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Newsmax picks on Biden’s dog Say what you will about Biden. He is a low watt bulb. But insulting a man’s dog is fighting words!

Actually, loosing the memories wouldn't bother me too much, they'd make things a whole lot easier actually. It honestly would probably suck balls to be a kid today, but it certainly wasn't bright and rosy in the 90's either. No, I'm thinking a pretty extreme makeover that would've been alot easier before puberty. I'm probably, health permitting, going to change my gender. Something that wasn't allowed or even considered possible when I grew up was for someone under the age of 18 to start the process, and it was extremely rare for puberty to be halted, something that is allowed and more often than not permitted today. Also, had I been born one year later, the doctors would've checked for my illness(The one that causes my high BP) when I was born and they would've started me on the medication that I take now, that has as an effect that it blocks testosterone, which is a... perk, but also I wouldn't have had a bunch of problems related to high BP that plagued me. Things such as headaches that caused me to not focus properly in school.

"I need your cap, your cape, and your popemobile..."

My new and much improved base: Shortly after I had just gotten started building it, when I only had leveled the ground, laid out the floor plan, and started building the bottom layer of walls, a troll came by, murdered me, and smashed up my work to boot. As you can imagine, I was none too pleased, but that's what I get for building in a more dangerous area. After retrieving my corpse and my gear, I slew the troll (it took a good 5 minutes of kiting and roughly 25 fire arrows). In addition to the wooden palisade I have begun digging a moat. There is a massive copper deposit very close to my base (the benefit of building in a more dangerous area). I'm digging the moat around the deposit as well, so that I can mine in peace.

Oh, so that's a new set of names. This is going to be super confusing in the future. So for the record: Tsukino Usagi - Sailor Moon Mizuno Ami - Sailor Mercury Hino Rei - Sailor Mars Luna - Usagi's cat Naru - Usagi's friend from school Umino - Nerd kid with the hypnotic glasses Sakurada Haruna - Usagi's teacher Chiba Mamoru - Tuxedo Kamen / Tuxedo Mask Plus various others, but we'll cross that bridge when and if you come to it. I had to snicker a lot watching this because I kept thinking how much @Bartimaeus would despise that anime. it liberally ticks off checkboxes from his "why I don't like anime" list from earlier in the thread. Oh, and @Bartimaeus turns out I was wrong, our Netflix has only the fourth season of Steven Universe available. My brain can't handle starting a show right in the middle, so I'll have to look into, uhm, how to watch the first season. Shucks.

Assuming all episodes are the same length as the first, about an hour and a half. And every episode looks to be an independent one shot.

I watched the first episode and a bit of the second of Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan and relevant to this thread is that the main character collects Sailor Moon figurines. lmao As to the show itself, like the main JoJo anime it is almost pure translation of the manga with very little adaptation. I don't think this is a bad thing in this case as the manga is strong, but the downside is you see very little fluff/filler that expands on the characters like we get in Sailor Moon. Given that the premise of this anime is one-shot stories with a single main character in common though, getting attached to characters is probably not intended the same way it is for series with a regular main and supporting cast. I really like the way the animation rolls and the coloring feels very bright without being gaudy. Episode 1 does a good enough job of setting up the story and executing it, the closest thing I can compare it to is an episode of The Twilight Zone but if everyone did acid and had outrageous fashion styles they could just roll with in public. All in all I'd recommend it if you like short horror stories that are very weird, while it does have a lot of references to JoJo (particularly Diamond is Unbreakable) you can enjoy it without knowing anything. In terms of artstyle it looks different enough from parts 1 - 3 of JoJo so if muscle dudes is a big turn off this may work better for you.

You're drinking stuff that isn't vodka or beer.

Oh, and lest I forget to post this for the umpteenth time. I've read a bit throuh the manga by now, and Sailor Moon might just be one of rare instances of an adaptation elevating* the source material. If you ever stop and wonder why the villains in the anime are a little on the underdeveloped side, wonder no more. They all get like 20 pages (30 if they're lucky) and then die in the manga. To put that into perspective, chapters tend to have 45 or so pages (and that includes the title and an opening drawing), and an entire arc has between 11 and 13 chapters or so. So yeah, having villains with even less personality? Sure possible. Count your blessings, I'd say. *The other major one that comes to mind is Alan Rickman's Severus Snape in the Harry Potter movies. Rowling even wrote the character in the later books with Alan Rickman's portrayal in mind because she thought that he did a better job at being Snape than her actual Snape did. So far the anime characters are all doing a better job at being actual characters than their manga counterparts. Not going to lie, I'm not looking forward to trying Sailor Moon Crystal. But try I will. From the clips I've checked out the problems there are more than just the art style and CGI used. The framing of the scenes is weird, there's a lack of attention to detail compared to the first anime, and all that probably on a better budget. Huh? How did that happen? edit: Naoko Takeuchi and J. K. Rowling share something else too. They've both managed to create endearing characters in a magical setting, but their storytelling and writing is a bit, let's say, lacking.

Same here! I even refuse to write mods for Deadfire although I could. 😄 Instead I drew icons for a Deadfire mod that somebody else put together - as a treat. Can't do the same stuff all day, nope.

I lost any interest in that the moment I started to earn my living as software developer. It's like some switch flipped in my mind. I can sit for hours upon hours and then some more tinkering at work, reading up on things, having interesting conversations with other developers, that's fine, but once I'm out of work mode, uhm... yeah. Count me out. Not doing any of that in my spare time. Don't get me wrong here, I love my job and wouldn't want to trade it for anything else, but the times where I sat at home happily hacking away for fun are gone. Not sure if they'll ever come back. Maybe if I ever switch jobs or after retiring. Heh.

Watched Dara of Jasenovac. It's a gut wrenching movie, otherwise it's very well made. For those who have the stomach for movies like The Pianist or Schindler's List I highly recommend it.

I'd mostly agreed. Though, in some cases adding a KW's it's a matter of personal preferences (and i'm fine with that). I wanted to bring attention to be careful with KW's, because in some cases it leads to undesired negative (countering and immunities issues) and positive (OP +PL bonus stacks) effects. A lot of abilities have 2 or more attacks and/or status effects with different damage types (or damage + debuffs), so keywording ability (especially with elemental keywords) may cause issues with immunities or undesired effect countering. So i try to look closely on each ability to see most possible problems. Anyway, if my theory is right, i'll tweak all +PL effects, so individual attacks will gain +PL bonuses from all sources, and we can be more free and specific in adding keywords – if adding a KW to ability can cause troubles, we can add to attack and it will work. I hope, my words sounds clear (it's been a while when i use english last time).

And... that’s a bad thing?

Luckily I don't know anyone from this group. If I did, I would let them know:

After checking again, it's not so simple. The reason I believed that is because I tested Instrument of Boundless Rage with a +fire PL item such as Magran's Axe or Chromoprimatic. The Fireball has the Fire KW, but not the ability itself (in order to prevent the initial attack to be resisted by fire immune). I can confirm (just tested again) that the Fire bonus PL doesn't apply to the fireball. But for some other abilities, it works. 2.0 CP version of Spirit Tornado has added Frost KW on the Frost attack, but not the ability. And it works perfectly fine : only the Frost attack benefit from +frost PL item. So it depends. I think it may depend whether the attack is the "main attack of the ability" in the Ability Gamedata file (in this case it works) or a subsequent one triggered elsewhere (in this case it does not work).

There’s a bright yellow ball of light hanging in the sky over my house today. I’m not sure what it is I think I remember seeing something like it in the distant past. Still pretty freaking cold out there though. it took an hour and a half to clean the solar panels and get everything powered back up that’s more than enough cold weather for me for the day I’m going back in to play fallout four

Lol. You are right I miscounted the books and you are right that book 10 was slower than usual. (for me mostly because I was not a fan of Elayne's and Egwene's plotline, but Perrin's was also not very inspiring) Mat's POV was the best part of that book.

No, book 10 ended with them setting up the meeting, but it only happened in book 11. So And I think these other things happened in book 11 too, right? It was the one Robert Jordan said would "have enough action to satisfy anyone" or something like that.

edit: The manga explains Usagi's crying as ultrasonic sound waves when it shatters glass and defeats enemies.

I had my kid at 30 and I honestly couldnt imagine having one at 41! I was exhausted just reading that! Today in Chitown is a beautiful sunny day with clear blue skies. Later in the afternoon were having dinner with my wifes mother, who freshly inoculated, is froggy for company.

Google 'Perseverance rover' today for a fun Mars landing surprise.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/immigration-biden-administration-admits-first-group-of-migrants-forced-to-stay-in-mexico-under-trump-era-policy/ar-BB1dQdR1 I have always been concerned with the general Democratic approach to illegal immigration and their immigration policies in general I can understand this current decision in the link but I hope we dont see people rewarded with citizenship or work visas that are just allocated based on the fact " did you arrive on the border with or without papers " This tends to set a very bad precedent for other countries grappling with the serious problem of illegal immigration

Yeah, I kind of got the feeling that the anime elevated the series in some ways. I'd be more interested in reading Codename: Sailor V since there shouldn't be any overlap, so less to compare. Plus...well, you know, it's Minako, although I would *presume* she's not quite as crazy as the protagonist in her own original story compared to being one of four deuteragonists. Sailor Moon Crystal just sounds totally not for me from everything I've heard (although the animation style looks more acceptable by the time you get to...oh, just the post-season 3 movie). I'll wait to hear what you say, but I'm not expecting too much.

I've considered going back to school a couple of times, but I really like what I do. I would've liked to try again to become a high voltage electrician, but going back to school and first upping my grades to be eligible for the course for a couple of years and then take the course for high voltage, isn't really that tentalizing to be honest. I'm kind of a late bloomer I'd fit right into the mid 20's on the adulting scale 😄

Man, screw Cartoon Network, .

Im stoked to see if the Ingenuity helicopter will fly.

yeah we really need to up our space ISPs before we send people on Mars. Imagine long lonely nights without pornhub...

Ami is her Japanese & new English dub name, so that's perfectly fine to use if that's what it is (but if they used Serena for your dub, then it's probably Amy too - no-one will be confused if you say that). (e: ninja-ed literally as I hit post)

Last night I dreamt about this (maybe because this thread was the last thing I read before going to bed) and in my dream Obsidian hired "the whole gang" as consultants for their next RPG. 😄 You know for the next Pillars game (I feel it will come some day) we should really set up our own website/wiki.

wow the whole gang is back together again

Study shows Dolphins have similar personality traits to humans. I never knew that half of all dolphins were ****!

Several people asked themselves a similar question about Tuotilio's Palm DPS and came to the conclusion it was half way between DW Unarmed and Unarmed + (small) shield. That's because the main hand get a huge DPS bonus through DW speed increase. I think this is a reasonable design and should be kept as a reference for all bashing shields. That is what I call the "Tuotilio's DPS ratio" compared to DW Unarmed. Unarmed has approximatively the same damages as a normal speed 1-hander (0,5 higher actually) IMHO the DPS of "Normal 1-hander + Bashing shield" shall be equal to "Tuotilio's DPS ratio" x DW Normal 1-hander DPS. This target is reached by applying the same damages to bashing shield compared as Tuotilio's (0,5 lower actually, I've been a bit conservative because they have dual damage types). The reason why it feels a bit low is because Normal 1-hander DPS is significantly lower than Unarmed DPS (4s recovery vs 3s). Note that Unarmed has an significant opportunity cost : you need to be SC Monk and/or get a lots of PL Bonus to reach the same scaling as an enchanted item. This constraint is comparable for Tuotilio's compared to other bashing shields. There are other subtle differences involved : + Tuotilio's can benefit from a Modal proficiency (relevant, but not that much except for fighters) - Other Bashing Shields get Dual damage types (which is significant) Maybe you'll find that my value is still a bit too low. But I really thing that bashing shield should not have a DPS comparable to normal 1-hander.

That's literally what I had been envisioning. Indeed, I'd love to, at some point, just turn around and absolutely dunk on my viewers and make them hear what I really think about them live on-air, and just go down the list of disgusting hypocrisies and lies that "we" had been espousing up until then. Predictably, a big chunk of them would no doubt just say I was brainwashed or blackmailed by the "deep state" or some garbage and go on pretending that pre-reveal and post-reveal me are two totally separate people. Some psychos would no doubt concoct some plans to kill me...and yeah, thinking about that, I'd more likely be an absolute coward and just say I was retiring for """health reasons""" at some point and then very quietly try to make amends. Ugh. There are certain things I can live with being on my conscience, but realistically knowing that my words undoubtedly fueled a not insignificant amount of hatred and harm towards some very vulnerable people who are just trying to make it in life same as the rest of us, maybe even indirectly leading to some early deaths...not something I'd want to live with. (e): Also, I am a huge believer in deplatforming sources of hatred and division. When you give a voice to people's insecurities, failures, fears, prejudices, etc., a much-too-large section of the people to whom your words apply to are emboldened and become even more radicalized on those ideas, as a "strong" voice has given them "legitimacy" and publicly said out-loud the things that most people used to only think or mention privately. It is a real thing that I have seen happen to way too many people over the last decade (and I am certain it is something that has happened throughout all of history), and I want absolutely no part of it. (e): On the other hand, if I was some scumbag millionaire, I could afford to have a drug habit (you guys ever notice how poor people usually have drug "addictions" while rich people instead have drug "habits"?) to "help" with both my chronic pain and depression. Presumably, my public stance would also be against both drugs and mental illness as a whole, so bonus points for being a hypocrite. Then I could just eventually OD and will everything to charitable causes. Now that's a plan! But back to the topic at hand, I fundamentally believe that you are personally responsible for the things you broadcast out to the world, particularly if you do it under your own name/platform. So I understand why people are glad he's gone. Some of us have a little more tact, sense, and/or empathy than others, though - I don't wish he was dead insomuch as I wish he had been a better person that would've made it easier to wish he was still alive...but that is the more rational part of my brain talking, and it's the same kind of wish I would extend to other historical monsters.

I'd do it for a year or so with the explicit intent to scam some dip****s out of their money, and then pay restitutions and live off some money for the rest of my life.

I don't think I could do it either TBH

Not everyone is built the same, my man. I've already had enough problems with chronic depression (started since I was literally about 12 or 13!) and life in general before you add in becoming someone I utterly abhor. Sure, money is great, but having literally an endless list of mistakes and awful things you've said and done for just money's sake is not something I particularly to commit to in the long run. In direct service of that, I've always been the type that is more content with doing as little as possible to get by for mental health's sake and having more free time to myself. Being a despicable ***hole is a full-time job that would occupy way too much of my brainspace and emotions, so I can't really see being able do it for a long time.

Maybe, maybe not* - but also, yeah, I wouldn't be too upset if the people that I advocated hatred for and personally professed hatred towards also hated me back and were none too quiet when I died. In fact, after I died, I would not care about anything at all, because I'd be dead. *I'd personally think I'd hate myself too much to keep doing what he did for decades, so while I may have initially tried to do it, I would've eventually had to stop after doing enough to secure my financial future. He did not do that - by all appearances, he seemed to love his role.

Honestly I'd love to see all party members be horny bisexuals but all of them are completely uninterested in the player.

I had some leakage issues on first fill. I had to address them (sealant came into play), extensively test to make sure nothing was leaking any more and I gave it a couple days to make sure everything was dry, even though I was 98% sure no liquid got on anything important. Finally plugged it in and got it up and running.