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I get to play my first hockey game today in about a year and a half. There is a bar above the hockey rink, and I was in there the other day while my son played hockey. I asked the bartender if he has enough kegs ready for the adult leagues starting back up on the weekend. I told him the hockey will be ugly after so long away, but the drinking game will be on point.

Henlo it is I the Mortar Monk maniac. 🤪 Besides the fact™ that a Mortar Monk is just the greatest setup of all timestimestimestimestimestimestimes due to Resonant Touch getting applied by Blinding Smoke - and Blinding Smoke applying Avenging Storm and certain other awesome stuff with smoke I guess and so on... ...it only becomes better if you also use Belt of Magran's Chosen... ...because Blinding Smoke hits can also call forth a fire blight. Since you can trigger absurd amounts of hit rolls with Blinding Smoke on a crowd you will quickly summon a rel. big number of blights with Whispers of the Wind. Why is that good? Because they have abysmal defenses by the time you are at PL 9 and they get targeted by Whispers of the Wind as soon as they enter the battlefield - including all the blasts and bounces which produce yet even more Blinding Smoke procs which summon more blights (and Avenging Storm procs and so on). All those Blinding Smoke procs hit other enemies again which leads to a ridiculous amount of Resonant Touch stacks even against only few enemies (and more blights). Also they die very quickly in general. Lots of dying enemies can have some nice side effects: E.g. If you want to use Xoti's Lantern + Hand Mortar you can fill up all your mortification quickly and get to max wounds, too (lantern: +1 wounds +1 mortification per kill). Funnily enough the +1 wound also triggers Rooting Pain which may kill yet something else. You can emerge from Whispers of the Wind with 10 wounds and full mortification. It even makes sense to learn Inner Death then because you can finish off some lonely enemies who weren't in range when you farte whispered in the wind. Abraham will give you plenty of health because you turn into a blight serial killer (as a hobby). Sungrazer's AoEs (main hand) can be triggered more often. Or something like that. You know your on-kill-effects. Also putting Current's Rush in the offhand is cool because all the blights give it more chances to unleash a deadly chain reaction that kills everything (it's easier to achieve with lots of low defense enemies in the area). Also nothing prevents you from switching to another weapon to use other on-kill effects. Of course this can also be used with a Barb (Heart of Fury - hello Blood Thirst), Fighter (Clean Sweep), Ranger (Whirling Strikes) to produce many blights which will often get killed on the spot. I'm sure you can be creative with this. But you know: Mortar Monk. 🥰

Finally resting after 4 days of marrying on best friend wedding. I now poop beer and I think I actually got a GF.

am not agreeing with the hasty generalization, though perhaps the mistake is not being broad enough with the generalization. today, americans is less in favor of free speech. more european. as we become more polarized here in the US, elements at both ends o' the political spectrum is more willing to accept the curiously euro view that some offensive speech is just too unpleasant to be endured, though the folks advocating for restrictions on speech rare describe in such terms. antifa tell themselves and others they is fighting white supremacists and fascists. the new trumpian right is selling their censorship cloaked in the vernacular o' safety and security-- the right created disproportionate fear o' protests and protesters and now they use such fear to suppress the speech o' fellow americans. none o' this sh!te is new, but the degree to which the notions o' acceptable levels o' censorship has been normalized surprises us. every fifteen years or so there has been a serious push to enact flag burning legislation or an Amendment. and every few years there has been a push from europhile academics suggesting that there should be limits on offensive speech. outliers. the folks demanding a more restrictive reading o' the First Amendment has always been the outliers here in the US. although as with the flag burning amendments, there has been brief moments when it appeared support for such were increasing. nevertheless, Americans in general has always been more in favour o' free speech than they has been willing to indulge in arguments selling fear. democrats is hardly the party o' antifa, no matter what a few obsidian board posters might suggest. nevertheless, the progressives, particularly the younger progressives, appear to be willing to distinguish between the value o' speech of good people v. bad, with themselves as arbiters as to which people is on the side o' the angels. have had to point out, more than once, how bernie, an old skool protester, has been quite vocal in his condemnation o' antifa and violence, but his example is a bit o' an outlier compared to the younger progressives. even so, suggest such folks speak for all democrats is a fail. US republicans has, to a shocking degree, gone all-in on the trump fear campaign. is hardly all republicans, but is too many. fear o' foreigners. fear of muslims. fear of the rainbow flag. fear of minorities. republicans is willing to suppress speech if it helps advance their narrative o' fear. all too often a 2021 red state republican believes in peaceful free speech, and they will fight for the proud boys and their right to demonstrate, but "everybody knows" how dangerous are blm and antifa... dunno 'bout the parties. we will admit americans, as we become increasing polarized, is more willing to prohibit offensive speech. fools and madmen. axiom: the only speech which needs protection is that which tends to offend. nevertheless, as our politics become more polarized and more similar to european examples, the willingness to suppress offensive and dangerous speech becomes much more widespread. is unfortunate. HA! Good Fun!

I'm pretty certain that I'd be dead after 15 metres, impressive 😃

This is how the devs intended the game:

Ran a 15k this morning and now have weekend work Zooms. In between, cleaning up the Elm seeds in the backyard!

So my game has been buggy since I cheesed around with stolen spells today I noticed this:

Hm, a condition is distance to target. So you could just take a step to the left, then a step to the right to switch targets. It's the VEIL DANCE!

Once played a Berserker/Wizard with just that basic idea. Wearing this: The beard was a glitch which is now patched out. I think I ended up using the other dancer's outfit though with the leather leggins an sleeves. And the Scorched Cloak of course. Because it looked more metal of course. By the way: Berserker/Wizard with that setup has an easy time casting Combusting Wounds on himself. It's not gamechanging but fun. I wonder how (confused) Shining Beacon with a Berserker/Priest would be...

Ask the Uyghurs...

That's actually a damn fine answer. Dunno what's wrong with this girl.

Cardcaptor Sakura The Movie 2 - The Sealed Card. Still watching, but that intro just pulled an amazing bait & switch, so I had to post:

Clarence Williams III, appeared in a lot of things, but may be still identified highly with his early role as Linc from the seminal 60's show THE MOD SQUAD.

My good sir, a dragon does not waddle. A dragon saunters.

Post 2: Power tools, rowwarrr! (that plastic shed had sunshine door-warping issues - cutting rebar to insert into them was hubby's fix) Re: tool etc. sharpening - I guess hubby is becoming impatient serious. ( j/k, he'll still use the "stones" too)

But.... where is Boeroer a.k.a. "I don't use consumables, I don't like that scrolls copy class abilities, in particular all those cool class-defining spells of the poor poor Druid"? 🤓 So easily perverted... very cool find about the belt .

Imo it's 2 Priests. For party runs Priests are considered to be the strongest class anyway due to their absurdly good buffs (and I agree) - but usually they only pick up real pace after the early game. But two (or more) Priests have one little feat that makes them very valuable even early, and that's the talent "Inspiring Radiance". Inspiring Radiance gives you and the party an accuracy bonus of 10 - and it stack with everything. Everything includes itself. So if you have two Priests who cast Inspiring Radiance right at the start of battle you'll have +20 accuracy for the party. This can turn difficult encounters in to cakewalks because you are much more likely to hit enemies with powerful hard crowd control spells or damaging abilities. As a bonus two Radiances on mights priests can make short work of most vessels (undead, constructs and so on). Besides that with 2 Priests you'll basically only need half the time to buff up at the beginning of a fight - and buffing up (especially accuracy) makes most fights a lot easier than starting right away with damage dealing or crowd control. Priest A casts Devotions for the Faithful (+20 ACC) while Priest B casts Blessing, then both Inspiring Radiance (it's a fast cast) and *boom* your whole party has +35 accuracy (which is more than the accuracy you would gain with 11 level-ups). Wizards and Druids are also very powerful. Having two of them is great, too. Two Wizards both stacking multiple Chillfogs on top of each other and then casting Combusting Wounds will have an enormous impact on your early game. Two Druids with Relentless Storm are truly apocalyptic - and so on. I would pick what sounds most fun for you to play. I personally would pick Priest but that is just my preference. If Wizard or Druid sounds cooler to you it's not that much of a difference in terms of power™.

Too bad, there's no condition that lets you interrupt an enemy who is about to use an abilty.

The physical condition you’re in those guys don’t have a chance against you!

Yeah, but if AI shoots at some enemy all the time (with 0.5 casting time base and 0 recovery bc. Blade Cascade) you can manually fire a shot at some other enemy in between, right? Just in order to interrupt the merge for example. Then let the mini gun continue. Since it will be 100% interrupt in almost no action time it should be viable. 10 dmg is without PL scaling.

Ehe good one. 😄 No idea with the AI though. I don't use it that often...

Is there a way to make the AI switch targets? then it might even be bossiple haha.

Yes, most likely. 😄 Now pretty please make a video where you shoot it to death with unlimited Thrust of Tattered Veils casts.

Neither of the two political parties in the United States is in favor of free speech. The only difference between them as one pretends to be in the other makes no pretense that they are not.

I had that since forever every time I pick Ocean Folk human. Literally every time - right from the start of the game. I think it has no effects except the buggy description. So I'm 99% sure it has neither to do with your imprintcheesomatics nor with fampyrs.

Yes it's nice but not so helpful on a build with sky-high Reflex like my SC BM because most fire damage you can take (or inflict) targets REF. With REF in the 250 range, nothing is really going to hit you. Doru has a shot of course, but my religion forbids me to kill Doru with anything other than Lover's Embrace and/or Gouging Strike. 🤓 Agreed, but on a build that capitalizes on high Defenses, the -5 FORT of Acute Rash can be the difference between being hit sometimes by annoying Fortitude targeting attacks, and never being hit. In which case, I'd want to have Wrenched Knee up which isn't that inconvenient for me but granted, I play no-rest runs.

JOESTAR-SAN! OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD! Sure will. Won't be any time soon though, I'm afraid. I still have enough to watch and read for a while without adding new stuff into the mix. And, uhm, Steven Universe: The Kaiju Stories, I mean, Future.

Im 40 hours into ELEX and absolutely loving it, it has a better "sandbox" enemy level and exploration design than Morrowind. What I mean by that is in ELEX their are several deadly enemies who randomly exist on the map and you cannot possibly defeat them at my level 10. So you use subterfuge and exploit the brilliant AI to get the monster, in one example I was facing a slugbeast at level 7, to follow you and I led the foul beast to the Berserker camp where their elite fighters were able to defeat it...on the way to the camp the slugbeasts aggro made several low level cultivators and guards foolishly throw their lives away by attacking it, it was hilarious seeing them get slaughtered in some pointless attack Anyway I now have a follower and an energy sword so I use my follower to attract enemies and I attack from the side or back...its effective and works in much combat with higher level enemies In Morrowind I got to the level where nothing could defeat me, it was fun but the ELEX design is better because you can easily be defeated by enemies and very difficult enemies you encounter as you explore the map and solve a myriad of quests for different factions and around the main quest

I've heard very good things about the 80's LoGH, maybe I even watched it and liked it. JoJo is a hell of a ride. All in all it's probably my favorite anime and something I'd highly recommend if you can take very weird **** and overdramatic everything.

Hot chocolate with baileys and whiskey topped with whipped cream. Not bad, but I'm definitely going jogging tomorrow.

Weird, random, and somewhat novel.

I've been using this thread as a reference -

Did some gardening for my Mum. Sat and took some sun. Did some shopping. Came home. Now drunk. Movie tiiiiiime.

I dunno, I'm highly doubtful that any use of nukes isn't going to devolve into all out nuclear warfare. I have a hard time seeing either Russia or China caring where we nuked them from and there is only one response for that. Rational is going to go out of the window pretty quick.

I really dislike the main character's face. The monsters looks cool, but that protagonist is why I will not play Griftlands