Leaderboard

At first, Hello nice shrunk mates, and sorry for my bad english skills I enjoy grounded from the first hour, cause i am a kid from the mid 80's early 90's.. and i like it that obsidian updating grounded every month. I've played more then enought early access games which wasnt nearly in that stadium what grounded was by e.a.-release. I am a german player and ive wrote an review on steam for grounded too, to bringing in some points what all thoose starting negative reviews giving an good counterpart. (feel free to visit and read it) and of course obsidian feel free to take my thoughts they are free and they are nice to improve the fun in grounded, i set no copyright to that feel fre to use Okay thats enough of introducing my self Subdivision 1. Sightseen pillars (areas in the garden) 2. Enemys 3. Basebuilding 4. Taming (work in progress) 5. Features (work in progress) 6. Outfits (Work in progress) 7. Equipmentsets (work in progress) 8. World/seasonal- events (work in progress) 9. items (work in progress) 10. Inventory system (work in progress) 11. Perks (work in progress) 12. bugs (work in progress) I do my best to write what i think over thoose points so good i can after a few hours i wil safe this for the moment and write in the next days on it forward 1. Sightseen pillars (garden areas) well if i think back to my childhood their was a movie "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" and the baseball wich activated the original laser is ovously the first sightseen pillar in grounded wich will be revealed after leaving the start spawn an action figure from battle toads can be found in the toadswamp also nice an mc - tape in the backyard remember to our childhood... okay enough with reminisce here come my thoughts and idears to new or reworked sightseen pillars 1.1 did u remember to the movie with this wierd extraterrestrial called e.t.? ive missing an landmark what thematized that one 1.2 more action figures: ive missing some of the most iconic action figures from the 80s and 90s the f..k where the h..l is he-man and skeletor and those wierd power rangers also the gohstbusters and many more of them when counting up i have an area like an chess board in my mind where thoose most iconic action figures standing in duells to each other 1.3 molehills, wich can used as a fast safe route (safe only if the mole not triggered) 1.4 i really missing the mowing machine, it was so nice in the movie "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" when the Neighbors kid come over and used it to punish the hell out of the kids 1.5 functional walkman, it would be awesome if it would possible to bring some iconic songs (if u do that.. please use some nice rock songs(maybe remixed/reworked cause copyrights)) to an functional walkman which changed the tape and his position every second or third day when a child move in the garden used it for a few minutes and trow it back somewhere in the gras (thats the reason for changing positions) 1.6 science project for school, maybe one of thoose trash jelly vulcanos or an advanced nice waterbottle rocket. 1.7 when i think back to my childhood i remember to a small cooler from coca cola for beverages in a corner on the terrace in the backyard 1.8 one or two beehives or an wasp nest even an hornet's nest (Ouch!!) 1.9 a doghouse would be really awesome 1.10 a figure made out of used bubble gum ( maybe one of the main characters (it would be nice if it peters garden when the figure is looking like willow in a cringe look, cause i think willow is peters secret love)) ten landmarks and some of them are very awesome, (i would love to see them all in grounded) ps: a castle/fort made out of lego bricks wich can give us players an savehouse would be another very awesome sightseen pillar 2. Enemys every time when i play grounded iam very excited to discover new nice things under this point i have some thougts about new enemys or reworking some enemys 2.1 flying enemys: bees / wasps / hornets / dragon-flys / butterflys / Firefly / moths( in the night agressive against light sourcess especially moving lights, like the good old torch what we all use ) / mosquito 2.2 enemys on the ground: chinch / centipede / millipede / termites / silver fish / cellar rattle / dung beetle / rhino beetle / mr. long leg (another varity of spider ouhouhu that would be awesome) 2.3 boss enemys: 2.3.1 ant-lion 2.3.2 mouse // rat 2.3.3 mole 2.3.4 mother moth 2.3.5 mother dragon-fly 2.3.6 mother butterfly 2.3.7 Tarantula 2.3.8 Mantis 2.3.9 scorpion 2.3.10 earthworm 2.3.11 snail 2.4 Immortal enemys: (cause they are big like the bird or the koi) 2.4.1 dog puppy: if u move into the dog house it start the puppy event, he will play with the players and drop a ball in front of them (of cause the ball kills an player if they stand under the ball) the players have to hit the ball with a charged hit (a higher tier of weapon let the ball fly further), but the puppy hitting them hard if they are not carefully in movement, if players hit the puppy his mother runs in and kill all with one bite per player, complete inventory lost (no escape possible) when the puppy runs the 20th time for the ball he is happy and give the player one of his treasures ( some kind of toys like bones or nibble toys) and after that the puppy will fall asleep 2.4.2 the frog/toad: he will eat the player if they are in the range of his tongue it need 3 times before u die (inventory lost completly) after ten hits he drop some frog/toad venom/posion and jumped away, maybe in the koi pond, maybe somewhere in the hedge or maybe a stork land and eat him 2.4.3 skunk 2.4.4 marten/iltis 2.4.5 Hedgehog 2.4.6 racoon 2.4.7 snake 2.4.8 squirrel 2.4.9 iguana 2.4.10 ive forgot this one 3. Basebuilding: 3.1 we need a few more materials for new tiers in the base building section 3.2 i need definitive an elevator 3.3 and a cargo lift 3.4 battlements 3.5 round segments 3.6 arrow slits 3.7 a lot more varity in the trap section 3.8 shutters for windows (3.9 taming objectives) 4. taming: cause every one likes pets and mounts, taming is something what we want, but not so easy like in other games search a pet what u like 4.1

alright, i managed to squeeze in some time for a quick test to see what was happening. nature's bounty's stat bonuses don't stack. it's just an odd side effect of least unstable coil. the inspirations it grants come from an item and so i guessed are flagged as being "passive" and therefore stack with anything else. so against hauani o whe, the intuitive i had there stacked with nature's bounty +2 perception (getting me to 30). (the same would've been true for nature's bounty +2 might or devotions for the faithful +4 might vs least unstable coil's energized inspiration). however, if i had just used mien of death's herald for an intuitive bonus, it would not have stacked with perception bonus (and only gets me to 28) (and if i had just cast the energized invocation, it would not stack with devotions +4 or nature's bounty +2 might)

As far as I am aware the ACA as implemented in Massachusetts before 2010 worked ok. The main issue with the ACA as implemented was (and is) malicious (as opposed to well intentioned) interference by the GOP. The real main-main problem though is that the wondrous invisible hand of the free market was allowed to run rampant on US's healthcare systems for, I guess, decades. Actual universal health care, as implemented in most industrialized countries, is much cheaper per capita, and delivers better health outcomes than whatever Frankenstein's monster that can reasonably be put in place in the US, be it the ACA or whatever hybrid replacement legislators can come up with. The blame for the current and worsening state of affairs can be laid squarely on the free market and the federal government's consistent laissez faire attitude.

they do - in fact this is is one way to get around some of the non-stacking rules when it comes to food. koiki fruit, rymsjodda lager, and brew battered ysae are really great because they reduce recovery time, which is rare for an active buff to do so i can stack it with nature's bounty/potion of deftness/frenzy/swift strikes/etc (whereas using rum, captain's banquet, etc. won't work because they are all action speed bonuses (this ignores the cheese of turning food bonuses into passive bonuses)) edit - rymsjodda lager is really useful with rymrgand's challenge enabled because it also lasts 14 days. rymrgand can really change how you think about exploration - i had some notes listing all koiki fruit vendors i ran into throughout deadfire since that only lasts 3 days but is more useful than the lager.

Dinner last night was most awesome. Sunny & I drove down to the Lauderdale river landing and did some fishing from the bank. After just 10 minutes I hooked a nice sized largemouth Bass. All across the USA & world there are pro shops selling billions of dollars worth of fancy lures and fishing tackle. They can keep all that trash. Nightcrawlers, crickets, minnows, & shiners. That is all you will ever need! The fish was a big enough for two filets. I dipped it in cornmeal batter and pan fried and served up with butterbeans & pear sauce (applesauce made with pears). Freshwater fish is seriously underrated for dinner!

@LadyCrimsonSince you're spending so much on displays as it is, you may as well invest in some sort of calibration, either something like an i1Display Pro or a Datacolor SpyderX is a great investment for people serious about image quality/accuracy.

Bombed the general (Soleimani) in Iraq, after asking the Iraqi PM to set up a meeting to discuss de-escalation, according to the Iraqi PM. Which was borderline if not outright Perfidy, if what the PM said was true. I'm usually skeptical of rumours supported only by anonymous sources since there's zero accountability but there must be some reason he got rid of Esper, and it won't be because Trump wants to stage a military coup. Even money on whether he wants to attack Iran or pull all troops out of Iraq/ Afghanistan/ Syria arbitrarily, he probably won't actually do either but he is exactly the type to set the house on fire on his way out, if he has to leave.

It was fairly tame compared to what the US wanted, certainly, but the fact that the IP provisions got chucked as soon as Trump pulled the plug shows pretty conclusively that nobody else wanted it. Everyone else was just willing to swallow that dead rat to get a fta with the US. (The healthcare related IP stuff was the really big negative, since the US was trying very hard to get both single purchase models (eg Pharmac here which buys all publicly funded medicines) and patent standardisations that would make buying cheaper generics a lot more difficult. The reputation of the US healthcare system in terms of cost/ admin is absolutely dire outside the US and no one else wants 1000% increases in the price of (not even funded by Pharmac, bought off the shelf) epipens because the US keeps issuing new patents every time the formulation changes slightly and the company is free to gouge as much as they like)

I tested whispers of the depths ring (chance to Acute inspiration on kill) on monk and it stacks with duality. Fair trial (random inspiration) from magistrate cudgel stacks too (if you get Smart). No clue about tactician brilliant but I suspect it should stack too.

Phoenix Point is confirmed for a GOG release as of a few hours ago.

It's nice to have a new city to explore. Kamurocho was great, but after, what, 8(?) games it got kinda stale. Hamako best girl. There's a group of anti-prostitution activists called "BJ" {Bleach Japan} This guy is living his best life.

i am 100% for most if not all of this, i think this is a really good list of things that would make good additions to the game

I made peace with not going for a new PC this year.

Trump is pulling some troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, 2000 or about half the total from Afghanistan and 500 from Iraq (don't know what that is proportionately), to update a thread from the previous page. Yep, the ultimate problem is that healthcare is not really miscible with the free market except for things which are elective like cosmetic surgery. If you're having a heart attack you're not able to make a rational balanced decision on the costs and benefits of various providers as you might if you were buying lunch or a car or a house. You just want it to be treated as quickly as possible, so you don't die. Outside the US such funds make very attractive targets for borrowing against or even directly raiding during economic crises when a government needs money.

At this rate we're gonna need government intervention.

This is still better

Reflex gets targeted by a lot of Area-of-Effect spells such as Fireball and so on. Have a look at this list for example (same stuff exists for Druid spells, Priest spells, Chatner invocations and so on and so forth). If you click on each spells you'll get a description which also tells you what defense it targets. List: https://pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com/Wizard_spells Individual spell (look at "Defended by") : https://pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com/Arkemyr's_Dazzling_Lights If you don't want spoilers then you can assume that most damaging spells that have an AoE and are not having a disabling component but rather deal direct damage will target reflex.

peer gynt is the unapologetic narcissist and liar who follows the advice o' the troll king, wisdom which actual belonged to shakespeare by way o' polonius-- "to thine own self be true." keep in mind, polonius were not advising self-reflection and moral integrity. to read thus is a modern perversion o' the original meaning. in this one instance, trolls, and the modern day equivalent sitting behind the resolute desk, better understand polonius than do modern audiences. look out for number one. regardless, in the hall of the mountain king is the music we hear when we reflect on 2020. ... and the line rider bit is kinda nifty too. HA! Good Fun!

K

The gamepedia wiki is the official wiki for PoE. It's also pretty complete. You can't do queries on a wiki, sure, but which game besides maybe highly competitive ones with a league system etc. do have such data sources for "research"? With the full-text search you can do a lot of rel. quick research though. And if you find something new you can even contribute. You can find nearly anything important in that wiki. Stuff which isn't there you can ask here and we'll be happy to help. There's little the old geezers here don't know about the game. Part of the fun of RPGs - at least for me - is finding out stuff by myself and don't put too much energy into theorycrafting THE perfect character before diving in. If that's not your thing and you expect that you must be able plan out everything without too much effort - and if you can't it kills the enjoyment of the game for you: then I'm afraid you'll have to move on. I don't know about any comprehensive PoE database that provides the kind of interface you need to do what you're asking for.

Kinda related with

And just for that mental disturbance...