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I remember you talking about her on the BIS boards. Now I feel old by proxy.

Somebody need to kill that urban legend some day... the mask is not to protect you from other people, it's to protect other people from you (in the case you unknowingly picks up the virus). It only really works if everybody wears a mask

Well, according to this, I can eat as much meat as I can. I don't have kids, I rarely fly and I don't have a car.

I got the Pfizer shot last week and have another appointment in a couple weeks. I go back to work at the end of the month and see students April 5th. Life is starting to get busy again.

I’ll get mine close to the end. Once everybody else has. I am minimal risk. I was avoiding contact with the other humans before it was even cool to do so!

It has already begun.

Actually, I think most of the forum regulars fall into the latter half of this nowadays...

I hate that question in interviews. I feel attacked.

September 18-19 is European Heritage Days. It looks us privileged white males get a whole three days. Shall we celebrate?

Today, I try to find a way to replace myself with a shell script

How many pages on Miranda's ass ?

It really does. I still remember carrying her out of the hospital as a baby.

I know, but thats the only tool currently in my toolbox. And what if someone coughs in my open mouth while Im yawning? My child is no longer a teen and recently bought and moved into their own place, which I know will utterly destroy the "life is too hard" narrative of some of our posters (luckily my family has strong bootstraps). But she is very conscientious...about wearing a mask. Besides, were not even old enough / high risk to get on the list.

I have not but I did go to one near Camp Lejeune. Once. Since Jacksonville, NC is more isolated the dancers are mostly military wives and ex-wives or in the process of becoming one of the two. I've only been to strip clubs three times in my life and none were my idea. It's just not my scene.

Confederate Constitution is 160 years old most of you guys know this because I have frequently opined on the subject but the US Civil War has always captured my interest. Particularly the misunderstandings that are so commonly held about it. But for the folks out there who still argue that “it wasn’t about slavery” should probably read the CSAs founding document and get back to the rest of us on that one. EDIT: OK let me correct that. The WAR strictly speaking was not about slavery it was about secession. Secession was definitely about slavery.

It works with Instruments of Pain so I don't understand where the issue is. You can use all melee abilities at 6m range then, including Forbidden Fist - and that allows you to use Enduring Dance more efficiently because you won't get hit much. That was my whole point - it doesn't get invalidated because Forbidden Fist is a melee attack. You do not have to sacrifice those - why would you? Activate Enduring Dance, then Instruments of Pain from stealth and start Forbidden FIst punches. Not long and you can summon Dichotomous Soul. Or cast Dichotomous Soul first and Intruments of Pain after that. Besides that it depends if OP wants to use Dicotomous Soul in the first place. That's right, but the 50%/pervents healing bonus is very good still and not that hard to apply because grazes work well, too. Helm of the White Void gives +10 ACC to Forbidden Fist by the way but not to Enervating Blows. Precision Striker (+5 ACC with unarmed attacks) works woith Forbidden Fist, too, but I didn't check if the fortitude roll is also affected. I didn't mean against bosses but more in general. But against bosses it can also be nice - if those bosses have ads. You can domiante them for the whole encounter basically which is very useful. As Forbidden Fist/Beguiler I very often turned multiple enemies into long time puppets. Charming also works. You then have all the time in the world and can enjoy Enduring Dance etc. This is obviously not a valid stragety vs. Megabosses but still very effective in most other fights (SSS for example) and fun to play.

Yup, it was done by Balance Polishing Mod.

I find Enduring Dance worth it even if I only activate it in stealth and wait until I got a few ticks of +3 ACC and some wounds while teammates buff the party up and try to debuff the boss. Then I can come in with rel. high ACC and wound count and use the Forbidden Fist - even more than once of the Enfeeblement doesn't graze on the first try. Not only does this make my other stuff like Psychov. Shield and Disintegrate etc. more powerful but also it prolongs the stuff all my teammates are putting on that enemy. And then it's just cool imo that you can always use a crush attack - even if you are wearing a Rapier + Tuotilo's Palm or whatever setup. Rännig's Wrath would be my first unique choice and then later the SSS soulbound rapier which is just nuts with Cipher.

Drunk Usagi. So,

Team Pfizer in the house. Don't @ me if you're one of those Johnson & Johnson boys. I was literally offered three appointments for today, one for each. Initially offered Moderna through work, but that whole thing got cancelled. So I picked up one from the county for the same day. Then work got back to me for the J&J. I'm pretty happy with what I hear about Pfizer, though.

Who else thinks that we should be able to change the difficulty of a save file? I mean we did pay for the game...

Limited intel available is showing that North Korea is finally opening up their economy a bit with aid from China. Good on them, with a mixed economy they'll be able to compete with South Korea.

At bare minimum Ethiopia and Kenya have intervened in Somalia.

I might be mistaken. The big difference is that the shifter's boar form's DoT lasts the same duration as the spirit shift form, (which can be gigantic tens of seconds). Either the CP or some other balance patch fixes it to bring it into line with the other forms, because otherwise the boar is a monster DPS machine in vanilla against non-pierce immune folks.

yeah, why would anyone want to work in any company? any answer besides "because i need money to live" is a lie, they know its a lie and they expect you to lie... and if you don't lie you are disqualified

That's a great point, Boeroer. In the past I haven't taken Enervating Blows for a FF, but I see now that it could make it easier to land the FF attack against high FORT foes.

She did a relevant Masters, but undergrad was media studies or similar, and Tropes vs Women was established in partnership with an emag, not a university or similar. She's definitely a media personality rather than an academic. I'd agree completely with Hurlshot, except for her not cashing in on the harassment. That she 100% did, how to maximise publicity and run a media campaign is one of the things she would have learnt in her communications courses.

You could be the one that beat a Steelclad with bare fists without Monastic Unarmed Training or Transcendant Suffering. There has to be an achievement for that . I agree on Toxic Strike but it has a special spot in my Deadfire heart because with high INT those last DoTs are insane, and with the Weakened affliction there is hardly a chance that a target will outheal its effect. Toxic Strike + Disintegration is fun to take out a sturdy opponent surrounded by healers and watch them try to desperately keep it alive - and fail. Helpful in very few situations where it's inconvenient to take out the healers first. I haven't used Ring the Bell a lot because I've mostly played 2H Rogues (ranged or melee). I will try it out further!

I like Ring the Bell the most actually. It's a tad pricy but it always works, the ticks are high and it lasts pretty long. Toxic Strike can be brutal but immunity to poison isn't that uncommon unfortunately. If you start from stealth against a Steelclad and apply Gouging Strike + Lover's Embrace, Deep Wounds, Ring the Bell and then Arterial Strike in a quick flurry and then zip away you can watch it melt while it tries to catch up - even if your PEN is total crap. It's fun imo.

That's why I added Instruments of Pain and "or at least one that doesn't get hit a lot" The good thing is that Enfeebled itself profits from its own +50% duration buff - so a graze isn't actually that bad and can still make some difference. The base duration is 12 secs but because it buffs its own duration it's always more than that. It also lowers Fortitude so you actually can try to reapply it more easily if you wish. If the boss ist resistant to CON afflictions then at least you will apply the weakened status - which isn't as good as enfeebled obviously but still better than applying no CON-affliction at all with your damaging ability. Keep in mind that besides a healing malus -5 CON also reduces the health of the enemy - even significantly if it's a boss. It's even helpful if the affliction ends prematurely: Here's one good thing about Envervating Blows though: if you have no trouble landing crits vs. deflection it will apply weakened automatically (no seperate roll vs. Fortitude). So maybe it's even worth taking if you are a Forbidden Fist. You dodged the part about Enfeebled + Mind Control which I think is a rel. strong suit of Forbidden Fist/Cipher imo.

It's a nice build to just shred high DR stuff. Good riddance Steelclads and friends. Underpenetration and low weapon dmg don't matter that much. I won't use all of those attacks on every enemy though. Some are immune to poison so no Toxic Strike, some enemies don't move so no Arterial Strike, Gouging Strike is pretty low DoT so it often only gets used if the rest isn't enough (or when I dispatch overleved enemies with a Gouging Strike + Lover's Embrace from stealth) and so on. I didn't use Battle Axes (total overkill) but daggers for the speed. Especially Pukestabber. Full Attacks with dual daggers and Pukestabber have really short recovery so you can breeze from enemy to enemy and deliver some nice DoTs and also potentially interrupt in a rel. quick time. Rogue/Ranger isn't bad for this. High ACC and you can use Evasive Roll instead of Escape to zip around but don't waste Guile. Shadowdancer is also very nice because of the high INT.

Thing is Sarkeesian shouldn't have even been on the radar of what GamersGate claimed to be about (she wasn't a game journalist, but an academic researcher). The fact that they kept bringing her up demonstrated that what they claimed to be about had nothing to do with what they actually felt aggrieved over. And honestly most of the attention Sarkeesian gets is from the people who don't like her magnifying what she's said.

Two druid multiclasses that I've tried and have thoroughly enjoyed: - a skald/animist theurge, i enjoyed it so much i even wrote a character build up on it (i have trouble searching the forums, so here's an alternate writeup) - a [non-shifter druid]/psion oracle. probably any caster with psion would be fun, but from a flavor perspective it was fun to have a great healer that could also stunlock enemies with telekinetic burst/mental binding/silent scream when not buffing/healing. once focus gen got up past 2/sec, the oracle was a pretty big carry for the entire party. I also like shifter, but in vanilla I worry that it might be too good in some setups. i think the community patch fixes its favorable boar DoT duration.

I wonder what the name of this build is... "Captain Overkill"? Maybe with dual-wielding Axes to apply stacking Bleeding Cuts and of course Deep Wounds on top? Besides bosses, what on Eora is still alive after those 4 full attacks that requires such a festival of DoTs? Is it a build to use when playing with a FuryShaper with the Blood Ward and stay alive through boss fights?

Yes, against normal foes Gambit is great. Vanishing Strikes calls for a different playstyle, but it's also very cool. It's also true that you will only use passives and no other offensive ability then. But I find that's a problem with all classes that have a finite resource pool: Since the offensive abilites compete for the scarce ability AND resource points a player is somewhat encouraged to focus on one main attack ability. Even with MC Rogues I often only use Crippling Strike/Arterial Strike. Only if I do a DoT build I will use Arterial + Gouging Strike, Toxic Strike and Ring the Bell (because the different DoTs stack). But that's a very special case.

Final thoughts on Puella Magi Madoka Magica the anime (haven't seen any of the films yet). Quick note: I think it is worth watching if you enjoyed at least one other magical girl anime. Kawaii! From left to right, Sayaka, Homura, Madoka (with Kyubey), Mami, Kyoko Well, doesn't the cast look cute? Things to keep in mind. I'll mark spoilers. The show itself consists of only 12 episodes, many of which have interesting moments and some that have plot twists. Look up the spoilers at your own peril if you maybe want to watch it. Should be available on Netflix in the US from what I've read. To quote myself, from earlier: [Madoka Magica] follows the tale of Madoka and Sayaka, two best friends from school. Having a successful carreer mother but no special talents of her own, Madoka is plagued by feelings of inadequacy, while Sayaka is secretly in love with a hopeful young musician who suffered a tragic accident that will, so the doctors say, render him forever unable to perform. Their luck seems to change when a disturbingly cute little creature offers them the deal of a lifetime: He will grant them a wish, in exchange for signing a pact, becoming mahō shōjo (literally magical girls) who fight witches secretly threatening the world. Animation Is a mixture of 2D and 3D CGI, sometimes used to extremely disturbing ends. As cute as the characters are, outside of the fighting sequences, the world, the artstyle and the atmosphere of this show are extremely somber and... heavy. There is a weight to this world that is absolutely at odds with how adorable everything else looks. This stark contrast is very much deliberate. Soundtrack Is actually fantastic. Granted, you might not enjoy the music based on its genre, but it fits and underscores the scenes it is in perfectly - which is the point of a soundtrack anyway, no? Unlike say in Sailor Moon Crystal, where the music isn't so bad as much as it is overused and extremely distracting when it happens. Plot Oh boy. Where to start. You have a really cute little animal that offers two girls a wish in exchange for their help in fighting evil. At roughly the same time, a transfer student named Homura shows up in Madoka's and Sayaka's class. Dark haired and a ominous, she immediately warns Madoka to stay the way she is, if she truly loves her friends and family. And that is really all we can talk about without going into spoiler territory. TL;DR, or: I don't want to be spoiled: It's worth a watch for the meta commentary on the genre alone. To close up, when watching, keep Homura's words in mind:

The main character is a boy who fell into a cursed hot spring while training with his dad. He is cursed by the cursed hot spring of a drowned girl so when he is touched by hot water he becomes a girl, and cold water a boy. Similarly his dad is cursed to be a panda (and who, to get out of trouble, pretends to be a literal panda) and a large number of the cast for a variety of reasons end up at the same training springs and cursed by various drowned entities. Also everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, can be boiled down to a vaguely martial arts-like competition. Ice skating, dance competitions, chess, whatever. Add in that the main character cannot turn down a challenge and will always end up in the wrong body for what he's trying to accomplish and comedy ensues.

I'm certainly not right leaning, but I also loath the whole Anita Sarkessiaan crap. Her videos were garbage, and this whole victim-game of her and others like her was infuriating. I'm not against feminism or similar things, like, at all, but what people like Anita Sarkessiaan did was just trying to weasel money out of other peoples pockets and riding the "look, I am so famous and they hate me for being different!"-wave. I'd say these people did more to hurt feminist movements with their crowbar- and victim-approach than gamers ever could.