight Ori (duh) Civ 5 Journey Dark Souls Elite Dangerous Homeworlds Limbo/Inside Valkyria Chronicles Little Nightmares Prince of Persia (1989), Another World (1991) and Flashback (1992)

we should all go home to Africa

Sometimes I'd want to go back home. Then I realize the likelihood of getting kidnapped and/or murdered and it fades

Ghana is pitching tourism and immigration to black Americans. Ghana’s Minister of Tourism to Black Americans: Come home to Africa Sorry guys. THAT will be a hard sell. A quick perusal of Google says it costs over $2k to fly to Ghana and $600 to fly to Jamaica and $250 to fly to Grand Bahama from New York. If I offered you a vacation in any two of those three countries which one gets eliminated? Yep. I thought so!

Two hits is enough. If you can Mule Kick both oozes at the same time and get your discipline back you can prevent them from merging.

Nope. Just a couple of quotes + replies of fellow board members. No star words either. Could be a punk. Like I said, very curious it is just that thread. L0L Interesting... A mod replies to me here, and now I can post in the Politics thread. Conspiracy theories are fun. L0L Not a huge deal either way. Just tricky board maintenance, I guess. Haha.

Dorudugan has 21 slash AR, so you might only be able to penetrate him if you crit, otherwise your bleeding cut dam would be pretty low.

Haplok is right. +17,5% is still good imo. If you use stuff like Bloody Slaughter: it stacks the same way. What you can do to calculate it yourself easily: multiply the probabilities NOT to convert: Disciplined Strikes: 0.25 conversion --> 0.75 no conversion Berserker Frenzy: 0.3 conversion --> 0.7 not conversion 0.75 * 0.7 = 0.525 no conversion --> 0.475 conversion (or 47.5%) With another 15% conversion (-->0.85 no conversion): 0.75 * 0.7 * 0.85 = 0.4462 no conversion --> 0.5538 conversion (or 55.38%) One advantage of Tactical Barrage would be that you can use it to counter Berserker's confusion (could free up the armor slot from Devil of Caroc's Breastplate and take something that makes you immune to flanked - like Giphon Prudensco) - or to enlarge your Carnage/Static Thunder's AoE size. +1 Power Levels also means +5% multiplicative dmg for all your abilities (including Static Thunder), a bit more ACC and PEN as well. Carnage scales especially well with additional PLs. Keep in mind that Carnage itself can never crit. It only misses/grazes/hits.

Correct, it doesn't. I never tried if the "Wall of Flame" (it has a different name) from Dragon's Dowry will add Resonant Touches. It may be since it originates from a weapon. I once saw Grave Calling's Chillfog add stacks of RT, so maybe it also works with Wall of Flame. The Wall itself would heal the big D, but if it would add a lot of stacks for later to "finish" it could be worthwhile? Maybe...? Don't know if it adds stacks at all - because the dmg will get transformed to healing at some point (before or after RT gets checked?).

In my video on youtube I already kill him in something like 25min. You can improve the dps by changing some items (pet, armor, belt) and use Marux Amanth when he's under 25% health - all that would cut the time by more than 1/4.

Hauani takes 1 hour... With optimized gear Dorudugan can be killed in less than 20 min by a herald. The monk becomes OP when he gets WotW, until then he struggles and has to skip many fights... Another strong solo class is the bloodmage/paladin - he performs better than the herald against Hauani, but he has a harder battle against Dorudugan. The tactician/assassin is probably the most OP class, save vs Hauani. It's the most effective as a sniper, but it works very well as a melee too (infinite Unbending helps). I never tried using Wahai Poraga with Mule Kick, but if the knock up is applied to all the targets it hits while giving your discipline back, it might be a solution... PS. Forgot about soulblade/paladin using Sun and Moon/Tuotilo's Palm. He can kill easily Hauani - when less than 25% health left cast Disintegration and finish him with Marux Amanth. In theory he can kite Dorudugan or use Nomad's Brigandine to avoid his attacks in melee. I'm pretty sure you can also tank him because you can reach 21 melee AR as a paladin, reducing his damage by 75%. The only problem is the AoE fire attacks will heal him back and I'm not sure the dps will be enough to kill him (the herald can also tank him in melee, but can't kill him because of that).

Well, you might as well have some fun...

@BruceVC Victoria and Melbourne to be further isolated (from the rest of Australia). From the BBC: "South Australia and Queensland have cancelled plans to open their state borders to all Australians as an outbreak in Victoria gathers pace. Victoria has recorded double-digit increases in infections each day for two weeks, including 64 in the past 24 hours. The cases - concentrated in several areas of Melbourne - have become Australia's biggest concern in almost three months. Fears are growing that the outbreak could spread to other states, all of which have far fewer or no infections. In announcements today, South Australia cancelled plans to fully reopen its borders on 20 July, while Queensland said it would open on 10 July but not to Victorians. Though her state remains open, New South Wales Gladys Berejiklian told locals today: "Do not allow anyone from a hotspot in Melbourne or from greater Melbourne to come into your home - you have the right to say no." Australia has had more than 7,500 cases in total and 104 deaths."

Censorship kracking down on Kanadians! 😝 Were you by any chance trying to post an embedded video? Looks like that function has issues recently.

Hmmm Testing. Looks like embedding videos is no longer allowed. So, here is another Rammstein without preview picture. Rather aptly named 'Zeig Dich' (show yourself) A song about the depravities and sexual abuse done by the church and the great lengths it goes to, to cover it up. Now it works for me too. Seems like the powers that be likes Rammstein too 😇

The Curse of Monkey Island, Rayman, The Last Express, Sleeping Dogs.

If you pivot to agile development, what kind of value add proposition could you expect? Would this sort of retargeting help you disrupt the status quo and leverage your touchpoints?

Everyone in the company has to take Agile Development training. The cult hungers for members.

maybe not a total loss. we would stand at least six feet away from anybody wearing that getup in public... with the possible exception o' comicons and halloween. HA! Good Fun!

^ Ironically, Batman's mask is useless for our current situation, given that it covers everything except the mouth.

One day, Queen met a Dalek...

Bloodmage and Tactician are more op than Troubadour, Streetfighter and Trickster by far. Just because they feel especially good in boss fights doesn't make them any less good in other fights. (Especially Wall of Draining + Unbending combo is especially good in trash fights and no less good in boss fights)