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Who the hell is that guy? He was rude as hell to his guest. I have to say though training police as EMTs seems like a pretty good idea and well worth the investment.

Experiments on perseverance rover extracts O2 from Martian atmosphere As extremely cool as the helicopter is this is a much bigger deal I think

My vote goes to ranger Cipher.

we get reflexive pushback from a few posters. whatever. however, one o' the wackier instances we recall were the resistance we got when we observed how following any police shooting or police incident where a person were serious injured, there were no harm in waiting a bit for facts to emerge. frequent the facts change, but once the narrative is established, people find it difficult to change their conclusions. is always best to wait. even if the outrage feels complete justified, eyewitness accounts and even video may be misleading. and no, am not suggesting wait for months or years. were never the claim. however, it takes more than a few hours or days to investigate many tragedies and is hardly a suprise when new video emerges which severe undercuts assumptions arrived at 'cause o' earlier eyewitness testimony or shaky iphone video recordings. if people feel outrage, their outrage will be no less valid or impactful if they wait for a week. wait for investigations and still feel outrage? good for you; is your right as an american to be outraged whether that outrage is justified or not. nevertheless, am not seeing a downside to waiting for facts, waiting for proverbial smoke to clear. how many celebs and pundits insta jumped to jussie smollett defense? some o' those supporters reversed course when new facts emerged, but others refused to do so 'cause doing so undermined the more important and overreaching narrative. HA! Good Fun!

Meh, a game of Spy vs Spy with my brother would do. I wonder if it would make more sense now, when I am double digits old.

I really want to dig out old Comodore64 from my parents basement and see if it still works. 🥰

Making vegetable gumbo in the crockpot. Will be served later with coffee and cornbread. I love corn bread.

I'd be okay with DC being a state or merged with another state either one to get residents full represntation. But then, I'm okay with any of the US Territories getting statehood if they wanted it to join as states as well.

The living embodiment of backpfeifengesicht.

have been pulled over multiple times. first time evar were a speeding thing where we were going 52 in a 45mph zone. were a legit stop but we were kinda annoyed. cop came to window, which we needed manual roll down 'cause we were driving a 78 cherokee jeep. we asked cop for a double-cheeseburger, onion rings and a large dr. pepper. cop actual smiled a bit, but we still got a ticket. daytime. suburban neighborhood. no problems. other times were a bit more scary and worst were not being pulled over while driving but cops stopping us as we walked through a nice neighborhood in the bay area at 2am. we became agitated 'cause cops were demanding info they were not privy to as a mater o' law and but for a soopercop's partner stepping in to intervene, am thinking we woulda' been arrested... and as we were a scholarship athlete at Cal at the time, things coulda' gone very bad for us. learned a valuable lesson that day and realized being right were less consequential than being cautious. no more smarty responses from Gromnir when dealing with cops. had a distinct uptick in stoopid traffic stops after we got the bmw x5. our driving behavior didn't change, but somehow a minority male driving a so-called luxury (piece o' crap) suv at 3am (when we typical went to our gym) often with our hoodie up 'cause o' damp post workout hair, attracted police attention. we followed all instructions, no matter how ridiculous, to letter and made no jokes and were as polite as human possible. HA! Good Fun!

Was pretty clear from the bodycam video, cop shooting her was acceptable. Have seen a lot of talking heads on CNN, etc. say it's unfortunate but was a crap situation all around. Although it's funny how quickly the bodycam video came out in this case

My idol.

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity will attempt its 2nd flight Thursday. "According to Aung, the images from Ingenuity's second flight should begin to arrive at approximately 9:21 a.m. EDT (1321 GMT)."

"There is no place for the weak-willed or hesitant. Only by firm action and resolute faith will mankind survive. No sacrifice is too great. No treachery too small." — Liber Doctrina Ordo Hereticus, Chapter XXVIII, "Exterminatus If Warhammer 40k has taught us anything it is that corruption is worst of all the crimes and you can't go overboard when you try to prevent it "Some may question your right to destroy ten billion people. Those who understand realise that you have no right to let them live." — Exterminatus Extremis 😋

Figured out why the gog version of Dungeon Keeper 1 felt laggy when using the alt+r higher res. option. Running the higher res means you have to adjust the dosbox cycles. So hitting ctrl+F12 4 or 6 times does it. Now it's nice and smooth like I remember. Yay! Maybe I can play the tunneler levels now without fear of being mouse-lagged to my doom.

The problem with Kingmaker is that is too long and there isn't much variety, most of the game are forests and meadows, few dungeons and lot of slow-paced hours in-between. WOTR fixes this, pacing is very intense with few moments to relax and there is a lot more of scenery variety, such as cities, castles, etc. along with the typical wilderness forests. Not to mention interiors are incredibly detailed now and a pleasure to go through, lot of different rooms filled with objects and assets as opposed to very barren and copy-pasted Kingmaker dungeons\interiors I am always opposed to 3d because it gives a very flat feeling compared to the more detailed 2d (see NWN or DAO vs Pillars), but WOTC is the first 3D Crpg which is as much detailed as a 2d one. example: Also the game will be shorter than Kingmaker with an estimated 80 hs, so more quality over quantity

@BruceVC I like soup just fine, I'm not particularly fond of cream of mushroom, though (I don't hate it). Zupa Szczawiowa is my jam.

But Keyrock dont Polish people like soup and dont you have one or 2 famous broths ? I am not sure if you remember but I was friends with several Polish people when I lived in JHB, we even went to that Polish\Afrikaans wedding. My friend who got married, Alicja, use to have dinner parties at her house where she cooked traditional Polish food....its was great big portions and very meaty, some of my favorite things about gastronomy 🥘

Castlevania S3, episodes 4-6:

Ah hah, ok.

I am joking because it has been raised before and I remember how volo and Malc responded

am not certain how that display fools anybody and gets passed on to the next generation o' critters. HA! Good Fun!

Oh, you're being serious? I figured you were joking like I was when I said the Philippines

Then I don't know why you would think Canada ceasing to be a sovereign nation and joining the US would be a good idea. Well, I guess Quebec will get their dream of being independent

there is brown. HA! Good Fun!

Going to mess up that state's crime statistics if they did.

The variable weapon choice is very nice, especially considering how some feats and classes rely on certain weapons to work and the potential lack of good weapons. Sounds like there is progression with Finnean as well, I wonder if it will be like Soulbound or have a selection of upgrades at intervals. Guess I have a reason to give the beta another spin. I think Enserric was limited to the basic martial swords and a dagger. And you could easily block more enchantment because he had too many abilities compared to regular weapons.

SU s2. Steven met Uncle Grandpa, learned how his parents met, and started making t-shirts.

Yeah, I was double covered at the time, so it was super cheap to have kids too. That has changed tremendously over the last decade. Premium costs have skyrocketed, so paying for double coverage is no longer very viable.

I don't think the gun control measures are making the difference here. What I see as bonkers is that looking at the police force in other countries the police force is the same in all of the country. No matter if it's a small village, big city, highway, jail, you name it they are all part of the same police force that on the highest levels answer to appropriate ministry (like Ministry of Internal Affairs in Poland) and then to Prime minister or President (depends on the country) whichever is the head of Government in said country. What that does is you know that this officer had the same standards of entering the force, he follows the same laws and procedures as all the other cops you can encounter. This means the standard is uphold across the country and that every police officer is accountable for his actions and you can make complaint to a higher power even if his local superiors don't take your complaint into account. If I understand correctly, that is not the case in US. Basically every sheriff, precinct, city police is somewhat of an lonely island with their own rules, protocols and habits. They work more like the municipal force, which, for example, Poland and other western countries also have but municipal don't have the same power, equipment etc. and they don't deal with serious issues. Municipal is relegated to basic things like fining people for littering or parking tickets. For example Mayor of LA can dictate to LAPD chief something, which cannot occur in other countries because even though there is a police chief in a city he follows different chain of commands that is separate from local government. That's what I see as bonkers in the way police is organized in US in comparison to other western countries. Also some stupid things like qualified immunity or that the court (SC? I don't remember) ruled that police is not obligated to serve and protect strike me as bonkers.

well you start from the effect duration description in seconds, usually it is at least 3 sec. Then you can in theory calculate 5% increase per point of intelligence > 10, but not really needed. if you don't have Wael challenge enabled it should be already visible in the tooltip. then in that table you look for the row having about that duration in seconds e.g. assuming I have a 3sec positive effect and 16 INT, it would be something like 3 + 30% = 3.9 sec, so about line 14 then you look for the desired duration e.g. to prolong for about 80 days max challenge duration it would need in theory about line 134 - 14 (the starting time line) --> at least 120 swaps about the swapping time, there are a couple ways to do it that I found working well first one is to select an alternative object to swap e.g. strand of favor - another necklace, and single click while hovering over the (e.g. neck) slot. This is slow but the most important thing is to count the swaps so you would not be able to do it super fast anyway on the ultimate challenge (and this is what people playing the challenge usually do). second one is to put the alternative object in the player personal objects area and double click it, it is faster but harder to count. this option can be used e.g. with a mouse macro to do it really super fast and easily if you are not doing the ultimate/not using wael/on a test playthrough as you can just start the macro, wait a minute and stop it when you see duration: infinite (it works more or less like swapping the Lethandria shield from AI script)

There is the humour.

Man, I'm glad you can start getting the necessary pieces as soon as you get off of the first island. Fight at the ruins was the most trouble I've had with the drake/cats in a while. I see what you mean about wanting defenses as high as possible.

Most western countries have more stringent gun control measures than in the USA, so policing here is inevitably different. I wouldn't say it's "bonkers"; it's at least partly a response to the threat model. That being said, I don't think it would be harmful for the USA police departments to take a good long look at how they are enforcing the law and see if elements of foreign approaches would be beneficial in terms of reducing gun deaths.

More and more of the details of the police shooting of a black teenage girl in Columbus are coming out. This one does not appear to be following the narrative some folks seem to want it to. From what I just read the girl had a knife in her hand and was actively trying to kill two other girls.

owlcat has announced the next beta update is may 5. also, 'cause am knowing folks such as @ShadySands is interested, there is new info 'bout the intelligent weapon feature. HA! Good Fun! ps have not played the beta in some time 'cause we became smidge frustrated with a few bugs and 'cause we were aware o' the late april guestimate for the next beta version. as such we will wait until may 5 to do more beta.

A revised table about number of item swappings needed to prolong effects for X days, based on hopefully more correct formula: 1 in game day = 27 hours, game real time speed = 24x so 1 sec = 24/(3600*27) = 1/4050 days APPLY EFFECT SWAPS TIMES TO ACHIEVE DURATION IN real time SECONDS and in game DAYS e.g. starting form 3 real time sec effect duration, you would need about 134 - 11 = 123 swaps to reach 80 in game days effect duration, starting form 30 real time sec effect duration, you would need about 134 - 36 = 98 swaps to reach 80 in game days effect duration... SWAPS SECONDS DAYS 0 1,0000 0,00 1 1,1000 0,00 2 1,2100 0,00 3 1,3310 0,00 4 1,4641 0,00 5 1,6105 0,00 6 1,7716 0,00 7 1,9487 0,00 8 2,1436 0,00 9 2,3579 0,00 10 2,5937 0,00 11 2,8531 0,00 12 3,1384 0,00 13 3,4523 0,00 14 3,7975 0,00 15 4,1772 0,00 16 4,5950 0,00 17 5,0545 0,00 18 5,5599 0,00 19 6,1159 0,00 20 6,7275 0,00 21 7,4002 0,00 22 8,1403 0,00 23 8,9543 0,00 24 9,8497 0,00 25 10,8347 0,00 26 11,9182 0,00 27 13,1100 0,00 28 14,4210 0,00 29 15,8631 0,00 30 17,4494 0,00 31 19,1943 0,00 32 21,1138 0,01 33 23,2252 0,01 34 25,5477 0,01 35 28,1024 0,01 36 30,9127 0,01 37 34,0039 0,01 38 37,4043 0,01 39 41,1448 0,01 40 45,2593 0,01 41 49,7852 0,01 42 54,7637 0,01 43 60,2401 0,01 44 66,2641 0,02 45 72,8905 0,02 46 80,1795 0,02 47 88,1975 0,02 48 97,0172 0,02 49 106,7190 0,03 50 117,3909 0,03 51 129,1299 0,03 52 142,0429 0,04 53 156,2472 0,04 54 171,8719 0,04 55 189,0591 0,05 56 207,9651 0,05 57 228,7616 0,06 58 251,6377 0,06 59 276,8015 0,07 60 304,4816 0,08 61 334,9298 0,08 62 368,4228 0,09 63 405,2651 0,10 64 445,7916 0,11 65 490,3707 0,12 66 539,4078 0,13 67 593,3486 0,15 68 652,6834 0,16 69 717,9518 0,18 70 789,7470 0,19 71 868,7217 0,21 72 955,5938 0,24 73 1051,1532 0,26 74 1156,2685 0,29 75 1271,8954 0,31 76 1399,0849 0,35 77 1538,9934 0,38 78 1692,8927 0,42 79 1862,1820 0,46 80 2048,4002 0,51 81 2253,2402 0,56 82 2478,5643 0,61 83 2726,4207 0,67 84 2999,0628 0,74 85 3298,9690 0,81 86 3628,8659 0,90 87 3991,7525 0,99 88 4390,9278 1,08 89 4830,0206 1,19 90 5313,0226 1,31 91 5844,3249 1,44 92 6428,7574 1,59 93 7071,6331 1,75 94 7778,7964 1,92 95 8556,6760 2,11 96 9412,3437 2,32 97 10353,5780 2,56 98 11388,9358 2,81 99 12527,8294 3,09 100 13780,6123 3,40 101 15158,6736 3,74 102 16674,5409 4,12 103 18341,9950 4,53 104 20176,1945 4,98 105 22193,8140 5,48 106 24413,1954 6,03 107 26854,5149 6,63 108 29539,9664 7,29 109 32493,9630 8,02 110 35743,3594 8,83 111 39317,6953 9,71 112 43249,4648 10,68 113 47574,4113 11,75 114 52331,8524 12,92 115 57565,0377 14,21 116 63321,5414 15,63 117 69653,6956 17,20 118 76619,0651 18,92 119 84280,9717 20,81 120 92709,0688 22,89 121 101979,9757 25,18 122 112177,9733 27,70 123 123395,7706 30,47 124 135735,3477 33,51 125 149308,8824 36,87 126 164239,7707 40,55 127 180663,7477 44,61 128 198730,1225 49,07 129 218603,1348 53,98 130 240463,4482 59,37 131 264509,7931 65,31 132 290960,7724 71,84 133 320056,8496 79,03 134 352062,5346 86,93 135 387268,7880 95,62 136 425995,6668 105,18 137 468595,2335 115,70 138 515454,7568 127,27 139 567000,2325 140,00 140 623700,2558 154,00 141 686070,2814 169,40 142 754677,3095 186,34 143 830145,0404 204,97 144 913159,5445 225,47 145 1004475,4989 248,02 146 1104923,0488 272,82 147 1215415,3537 300,10 148 1336956,8891 330,11 149 1470652,5780 363,12 150 1617717,8358 399,44 151 1779489,6194 439,38 152 1957438,5813 483,32 153 2153182,4394 531,65 154 2368500,6834 584,81 155 2605350,7517 643,30 156 2865885,8269 707,63 157 3152474,4096 778,39 158 3467721,8505 856,23 159 3814494,0356 941,85 160 4195943,4391 1036,04 161 4615537,7830 1139,64 162 5077091,5613 1253,60 163 5584800,7175 1378,96 164 6143280,7892 1516,86 165 6757608,8681 1668,55 166 7433369,7549 1835,40

for a number of years we were paying ~$800 per month for our sister's meds. she had lupus, which became other problems. she also had some emotional problems stemming in large part from an assault when she were a student at Cal. took meds for the mental health issues, but those weren't what was costing most o' the $800. if it makes skarp_one feel better, after her attack incident, she tended to vote republican, or perhaps she voted republican 'cause that is what Gromnir were doing at the time. whatever. however, the reason her meds were so expensive were in part 'cause we were supporting her. we couldn't get her onto our personal insurance plan for various reasons, but we coulda' finagled so she were medi-cal eligible (and most o' her meds woulda' been free) but while her medical care woulda' been not terrible... well, that is the best we can say. we supported and so she weren't ssi and medi-cal eligible. our meds, save one, has copays o' $10, but we checked and on average we would be paying $15 for each even if we had no insurance 'cause they is not particular expensive. is one exception. costs us $80 but is not a monthly med. would cost us far more than $80 if we had to pay brand name price with no generic option. considering our med issues, we don't spend much on meds... yet. a couple years past we did have surgery and a single overnight stay post-op. were real surgery--not cosmetic. needed anesthesia. weren't life saving though. something to keep us able to walk and maintain bladder control, so kinda necessary from our pov. our insurance were billed $350k. we paid $25 out of pocket. in 2021, if you are a day gig worker in the US, chances are you still need decide 'tween rent, food, transportation, utilities and health insurance. at least one from that list is gonna be a loser. guess which most choose. accident happens or you suffer a burst appendix or whatever... get a $350k bill and then what? HA! Good Fun!

I've watched the first 3 episodes of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace thanks to @Chilloutman It's hilarious

our grandma (maternal side) made something she called pittsburgh lasagna. grandma said it were s'posed to include sausage but she used cooked chicken (diced) 'cause that were what she typical had available. remaining ingredients: mozzarella, parmesan and ricotta, 1 egg, a package o' frozen spinach, lasagna noodles, milk and a couple cans o' cream of mushroom soup. the egg, thawed and drained (extreme drained... dry as possible w/o using oven) spinach and ricotta got combined, milk and soup were combined. take a casserole dish and layer some o' the soup+ milk, then noodles, then half o' the spinach and ricotta mixture, then chicken (or sausage), then mozzarella. repeat layers leaving last o' the soup and the parmesan for last layer. have no idea what were the measurements. we got a ridiculous good memory, but grandma didn't measure, so... has been many years since we had that casserole. the (not) lasagna were delicious. HA! Good Fun!

With deflection (as with any defense) you have increasing returns: every additional point has more impact than the one before. Because of that I would max RES and get all the deflection bonuses I could get. Soulblade/Trickster can stack Borrowed Instincts and Mirrored Images, but you should also try to debuff enemies' accuracy. Psychovampiric Shield: also good. MIG isn't that important because Trickster/Cipher already gets enough dmg bonuses. You could leave it at 10 imo. INT, RES and then PER and DEX would be my priorities.

Finally realistic space battles! - 10/10 IGN

And of course if you’re impatient you can always steal a nuclear missile and aim at the San Andreas Fault. As long as no pesky superhero stop you it’s a brilliant plan

In space, nobody can hear you fire a railgun (also because the video has no sound).

After the past few weeks of work , I would take you up on that offer and even learn to cook 😂 A recycling company is building a new facility just behind my workplace, and as it's been dry for the past week or so the air quality is awful. My throat is dry and sore, my eyes feel like someones put a belt sander to them, I'm covered in dust and since it's been really warm today, it's sweat bound aswell my nose is gunked up with black snot. But I did reach a new milestone in my car today at 4/20!

Don't worry guys, the games you lose will eventually be on sale on GOG. Just wait a few decades...