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Today I get my first vaccine dose.

PS2? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I owned an Atari 2600. Also, my friend had a ColecoVision. Edit: I owned a copy of the infamous E.T. It was terrible, but there were plenty of games on the 2600 just as crap. Missile Command was awesome, though. Defender was pretty good too.

He’s not my type. Never date someone smarter than you! 😆

There was a snake in the kitchen this morning just doing snake things. He must have been in the house since at least Sunday because we were in the yard most of the day and the door was wide open most of the time I had to take him back outside but it's all good because we are friends now. He runs a Harry and the Hendersons fan site so you know he's a quality dude

US has bought and will donate 500 million doses of Pfizer's vaccine worldwide. Youre welcome, world.

I found another speed buff (it stacks with Tempered Fury and Bolting Strikes) - Spirit Siphon (15% action speed) from Less/Least Unstable Coil.

To tell you the truth I just thought it was an opportunity to get my funny little quip about the inclusiveness of high explosive detonations in. I didn’t figure we’d still be talking about it two pages later.

It looks like my old country has adopted the immigration policy of my current country... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57343572 "Denmark has passed legislation allowing it to relocate asylum seekers to third countries outside the European Union while their cases are reviewed. The project, proposed by the Social Democrat-led government, would seek partner countries to run camps and fund agencies along migration routes" Just like Australia has an agreement with Papua New-Guinea, Denmark has made an agreement with Rwanda. In the future, asylum seekers will be sent to holding camps in Rwanda and if they qualify for asylum, will be allowed to settle in Rwanda. Edit: Just to nip it in the bud before people start crying "Outrageous! or How can that be safe?" etc. Rwanda ranks (in 2017) as the ninth safest country in the world to be in according to the World Economics Forum (something a lot of western countries should take note of) http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_TTCR_2017_web_0401.pdf

Defender was much better in the arcade. I remember how disappointed I was when I saw how Pac-Man looked on the Atari. I was too young to understand the difference between 8 bit and 64 bit graphics LOL. Asteroids in space invaders worked just fine though. And who could forget this one

Because... that's what I'm sort of watching right now. Shiny mutants and weird giraffe people. Some more observations about Clear Card: Yamazaki is still hilarious, but Chiharu just called his lies lazy. She's not impressed. There's a new, mysterious transfer student. Again (that's one for every arc now, two in the first, if you count Meilin). Hoooooooooooooooe! The subtitles for this are too literal. Sakura is put out by Toya saying that she slept with her belly uncovered. If you don't know that Christopher Lambert* supposedly steals your belly button at night when you do that or turns you into a frog, well, you're definitely not getting that. Hoooooooooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Hoooooooooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Sakura sees trees moving outside the classroom. Tomoyo gets her out of class by pretending she's sick, then whips out a new costume and her camcorder, and says: "I thought this might happen, so I brought everything!" This isn't so bad this time, except for the looks. I... yeah. It looks the way it does, I'll stop complaining. Maybe I'll get used to it. Also, @Bartimaeus yes, there are only 22 episodes, but apparently it's not even complete. I guess I'll see when I get to it. I hope it's as "incomplete" as the Sakura card arc was, because that still worked out well enough even if the storyline wasn't entirely finished (one very obvious thing remained, and was partially solved by the second movie), and not "incomplete" in the "ends at a cliffhanger with no continuation in sight" way. *MOOOOOORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAAT! Joke explanation spoiler:

Agent 47s cover is nice

The key question here is : Why were you watching that show ?

Buttina lmao

Still sounds better than Fiona in French

In French this is borderline indecent 🤣 now I can't erase it from my mind! It's like calling a Bettina a Buttina. The glitch you experience sucks - my only advice would be to steal every spell in the Deadifre to become a powergod that just runs solo and makes every enemy pay dearly for this glitch. EDIT: @Elric Galad any thoughts on Fessina ?

would it still cause a crash if they end up being pulled into a ship boarding fight randomly? or do you mean permakilling them?

I made these by following the GIMP tutorial

@BruceVC ^^Concentration camps confirmed. F-ing Danes.

Did you try respec? In case that's even possible with companions.

There's an interesting perspective in this NPR article: There's A Stark Red-Blue Divide When It Comes To States' Vaccination Rates I was expecting some differences, but that's just stunning. The good news is that most states are at the 50% mark or higher.

obligatory explanation scene for above as always:

Some things that come to mind, though I have no clue how would those apply to Elden Ring: 1) Third person deliberate combat, brutally punishing button mashing. 2) Checkpoint based save system, with resource management element, and where death is part of the core gameplay loop, rather then failure state. 3) action RPG combat system - stats and weapons modify the gameplay experience, with various possible builds. 4) Lack of handholding, and relative freedom of exploration (even though games tend to have intended progression paths, and frankly that one is dodgy - Dark Souls1 early levels had clear metroidvania inspirations, but this design was dropped as game progressed, and sequels (and various souls-like) tend to stick to a more rigid structures) 5) Being Softworks games I have also some expectations when it comes to the tone - dark fantasy, massive, hulking creepy monsters, tough bossfights. EDIT: Here is a nice list from Mark Brown's video on the genre, though I feel some of the points might be difficult to understand without knowing what he is referring to. In past years, most "soulslike" were following formula pretty closely - Softworks own Sekiro ditched or change quite a few core designs from what I heard - making it more of a souls-like action game, then action RPG.

Currently refinancing my home right now because the rate they offered me was criminally low and brought my monthly payment down by nearly a grand. In other real estate related news, my tenants renewed for another year and I sold a small piece of land that I acquired in AZ for a hefty profit.

The new list of the top 10 most livable cities in the world Kudos to NZ and Japan for putting two in the top 10. Australia said “hold my Fosters “ and got four! The only city I've been to on this list was Tokyo. And I only spent one night there. I remember it was really, really, seriously big. I noticed Covington TN didn't make the list. Curious. I'm sure it was just an oversight!

A few years ago I investigated mortgaging one of my properties to have a house constructed on it to increase its value. The total cost would’ve been about $90,000 for a modest 3br 2b 900-1050 square foot home. I’ve picked that idea up again recently only with all the damned COVID-19 related shortages The cost is now closer to $150,000. Ouch. The lot by itself has to be around $60,000 in value. So the break even point of sale would be around $210,000 assuming. That would put it well above the median home price in Brownsville Tennessee and probably beyond the reach of most of the potential buyers. Interest rate on a 30 year fixed are still pretty low but that is going to be changing real soon. That’s something that could easily happen during the time it takes to build the house and get it ready for sale. I guess the thing to do right now is nothing. Wait a few years and let’s see what happens. Right now that particular lot only cost me $680 a year in taxes and a couple of hours of my time a month for landscape maintenance.

As far as I can tell, the class/race specific options are both interesting and just minor flavour. So the dichotomy of your question is wrongly put. Every once in a while, your class or race may provide you with an option not everyone has. That is interesting, but it's just minor flavour.

I never had that issue. The refrigerator melting down to a lump of goo did make getting food from it less appealing, though.

The best bet for keeping a non-GH pet alive is going with stalker and the bear pet. The higher AR really works wonders keeping the pet alive. Then you can try to keep your foes dazed, which lowers their PEN by -4, so they'll always under-penetrate you and do little damage. One way to do this is with Griffin's Blade, which dazes foes in an AOE on crit. A seer, with high accuracy & INT and lingering echoes, can keep foes perma-dazed. Or you could build a geomancer bloodmage/stalker, as Boeroer has discussed in many other threads, and daze them with Arkemyer's Dazzling Lights. But if you go with seer you could have Aloth or a hireling mage do this for you.

useful items primarily for no priest subclass/no pure wizard builds using item switching to prolong beneficial effect duration out of combat ( strand of favor, cabalist's gambeson arcane extension, ooblit pet...), please add to the list if you find relevant missing things. Note: I've just discovered so far the faster way to prolong the effects in my experience: if you have both strand of favor and cabalist's gambeson, equip both of them, than place an armor and a necklace in player inventory, click e.g. the necklace, hover on the armor (or vice-versa), double click; this way one double click will swap both necklace and armor slots, doubling the swap speed Note: a way to trigger watcher blooded state out of combat is using double necklace of fireballs on self, just pay attention when Vela is moving around (you can have double necklace of fireballs from dunnage+neketaka vendors so you can use it soon with cabalist's gambeson from arkemyr's vault). You can use also double Missile Gloves (Crookspur + Deck of Many Things vendors), but those may come later depending on your path any unguent can be easily prolonged for +2 skill Arcanist's Balm (+2 Alchemy, +2 Arcana, +2 Explosives) Blessed Incense (+2 History, +2 Insight, +2 Metaphysics, +2 Religion) Oil of Allure (+2 Bluff, +2 Diplomacy, +2 Intimidate, +2 Streetwise) Thief's Putty (+2 Mechanics, +2 Sleight of Hand, +2 Stealth) Unguent of Animalism (+2 Athletics, +2 Survival) Antidote Immunity to Poison attacks for 30 sec Aply the drug, prolong a little bit, save, reload. Just be sure to apply Deadeye LAST as it seems to be the one giving problems to the rest. Coral Snuff (+10% Action Speed, +5 Deflection, +5 Reflex for 180 sec) Mouth Char (-5% Damage taken, +15% Damage with weapons for 180 sec) Ripple Sponge (+3 Perception, Resolve, and Intellect for 180 sec) Svef (+3 Perception, -25% Hostile effect duration, Resistance to Intellect, Perception, and Resolve afflictions for 180 sec) Taru Turu Chew (+3 Constitution, Might, and Dexterity for 180 sec) Whiteleaf (Concentration, +10 Will, +1 Health restored per 3 sec for 180 sec) Deadeye (+5 Accuracy, 15% chance to Interrupt on scoring Hit for 180 sec) APPLY LAST I think when trying the ultimate to submit it to the developers, is better not to spam save, reload (there is a chance it could be not accepted), so maybe better to apply 1 drug at a time/once before exiting the game session Amra battle axe with Tempered Fury enchantment, Frenzy without deflection penalty, 25% chance on kill. triggers with barrels, ranger pet or blight from magran's favor belt bardatto's luxury death and taxes: hardy on unconscious ally, not hard to trigger on combat and can be prolonged out of combat as it lasts long bardatto's luxury grace: not sure but in theory you could be able to prolong the +3 health per 6 sec, harder though as starting duration is very low chromoprismatic quarterstaff elemental induction (+15% Damage for 10.0 sec when hit with Acid / Fire / Frost / Electricity attacks), e.g. use necklace of fireballs to trigger death's maw death runes? (within 5m of a killed enemy grants -15% incoming damage for 10 sec) not tested yet, may be not so easy to prolong Death's runes can't be extended, it's a temporary aura ON the corpses, similar to cipher effects on foe devil of caroc breastplate devil's due +2 health restored per 3.0 sec for 6.0 sec on critical hit with weapons (hit vela) griffin's blade loyal companion: steadfast on blooded, not so easy to prolong permanently (gets overriden by spells giving the same effect) but useful as alternative to no pity for the lost watcher ability least unstable coil Empowered Being (all lvl3 inspirations, however like all inspirations buffs if you're hit by afflictions your inspirations will degrade if you're not immune from afflictions. if you are immune it will not be overwritten unless you use it again. Also if you unequip, save, reload the buff will be saved with a different name and no more overwritten but it may weaken some effects of the inspirations like robust) Less/Least Unstable Coil Spirit Siphon (15% action speed, stacks with Tempered Fury from Amra and Bolting Strikes from Lord Darryn's Voulge) Lord Darryn's Voulge Bolting Strikes (10% chance on hit to get Quick for 10.0 sec, 15% Damage dealt as Shock with weapons for 10.0 sec) Lover's Embrace dagger: Frenzy (25% action speed, -10 deflection, Strong, Fit for 15 sec) from Lover's Quarrel on female target enchant, get it by critting Vela (more safely with a shield equipped) necklace of the harvest moon midnight wish??? (Friendly AoE: +8 health, +10 defenses for 15.0 sec per 3.0 sec, not tested yet but I doubt it works) necklace of the harvest moon yearly reap -5% Recovery Time for 6.0 sec on crit), hit vela with blunderbuss protective eothasian charm darkest before dawn (+5 health per 3.0 sec over 12 sec, damage reduced by -25% for 12 sec on near death), risky but good to prolong, you need to sleep once to recharge it though) resounding call call to arms (Destroying a destructible grants tenacious 12.0 sec), not super easy to prolong but doable and definitely great to have scordeo's edge adaptive (+2 Accuracy with all weapons for 30.0 sec on scoring Hit, stacks 10 times, easy to prolong as long lasting, stacks with blade cascade/highwayman) scordeo's edge blade cascade (ignore recovery for 5.0 sec on scoring hit, use it on vela) Scordeo's Edge Highwayman (20acc with ranged weapons) scordeo's trophy opening barrage (unlimited stacking -5% recovery time), you can get very good recovery time just with this one before getting scordeo's edge serpent crown serpent's strike +10 Accuracy (maybe also -25% Recovery Time?) for 15s when critically hit Slippers of the Assassin Boots Shadow Form (invisible on kill, trigger it killing barrels. Reported working (thanks Raven Darkholme) with double clicking slippers from player inventory too, but so far not working this way for Kaylon and me so it may be related to specific build/setup) [EDIT] ok confirmed I managed to get it working after save/reload: on reload you look transparent but the Shadow Form is no more working until you double click the slippers from player inventory, then it is applied again but you need to prolong it from scratch in my experience so it may be a little tedious but working The Maker's Own Power belt reforge the flesh 10hp/3sec -85% dmg, paralyze can be worked around (blade cascade on, trigger reforge and extend it, if you knocked yourself out you will stand up and won't be paralyzed, you may still need to switch weapon, save, reload and switch weapon again to get rid of paralyze) unstable soul essence bomb (+6 Health Restored per 6.0 sec for 12.0 sec) wahai poraga at blades reach -20% Melee Damage Received for 2.0 sec on launching attack (hit vela) weyc's wand attuned channel (after empowering an ability, gain +3 Power Level for 20 sec, confirmed) Whispers from the Depths Grasping Mysteries: 30% chance on scoring Kill to gain Acute (+5 Intellect, +1 All Power Levels) for 8.0 sec

Dude, what? That is super hyperbole. What company or person has been taken down because they don't wave the rainbow flag? Chick-fil-a and Hobby Lobby seem to be doing fine despite donating large sums of money to anti-lgbtq legislation. Those are companies with CEO's actively voicing opinions, so I don't know where you get the idea that anyone is getting castigated for not taking a stance. We literally just transitioned from a president who was elected on a very conservative platform. He certainly wasn't waving a rainbow flag. He still managed 75 million votes in the loss. Gay marriage has only been legal for 6 years. We are very much in the thick of things when it comes to the civil rights of the LGBTQ community. My daughter is gay. I don't want her to have to deal with discrimination. I want her to be able to get married and have the same rights as I did. But I know she will still face challenges, and even though it may be totally silly that a missile company is flying a flag that makes her feel accepted in this society, it still makes me feel a bit better about her future.

In the modern world it’s not enough to just not be discriminatory. If you’re not waving the flag then you are a homophobic bigot even if you’re not.

A bit more on topic... Lindemann - Ich hasse Kinder (I hate children). As far as I understand the song, about childhood bullying and vengeance

For the random point of literature interest:

Mark of Faith was pretty good for a 40k novel, Rachel Harrison's on my good list from BL authors. On to So far so good.

Is it really? Is that why I still get the itch to play New Vegas over Outer Worlds?