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Sorry if this is old but I just saw this now and couldnt resist

Selling Sailor Moon figures is serious business.

Sunny is not the smartest dog I’ve ever met. But she knows how to get comfortable. She walked down to the creek and sat down in the 2’ deep bowl I dug out for minnows to spawn. Just her head was out of the water. That that water is icy cold. Feels good on a hot morning. She is awesome

First Tasmanian Devils Born on Mainland Australia After 3,000 Years.

Remember boot camp? EVERYONE went to one church service or another because that was an hour each week no one f---d with you!. That first Sunday in Forming Week the DI on duty that day said we could either go to church ot stay there in the squad bay... with him. He implied we wouldn't like that much. Of course know how that worked with everyone gone he could relax for a bit and watch TV or something.

This was wrong. Unbendin does benefit from "healing received", but not from "healing done" For some reasons I thouht Mercy and Kindness chant buffed healing received, but it buffs healing done which does not benefit to Unbending. "healing done" modifiers, positive and negative, alter Unbendin.

Chinas facial mass surveillance system is called "Skynet". But it's ok, because it's a "good" AI.

Lack of transparency is not a red flag. It's how China does business in pretty much everything. It is also extremely doubtful that the US would allow the WHO access to labs in similar circumstances given the rhetoric about the WHO being beholden to China. The bat/ pangolin theory is not at all weak. It's based on the proven (well, as much as you can) method of zoonotic transfer involved in SARS1. In that case the bats were also far removed from the initial outbreak, as were the proximal civets. The suspected method of transmission was via them mixing at a wet market, but it could equally as much have been someone from a rural area coming into the big city while infected. SARS-CoV2 has been shown to infect a fairly large variety of often not particularly closely related mammals. Humans, gorilla, pangolins, civets, mink, dogs, cats, tigers and lions at very least have had documented covid infections. In most of those cases they probably caught it from humans rather than bats, but you only need it to go the opposite way once, and as previous quite apart from SARS/ MERS coming from civets and camels you have HIV crossing over 20 times. It's rare that it happens, but the more chances you give it the more likely it is.

Company of Heroes 2 and its Ardennes Assault expansion are both free to keep on Steam for the next few days.

I think this forum is the reason Youtube keeps suggesting me stuff like Shapiro....

Some simple, but necessary things like: - a hook and line for retrieving weed and grass stems back to shore when you just didn't quite make that fancy jumping maneuver or you forgot that weed stems bounce like rubber balls when they sail down the zip line and land on a very flat, spacious rock, but still manage to land in the pond anyway. (Even evading the two story towered wall that was built as an all-purpose catcher mitt near the edge. Sigh.) -a couch.....a plump, purple couch to match the chair with the glorious option of being able to actually sit on it and enjoy some down time. -capes.....all types, all colors. Raid the backyard in style -more furniture to fill your spacious home and decorate your walls. -a candle to be placed on the clover table: dining by candlelight.....a must. (Bee's wax anyone?) -a sling-shot.....not for killing, but to warn off little critters, and distract larger ones. -pets.....if they play in you backyard and won't leave, then name them, feed they.....and they become non-aggressive friends. I'm sure other players and fans have their list as well. Feel free to join your ideas here. And .....have fun.

And of course, it doesn't heal self-inflicted damage abilities either (DoT, pulsing, or burst self-damage). Merci !

Thank you ! Exactly I haven't noticed any discrepancy between damages actually done and damages recovered, so all modifiers are taken into account. By the way, apparently, Unbending has no effect Vs DoT (I guess Pulsating spells do work).

I wonder how does it look in Sweden, and does this give n outlook that more conservative/law and order type people will be gaining more votes https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/sweden-goes-being-one-safest-countries-europe-second-most-dangerous

Could be, but her mother is nothing but kind, and not scary. Maybe she had an experience with a bad spirit at some point. Or maybe not, either way, it's fine and fun. I guess they're not going to be the same subtitles, because subtitles have the same weird licensing issues as films and TV shows - and they're often from separate companies. It's entirely possible to have a BR of a film with a certain set of subtitles that simply aren't available on any given streaming service because the streaming service did not or could not license the subs. It's baffling. Honestly if there's a film on a streaming service I have access to that doesn't have the subtitles I want, I strap on my peg leg and hook, grow a mean beard (okay with all the barber shops more closed than open in the past months, that one has become more permanent ), drink grog and listen to the best parts of the Deadfire soundtrack, the sea shanties, without feeling one bit bad about it. However, I will know for sure once Shaoran is addressed by first name. He didn't appear in the second episode after I switched. The biggest problem with the German subtitles is that they feel machine generated - translated from out of context of the show. With the subs for the first arc, while they could have used an editing pass (so many instances of Sakrua, that spell checking did not work at all, if there ever was one), they at least read like whoever wrote them watched the episodes, and didn't just translate an excel sheet full of Japanese with no context. I hope the English ones are better. They were for the end of the episode, but there wasn't that much dialogue any more.

Perhaps the association of ghosts with the dead and her mother? @KP the meanie zucchini Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan, episode 2: Well, like I said, I'm not complaining - kind of accidentally creating a really tense moment and almost sinister moment was strange but still cool, . Kind of makes me want to find out if the people primarily responsible for this made anything else that would interest me... That would be super annoying. ...I mean what you said in the spoiler, but really, everything that you said about the subtitles changing too. Speaking of, I've stuck with the original subtitles I had, which are probably different still from the English ones you have? The fan-subs were okay, but the writing "voice" feels different from the first set and it just didn't click as well. More evidence that the whole subs vs. dubs debate is asinine and it totally and simply depends on what works better for the individual and the quality of what you have for the specific show/movie, .

Again, father of the year material.

https://nationalpost.com/news/b-c-father-arrested-held-in-jail-for-repeatedly-violating-court-orders-over-childs-gender-transition-therapy "The orders instruct him to not make public any information that would identify A.B., or the medical professionals involved, to call A.B. by the child’s preferred name and gender pronoun, and to not share his opinions of the case publicly. The British Columbia Court of Appeal laid out the court orders C.D. was to abide by in January 2020. Since then, the B.C. Prosecution Service alleges he has failed to do so on multiple occasions. In June 2020, C.D. gave an interview to a YouTube channel, where he’s alleged to have identified health-care providers, revealed information about A.B.’s mental health, medical status or treatments, and gave out information that could reveal C.D., A.B. and the mother’s identity." Seems he did a bit more than just that, though.

Kādokyaputā Sakura: The Gathering, a new CCG by CLAMP and NHK. Cardcaptor Sakura certainly isn't what I expected it to be at all when I began watching. It was part of a Sailor Moon review on YouTube that I watched for one of the longer posts about Sailor Stars that I made that suggested Revolutionary Girl Utena and Puella Magi Madoka Magica as a differen take/deconstruction* of the Magical Girl genre and Cardcaptor Sakura as a straight variant. I expected something more like Sailor Moon, what I got was different but equally great - and (in?)arguably much better constructed. *I also saw a very angry video by a literary theorist who spent almost half an hour telling everyone that clicked on the clickbaity title of the video - like me - that what is colloquially known as a deconstruction is called a subversion, because deconstructionist reading in literary theory happens purely within the work itself, not in relation to prior works. I was just once again reminded of how much of a waste of time certain philosophical debates really are. You should really cleanse that spark of weeabooism in your ear there. Go watch the first episode of JoJo's Bizarre adventure, that should reset your ears. No, just kidding. It's true though and I said that before, but Sakura's performance really grew on me when combined with her animation. Ami, Mima and Shinjuka are a class of their own, of course, but there's just something special about the combination that makes Sakura stand out so much for me. Speaking of Sakura and the Rainbow of Memories, the car ride is a perfect example of what I mean: I have this much homework! I loved that scene, really... and the entire episode. I don't think there is an episode without Tomoyo. At least she was in every episode so far, I think. I'm actually not sure because I've watched way too many episodes in such a short time that it's all rather one fuzzy mishmash of episodes. That was the first episode that I made a longer post for... I really like the Sakura is afraid of spooky things running gag. It makes no sense since she knows more about magic than anyone else except Shaoran and Kero, but it's great. Minor spoiler: Yes, there really are a huge number of little things that make this great. It was a pretty big moment for her, being able to feel the aura of a card. That was the first time, I think. Before that there was only Shaoran that could do that, and Kero. It's one of her growing moments as magic user, but yes, it seemed a bit overly dramatic. I wonder who the girl in the sailor fuku was at the end there. That seems familiar, somehow... If you don't then the writers did something wrong. She's supposed to be intolerable and annoying - at least at first. Character spoilers: And now... Cardcaptor Sakura: Sakura card arc, episodes one and two. The first two epsiodes, the opening of the new arc did a few things that were fun, and a few that left me wondering. Overall the two episodes weren't nearly as strong as the prior ones, but in all fairness, neither was the opening of the Clow card arc. Spoilers ahead. The one thing that is super, super, super, incredibly and super super SUPER annoying is that the subtitles for the second arc were written by someone else. The first set was credited by Netflix to a Veronika Ritter and were often riddled with typoes and some grammatical errors, but at least they were decently written. This arc has subs credited to one Sophiana Collins (I think that was the name, not 100% certain), and guessing by the name, the reason why they're so bad is because they're either machine translated from English to German or Ms. Collins translated from one foreign language to another. Luckily I was able to solve that by switching the subs to English, where they are at least... making sense and use the appropriate pronouns. It's not nice to refer to Toya as "it" there, subtitles. Even if he is annoying every now and then. One of the things in the German subtitles that made me switch was having to spend a bit of time to figure out what Kero meant by saying snow hare.

Can't cut my hair, so once again, maybe I should just buzzcut my head. Problem is still that my vanity tells me that I would look like some short, broad-faced, oddly shaped-head dude. I don't think I'd be pulling off the "hot bald woman" look. But hair is becoming a PITA. Waking up and rubbing a washcloth over the head now and then sounds convenient. It might be low-neck length by winter again. Hmmm

Yeah, nah. That's the same sort of stuff that Orogun linked me in a video a year or so ago, and it hasn't improved with age. My personal favourite there was the 'expert' who said only China had such labs, then talked about her experience in similar US labs five minutes further on in the video. Summed the whole thing up perfectly. For 3 and 4, it's a virology lab, that is the research it does. It was established specifically because of SARS1, and did coronavirus research because of SARS1. That's a matter of longstanding public record- can't get much more scientifically public than research papers- and not in any way secret. 5 isn't unusual at all. It's not unusually resistant to immune response, it's just a novel respiratory virus. Novel viruses are unusually resistant because there's no shared memory/ selection, and respiratory viruses are resistant because of the nature of their environment. And again, you look at the other natural crossover viruses and find... they're more resistant to immune response and considerably more deadly. 'Like HIV' is ludicrous anyway, since HIV was also a natural crossover which phylogenetic evidence suggests happened as many as 20 (!) times. Even if it were 'like HIV' beyond the trivial of both being RNA viruses it would not in itself have been suspicious. Well yeah, and you can find multiple papers and such from western sources with similar discussions. As a bioweapon it's... just stupid, it has no sensible utility. It doesn't target the right demographics, it isn't infectious enough or alternatively, is too infectious. As a geopolitical weapon it's stupid too, because the one thing China absolutely does not want is a global recession when its economic growth comes from exporting, and its biggest threat by far is an internal one from failing to deliver expected yearly improvements and growth. You also can't 'target' it effectively to specific countries- as before, it's too infectious to be controllable, but not infectious enough to be really effective- and anyone would know that you can't. If it were part of a bioweapons program they'd also have a parallel program for ameliorating any effects once it inevitably reached China, ie a vaccine or similar ready to roll. As it stands their vaccines are almost all the least effective- and going by 'vaccine ready' it would be a German or British bioweapon since Oxford and BionTech had working vaccines literally weeks after getting a sequence; it took China a fair bit longer and their vaccines apart from being low efficiency are also low tech. End of the day nothing could convince me more of Chinese incompetence than it being a bioweapon. Own goal that they'd know would be an own goal, badly designed, stupid stupid stupid. And again, multiple coronaviruses have crossed spontaneously in the last 20 years... That's just Xi's China being Xi's China. They suppress anything that makes them look bad, and large scale casualties- whether they caused the outbreak or not- makes them look bad. You only have to glance very briefly at their actions in Xinjiang and Hong Kong to find similar examples of repression for reasons other than a 'bioweapons' leak.

Way to miss the point. He was found in contempt for disobeying a previous ruling which compelled him to use a certain pronoun and, more to the point, shut up about it. Heh, "heavy on the bias" alright. edit: why is this not in the politics thread with all the rest of the culture wars garbage?

Important news for a change: Next character for Troubleshooter is confirmed. Article in Korean, but image at the end (though she had been teased in an image in the game)

But are there hot men? *looks it up* ... nah, not re: my personal tastes, seems like. I'll pass. ...I think I noticed that when I was browsing that channel once. Looks like another stylistic, glossy show.

Because I'm not going to get HBO Max to watch it? ... And what isn't convincing about not wanting to watch something if the trailer doesn't look good and you didn't like a similar work from the same creator?

DEADBOLT. If you like Katana Zero or Hotline Miami, you may very well enjoy this, lot of similarities while offering some different things. Good game, not too long. NOITA. Looked neat, gave it a try, only ended up playing an hour, controls felt too weird and the wand system too annoying for me to bother further, plus I didn't really want to get into a roguelike of any kind if I wasn't a hundred percent sold on the gameplay. Wait! Life Is Beautiful! Played this one a while back, but don't think I ever wrote about it. It's a suicide simulator. Just kidding...kind of - just a little indie story/dialogue-based game where you can either try to prevent people from jumping off a bridge or goad them on. Interesting little game that you have to be in the mood for.

It looks like he was found to be in contempt of court. So no, he isn't going to prison because of a pronoun. He went to the media before his arrest, despite the court telling him not to do so. Father of the year material, for sure. That article was crap, btw. Sadly most of the coverage seems to be pretty heavy on the bias.

They don't. That's why the Danish government is footing 2/3 of the budget for Greenland. The Faroe Islands were considering full independence a few years ago... until they realized that if they declared themselves independent, Denmark would no longer pay their bills for them (why would one sovereign country pay all the expenses of another sovereign country?), so they agreed that independence could probably wait a century or two

The Mavericks were supposed to be a favorable matchup for the Clippers. There was, however, always the Luka Doncic goes ape$#!+ factor, and go ape$#!+ he has so far. He's one of a handful of players currently in the NBA that can just say "!^<× this, hop on my back, we're winning this !^<×ing game."

Please ban this man immediately

I’m not Pidesco, but I know a little bit about Denmark. You’ll just have to take my word for it, Denmark *never* liked immigrants and the EU even less (I sincerely thought Denmark would be the first to leave before the UK, although they may still follow them out the door)

That Danish decision is clearly a disgrace.

"Where can I get these free, cheap sexual experiences?" have you tried those VR's https://store.steampowered.com/app/751440/VR_Kanojo__VR/

Can't help but picture a fedora.

That is quite an essay you just wrote.

Actor apologizes for calling Taiwan a country Ahem..... TAIWAN IS A COUNTRY. IT IS TOTALLY A FREE AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY. No apologies

Turtles, Owls, Mice, Minnows, Stepping stones in the pond (turtles would still suffice here), I really like the capes idea btw, a garden or garbage can where food is plentiful but it overrun with many pests, Black widows, Wasps, moths, moles, bats, slugs (use salt bombs to kill them?) Roaches in the hazmat zone. Just a few ideas, I would love color options and some customization of the characters clothing or the ability to create my own character but I enjoy these characters as well. Somethings don't make a whole lot of sense though, wolf spiders aren't generally poisonous per se, they have a venom that paralyzes their prey, so is should slow us down but not cause damage. Granddaddy long legs is the most venomous spider in the world and that could be an interesting battle in the back yard seeing as they may pose the danger in this game. Also, a snake would be pretty interesting as well. I'd like to just see like a few random bugs by themselves that you don't typically see but could make for a great farming option to give the game more challenges and a little more of a grind to get some rare parts for unique items. I have really been hoping we would get binoculars you could make out of plant fiber and water droplets, or a scope for your bow. These were some things I thought of. I have ton's of ideas, but I'll let some other people input for now. Thanks for posting this thread I like the idea board!

not ever free games makes me install origin