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If my years of college have taught me anything, it's that the dumbest mother****ers in the world could pass a test and retain no knowledge at all. The big problem with gun control in the US is who would enforce it. Given the last year plus some, I trust them less than I trust the Nigerian prince who would email my parents with offers of millions in cash back when I was a young'un.

I was also thinking about another trick - the opposite of SoF - the Outworn Buckler can reduce hostile effects and if you switch weapons in combat you should be able to shorten some annoying ones, at least if you don't have high RES. PS. The food stacking still works or it was fixed?

Heh, I've never expected something like this, a game where the PC is the infamous Slovak version of Robin Hood Juraj Jánošík And it is free https://www.gog.com/game/janosik

"Asparagus recipe appears in Belgian law database" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57315748 "The text appeared to have been accidentally copied and pasted into legislation on the price of drugs and medical supplies. "Bon Appétit!" read the final line of the recipe, before returning to more serious issues. The text has now been deleted from the database. The error was discovered following an update made to the French-version text of the Belgian official journal, or Moniteur Belge, where laws, decrees and other official notes are published."

Playing around with a FF atm and decided I want Coral Snuff instead of Whiteleaf. I expected one drug to remove another but I kept whiteleaf bonus... This might be related to saving and loading because I'm pretttty sure I tested this before and it didn't happen. So unless I'm mistaken and they always stacked you need to use one drug, save, load then use the next one. edit: yeah just tested it with another drug they usually disappear, but once you save and load they won't, let the SOF hatecomments flow.

If a certain drug not works you can just take another one and then try again. I had problems with deadeye, so I just reloaded and took another drug, then when I took deadeye again it worked. If you're at your last drug and it still doesn't work you can prolly do smth like SoF extend save and reload and it should work.

The only thing that is too OP for me is that you will still be able to have normal conversations while being under the effect of 7 different drugs.

Glorious utopia

OK Version 1.4.3 is live. Bye bye Strand of Favor. Tweaks to invincibility stuff (BDD, Unbending) Buffs to SC Paladins and SC Fighters.

It's funny that this works out of combat while you are in stealth mode - but not when you're standing still without stealth (out of combat). Anyway: it works and is a great way to start the fight with a lot of AR for the initial onslaught your character will face once combat starts. Also great for party tanks who reveal themselves first.

Hey calling especially anyone with modding experience. Basically, if you aren't aware, the Grimoire Imprint spells are buggy in that sometimes they take a spell permanently and add it to your action bar. With my current game, I suspect it's related to doing grimoire-switching before your target dies, because I'm doing a lot of grimoire switching (and shapeshifting) and now I already have two permanent spells (after just a few uses of imprint), and I feel like I'm going to accumulate a lot more as a result. Was wondering if anyone knew how to remove these spells, or to mod it s.t. these imprint spells don't screw up like this. I suspect there are some fun "cheese" opportunities with this imprint effect to be had, but I'm mostly worried that I'm going to mess up the UI if I get too many permanent spells and stretch my action bar.

Multiplayer definitely needs a fix. Anytime I hop in a friends game their base is always loading when I go away from it. And its always lagging to the point we have a hard time fighting the bugs together. And also the games makes it seem we're in another area when we are right there in each others face. I think the recent updates cause this because it this wasn't happening a month ago.

Cardcaptor Sakura, Clear Card, episode 1. Not really any real spoilers: There are major continuity problems between the prologue episode and a flashback in this first one. I'm... not sure what the point of that was. I'm giving the show the benefit of the doubt here and say that was intentional. I wonder what's going on... I mean, I hope it's something, not just an oversight. edit: Kero also has a new console all of a sudden. I mean, Sakura does, I guess. That's definitely a Dual Shock style controller now. What? I sometimes dream of forumites, and they look like their avatars. I might also have had the occasional Sailor Moon themed dream recently. I also definitely had a hybrid Dr. Strange / Agents of SHIELD dream once at the same time when I played Tides of Numenera. That was weird. Buildings kept falling apart, dimensional portals threw cars around and the world folded in on itself, while I was desperately trying to figure out what was going on, together with Fitz-Simmons. Yeah. Weird, weird.

Between writing a story and watching AoT before sleep, I had a really weird dream in anime styles about an asylum with monsters roaming around. Still more normal than JoJo, so more anime before sleep is needed I guess.

Had some free time and wanted to test out a few things in photoshop. I won't be posting anymore watercolour conversions after these though. Just feels a bit iffy to be altering the work of others without any idea of whose work I am altering, and really just worry about becoming the dead end of a google image search. Wasn't sure if the burn was intended or just a error in the process. Actually managed to find the source for this one Edit: Meant to include these when I originally posted, but due to how dark the image is and some compression artifacting it looked a bit messy.

Looks like Netanyahu is gone as Israeli PM. Pretty big achievement being so polarising that near diametric opposites Naftali Bennet and Joint List join forces just to get you removed- and almost no tears being shed internationally since Bibi was near universally loathed by everyone. Next step for him, prison, with any luck. Then again, 8 parties and with the Joint List outside the formal coalition doesn't exactly scream stable government. You can pretty much guarantee there will be attempts to split one or more off starting 5 minutes before the deal was formalised.

And because it's always worthwhile as the occasional repost... The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries MAXIM 1: Pillage, then burn. MAXIM 2: A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on. MAXIM 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. MAXIM 4: Close air support covereth a multitude of sins. MAXIM 5: Close air support and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart. MAXIM 6: If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it. MAXIM 7: If the food is good enough the grunts will stop complaining about the incoming fire. MAXIM 8: Mockery and derision have their place. Usually, it's on the far side of the air lock. MAXIM 9: Never turn your back on an enemy. MAXIM 10: Sometimes the only way out is through… Through the hull. MAXIM 11: Everything is air-droppable at least once. MAXIM 12: A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head. MAXIM 13: Do unto others. MAXIM 14: "Mad science" means never stopping to ask "what's the worst thing that could happen?" MAXIM 15: Only you can prevent friendly fire. MAXIM 16: Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth. MAXIM 17: The longer everything goes according to plan, the bigger the impending disaster. MAXIM 18: If the officers are leading from in front, watch for an attack from the rear. MAXIM 19: The world is richer when you turn enemies into friends, but that's not the same as you being richer. MAXIM 20: If you're not willing to shell your own position, you're not willing to win. MAXIM 21: Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Take his fish away and tell him he's lucky just to be alive, and he'll figure out how to catch another one for you to take tomorrow. MAXIM 22: If you can see the whites of their eyes, somebody's done something wrong. MAXIM 23: The company mess and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart. MAXIM 24: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a big gun. MAXIM 25: If a manufacturer's warranty covers the damage you did, you didn't do enough damage. MAXIM 26: "Fire and forget" is fine, provided you never actually forget. MAXIM 27: Don't be afraid to be the first to resort to violence. MAXIM 28: If the price of collateral damage is high enough, you might be able to get paid to bring ammunition home with you. MAXIM 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy, no more, no less. MAXIM 30: A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go. MAXIM 31: Only cheaters prosper. MAXIM 32: Anything is amphibious if you can get it back out of the water. MAXIM 33: If you're leaving tracks, you're being followed. MAXIM 34: If you're leaving scorch marks, you need a bigger gun. MAXIM 35: That which does not kill me has made a tactical error. MAXIM 36: When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support. MAXIM 37: There is no "overkill." There is only "open fire" and "reload." MAXIM 38: What's easy for you can still be hard on your clients. MAXIM 39: There is a difference between "spare" parts and "extra" parts. MAXIM 40: Not all good news is enemy action. MAXIM 41: "Do you have a backup?" means "I can't fix this." MAXIM 42: "They'll never expect this" means "I want to try something stupid." MAXIM 43: If it's stupid and it works, it's still stupid and you're lucky. MAXIM 44: If it will blow a hole in the ground, it will double as an entrenching tool. MAXIM 45: The size of the combat bonus is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it. MAXIM 46: Don't try to save money by conserving ammunition. MAXIM 47: Don't expect the enemy to cooperate in the creation of your dream engagement. MAXIM 48: If it ain't broke, it hasn't been issued to the infantry. MAXIM 49: Every client is one missed payment away from becoming a target, and every target is one bribe away from becoming a client. MAXIM 50: If it only works in exactly the way the manufacturer intended, it is defective. MAXIM 51: Let them see you sharpen the sword before you fall on it. MAXIM 52: The army you've got is never the army you want. MAXIM 53: The intel you've got is never the intel you want. MAXIM 54: It's only too many troops if you can't pay them. MAXIM 55: It's only too many weapons if they're pointing in the wrong direction. MAXIM 56: Infantry exists to paint targets for people with real guns. MAXIM 57: Artillery exists to launch large chunks of budget at an enemy it cannot actually see. MAXIM 58: The pen is mightiest when it writes orders for swords. MAXIM 59: Two wrongs is probably not going to be enough. MAXIM 60: Any weapon's rate of fire is inversely proportional to the number of available targets. MAXIM 61: Don't bring big grenades into small rooms. MAXIM 62: Anything labeled "This end toward enemy" is dangerous at both ends. MAXIM 63: The brass knows how to do it by knowing who can do it. MAXIM 64: An ounce of sniper is worth a pound of suppressing fire. MAXIM 65: After the toss, be the one with the pin, not the one with the grenade. MAXIM 66: Necessity is the mother of deception. MAXIM 67: If you can't carry cash, carry a weapon. MAXIM 68: Negotiating from a position of strength does not mean you shouldn't also negotiate from a position near the exits. MAXIM 69: Sometimes rank is a function of firepower. MAXIM 70: Failure is not an option; it is mandatory. The option is whether or not to let failure be the last thing you do.

It seems so! And yes, knowing that she has the power to crush him like a little ant should help moderate her feelings. Maybe, . Episode 31 and 32, more great episodes.

A local grocery chain around here had buy 1 / get 2 free baby back ribs so Im about to go throw some on the grill. Low and slow ~300F for ~2 hours and some Sweet Baby Rays bbq sauce at the end. Im already salivating just thinking about them.

been a while since last game landed on pc redesign of characters certainly looks much better than before

that 3080ti still feels tasty (if you don't already have a 3080 of course), although it would've been even tastier if it was $1000 instead of $1200 (or, I bet, $1400+ for EVGA ftw) ... and if one could get one near that list price any time before 2023. Only 1 more vram than my 2080ti tho, and a lot more power consumption at gaming load. ...I'll just have to console any jealous feelings with the idea that the 40xx or 50xx will even that much better for my (hopefully native/no DLSS needed) 4k/60 gaming one day.

wouldn't say stuff is spawning immediate adjacent to us. am getting a good amount o' use from long range weapons. however, with all the tanks, aircraft and light mechs attacking in waves, is gonna be difficult to stay at range. earlyish missions has us able to dispatch a few mechs before we need get close, but eventual a jenner(s), centurion or pheonix hawk is gonna be sharing closet space with us and am rare built for such. enemy ai is kinda aggro focused, so you may need actual do counter-intuitive and switch targets a bit during a few missions. maps haven't changed much. you are never fighting on the plains o' nebraska or kansas. is functional corridors, if quite robust in areas. HA! Good Fun!

Your numberings gone a-wrong, that be 31.

Did they make radar more useful? I'm remembering everything just spawning next to me and most combat taking place at knife fighting range and most maps essentially being corridors. I did drop it fairly early because of those reasons so maybe it opens up more later.

"Siri Google Alexa" is a complete sentence.

CCS, episode 30:

See, this what happens when people play GTA. Jack Thompson tried to save us.

Food stacking works in my version of the game, but I understand, based on a comment by Jayd in a recent post, that it doesn't work for everyone. Thanks for reporting on this, Raven Darkholme. I was wondering about this and was thinking of raising the question, but you answered it before I had the chance to do so.

Speaking of gun control... https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2021/06/02/deputy-involved-shooting-reported-in-volusia-county/ 1. 14 year-old girl and 12 year-old boy that are foster kids run away from home for a few hours. 2. Boy is diabetic and will die without regular insulin. 3. Decide to break into someone else's home and find AK-47, shotgun, and handgun and a pile of ammunition just sitting out. 4. They go HAM and open fire against police while verbally threatening to kill them. 5. Backup is called, a shootout ensues and the older girl is shot twice, including once in the chest, survives - miraculously, no-one killed during any of the action. 6. Apparently, police have been called for matters relating to the specific foster home ("Florida United Methodist Children’s Home") 289 times over the past year. Somewhat predictably, it all happened in Florida.

Drivers licenses could honestly use a similar mechanism. It's just so tough to meaningfully implement it in a way that people will ever respond to in a responsible/positive manner (especially in the growing idiotocracy that is the U.S.) as opposed to just seeing it as a series of hoops they have to pass so they can continue being idiots every other day but the one they're being trained not to. It's easy enough to train a monkey...but in this case, you're trusting that the monkey will remain consistent to their training without any kind of supervision for years at a time and hoping that they won't deliberately decide to get themselves bit and go completely rabid in the interim.

I don't see making sure someone understands how to operate, maintain a firearm and things like being aware of the laws around its use as arbitrary. Wouldn't help in this case as you can't train out stupid, but would help ensure you have quality gun owners. Based off the ones I see on Youtube there's a fair amount of chaff to cut

That woman certainly didn’t exercise any of it did she? She should’ve left the gun in the house where it belonged. What is it about that story that makes you think some 50-70 million people (rough estimate of the number of known gun owners in the US) who did nothing wrong and were not involved in this deserve to be stripped of their private property or constitutional liberty?

If you're at the end of s1, you should be at the DT arc now. Have fun watching sunglasses gym god be edgy for several hours and remember you could be watching JOJO instead.

Will this do? For the watercolour, my process has become: (I used other people's tutorials to formulate this method, and much of the credit should be theirs. We stand on the shoulder of giants). Duplicate the original image in a new layer. Make the first layer invisible using that little eye icon on the layer. Select around the image, cutting off the background - there are lots of tricks to this, one of my favourites is Select Colour Range. Cut image out. Make a new image twice or four times (for this one) as big and paste your image in. Stretch your image to fit in it (edit -> transform -> scale). You know how maths works, it's best to use the numbers instead of manually stretching it. <This is where to try maybe doing a watercolour effect if you want to change it from another art style> Filter -> Artistic -> Poster Edges - the second setting is always 1, but the other two can vary. Copy all and paste it into the original image, shrinking it to 50% or 25% to undo your stretch (edit -> transform -> scale). Copy and Paste the parchment background from it's file, and put it behind the image (layers order). Click back to the main image. Image -> Adjustment -> Photo Filter -> Cooling Filter 80 -> 25%. Image -> Adjustment -> Exposure -> Exposure 1.5 (this can vary a lot) Layer -> Layer Style -> Blending Options -> Blend Mode -> Multiply. For this image I blurred the background; Once I've cut the background from around the man's head and shoulders, I selected the area that I cropped off, then selected the original image layer, and did a Filter -> Gaussian Blur (it only blurs what I've selected).

Made it! Found the 6 orbs scattered throughout the world so now it's time to visit "The Tree" and do something important.. Some original gangster s--t right here. C--kblocked by a creeping arch villain of course who's been trailing me

That's not how cashflow works... (yeah, my inner developer chiming in there)

FWIW, I remember bloggy...

You can try the Unity console. Someone released a fix in the posts section of NexusMods. it works for 5.0 now. I have it installed. With that, you can probably remove it without using the console.

I got 30 seconds into episode 30 some hours ago, then had to pause and haven't yet been able to resume. Does that count for anything? If I'm thinking of the correct sound, that "hoee" reminds me a lot of the same sound that a few different characters in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker make whenever they're shouting out a greeting. I don't really mind Xiaolong vs. Shaoran either way, but my preferred subtitles use "Xiaolong", so that's kind of what I think of him as. Although I sometimes try to follow the actual sounds of what characters say out-loud, and I swear the way Meiling says his name is different from the way Sakura et al. say his name...but I might be imagining it. Speaking of my subtitles, I've also noted for a while that they seem to cut out a lot of superfluous words compared to the fan-subs I checked out, which only contributes to me preferring them. It's not entirely faithful, but there have been many times where I can literally hear characters referring to each other by name, and my subtitles will make no note of it at all, instead going for a more concise and more natural re-writing of whatever they were trying to say. I'm okay with that - the comparisons I've done with the fan-subs were painful, and didn't seem to contribute any additional understanding, humor, or enjoyment from being too literal (in fact, quite the opposite). ...But it is a little odd at times for what I am understanding that I am hearing to not be reflected in what I am reading. CCS, episode 30:

I've been wanting to play a deck builder for a while. I contemplated getting Slay the Spire on several occasions but never pulled the trigger. Then this came out of early access today: I've generally enjoyed Klei's games in the past and I always like their art style so I took the plunge. I only just started but it's pretty fun so far. You run 2 decks at once, a negotiation deck and a battle deck. Negotiations and battles boil down to essentially the same thing, but you have different abilities in each deck.

I happens if you cast an imprint spell from a grimoire, for example Major Grimoire Imprint (and didn't learn that spell) and after casting that imprint spell you switch to a grimoire without that imprint spell in it. Then the spell in the action bar that you stole (and which has unlimited uses) will stay forever. Mechanically it works exactly like the Draining Touch trick (don't learn, cast from grimoire, switch to a grimorie without Draining Touch in it). I guess the imprint spell manages not only the "stealing" but also the removal of those temporary stolen spells. When you switch grimoires that imprint spell with its management ability gets removed from your character (since you haven't learned it) - and that means said imprint ability can't manage (=remove in this case) the stolen spells anymore.

Thank you, that's perfect!

I hit upon a way to make Poster Edges look better: double the image size before doing it. Then halve the image size afterwards. Sounds mad, but imho looks good.

By far the easiest is Assassin/Cipher, with max PER, Acina's Tricorn etc. Gouging Strike, Smoke Veil, retreat to the South. When it's at Near Death, quaff Ascension, Deftness, Perfect Aim. Go invisible, Borrowed Instinct. Go invisible again, Disintegration. Go invisible again, Marux Amanth in the face. Bye bye Hauani.

[german_lesson] If you mean "Fingerfertigkeit" - that's not considered to be a clunky word (for us). It's rel. common and distinguishes the dexterity of your fingers from the dexterity of your body. There's no literal translation that I know of (Finger = finger, Fertigkeit = skill or proficiency). So you can totally include it into your German studies. Using it to translate "nimble" is wrong though. Unless it's "nimble-fingered" of course. If I had to translate general Dexterity to German I would say "Geschicklichkeit". Although that already slightly leans towards fine motor skills. The old word "Gewandtheit" would fit better but you would confuse younger people with its use I guess. Translating quick, nimble and swift into German with that a sense of escalation like quick < nimble < swift is very difficult imo because they are either synonyms or more used with to different parts of the body. It depends a lot on the context. But you could use "schnell" (= fast) for every one of them. So maybe the German mod uses "schnell" (which generally isn't a very precise translation of the world nimble) because it fit better into the ascending tiers of the dex inspirations. Usually I would translate nimble with "behände" (old), "beweglich" or "flink". Those old words like "Gewandtheit" or "behände" may sound funny to younger audiences, bit I think they work very well in fantasy and/or historical games. Last year I discovered that my youngest sister in law never heard about the old German word "Kleinod" (biju, small gem) and I was baffled. But then I realized she never read any fantasy or historical novels... German has a smaller vocabulary than English (I think a third only?). So often you end up with a lot of English words with slightly different meanings that would all be translated to the same German word. The most popular example is the word "schlagen" I think. Hitting, striking, pummeling, punching, battering, slapping, bashing, whacking and so on: it's all "schlagen". We Germans make up for that with the excessive use of composites ("Faustschlag" - punch) or funny expressions. Ohrfeige (ear + fig) = slap (in the face) [/german_lesson]