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Again, for the cheap shots and early meme attempts...

Let the memes begin! The last drunk guy to stagger into the floor of the Senate was Ted Kennedy.

Kinda looks like some con of sorts -- neckbeards, cosplayers... 🤔

Meh, not much of a difference really, I'm pretty sure they think AP sucks as well as CNN. After all, many of them won't even like Fox News for being too liberal or whatever. I have to admit, there's a great deal of schadenfreude to be felt over the pearl clutching about protesters storming the US Capitol given all the revolutions the CIA has and had been sponsoring, often against democratically elected leaders. Not so great when the shoe is on the other foot, hmm.

I heard one of the rioters was a Texas lawyer. His boss saw his picture on the Internet and fired him. You can’t even break into the capital and get away with it these days!

I should probably sit down and finish Burn Notice someday too. I lost track somewhere around season 3 or 4.

i'm not following your math here. for a non-troubadour, the ticks of damage from death and dragon aren't attack rolls so don't interrupt. only the initial application from the start of the chant counts for the interrupt. this means every 6s. edit - dah! ninjaed again by boeroer

As much as Bruce was awesome as Brisco, the show wouldn't be the same without Bowler, IMO. Would have loved a movie while Carry was still with us though.

maybe not obvious, but accuse client of criminal behavior is an atypical way for a lawyer to withdraw. HA! Good Fun!

one terrible and unaddressed aspect o' the events yesterday is that it gives too many complicit republicans cover as they abandon trump. the election in georgia made clear to the republican establishment that trump has lost the suburbs, which were bad news for republicans going forward. such shpoulda' been the lesson they took away from november, but to be fair democrats ain't been any smarter 'with their election post mortem. regardless, the problem for folks such as marco rubio and others were the difficulty o' distancing selves from trump as they look forward to 2022 and 2024. typically a faustian bargain is unbreakable, no? too many tweets and examples o' support o' trump will make it difficult for the rubios to pretend as if they were not coconspirators in the trumpism movement. trump were no different yesterday than he has been since he ran for office. muslim ban? nevertheless, republicans who were looking for an excuse to abandon trump now that it is clear to many that trumpism is not a viable option for the future had a gift handed to them. mock shock and dismay. january 6 trump were too much for them? is gonna be many republicans who use yesterday to reinvent themselves. unfortunate. oh, and for the folks who has been invoking summer protest whataboutism, we set the way back machine to january 20, 2017. Anti-Trump protesters risk 60 years in jail. Is dissent a crime? Prosecutors eventually dropped a few defendants, like journalists and legal observers, but simultaneously increased the charges against everyone else. The most recent indictment collectively charged more than 200 people with felony rioting, felony incitement to riot, conspiracy to riot, and five property-damage crimes – all from broken windows. HA! Good Fun!

I'm summoned! But.... A lot of good info has been posted here during that last 1 hour that... I can't really add that much. Usually I prefer Turn Based as well. Deadfire is kinda an exception. Too many important mechanics have been... truncated. Dex and attack speed (therefore also weapon speed) has very little importance. Stuff like wearing heavy armor or using slow attack mode stances (like axe Bleeding Cuts, arquebus aimed shots, shield stances and such), which have very serious trade-offs in RTwP, are basically free no-brainers in Turn Based. Also using 10 Free Action powers, while the enemies stay frozen, waiting for their turn... So I really prefer RTwP here, the mechanics are way more... intricate, balanced and make more sense. Really shows how lazy this side project has been. The devs COULD HAVE went for individual rounds based on personal initiative and time cost of each action and have a GREAT TB system on their hands. Instead they sticked to the "1 action per round" paradigm - for some weird reason (except for the FA - again, unlimited for some weird reason). Well, there is one use case where I find TB, well, fun at least (if not balanced at all). That is playing a dedicated caster. Wizard certainly fits the bill, although it could also be a Druid or a Priest. TB action economy is VERY generous for those. Particularly for a Wizard, who has all those Free Action buffs. Ciphers would be much worse, although Boeroer already provided some suggestions how to circumvent this and what builds could work well. Ultimate TB build? Must be some kind of wizard. I like Blood Mages. The fact that Blood Sacrifice is a Free Action is neat. Can buff himself to the max in a single round... and still have all his spell slots back in round 1. Pure would be strong. I played a Spellblade Bloodmage/Assassin multiclass and that was neat too, due to the massive bonuses to Accuracy, PEN and Critical damage he gets from stealth (works for aoe spells). Also despite the seeming frailty, was often in stealth/untargettable before finishing his cast (Shadowing Beyond is a Free Action too), so not that easy to kill in regular fights too. For nuking I certainly recommend Deltro's Cage helm (and hitting yourself with Chain Lightning, earlier Jolting Touch), its quite the game changer. Even moreso with an Assasination self-crit for a 130% shock lash on your spells. Avoid the rare spell multiplication effects then, though (like from silk shoes.. or Evoker subclass). Self afflicting yourself with 2 of those then... ouch. Died a few times like this. For a Bloodmage do max your Con, it will be handy. Also Per and high Int. No need to push Might high. And play human, you can control when you're Blooded (which should usually happen on round 1). Dex plays a minor role. It does reduce the time between you initiating a cast and finishing (so reduces then window when you can be interrupted), but you can still only cast 1 normal spell every round. And enemy Initiative seems to be very close to each other most of the time, with very little variation in most enemy groups (all move one after another, usually), so its of limited help. They will all execute their Standard actions anyway between your start of cast and before you finish your cast. So could be good to start casting AFTER they move. Note you CANNOT change your aoe target in TB mode for some reason. So enemies might (and will) move out of range after you start the cast - unless you start it after their movement. Single attacks are generally a waste of time in TB IMO. Either play a caster OR maybe a riposte specialist (probably with the Community Patch and chance to Riposte on Graze). Normal martials just don't do enough per action IMO. I guess a monk with Swift Flurry/Heartbeat Drumming spamming 5+ attacks per round could still work... No idea about the console release.

You can somewhat circumvent the action economy problems of ciphers in TB mode with either a Beguiler or a Psion. Both don't need to attack with weapons in order to gain focus. A Beguiler gets plenty of focus from casting big AoE deceptions (like Phantom Foes and Secret Horrors) so you can cast those spells non-stop - and the Psion simply gains focus with time (the focus gain scales with Power Level). If you combine a Psion with some other caster class you can always alternate between cipher and non-cipher spells without pausing - which is very nice because there's nearly no casting downtime. The advantage over pure wizard/priest/druid is that you have at least one unlimited resource pool. I played A Troubadour/Psion as pure caster which game me two unlimited resource pools which refill automatically and it was lots of fun. I reckon it works equally well in TB mode. But I can also see a Wizard/Psion working nicely.

Sorry, it seems that most people on the forums prefer RTwP, I've been quite hesitant towards turn-based myself as there is no way to change between the two modes and I can see some later battles becoming very tedious in turn-based. I have very little experience with turn-based, so take this with a grain of salt. 1. Cipher: It seems that the general consensus is that cipher runs in to action economy issues in turn-based as they need to attack to generate resources and can't attack if they choose to cast spells, this issue can partly be bypassed by the Psion subclass which generates focus passively. As for single classing, a few of the higher level cipher powers are a lot less useful in turn-based (Time parasite and defensive mindweb even more than usual). An ascendant or beguiler could also work, but is more effective in RTwP. 1. I believe wizard is still very good in turn-based, single classing will work great and martial builds with monk, fighter, or rogue should also be quite alright with free action self-buffing and citzal's lance. Multiclassing either with chanter will give access to strong summons that will make the game significantly easier. 2. Dex and action/recovery speed definetely seems less important in turn-based (and thus heavy armor is better), the exception being casters where high action speed will leave less time where you are vulnerable to interruption. I believe the range for grazes has been expanded quite a lot, so one could keep that in mind for perception and resolve/defense. Free actions are quite powerful, and the black jacket subclass is also better now due to this. 3. I have no idea. 4. Last I heard, the console ports are quite awfully ported. As an extra bonus, the PC version allows for great mods like the Community Patch and Balance Polishing mod if that is your thing.

That's true, and IIRC, I'm pretty sure that yesterday's storming is pretty much the way A Handmaid's Tale starts, and Donald Trump's son, the bearded one egging on the morons with his father earlier yesterday, looks like the evil leader in that TV-series.

I have zero experience with Turn Based Mode, sorry. Iirc @Haplok played some TB Bloodmage or so.

I think we can firmly state... This reenactment of OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN sucked worse than the film did.

Yup, it looked more like a spontaneous action. I did not see people there in any "tactical" gear. I wonder what was the trigger? Mob psychology is interesting and scary at times. I would blame it on Trumps initial speach. As for media equipment being destroyed. Not a thing I'd support, but I can understand where the anger came from, as these people are being compared to literal 'reichs ppl' by most TV networks.

So Bruce Campbell is aiming to do "The Expendables of Horror" if he can with Bruce vs Frankenstein...

Today was unusually productive. I got up early checked my work email and saw nothing had come in. Had black coffee cottage cheese and strawberries for breakfast. Re-checked email still no work. Then I gave Sunny a bath and cleaned her ears. Fed Sunny and the chickens. Then I ordered all the seeds for this year‘s garden. And following such a hectic morning schedule I felt like I deserved a nap. When I got up I rechecked my work email and still no work and come in. So then I sat on the front porch and read a book. It’s a pretty good thing I don’t actually care about my job right now. Because we’re so damn slow I’d be terrified I’d be about to lose it

Listening to some of these people jaw at the cops and some are saying "If we were BLM you wouldn't be roughing us up" Also some dude saying they don't want socialism. Also, saying the cops would let ANTIFA walk in. Oh man, this is a great comedy show, feel sorry for the cops having to endure this nonsense.

The party of limited government, fiscal responsibility and law and order sure has taken all those values to heart during Trump's administration.

I also rewatched some Buffy a few months ago. Honestly, it's still pretty good most of the time. Just the fighting scenes didn't age really well ...

What's that line in the song - some of those that burn crosses, are the same that work forces?

ISIS existed from 2005, it's a direct successor to Zarqawi's Al Qaeda in Iraq. Which was a separate entity which joined Al Qaeda as a franchisee so probably 2005 is the fairest time for its establishment. It became the Islamic State in Iraq, then ISIS, then formally 'Dawlah' IS as a 'Caliphate' once they reinvaded Iraq from Syria and took Mosul. Now, the rest is more interesting. ISI under Baghdadi sent support to the Syrian rebels- Jabhat al Nusra, the 'Support Front', now Hayat Tahrir al Sham and supposedly independent of Al Qaeda (now officially Hurras ad Din, in Syria)- while it was still under the umbrella of Al Qaeda, its very name tells you that it did exist before the US gave them weapons, though it was not significant at the start. They had a lot of success though since they were ruthless, got support from US allies and eventually grew. In 2013/4 JaN split along the lines of Al Qaeda and ISIS loyalties, and a bunch of other groups joined ISIS, they reinvaded Iraq and took Mosul etc then became enemy #1. In terms of support for ISIS/ JaN from the US, there was quite a lot of it though most of it was clandestine and indirect, and hence deniable. By the measure of the US itself they definitely supported ISIS- almost all the top ISIS leaders including Baghdadi were held and released by the US previously, they operated with impunity for years and were armed and trained via operations like Timber Sycamore. Ironically, these are exactly the accusations the US levels at Iran to show they support Al Qaeda... To be fair, most of the arming and training done was to 'moderate rebels' that somehow despite the no doubt careful vetting joined decidedly non moderate ISIS later, and not directly to JaN, though they certainly knew that US allies (Turkey, Qatar) were supporting JaN directly. That is also the source of the infamous 'McCain meets Baghdadi' photo, while it isn't Baghdadi the 'moderate rebels' he was photographed with went on to become senior ISIS leaders. The US never, bar one occasion, significantly bombed IS if they were attacking the 'correct' targets and infamously never targeted their main source of revenue, oil, since most of that money was going to/ from Erdogan's son. The one occasion in which they did attack ISIS on a frontline with Assad they 'accidentally' attacked Assad's troops instead, and handed ISIS the main defensive position overlooking Deir Ez Zor airport. Indeed, that attack persisted so long that the Russians allegedly only stopped it by directly threatening to shoot down the Danish and Australian planes involved, after the senior US officer on the deescalation line was for some reason absent for 45 minutes. Overall there's no doubt in the slightest that the US under Obama was at minimum fine with ISIS, so long as it was attacking Shia militia and Assad, supported those who later joined it as 'moderate rebels' and even post Caliphate declaration tolerated it, so long as it was threatening their mutual enemies. It was only when they started threatening US interests that they became an evil that had to be stopped. It's very doubtful that Obama had any direct operational knowledge of most of this, but then if you use that excuse for him you have to use that excuse for Bush as well.

This is turning into some bizarro reverse Tianmanen.

This brings up a good comparison. When "antifa" vandalized the CNN sign in Atlanta the National Guard got called in. The MAGAs are storming the capital armed and the DOD declined a request to send in the National Guard.*see edit The gaps in relation to power (you can see prominent politicians with Proud Boys and 3%ers) and the response from authority should provide a stark comparison between antifa and MAGA. EDIT: MSNBC got it wrong, National Guard is being deployed to DC.

Soooooo much bigger. When did ANTIFA occupy anything near this scale?

Last four years they have done their best that there are only Trump supporters working in all governmental organizations , so security probably is part of those who are storming in the Capitol

It only gets used on leftists and Black people.

Congratulations MAGA. You guys are as big a mob of violent animals as ANTIFI. Way to go.

Half of them are part of the MAGA legions so they're shortstaffed.

Sometimes it’s hard to believe they’re not paid by the hour LOL

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Based on all the comments, it's more than a "bit" buggy. A good effort but still largely unusable outside of goofing off or maybe non-combat walking screenshots. Anyway ... I totally understand wanting 3rd but I think I'll stick with first, unless they officially add it in at some point. What I wish this game had was a more permanent companion - and I don't mean in-your-head Keanu, but someone like Jackie with you all the time. Am I correct in assuming you only get paired with others for a mission and they disappear to "wait" for you somewhere else, if at all? Sigh. Makes me want to reinstall FO4 just to have the dog around again. I know! Cyber-dog companion DLC, anyone? I'd buy it.

Dunno what the issue is. It's Witcher 3, only interesting. And yes, I also would rather have a small number of interesting side quests (like, say... hum... the original Witcher game maybe), but that's dead and done for, I guess. Thanks Obama Ubisoft.

No idea how legit this is, but figured it would be interesting to post. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/778998-cyberpunk-2077/79177975#7

Yup, Cherami Leigh is great. Fun fact, she was A2 in Nier: Automata, among a ton of other roles.

That's the thing, Cyberpunk is way more interactive when it comes to conversations. The NPC's seem more diverse. You can wander around the stores and apartments and they are more detailed and fleshed out than in GTA. It's not a perfect game, but neither is GTA. They have very different focus points.

Figured it out and made it work.