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You rights and your freedom *usually* ends where it impinges on somebody else's rights and freedoms. Lets say Bob is a religious nutcase (insert your most disliked religion here). Bob doesn't like gingers. Nobody should prevent Bob from disliking gingers and he can rage and rant privately all he wants against the blasphemous hair dye gingers are wearing openly, without covering with a hat. Bobs private rants are nobody else's business really. When Bob wants to force all gingers to cover their hair with a hat so *he* doesn't feel his vision is polluted by watching ginger haired people, then Bob is a problem. Not the gingers. Yes, a grossly simplified example and I'm sure someone out there on the internet will go to great length to come up with 17 exceptions why it's perfectly reasonable to force gingers to wear hats.

Had a fun conversation with a user today. User: "I cannot log in, it keeps telling me wrong user name or password, but we never changed the password!" Me: "Yeah, I bet you always read every EULA you agree to as well, right?" Honestly... if nobody changed the password of your branch account then it would still work. You're either too dumb to input a user name and a password correctly or someone in your branch changed it. Well technically there's a "non-zero" chance that someone hacked the system and the only thing they did was change the password of one single user. Sure, that's probably what happened.

Phew, glad Lil Wayne got pardoned

New Creatures Mosquitos Fireflies Bees! New Crafting Content Bee Armor Set (Face Mask, Shoulder Pads, Shin Guards) Firefly Head Lamp Stinger Spear Mosquito Needle Weevil Shield New consumable: Healbasa Two new stuffed friends: Stuffed Bee and Stuffed Firefly New Perks Barbarian Perk: Club damage increased New Features All platforms Equipped items no longer take up Backpack space. Equipped items will stay on the player after death. Each piece of equipment will take a small amount of durability damage after you die. Changes / Tuning Networking Container inventory contents are no longer replicated to clients until needed (an optimization) More reliable networking calls from clients to server Reduced the amount of network data sent between various systems. Other BURG.L Chips now award science when returned regardless of whether the corresponding BURG.L quest is active. Mint Mallet has been renamed "Mint Mace" Rotten bee equipment can now be analyzed to unlock the un-rotten recipes. Combat Bone weapons have slightly less durability. Most unblockable creature attacks are now blockable with shields (still unblockable with weapons). Pollen can now be thrown. Previously-equipped off-hand items that were displaced by a two-handed weapon are restored when re-equipping a one-handed weapon. Interface Point of interest notification has been altered to be more responsive and look better. Notifications now will display what's in the queue to improve feedback with this system. Save game screenshots now work with Logout saves. Rest / Set Respawn UI adjustments. A "New Resource" queue will display on the HUD if you end up picking up new items faster than the HUD can handle displaying the notifications for them. World Nectar now spawns on top of flowers instead of below them. Creatures will fade out / fade in when approaching their despawn distance to prevent visual popping (currently only works on host). Bratburst visual effects better match the ingredients that were used to craft it. Buildings Buildings will be invalid less often when placing them inside structures. Incomplete buildings are more visually apparent. Buoyant Markers can now be built in the lower pond. Creatures Creature Perception: Player noise now has a linear falloff as opposed to all heard player noise having the same value regardless of distance. Increased hearing range of Wolf Spiders from 2500 to 5000 to account for the above change. Bug Fixes - All Platforms Top Community Issues Foundations will no longer be invalid when snapping to other foundations that stick out of the ground too much. Clients can now dump canteens Autosaves no longer cause performance hitching. Fixed issue with clients failing to spawn in games that have huge player bases built. Game Fixed crash with clients joining a saved game where their loot bag was collected by another player. Incomplete doors will no longer have collision after loading. The player can no longer eat or drink items while gliding or zipping. The player will now drop all hauled items when starting zipping. The player can no longer attack while gliding. Air bubbles will no longer spawn in large clumps when first approaching sources of them. Door frames now have collision applied to them. Fixed issue where "Craft and Equip" could cause a random inventory item to get equipped. Characters will no longer fall when loading a save in which they were ziplining (not retroactive) Dew drinking while hauling is disabled to prevent issues where dew disappears without giving you any hydration. Fixed crash with clients joining a saved game where their loot bag was collected by another player. Items/Equipment/Resources Muscle Sprouts will now respawn Dirty droplets no longer act like clean ones when drinking them Buoyant Foundations can no longer be built underneath the water in some situations. Buoyant Marker can no longer be placed on land. Objects without physics will no longer cause the bounce pad to bounce. The previous weapon, for the Equip Previous hotkey, now persists across saves Shovel+ now has a proper faster animation. Fixed some interaction issues with FrankenLine. Soda droplets will more consistently respawn. Punch-O Juice drops properly despawn after 72 hours so new dew can drip out. World Gnats will get happy after boops more consistently. Aphids will now face the correct direction when descending grass blades. Clovers will now save and restore properly. UI The field of view will no longer sometimes oscillate when sprinting sideways. Fixed issue with the "low O2" black vignette not working on clients. Fixed issue with the 3rd person camera being in odd tilts after respawning Ominent Practical Technologies [All information regarding the activities of Ominent Practical Technologies in this update are to remain confidential]

I made strawberry preserves from the berries I grew in the green house. Five 16 oz jars. All the planters are clear now. I bought and herb garden seed set online. Going to try my hand at that next.

is perhaps worth pointing out sans irony that the bulk o' fdr clemency were for violations o' prohibition era laws related to trafficking o' booze. HA! Good Fun!

Hey, he ate McDonalds. Trump was a man of the people.

This seems to work, thank you!! Gonna make more dialogues and tests but the new convo is taken into account and appears in the game Quick question: Is it possible to add audio files (voice files to be exact) via override? I have a feeling it doesn't work. =/

Article 30 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights. "Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein." If country claims to follow human rights, they should make sure that democratic process can't take any of the human rights from any group for any reason. In case of conflicting rights neither party should be oppressed by other's rights. Human rights are specifically designed to reign in tyranny of majority in democracies

Arguably the United States has that dubious 'honor' with structures such as Fort Snelling in 1862 and you also had the concurrent use of camps by, once again, the United States in the early twentieth century in the Philippines as well as the German use of camps against the Herero and Nama although I believe that the most notorious, Shark Island, did come after the events of South Africa. However, that also depends on what you define a concentration camp to be and if it actively needs to be an extermination center, that is to say a death camp, or not.

Nothing about Blind Fury is embarrassing, not even the car chase scene.

Don't be silly. Obviously the Moderna and Pfizer vaccine will turn you Republican as they contain RNA- 'Republican, North America'; it's in the name sheeple. OTOH the AZOxford and Sputnik vaccines contain DNA- that's why Soros/ Gates chose adenovirus, it's a DNA virus- and will make you vote Democrat.

I love this game, my girlfriend is actually into designing game graphics, and i am working on coding. This game is so brilliant that me and her were discussing what insects we would like to see and what they could add. Butterflies and Dragonflies : 1. Possible flying mounts. Now i know a lot of people have seen honey, i shrunk the kids and that amazing bee scene. This could be very similiar to that. Kinda fun. 2. Items. With the dandelion tufts you can glide down these insects could drop their wings to give a similiar aspect with a little more speed and control like hang gliders with different looks. Imagine your character gliding around the back yard with dragon wings when a friend drops far away and you fly in and save the day. So cool. Black Widows and Mutated Spiders 1. Boss monsters The game had the broodmother, but when i went to play last it was gone. Kinda sad boss monsters with special drops like a weapon still stuck in it from the last adventurer could add some extra fun into the game. I know its tricky to add extra spider stuff. But trophies and a stuffed spider would be awesome for the trophy room in my base. 2. Items Black widow gear could add extra stealth aspects into the game similiar to the ants and ant armor. As for the mutated spiders perhaps a chest piece to go with the gas mask so that way you can have a chest piece that works outside of the sets. 3. Design Both of these designs would take only slight adjustments and color alteration. Other than some extra stat changes this is all fairly easily done. And Finally, Centipedes, Crickets, and Fire Ants 1. Fill up that back yard I feel like sometimes I am too safe in grounded, even on the hardest mode i know the paths and safe ways to everywhere. There are some spots i wish there was a special type of bug to find, but its just a blank canvas in a few parts. Between the wall and the pond there is a strip of rocks where there are a few stink bugs, but mostly its empty. Fire ants would be easy to add in. Slight adjustments in color and then crafting and boom you got a fire ant hill just on the other side of the pond. I know its not that simple but with their strong team it could be there one day. Crickets hopping around the yard playing their music could be quite calming or scary depending on how dangerous they are. Imagine hearing the chirp of a giant grass hopper and then bam it jumps down on you knocking you back and as you try to attack it leaps away, chasing it down could be hazards and fun! This could take time to design along with the Centipede, but either of them could be exciting or terrifying given the right light. 2. Items. What if you could make like a violin with the cricket legs, just something silly to have fun with. They are young kids they could have a band of instruments, they already have a basketball court with no balls (cough roly poly basket balls cough). A Centipede sheild to hold in your off hand would be cool too. A little extra damage reduction for those times you have a single handed weapon in the daylight but have nothing for your weak hand. The fire ants could make weapon that add a burn dot to the enemies which would be nice. Even if you had fire ant armor and if gave you extra damage instead of load capacity that could be cool. Sorry for my long rant these were just some of my thoughts, what about you? Do you have any insects that would be great additions to the game?

No, not really, but some of them have special abilities outside of their tranformations. Minako is sometimes shown to be really athletic*, Rei is psychic, Makoto is superhumanly strong even when not transformed into Sailor Jupiter and Ami is super smart. It's just Usagi that is completely useless, but she's kind of the team's Ma-Ti, right? The heart of the gang, and the only reason they're all friends. Well and for some reason only Sailor Moon's attacks can actually destroy enemies (with some exceptions), so there Ma-Ti, take that. Sailor Moon S gives the other girls really good spotlight episodes (Makoto's is best though, I think, such a sweet episode and it showcases just how much character growth is really hidden under the silly veneer of the show - that episode has Makoto talking to Usagi about her problems and Usagi not being a complete moron about it, just imagine that happen during season one), so there's something to look forward to for you then. Oh and yeah, Minako** and Usagi being sort of similar is one of the nice touches of Sailor Moon. While technically it's Mamoru that represents Earth (albeit not directly), it makes sense for Moon and Venus to be similar. Earth and Venus are called the twin planets or a reason. Oh and that episode with Minako trying to help her friends was a riot. There was something super hilarious about Minako and Chibi-Usa being the worst nurses in history. *Mini-Spoiler: It's volleyball, not basketball. The anime even references Attack No. 1 at some point and there's a chance that the name Sailor V is a reference to Sain wa V!, a volleyball manga that Naoko Takeuchi maybe read during her childhood. The timeframe would fit, the name of Sailor V, her poses, her being a volleyball player and the immense popularity of women's volleyball at the time. Not sure if that was ever officiall "confirmed" or not, but it seems reasonable enough. **I think the manga has Minako pretending to be Princess Serenity for a while, until Usagi gets her memories back. The inconsistencies can also be kind of explained because Sailor V was written before Sailor Moon and Naoko Takeuchi created Sailor Moon supposedly because a planned anime adptation for Sailor V was requested to have a larger cast. Not sure if that really went down like that, but Sailor V was integrated into Sailor Moon and V turned into Venus.

I'll push the line away for Crying Suns please.

its not the numbers. embraces same logic void silliness as pointing out obama executive orders by numbers w/o context. might as well use obama as an example. total pardons by obama during two terms were 212 btw. commutations (still a felon, but no longer need remain in prison) for obama were +1700 and most o' those went through the ordinary doj review process which takes 'bout two years. obama pardoned and commuted the sentences o' a whole lotta 3-strikes, non violent drug offenders who were doing years and even decades o' time in prison. serious, review the list. bill clinton is indeed offering the best parallels for trump, although again raw, numbers is misleading. bill unapologetically pardoned and commuted the sentences o' many political allies who spent money appealing lawyers with advertised access to the clintons and the clinton foundation to grant pardons. were a doj investigation following bill's presidency but no charges were filed. the marc rich bit were actual distracting from all the other political allies granted clemency by clinton. HA! Good Fun!

Dang, FDR...go home youre drunk.

During my morning's 15k, I had the luxury of running into a 60 km headwind what left me with the sense of being stuck and going no where on a treadmill ...

Yep, our app is just a POS. And appropriately, my Windows password is going to expire. Time to make it password67 instead of 66. Recall that these fixed life passwords may be counterproductive as it makes people choose poor passwords rather than just using a passphrase - $EAsucksRipWestwood2003neverforget! is easy to remember and decent quality.

Same issue, you'd have to override the whole tree to make that change. Adding new abilities is easy because the devs added a whole new gamedata type for appending to a tree (which they do deserve praise for). But there's no way of interacting with old abilities at all with this method, so you're left with overriding the original tree entirely.

List updated, everyone stay in line no need to push.

Trump ~250 Obama ~1700 (included 330 on his final day) BushGW ~300 (Scooter Libby probably most controversial) Clinton ~450 (probably the best Trump analogue for a list that generated a lot of accusations and controversy, Clinton's likely more) BushGHW ~75 Reagan ~400 Carter ~500 So Trump's use was pretty standard proportionately with Bush sr being a low use outlier and Obama and Carter (given his was a single term) being high use outliers. Of course, if you go by rumours there are hundreds of extra secret sealed pardons from Trump sitting around waiting until they are needed by his family and friends.

Try this:BlackbowPL7.zip (but as Beoroer said, this will be incompatible with all other mods that directly modify the Wizard tree.) Yep. Adding new abilities to a Progression Table: no sweat, compatible with everything, implemented with majestic elegance Modifying or removing existing abilities... welcome to incompatability hell, I hope you like copypasting 10k lines of JSON just to change a single variable.

What a nice, pleasant inauguration. I wasnt glued to the TV as I have been cooking but it went off very well, I liked the poet. She did a good job and the artists sang well Well done Biden and well done USA for this peaceful event, it was important for all Democracies around the world

Wish that'd apply to us. Apparently someone has it set so the passwords expire after 3 months, but then the first failed log in locks the account. So the user gets no notice that the password is expired so they can't avoid the lock out. I guess this was done in order to give our L1 team something to do ?

Only way I have gotten my audio mods to work is by placing the files inside of a folder in StreamingAssets\Audio\Windows\Voices\English(US). Placing audio inside a mod's override folder doesn't work from what I can tell. I am really interested to see it might be possible to add new audio and dialogue!

Nothing sexy about that though. Far better to convince people that there is a secret Cabal of neocommunist pedophiles that want to turn all straight man gay and only a bombastic somewhat successful real estate magnate can save us all. Besides when you start talking about policy that’s when you find out most people basically agree with each other. Well most people until you run into someone like me.

You can probably trace the need for concentration camps back to the Thirty Years War, when the practice of releasing POWs without ransom at the end of the conflict became enshrined in the treaty language. Prior to that prisoners were often killed, enslaved, and/or held for ransom. Anyway, concentration camps (and refugee camps) are really a logistical necessity.

Never heard that term before Entirely anecdotal, but I've only seen secular used in the meaning of keeping state and church separate (edit: in regards to governments). Edit: As an example of a failed secular state, see Turkey. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk converted Turkey from a medieval, Muslim country into a modern (for its time) European country. Erdogan is busy dismantling all of Ataturks accomplishments and using both nationalism and religion to convert Turkey into something akin to Saudi Arabia and solidify his hold on both state and church by uniting them. Probably maneuvering around MBS as well as he can, biding his time a bit before declaring himself Caliph.

I wanted to make sure, because of this term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_religion Sometimes people think some stance is secular, but they do it in such a vehement way, that in fact they create a religion.

Every President does this, and they often contain a few controversial picks. Steve Bannon, for example. Technically, he's just releasing his own swamp monsters back into the wild. What I would like to see is a way for Congress to override a pardon.

Exactly. Atheism is not believing in the existence of one or more gods (Not to be confused with agnostics, which accept the possibility that such might exist, but they don't worship them). The opposite of secular countries would be something like The Vatican, Saudi Arabia or Iran, where the clergy runs the country (theocracies) and legislate according to their religious scriptures. Edit: I'm fairly sure The Vatican no longer burns people at the stake when accused of witchcraft or claims Earth isn't the center of the universe (RIP Giordano Bruno)

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/iced-earth-guitarist-jon-schaffer-225701958.html Shame he didn't recite Pickett's words in High Water Mark.

Well, he definately was at a waist size of an average American

today is the day when the american people finally take that freaking crossbow away from joffrey. HA! Good Fun!

Secular: "not connected with religious or spiritual matters." "of or relating to the worldly or temporal" "of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred" "not pertaining to or connected with religion" "concerned with nonreligious subjects." "not having any connection with religion"

Companies can censor whatever they like. What they can't then turn around and do- without looking like massive hypocrites at very least- is claim that other entities censoring them is an awful crime against freeze peach and liberty. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. That's why Twitter got laughed at when complaining about getting banned in Uganda a few days ago as a crime against 'basic human rights'; (1) if you want to apply Jack Dorsey's standards don't be surprised if Uganda applies Museveni's standard's right back and (2) bans become matters of basic human rights, when you're the one getting the ban. It's ultimately completely self defeating to selectively apply free speech criteria based on an approved political slant as a social media outlet; if you have free speech applied impartially you can rightly complain about others censoring you, if on the other hand you're partial and selective in applying those measures you can hardly complain when someone does the same back- and be absolutely sure that it will be thrown back in your face by those you disagree with politically and who have the power to retaliate.

he does have a point though, real dinosaurs today are not scary... they are lunch. KFC makes some great fried dinosaur

You will have problems in the early game - but later on it will not be that bad anymore. But it also depends on the weapons. If you use blunderbusses + Powder Burns it will be a lot worse than if you use Daggers (e.g. Pukestabber which is very fast - with the use of alcohol). Because blunderbusses have an inherent ACC malus AND Powder Burns will distract you - which will cause -5 PER on top. Daggers however come with +5 ACC.

Lupin, I'm generally liking it a lot but we've stopped watching after the 4th episode. Will probably pick it up again when/if the second season comes out. Things like that really take me out of the whole thing

1. only unstealth the tank if possible --> buff ACC -->debuff enemies' defenses/buff your party's defenses --> deal damage. Use interrupts! The fight at the digsitre is a lot easier if you bought the Essence Interrupter. 2. Heralds have great utility, support and can soak a ton of damage - but I find them lacking as main tanks because they can't hold enemies very well*. Wizards or Arcane Knights (Paladin/Wizard): same. I personally prefer something with Fighter, preferably Unbroken. I like Unbroken/Trickster a lot, but stuff like Unbroken/Shieldbearer also works well. I also like Barbarian/Paladin variants as main tanks (+3 engagement via shout). 3. Still not important in general (depends a bit on the class - see Nalpasca/Alchemy) - stealth can be very useful for solo runs though. 4. All companions and sidekicks are viable for PotD. Fassina isn't bad per se. It's just so that many players don't like the Conjurer subclass. It is a bit underpowered because summons don't scale with Power Level but with character level and the conjured familiar uses up the slot for a summon - meaning you can either have the familiar or another summon öike the Essential Phantom. Not both at the same time. Besides that there are some other conjuring spells like Necrotic Lance etc. that do scale well with Power Level. A Wizard/Chanter like Fassina can turn into an interrupt-monster at higher levels: the "Champion" invocation gives you energized which interrupts enemies with every crit (no matter if from spells etc.). And with Wall of Draining you can have that inspiration for a really long time. Every pulsing spell you cast (Chillfog, Wall of Draining itself, Freezing Pillar, Malignant Cloud etc) as well as your offensive chants (those which do am attack roll vs. enemies) has a chance to interrupt all enemies in the AoE. That can be very good. )*Heralds can tank very well if they use summons to hold the enemies back.

If you are going with a transcendent, I would recommend an Ascendant/Forbidden Fist if you are using the Community Patch mod (which turns the forbidden fist attack into a weapon attack, so you can build focus with it), or a Beguiler/Forbidden Fist if you are playing the vanilla game, since a beguiler can gain focus just through using cipher powers on sneak attack vulnerable foes. The synergy of the Forbidden Fist subclass with a cipher subclass is tremendous. The forbidden fist attack enfeebles foes, which is a tremendous affliction which prevents healing and extends the time of all other afflictions. It is enhanced by Lingering Echoes, and it will also extend the duration of disintegration. It is also a very sturdy build; a forbidden fist monk with high resolve (to minimize the length of the forbidden fist curse) has strong defenses, and as a cipher you can further bolster it with psychovampiric Shield. For a witch, you might consider a furyshaper/beguiler, which gives you so many ways to debilitate a foe. Here you'd want to go the two-handed style route, using Lord Darryn's Voulge (for lightning mayhem) and ultimately Willbreaker, which, with the modal on, can simultaneously debuff fortitude and will, the two key stats cipher powers need to overcome, and with Brute Force means lots of crits as well. Your defenses will be lower, but if you keep the enemies sufficiently debuffed this won't matter much, especially if you have Xoti and Tekehu healing you.

Nah the door to Nina's dad's place. Funny, never really interact with him that much in either of the preceding games. Think I am scraping the barrel of point and clicks on GOG...may have to get Jack Keane next.

Worse. Boston.

Dear Obsidian Devteam, Me and my friend were playing tonight and I had an amazing idea. What if you allowed us to equip another dagger in our offhand and be able to attack with it at the cost of not being able to block, and or add some kind of dodge mechanic, because my favorite playstyle in any game is 100% duel wielding daggers. I feel as though this would fit in perfectly with this game and add more customization to our playstyles.

Hey all (and particularly @Boeroer @Elric Galad @Noqn @NocturnalTrance), just to let you know - I finished the first version of the mod outlined above. It changes all the vanilla subclass progression as well as adding priests of Ondra, Galawain, Hylea and Abydon. You can find it on the Nexus here https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/476?tab=description Thanks for the early brainstorming! This ended up being a lot of work! It was fun though. Its my first mod so please go easy on me I'm sure there will be some inconsistencies in there. I tried to test it a decent amount to tease out any major bugs. I'll do my best to fix things people find. I was wondering if someone could help me with one practical thing. I'd like to also upload it to the steam workshop, but I find none of my custom icons get found. They all appear in game with the standard red cross. This isn't an issue if I copy the data to the override folder and install that way - its specific to steam when you subscribe to the mod. I've followed BMac's tutorial - so all my ability icons are in an atlas and I refer to them directly by the name in the atlas metadata and don't have to provide a filepath. Has anyone come across this issue?