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If only someone would criminalize crime, things would start to change.

And here I forgot incels were actually a thing. CGI is probably one of the worst things to happen to animation, and arguably all media. Absolutely hideous and ages horribly.

Just wanted to point out that a Howler using this armor can cause three AoE afflictions in quick succession: Staggered (Spirit Frenzy), Weakened (The Long Night's Drink...), and Frightened (natch). Now that's some spicy value.

I've never read any of the A Song of Ice and Fire books because, when someone first mentioned their existence to me, their recommendation was (paraphrased, because its been too many years now) "You should totally read it, this guy is <rude word indicating carnal relations> his sister...he is so badass!" I only read the Ranma stuff in manga, and it was pretty much a non-kids comedy manga to me. Maybe a bit more stuff simply because of the set-up to the plot (with the body changing) than some others, I guess. Can't really relate it to the anime because I didn't read it, but with the manga I figured Rumiko Takahashi was talented enough to walk whatever line there was and not fall over it.

God damned jocks.

I've slowly been in the process of moving away from using Google email to protonmail. Seems like that's been a fortuitous call, given that this morning Google decided to lock me out of my account. Try to log in, the password is correct but they want to "confirm it's [me]". They ask me what my recovery email address is, I type in the correct email address. Not good enough: they want to send me a confirmation code to that same recovery email address; I get that email on the recovery account and type it in. Still not good enough, please enter a phone number to receive a text message with a verification code. I get the code, I type it in, get "we can't verify it's you, try again later". What a great system we have where you setup these different recovery and authentication options and then Google just arbitrarily decides they're not good enough anymore even though nothing's changed. I'm still logged in at a different location, thankfully, so now I'm in the process of moving my remaining stuff over to the protonmail account. This is exactly what I want to spend my morning doing, thanks Google. I already had so many reasons to want to move away from Google, but literally no longer being able to use my email address has jumped right to the top of the list. And it's not like there are any actual humans to talk to resolve this sort of thing at Google...everything is automated, so if the automated systems don't work, please proceed to lay down and die. (e): Oh, also, I can't log in at all through Firefox anymore - I only get to the "type in your email address" bit of the login address, hit enter, and they don't even ask for a password, they just say my browser is insecure and I should try using something else...like Chrome, perhaps? At first, I thought it was because my version of Firefox is one version behind, but I think it's actually because of one of my privacy add-ons (possibly my canvas spoofer) is interfering with their authentication process. I use an insanely long randomly-generated unique password - frig off and let me log in, Google.

Doc Rivers playoff teams, everyone.

Ok, I discovered a problem which basically decided for me. Testing it with a grocery run. Got groceries. Opened hatch, put in bags. Went to close hatch ... and I cannot reach it! The top/edge of hatch is too high/over my outstretched arm even on tippy-toes. I jumped and jumped. There's a rectangular plastic depression at bottom of door that I could juuuuusssst reach with the right jump, jam my fingers in that and try to pull it down, which I finally managed to do after a few tries. Went home, showed hubby. He said I'd need a stepstool in the car all the time or we'd have to tie a rope somewhere. 🤣 There is no automatic lowering of hatch etc, and it never occurred to me to check for such a thing because I've owned many many hatchbacks + been in friends larger cars etc. and never encountered such before, there was always a way to reach/close doors/hatches. Didn't occur to hubby either, ha. Lesson learned. I wonder if this will be only the Crosstrek or if modern hatch cars are often going to be like this now. Most of the ones we looked at were largely similar looking. I'm too short! Low-slung sports car it is?! Thankfully that $250 for the remorse-return option was well spent. I think we just lose the extra electronics warranty fee.

So, hubby thinks he figured out what was wrong with my original car. Went to a junk yard, pulled a part out of a car there (an alternator, which apparently Subaru discontinued making for my car/year), put it in. He says "the symptoms were really weird for that part, otherwise I would've realized sooner, but all fixed." I'm all "are you sure." "Yeah. ....so should we take that new car back then?" 😑 Honestly the Legacy drives better (ride, steering), but mostly since we felt so rushed buying the Crosstrek. We could maybe then just wait the 3-9 months for lot stocks to go up again, and be more picky then. Maybe I'd get a mid-life crisis sports car instead and hubby can get a Forester. I dunno wat to do guys! 🥴 Re: new car headlights - I think the Crosstrek lets you turn the automatic-ness off by setting them (on the lever) to O instead of Auto. Then they don't do anything on their own/stay off and you just turn them on/off manually like usual. Which is what I'd do, because I want ME to be in control of what my car does, when, as much as possible, not some microchips. Also, the way the Crosstrek largely turns engine off while idling (like at a stoplight) then starts again when gas pedal is pushed is too weird for me. Supposedly you can turn that "gas saving feature" off, but you have to do it again every single time you get in the car. It all feels like struggling to wrest desktop control back from Windows10....

By the way since I was testing I also tried Freezing Rake with Eye of Wael + Sun & Moon + Potion of Ascension at night. That's a total of PL18 on Illusion+Frost. The tooltip gives a range of 177-222 Freeze DMG, ACC of 134, PEN of 13 and a huge AoE on my end-game toon. Of course these are not the craziest numbers that one can get in the game with the strongest powerbuilds, but in practice that's potentially a lot of Crits in the 300+ DMG Range, plus the Weakened affliction component shaving off 25% of Health. On anything weak to Freeze DMG, it's lethal.

Without the Potion, I'm at generic PL11 (9 +1 Prestige +1 Hot Razor Skewers, not counting Illusion-specific +3PL from Whitewitch Mask and Eye of Wael). With the Potion I get to generic PL13 (I checked my numbers just now, potion does stack properly the +2 PL). That gives me MUT Fists with: +65% DMG, +18 ACC, +5 PEN. So it's not post-Mythic I think (?), it's near-Mythic - I'm just missing +10% DMG increase vs. a Mythic-grade weapon. If I was a Monk, I guess that would give post-Mythic Fists, but MUT gives an upgrade every "buggy" 3PL I think from what @thelee explained which seems to line up with my toon.

The Japanese SMTV trailer with English subtitles:

My thinking is that even if they started with it, it wouldn't work. Hot prospect comes along and everyone NEEDS him or her for their team, and they're going to waive all sorts of fees to get them signed, which in turn will make the other institutions do the same which means ultimately the student athletes won't be paying for it still. Could be wrong.

Understandable - I've made the same kinds of decisions on stuff because of not enjoying the discourse on it. Rarely, I change my mind and eventually own up to it because I then understand what they were talking about and realize the discourse wasn't nearly as stupid as I once thought; more often, when I change my mind I tell absolutely nobody precisely because I do not want to become a part of the discourse which is still utterly stupid, . Yeah, I have absolutely zero patience for driving, usually makes me want to curl up and die. It's also not great on me physically given my neck and shoulder issues. A real pro-tip from me to all of you is to never break your neck, because things will never go back to normal once you do, even years later.

Wait ... cars these days "force" you to update their software? I assume it's kinda like how phones want you to update all the time? Does stuff stop working if you don't? I know that Crosstrek had a bunch of stuff but I was hoping I could turn off what I could and ignore the rest, just treat it like a "car." Arrgh. Edit: I couldn't even tell where the fuel gauge was initially...it was a dotted blue bar surrounded by other led display stuff and... Hm. Maybe I should just buy one of these instead (Toyota Supra, 1990). I see some for dealer-sale with 50-80k on them, for $20k or so, sometimes. I wonder if you can get parts for it still tho. Not to mention, trusting the used car sales....

Potion of Ascension would get you up to innate PL 12, right, which I believe would get you post mythic fists?

To your point though, Potion of Ascension is particularly nice for this build when heavily using Monastic Unarmed Training, to cobble together the last PL necessary to get Mythic Fists. Similar to your Punchy Puncher build in that regard, but with Vanishing Strike + Gambit + Backstab on top .

I actually just started this over the weekend. I'm hoping to get free of Google aside from my Android phone and some work stuff. Anyways it's relatively cool here at around 90f/30c, but it's storming and hurricane season is upon us so it may not be good for long. If I get hit with a hurricane after that freeze I may just leave Texas.

Speaking of freeing slaves... In N.C.A.A. Case, Supreme Court Backs Payments to Student-Athletes Another step in the right direction. As I have said in the past, College Sports is a multi-billion dollar business. Without the student athletes it does not exist. They are receiving something valuable for their time and efforts. There is no question there. But be participating in sports they are not permitted or sometimes just hindered from earning money for use on necessary things the scholarships do not cover. That is what this ruling is supposed to remedy. There is still a very big elephant in the room however. NCAA and institutions still use their likeness and names to sell merchandise. They deserve to get a piece of that. If your name and your likeness are not yours then what is?

Believe it or not (which might be hard to do with my history of what I watched), but the inappropriateness is the main reason I never tried Ranma 1/2. Mostly because it was my nerd-colleagues that watched the anime back when I was in school who watched the anime just because of that. I don't mind content like that, but there's a certain amount of idiotic behaviour in my nerd community that I can't stand, and that was a major part of it. Anyway, I was really joking, and I meant what I said. CCS, I think, overall benefits from a slower pace when watching, and the first 30 or so epsiode you blew through in record time anyway. Which I understand, it's great. When I look back at binging Steven Universe, I don't feel like doing so made me lose something. If anything, it enhanced the experience because the filler-style episode "holes" went away faster, instead of lasting days or weeks. Cardcaptor Sakura, on the other hand, has a different focus. It's storyline is much simpler (but told in an equally great way), the whole setup is on a much different scale. I think, if I would have experienced the weekly release when it came out, I would appreciate it even more. Can't be sure, but that's what it feels like. Anyway, I watched the first episode of Eden. The backgrounds look good, but the movements are weird. Sara, the girl, ages up massively after the first 10 or so minutes by the way. She ends up looking like this really quickly: It's only marginally better, but hey... all the animation in this looks uncanny anway. The storyline seems to be a perfectly standard AI revolution. At least... humans are all gone from earth apparently, robots are still working at whatever tasks they were given and there's a cast of security robots trying to supress all knowledge of humans. The one thing I found mildly interesting was that there's apparently a sect of robots worshipping humans as their creators. They're persecuted by the security bots. There's also a counter on the sceen from time to time, counting down. I'm guessing that's humans left, but it went from reading 500 million to less than one million in the first episode. Doesn't look too good for them, if I'm right.

Mechanicus is enjoyable - the characters' dialogues are the most so, didn't pay for it in any case so win-win playing this.

FINAL 24 HOURS : 122% funded and stretch goals unlocked! GOG also confirmed

Yes indeed, by beneficial effects I meant those that explicitly appear as a buff on your character. I was about to say that to simplify, we could say that any effect that has an aggressive component (e.g. Repulsive Visage, Relentless Storm but also "Borrowed" spells) aren't prolonged but all the "pure" buffing effects are but this is very wrong. Cloak of Death for example can be prolonged and you can't find more aggressive. I think the Piercing Sigil too. and even Llengrath's Safeguard can be prolonged but has an aggressive Push component. It's not even a matter of whether there is an attack roll or not. Nevermind...

Heh, I read a story about how someone bricked a Ferrari by trying to perform a system update in an underground garage. No signal = no worky and the entire car locked up.

Toss on Recall Agony. Nothing survives.

I suspect a significant factor in the US is the influence of the internet. This can be used to amplify the voice of small, anonymous groups and to create echo chambers that become self-reinforcing. Prior to the internet, when a typical person espoused a crackpot conspiracy theory, their buddies could be on hand to keep them well-grounded. That is often no longer the case, since people will head to the internet to anonymously spout rubbish. It doesn't help that foreign adversaries can help promote this behavior, to an unknown extent. We're more likely to be targeted by these malicious agents due to our foreign relations. I'm not sure yet what we can do about this. Another factor has been the isolation brought on by lockdowns, social distancing, and mask wearing. While necessary because of the lack of a vaccine, these measures are harmful to the human psyche. We need social contact. If a person is close to the edge psychologically (including the 1% who display psychopathic personality traits 🤪), this can completely knock them over into self-delusion and potential violence. Some of this may have been reflected in the rabid, illogical anti-masking posts I frequently see. Maybe. I'm hoping this effect will gradually fade as we open back up again. I completely understand the desire to rid ourselves of these quarantine measures, but I also agreed with their temporary necessity to prevent mass deaths.

I didn't call your thread garbage. I called the greater issue of culture wars garbage, and asked why you believed that that particular story merited its own thread outside of the politics thread -- for which no adequate answer was given. Regardless I did not take any action as the thread did not break any rules per se. As I recall, you admitted that you had fundamentally misunderstood your own story and admitted it could have been posted in the politics thread in the first place. And that's as far as I'm willing to take take this tangent about moderation in public. Any further questions, please take them to PM.

Happy Juneteenth! GD, I'm sure that you already know this but Juneteenth was more of a regional thing celebrating the end of slavery in the South in general and Texas in particular. The holiday was just built on something that was already being celebrated like a lot of other holidays have been before it.

Meh, unless OW2 will be a space sim (which is not impossible, but I greatly doubt it) all of it would be more or less waste of time. And if I want beautiful looking "immersive" space sim with nothing fun to do, I will reinstal and play Elite. There is still so much to expand upon within OW2 gameplay loop to bring it at least close to something like New Vegas, that spending money and time on stuff like that would be wasteful.

Hmm, the combat section early on looks very action-y. In the previous games playing like that would likely have gotten you killed in very short order. I do hope that was just for the trailer and the actual game preserves the deadliness of the earlier games' combat.

I made a post awhile back saying we need something to keep bugs away from our areas. Just like the lure trap we need something that does the exact opposite.

It’s definitely not for everyone, but I spent more than 30 hours on this game, and finished it. The developers are really nice bunch of people. I’ve managed to find a gamebreaking bug for me, which no one else reported, and after little bit of communication, they fixed it in the next patch. Guys were producing new patches and new content for free for over 3 years. So I will definitely give them my support again, as soon as they officially announce GOG release.

Incelvania

What kind of douchebag reply is that? Do you not realize that the only reason Google is filled with information is because someone ASKED for said information in the first place (outside of articles)? Whatever you search for, the answer is often found on a forum of some kind. Not like this.