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It seems that mosquitoes attack whether you pass by quietly or from a far but they don't stop chasing you, it's getting really annoying. You can't build or collect resources before dying

Triggers in Deadfire refer to something different. In the Trigger section of the status effects you can set actions that would trigger changes to the status effect. You can change duration, status effect value, etc. What you're talking about is "how to trigger an effect after an action", which could also be called triggers but there is a specific use for the term trigger in Deadfire. You ApplyStatusEffectOnEvent to have a status effect create when the EventValue occurs. For instance, let's say you make that ApplyStatusEfectOnEvent status to create a Damage status effect OnHit. So Whenever you're hit, you create damage to yourself. But if you wanted to increase the damage OnCriticallyHit, then you'd put that in the TriggerOnEvent for the Damage status effect, and ValueAdjustment 5, to increase the damage by 5. TriggerOffEvent would be OnDamaged to clear the bonus damage before the next round of hits.

Just finished Solasta. I expected to be able to rest before the last battle so I got there with just a feel spells. Interestingly, four spiders and an earth elemental kept all the enemies busy so it was pretty easy. Still don't understand This is next.

I had chills only once after waking up much earlier today and having to pee in the middle of the night (look at me getting old). Managed to eat something now, unseasoned rice waffles, my third favorite snack food, right after papier-mâché and styrofoam.

Second dose of Moderna kicked me where it hurt too. I didn't lose the ability to use my arm, but I did have a fever, headache, queasiness and chills so bad I was trembling head to toe most of the day after the shot. Most of the symptoms (except arm soreness) was gone by the second day, so hopefully your experience will be similar or better.

Bloodmage/Stalker (Bear companion) was a great solo run for me. Besides the usual benefits of wizards I used the Willbreaker + modal to lower Fortitude for spells and Takedown Combo. The auto will reduction of Willbreaker worked beautifully for my Essential Phantom who used Draining Touch (which targets will instead of deflection). Saru Sichr is good against non-poison immune tough enemies. Its DoT stacks like Bleeding Cuts - but it has no PEN issues since it's not based on the weapon damage you score. The DoT ticks slowly but with enough stacks foes will melt. Beast's Claw is great in combination with Wizard spells in general. I used Gloves of Greater Reliability + Make them Flinch (enchantment on Willbreaker). I think miss to graze conversion is very, very underrated by most players. Especially because Body Blows and other on-hit effects already work with grazes. It lets you graze enemies with stellar deflection often which you otherwise would miss all the time.

I have started another game made in Slovakia - Loria. Looks like we have more of them, than I've imagined 😛 It is Indie old school Real Time Strategy very similar to Warcraft 2. You are fighting in the first campaign as Humans (Order) versus Demons (Chaos). The best thing is, that this game is currently free on GOG. So if you are craving for some oldschool action, with some quality of life improvements to Warcraft 2 and 3, you can get it here https://www.gog.com/game/loria

This is pretty much the type of thing I do constantly these days. Doesn't matter how good the game is, if it has a lot of grind I'm going to be looking up cheat engine tables or something. I rarely fire up a game lately anyway - I definitely don't want to play 5-6 hours a day, every day, to get to the "fun stuff/options" anymore. 😛 Borderlands 3 just raised the level cap again (72). I knew they would, not sure why anyone is surprised. Which is why I didn't bother grinding the last time they did. I bet they'll raise it again in 4-5 months, to 80. I'll wait, so I only have to grind once. Or if I can find one that works, I'll just use a trainer to level up guns. Edit: sometimes I wish games like this had a toggle option to halt XP entirely, so you could play without leveling up/making your gear obsolete, until you felt like dealing with such.

Well you thought of 3 things so there's that. 😝 I think someone had a moneky's paw and they wished that boring midbudget Oscar bait movies would go away. Their wish was granted by giving us JJ's Star Trek, the SW sequels, Marvel movies, DC movies, and all the other IP mining movies instead. Such is fate I suppose.

There's a weird trend I've noticed amid modern entertainment watchers that seems to insist that every important event must be detailed or else nothing makes sense. It first stuck me when J. J. Abrams said he could never get into Star Trek because he couldn't understand why Kirk, Spock and Bones were friends (lolwut?) and thus why the Star Trek reboot 'fixed' that by showing their first meeting (or something to that effect). And I was like...when did that ever matter to any of the stories they told? Its like saying you can't understand Casablanca without the details of Rick and Ilsa's previous relationship and break-up. That said, I don't think Star Wars was made worse by revealing the answers to lingering questions so much as hurt by answering them in poorly conceived ways. You could have set up Anakin's injuries and even Obi-Wan 'winning' without making Anakin look like a dweeb whose petulant anger blinds him to the fact that he's stupidly endangering himself. I also think this is why everyone seems to think a tv show or a movie needs to be an origin story of some kind, whether its the start of a friendship, and antagonism, or whatever. Don't get it.

Trailer doesn't look too shabby and I like Pace. But ... I know Foundation is considered more sci-fi iconic (never did read all that series, I found it kinda boring), but gosh darnit, when are they going to make something out of the Robot novels? Yes there was that old BBC thing but I didn't see it and it doesn't exist anymore. I would really like to see Elijah Baley, R. Daneel Olivaw and R. Giskard Reventlov brought to modern cinema "life" too. Daneel is the only reason I tried to read Foundation, eventually skipping over to just skim the later books that he was in. C'mon Hollywood (or someone....), gimmie Elijah and Daneel at least, please! 😧

Came over from Steam forums to make sure word keeps spreading on this. Multiple users (and myself) on Win7, 8, and a few even on 10 are reporting that the game crashes to desktop when trying to load a save. This can even happen just trying to start a new game. I know you guys don't really check Steam forums but there are more reports over there than there are here at the moment. There is definitely a major bug since the game worked perfectly fine before the update and now is unable to work on a large variety of systems and configurations. My own, if it helps. Windows 7 Pro, 64 bit GTX 980 i7-4790K If you need any further info or have questions I'd be happy to answer as best I can. Thanks and have a good day.

This seems to be how triggers work... itemMod -> Status effect ApplyOnEvent: kill or whatever -> a Status Effect that does nothing we'll call it "null_effect" also in ItemMod -> Ability containing a Function Called condition: If (character) has null effect -> Apply the effects in an ATTACK As you can see, one branch of the object chain seems to apply a flag (null_effect) and the other branch uses an ability to do the function call to check whether the flag is up or not, and apply the attack if it is. For functions, the Parameter GUIDs are here: https://eternity.obsidian.net/game-data-formats/instanceids The FunctionHash is the same, so just find an existing Parameter and copy the FunctionHash Number from underneath it (the green one, if you're using VSCode). Parameter Hashes correspond to parameter GUIDs, so to find the ParameterHash for an attack/race/statuseffect etc, you need; search for the name of the Attack in the Attacks file or name of the race in ..er.. characters or global?, name of the Status Effect in Status Effects file etc. then copying it's GUID. then search the StatusEffects file for the GUID being used in another condition, then copy it's corresponding ParameterHash. *I don't know modern programming terminology, so if I've got the terms wrong, please forgive/correct me.

Regarding ParameterHash & FunctionHash, the game ignores these properties during deserialization*, so you can safely write ScriptCallData objects without those lines in your mod files! *Snippet from decompiled ParseScriptCall method: else if (text.Equals("UnrealCall") || text.Equals("FunctionHash") || text.Equals("ParameterHash") || text.Equals("Flags")) { JsonUtilities.DiscardNextBlock(jsonReader); }

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Science YouTuber Wins $10,000 Bet With Physicist Xyla Foxlins video on building the 'proof' cart:

There's a spot on the edge of the porch when you're facing the door with the blue (i think) bench, beyond haze. there's huge crowd of the fireflys...at least they still (re-)spawning but it take more time as usuall i guess

many ranged weapons lack a way to boost PEN, or have low PEN to begin with, so one could argue that therefore the ranger has some special problems given that they tend to be built as a ranged class. but it's definitely not unique to ranger. and anyway, a warbow or an extremely high accuracy helps a lot (for crits). the ranger has a bunch of the latter. i played a stalker/furyshaper and wards will definitely not trigger bonded grief.

I finished Call of the Sea. Pretty dang good first person puzzle game and quite lovely visually. It took me a little under 12 hours to finish. The game has 2 endings, both bitersweet. You can save right before the choice at the end, so it's quite easy to watch both endings. I definitely recommend it if you are into puzzle games, it's priced well for the amount of content and quality of the game.

Grinning awkwardly at the npc

The Wards of the Furyshaper count as summons (not Animal Companions) and also count towards your summoning limit. I never heard that Furyshaper Wards will trigger Bonded Grief - but I also haven't played a Furyshaper/Ranger yet. So while I can't dismiss this with absolute certainty it sounds like false info to me. If I'm wrong I'll happily accept that new knowledge though. Wards do give you a PL debuff if they "die", but you can simply cast Withdraw (Priest) on them: they will still work but be untouchable. Can even be used to block choke points then. Also works with Withdraw scrolls of course. Furyshaper + Ghost Heart do not go well together because the Wards count as summon - same as the GH's Animal Companion does. That means you can only have a Ward XOR your Animal Companion on the field - not both at the same time. Which somewhat cripples this combination imo. Unless you didn't want to use the Animal Companion anyways but only view Ghost Heart as a Ranger without Animal Companion. That's an ineffective use of a Ghost Heart - but in that case it wouldn't hurt the Furyshaper's wardshaping.

Hmm.....it was on sale. I think I can get an infinite health cheat for it, so maybe I can finally just bounce through to admire scenery and take screenshots of things futilely trying to beat on a chr. Maybe. 😜

I did, actually. I can sleep with a larger fan running (that's like a lifeline in summer, sometimes ), but it's not any better or worse. It takes my mind off the ringing (or rather, blots it out), but... I just end up focusing on the fan noise. White noise is sort of one of these things that are supposed to help, and they do, but they just shift the issue from one to the other for me. Or rather, replace one noise with the other. Most of the time things work out okay, I've been dealing with that for over 30 years now. In the past few months I've begun to "write" forum posts in my head to fall asleep (sometimes that's fanfiction rather than forums posts, but that's okay too, not like anyone can read it). I guess people count sheep but I can't really do that, no images of sheep in my mind after all (speaking of aphantasia, I've thought about that for a while, at least it explains why I was never bothered by someone else's vision being different than mine when it comes to book adaptations as TV show or film - can't really be disappointed by how some else's mental image looks with one myself, hmm?). I might try music again. There's a chance that age dulled by ability to wake up from the music stopping to play. The advantage of music is it doesn't just drown out the noise, it's also something interesting enough to focus on. Guess I'll go see where my Blackmore's Night CDs are. Listening to Candice sing is really soothing. Plus that's much less likely to get the neighbors annoyed than something like Nanowar of Steel. I actually really, really, REALLY like this cover. Really! Might not do much for you, but Mr. Obsessed With Vocals here loves this. Well, I guess I'll need to rewatch the entire thing then. Silly me, how could I forget that.

That is, essentially, the Scientific Method applied to the problem though. If someone wants to prove that you can do 'impossible' 5000g acceleration with a 'man' made object then they do have to prove it, and in a testable way. Ancient Aliens style "you can't conclusively prove some grainy unverified footage wasn't aliens (with 5000g acceleration), ergo it was aliens (with 5000g acceleration)" doesn't really cut the mustard, and it's also a really antagonistic style of argument that begs for a highly negative and dismissive response. That's changed a bit with the new evidence, but you can only go on what there is available at the time. The question about the existence of aliens is slightly different, of course, in that we know that life has evolved at least once, and to a level that is capable of extremely slow and limited interstellar travel. Given the number of stars in the galaxy let alone the universe the idea that we are unique in that respect shows... extraordinary hubris, and isn't a position any scientist should be taking. The question as to why they'd bother visiting us especially in such a way as suggested is very much an open one though.

That really is an unbelievable fact, because 5 clearly is more than the double of 2.25.

That's fine, really. Just don't try to watch Revolutionary Girl Utena like that, that won't work. Overall I tend to agree. The absolutely worst one was in Madoka so far, what with teenage girls violating the laws of thermodynamics. Really? There's the other half of the less than stellar reviews that say they wanted a plot in the anime and didn't get one. That's criticism I can understand, because watching a character piece through short stories isn't for everyone. Hey, why was that not in the video about the 10 things I did not know about Darh Vader's suit? Or was it and I don't remember? I get that too, sometimes. Fall asleep, then a sudden jolt of adrenaline (that's what it feels like, no idea if that is what happens) rips me out of it and that was that for a few hours, at least. That's how my 4 am posts here on the board come to be. My lack of being able to fall asleep easily "luckily" isn't caused by chronic pain, unless you count tinnitus as pain (it sure is chronic, though... yeah...). It's not something I really ever talk about in real life because I've noticed people react extremely horrified. I never knew life any differently, that ringing in my ears was kind of always there, so it originated at some point in my early childhood. It's not a mild one either, and when it is really, really quiet - like say, when trying to fall asleep - then it feels like a freight train running through my ears. If freight trains made highly annoying blaring sounds at a frequency between 6 and 8 kilohertz. Funny, I never knew that wasn't "normal" until a friend of our family said his daughter got tinnitus from going to a concert, and he's super concerned now because she's really not taking it well, and that he hopes it will get better with treatment. Everyone else reacted so horrified that I never mentioned it (yeah, I don't need people worrying about me). It's not an issue during the day, it just phases out while concentrating on work, or playing, or listening to anything. It's there, but drowned out. The problem is that any of the things I could do to fall asleep more easily by turning on something that generates more soothing sounds to focus on has side effects. I can't fall asleep next to a running TV because the light flashes keep me awake even through closed eyes - actually any sort of non-natural light even when it is not flashing is a huge issue, sun shining through the windows isn't, because that's unfocused and even. My current TV has a blue LED light signalling it's in standby, I taped over it the moment I saw that (now that my Switch dock is there, I removed the duct tape). Sometimes my stupid Kindle paperwhite turns itself on to auto-update in the middle of the night, that actually wakes me up when it happens, so I started putting it display down someplace where I can't see it. I can't use headphones for anything because they keep me awake by being uncomfortable. I can't use music because it stops at some point and then THAT wakes me up (without fail, end of album - wakey wakey), and that includes the few seconds it would take to listen to a record on repeat. Technically I guess I could try a MP3 playlist that's a couple of hours long or repeats itself without any appreciable breaks, but I can't keep on blasting music over speakers through the entire night. And that... isn't even touching the issues I have winding down mentally, but this post is already too long and too whiny. Plus I think I talked about that before. Now that sounds really bad, but it's mostly okay. I have shutters on my windows that block out all outside light sources (street lights, annoying neighbors getting up in the middle of the night for no reason, etc.), and all I need to do is focus a bit on something in my head to fall asleep, provided I'm tired enough. It only becomes a problem when something doesn't work the way it should. This week, for instance, was heavy on issues both work related and private, so focussing at night and winding down was hard. Tonight though is going to be really bad, because that pain in my arm just isn't stopping. Sigh. That... that... I... what?

Chris Paul is the past, present, and future Flop King and is generally hated around the league though that's mostly rumors and innuendo some have come out and said it publicly. You can hop on Youtube and see tons of Paul flops and altercations and even I have a friend of a friend who played in the NBA and he called him the league's Littlefinger.

It's unbelievable that THEY let this guy run both Star Trek and Star Wars straight into the ground directly into the abyss. Isn't just the fact that they obviously have worked together for a while and have used their individual strengths to make it through thick and thin good enough of an explanation for why some people could easily be friends despite their differences? Gosh...what a freaking hack fraud. Those are bigger details than probably the kind of absolute garbage majestic and I are thinking of - more like the utter insanity such as the "woodoo hide" crap I linked in the image. Or any other completely inane details at the same level of stuff you'd find in RedLetterMedia's "TOP TEN THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT DARTH VADER'S SUIT!". Who writes this crap? Man, is that what that is? It's perfectly okay to have characters that already have established history and friendships and such while letting the viewer figure out the dynamics through context clues and clearer explanations when necessary...

What if the tic-tac is the is the NGAD prototype theyre already flying? I know its not but Im really excited to see whatever form NGAD took.

Some academics have been studying UFOs (just as they do parapsychology, etc). I think the problem is less about 'academics' and more in general a problem with people who tend towards "absence of evidences IS evidence of absence" (or seeing is believing) that plagues certain people's logic in any field.

Hey, thanks for sharing this! Very interesting. For me, it isn't just the people who lied or obfuscated or covered up who need to be held accountable, but also the people who laughed. All people within the academy who scoffed and laughed will have lost all credibility and should be dismissed from their jobs. Far too often, in the West, academics are utterly wrong about things they've said/claimed, and yet they're never held to account. The academy has come full-circle and is now much like the Church from five centuries ago.

Before houses they hid in caves to ignore other people.

People probably invented houses so they could ignore other people.

I imagine they're going to need to beta test said sexbots. How does one get a QA job with Humanoid Studios? Asking for a friend.

There is also the question of the scope of the projects : -According to the leaks Avowed is an open-world so it's a pretty big game. -For TOWII Cain and Boyarski said in interviews that they don't wanted TOWII to be an open-world, so maybe it's a smaller game. However we now know that the Game Director of TOWII is Brandon Adler so i don't know if the interviews of Cain and Boyarski are still relevant.

On that topic, I hope they add some different weather at some point. That would be awesome!

Great video! I'm scared that I have vague memories of hearing about Obsidian being founded when I was lurking on the Bioware message boards. God, I'm old. Lovely to see some old favourites again. Neverwinter Nights 2 is still awesome after all these years (#pleasegivemeanenhancededition) and Kreia from KotOR2 is still one of the best video game characters. And now I'm playing Pillars of Eternity 2. One day when I've upgraded my steam-powered laptop to something more modern, I might even play Outer Worlds. Carry on being great for decades more, Obsidian.

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.