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So, so, me. The section re: wearing masks ... also, so me.

So far, I've seen the opposite reaction from the conservatives I know that were genuinely disgusted by Trump. One person I know has been a conservative all her life, but had started to waver when Trump started getting popular in the run-up to the 2016 election, and refused to vote for him when he won the nomination (though she also refused to vote for Hillary). After four years of Trump, she gladly voted for Biden, and I guess watched him make his victory speech and then the inauguration as well. She said listening to him make his pathetically generic and boring speeches about unity and needing to come together as a nation and blah blah blah...just about put her to sleep - which is exactly what she wants after the last four years of madness, . Again, this is someone who's been conservative all her life, is Christian, pro-gun, strongly anti-abortion, Reagan was her childhood hero (born in the 70s...). She's not had a single negative word to say about the current administration so far...I'm sure after the last four years of the nation being collectively traumatized, any minor complaints we might have would be minor indeed, and we all know it and are going to keenly keep it in mind when evaluating this administration going forward. In that sense, Biden should have a much easier time having a generally positive image compared to his predecessors - for those of us that aren't obstinately clinging to bat**** insanity, of course. Roughly half of the Republican House of Representatives gives the loud-and-proud QAnon rep, Greene, a standing ovation in the House. Can only assume the other half is thinking "welp this party is screwed...but if you can't beat them, you might as well join them".

A sequel to the LEGENDARY Duke Nukem Forever?

I found that a Magran/Bellower Celebrant is a lot of fun. You get the great priest firepower as well as two really powerful chanter nukes that complement them, Her Revenge (lightning) and O'Eld Nary (cold and crush) which are really powerful. Her Revenge in particular can annihilate mobs, especially with the bellower's PL boost. It's also great since you get it so early, unlike most of the priest nukes. Plus, if you get Sasha's Singing Scimitar and the Least Unstable coil, you can empower Her Revenge every encounter, get multiple tier-3 inspirations, and extend them with salvation of time.

I'm finally home and have everything in hand. I'm too tired to do the build proper tonight, so for now my goal is to take the cooler off the GPU and replace it with the waterblock. After a good night's sleep, I'll start the process of putting the desktop together.

Numnumnum...

Äh... was that an answer to my question "Why would you buy the Grimoire of Vaporous Wizardry"? If yes: let my visualize what the emphasis was meant to be: "Why would you ***BUY*** the Grimoire of Vaporous Wizardry?"

Check out the Earthrise at the 9:20 mark. It needs a Pink Floyd soundtrack.

I wonder that more and more these days. More often than not when watching Star Trek episodes, I mean there must be someone at the creative meetings that realizes that it is utter and complete baloney what they're writing. Is there really no one around that says "Hey, guys, really, this is wrong, can we not do that?" in any of the meetings. Or like the actors. I don't know. There is more than one instance of Star Trek Discovery where they don't bat an eye saying their lines even when they're full of grammatical mistakes. I mean, what? How does that get through proofreading. The issues with SuperS are arguably more problematic. It's not out of character for Usagi to fly into a jealous rage over Rei and Mamoru spending time together. In season 1. Maybe early R. But after S? No way. I mean Mr. Serious Mode Episode knew that and acted accordingly, it's just so weird to see someone who is on the team ever since season 1 do something like that (it also doesn't help that it is probably the funniest episode in the season as a whole, it's really laugh out loud stuff, just out of place).

Not really, it doesn't have spell combat or spell strike which go a lot further in making the Magus than the weapon enhancement. I think there are a few hexes she can pick up that helps though, but levels 1 and 2 are fairly rough. It's pretty messy right now so blow your money on booze and your time on watching stuff.

https://news.yahoo.com/off-road-off-grid-modern-100032869.html more and more as I confront the realities of retirement this is an option I am considering. Buying a camper for my pickup truck bed, selling off all my assets, and hitting the road with Sunny for as far as the road goes.

Though it can be trickier on the phone.

Exactly what Hurlshot's alt WOULD write.

Right Wrong Right Wrong ;)

Graphics cards keep getting bigger, meanwhile storage... Kitchen shears for scale. After slowly and carefully removing the cooler: WARNING: GRAPHIC FULL FRONTAL PCB NUDITY Applying the thermal compound to the GPU was scary since I'm using Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut liquid metal, which obviously conducts electricity.

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Damn, I missed the last part that it applied to all spells. Sorry Boerer ! I too was impressed about the melee damage of the staff, especially considering I play with Woedica's challenge, so I do have to preserve spells.

It was a really good idea having the cousins around to act as both impetus and goal for character growth, both in real and superhero life. Care to guess who wrote that episode?

I think it's like he said: because the PL bonus applies to decay spells too, whereas Spine of Thicket Green only applies to plant/beast spells. I actually didn't know the Lance worked that way. The +pl to decay would be handy for touch of rot and maggots. I do agree with you that the crush damage is nice on the staff. I've actually been surprised how hard I can smack enemies with that thing, though meleeing is rare for me to need to do with all the aoe spells I can dish out.

is this true? i think the aoe is automatic. some effects require a hit (carnage), or crit (some weapons), but i've never seen an aoe that actually relies on actual damage to trigger.

Yeah. I won't be happy to see it. Just watched episode 8, the Ami episode. It was a really good one, and spent almost all of the episode on good character stuff...and then the monster that appeared at the last second was hilarious and a little more characterized than normal (and also dealt with very quickly to give the episode a nice ending). (e): I actually tried to watch Redline some time back. I, uh, don't think male-focused (i.e. power fantasy) anime racing stuff is for me, suffice to say, .

Redline has good tracks. Well for maximum gino beats

It's piercing base attack, that triggers crush aoe

GOP still riding with the QAnon nutter, good stuff.

Novichok definitely isn't uniquely Russian, it was just made there first, much as VX isn't uniquely American or BX uniquely British. It's more difficult to make than most nerve agents (most of which are trivial to make if you can get the precursors, literally mix in a bucket simple in some cases, but more difficult to stabilise) but any decent state agency from a mid range or above country could make it, though the USSR is the only one known to have made it. That's a point Boris Johnson (then Foreign Secretary) got publicly corrected on by Porton Down when he claimed Novichok was intrinsically Russian. The two questions are why they'd bother killing Navalny instead of, say, reinstating his suspended sentence on some pretext as they just did, and if they used Novichok why they'd let him go to Germany instead of keeping him in Russia. The latter in particular would require the monumental stupids to have afflicted someone, and if there's one thing Putin isn't it's monumentally stupid. There's nothing literally impossible about it though, which is better than some CW scenarios from the past few years.

Yes, according to me, who has checked some single episodes and saw familiar names in the credits. Turns out I wasn't entirely correct. SuperS actually featured three new writers, while between Sailor Moon, R and S the only change was adding one (!) writer, not replacing any. Writing credits: Sailor Moon Sukehiro Tomita Shigeru Yanagikawa Katsuyuki Sumisawa Megumi Sugihara Sailor Moon R Sukehiro Tomita Shigeru Yanagawa Katsuyuki Sumisawa Megumi Sugihara Sailor Moon S Sukehiro Tomita Shigeru Yanagawa Katsuyuki Sumisawa Megumi Sugihara Yoji Enokido Sailor Moon SuperS Megumi Sugihara Yoji Enokido Ryota Yamaguchi Genki Yoshimura Mutsuri Nakano Sailor Moon Sailor Stars Ryōta Yamaguchi Genki Yoshimura Kazuhiko Kanbe Atsushi Maekawa The misconception of mine that Sailor Moon SuperS had largely the same writing team came from simply recognizing Megumi Sugihara and Yoji Enokido on the writing credits of the episodes I checked. Yoji Enokido is a new writer from S that stayed on. As far as I know he was also a writer on NGE, and most of his contribution to Sailor Moon S were pure manga storyline adaptations (but let's call them Serious Mode Episodes, I like that term ). So, remember when I complained about Usagi being mature and secure about her relationship with Mamoru but two episodes later went on an all out jealous rage? Guess those were the new writers, eh? Nope. That was Yoji Enokido and Megumi Sugihara. The other thing that colored my perception there was the fact that the two of them wrote over half of the episodes of SuperS. So whatever went wrong in SuperS wasn't just the new guys. Were they at least at fault for the weird focus of the filler episodes' attacked character of the week? Well... no. They're spread across all writers, but most of the episodes that don't have such a weird hyperfocus were written by Ryōta Yamaguchi. He apparently got the enviable task of setting up most of the girl's dream mirror violations (except for Rei, who gets that in the episode where Usagi acts like season 1 Usagi for the fun of it, written by Megumi Sugihara). But yeah, there might have been more writing problems in this season than I thought. It's an easy mistake to make when you see a familiar name every other episode, right? 😮 The Makoto gut punch psycho-horror episode was therefore also written by Ryōta Yamaguchi who... has written a LOT of Sailor Stars episodes. Like half of them.

It might not be the CIA, but something really *is* weird about both the poisoning in England and the one of Navalny. Why use something that is as Russian as vodka and normally deadlier than cyanide, yet in both high profile cases it failed and left a lead to Russia that had more lights lighting up the path, than a runway approach (by using a uniquely Russian substance behind that dates from the cold war era)? Of course it could be somebody in Kremlin, heck, I do believe the most likely culprit is botched intelligence operations behind it, but you sort of have to ask yourself, any former Soviet states (or countries with access to cold war era depots) holding a grudge against Russia and stand to benefit from playing Russia against the west? 🤔

This isn't a video about cats, but rather a documentary about the three main stages of aging.

I used the Sasha's Singing Scimitar and for some time Lethandria's Devotion but also Griffin's Blade. Weyc's Wand is the goal obviously but that comes very late. I wasn't in the front line though because Psion's focus generation will stop when you get hit - and you don't want that. Exported Weyc's Wand would be cool I guess. But generally you don't need any special items to make Psion/Troubadour work. It's fun out of the box. Ancient is cool. I also use Lance of the Midwood Stag because the PL bonus is only 1 less but works for all spells, including Decay ones which otherwise don't know any PL bonuses. See Infestation of Maggots and so on.

Pretty much, but generally my breaks seem to be shorter. In general I'm trying to rotate my tv/movie watching to where I'm not focusing on one thing at a time after having some success doing that with books. Maybe it'll work, maybe it'll drive me to insanity. I'd like it to be more story focused right now tbh. Right now it reminds me of a bat**** monster of the week show, something like Buffy but actually good. Biggest flaw for me is the lack of interesting villains, right now none of them are particularly interesting or memorable. The only ones who stick out to me are the boxing monster (lovely punch! I am the champion) and Jadeite (mostly for the very negative reason of an age inappropriate relationship with Usagi's best normal friend), the others are usually forgettable and get overshadowed by one-off side characters. I think more story focus might help with that.

Well I blew about $400 today. I ordered 5 pounds of Blackthorne 209 synthetic black powder, 1k .50 AeroLite projectiles, two hundred .30 cal with . 50 sabots, 1k .72 cal Steel slugs as well as a couple of big boxes of paper patches and overshot wadding. The only thing I didn’t buy were primers but I’ve got plenty of those. We’re going to have some fun this weekend. I can see why the people who are into muzzleloaders are so passionate about it. It is a lot of fun. Plus I am convinced there is a proper shot and powder mixture that will make my rifle effective up to 800 m.

Eh... no, not immediately as soon as she returns. But a bit later probably, yes. I'm guessing I'll be done with SuperS by the time you're halfway through S. I'm considering to write a guide how to minimize the SuperS "fallout", i.e. a short episode list of episodes with important story moments. This isn't going to be long, because SuperS is mostly filler. Interestingly enough, Sailor Stars is the exact opposite. Almost nothing of that is filler. Out of the 34 episodes of Sailor Stars, only 9 are filler episodes and out of SuperS's 39 episodes, 25 are filler. Or in other words, whereas SuperS meanders way too much, focuses too much on random stuff, I'm not sure Sailor Star's hyper focus on what you call "serious mode" episodes will be any more enticing for you, although I can't really remember how the balance between silly and serious was in Sailor Stars. But I'll see soon. I hope. I didn't get around to watching as much as I would have liked recently. Too much work going on, that was a good deal easier over Christmas. My biggest problem with SuperS is, meandering aside, that the girls seem to have ignored their character growth from S in favor of a more regular comedic focus i.e. it feels as if the show tries to be funny in a more classical, jokey way than the more organic "the characters are silly so it's funny" way of R and S. The jokes don't happen because they make sense to be there, they happen because someone wanted a funny scene here. Not sure if that makes any sense? Eh, we'll see. Sailor Moon wouldn't be the first show to be ruined by later seasons. *cough* X-Files *cough* Although I'm semi-certain that Sailor Stars will be good for me.

I want this crossover movie.

something for our US friends:

https://theins.ru/news/239080 reporter arrested by police and having a bag placed over her head were threatened with electroshock if she did not surrender her phone password.

Nice build. Just finished my first playthrough of the game as a non-specialised Wizard and was thinking of going back in for a Solo run. With the Griffin's Blade, shield and Miscreant's Leathers what enchantments did you put onto them? Also, did you enable the Solo option when starting the new character or did you just recruit the companions and leave them on the ship?

lol yeah if dorudugan had like half the health it would be less of an ordeal. dorudugan pretty much demands cheese for anyone whose time has any worth 😕

Yeah maybe I wasn't clear enough. I'm talking legit without the fight lasting for half an hour+ with Grog and hit n run. It aint. fun anyways, this way or in 2 minutes using Scordeo's Edge

It’s a government operation. Incompetence is just expected

Reads things on the internet? Must be a villain.

dont sell yourself short, this is good stuff here. i think "casual potd solo practioner" is a bit of an oxymoron