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Copyprotect mechanics causing bad performance in games? I have never heard of such a thing before!

To crush your enemies. See them driven before you. And to hear the lamentations of their women.

I decided that instead of taking money from my friend for my old computer parts, I traded it for some fishing gear. So I went fishing, caught 3 "common roaches", and 8 perch, it could've been a couple more but I didn't hook 'em proper so they tore off. They weren't the biggest really, only 3 of them that was worth keeping, but as I remembered not having a proper fillet knife I tossed them back in. Still, was a real nice morning!

If Leonardo had no children then he can't have had actual descendants since you need children for that; and he is one of the more credible historical people to be labeled as homosexual*. OTOH, Temujin was notoriously heterosexual and had rather a lot of descendant; but then something like 99% of ethnic English people can trace their lineage back to at least one royal/ noble house because you double (meh, up to) the number of antecedents with every generation. *my personal favourites are Fredrick the Great and Richard the Lionheart, mostly because the kind of people who typically idolise them hate the thought they might have been gay.

The upcoming Linux kernel (5.14) is killing support for IDE (ATA) connections. I still remember connecting a DVD ROM, a floppy drive, and 2 7200 RPM WD hard drives with those unwieldy ribbon cables...

Only against people I don't like.

Can we, like, fix the, uhm, spelling mistake in the title? It's Man as in mankind, not men... something something culture wars something.

I used to just put a chair on a desk and put my computer on the chair to mimic a standing desk. Of course that is a lot easier to do with a laptop, so it might not work for you.

I think I'm going to send my kids to live with Melkathi if my wife and I die.

I am playing a co-op game with another player. I am hosting the game and I was able to unlock mithridatism after killing my first 5 wolf spiders. My other player has now killed 20 spiders. We have tried killing them over multiple days, without dying, and all in the same day without dying.

So I can't get any achievements in coop. They are host only. If I join my friend, only he gets the achievements. I've tried the following achievements in his game: Fine Dining, Lounging Around, Beefing Up, Exoskeleton, Face your Fears. None of them worked. Not sure if the problem is on my side, but I even tried multiple accounts, nothing worked for me. Hope this can get fixed!

I find myself constantly being attacked by mosquitos and that’s fine but I can’t outrun them. Even in full spider armor they will continue to follow me from the hedge all the way to the haze they simply are too fast or have to much of a follow distance/pursuit, they need to be debuffed

I think I got rid of my box of IDE cables some years back, but I'm sure I still have a ton of useless stuff, like way too many cat 5 ethernet cables, USB A to mini USB cables, coax cables, and AV cables.

Mostly, yes. 😫

Are you sure?

Yeah, I read the article and the first page of the report it's just the headline that I had to comment on. I'm weak.

Speaking of Ranger + AoE: Am playing an Arcane Archer/Troubadour as hireling atm and I love her. Plenty of AoE - and the synergy between Sure-Handed Ila (which applies both its recovery and reload bonuses to reloading weapons) and weapons such as Spearcaster (+modal = great) or the Red Hand is great. But then... anybody tried Imbue:Web + Imbue:Eora with high INT, Driving Flight and Waterhaper's Focus and combined it with being energized (Their Champion)? If you shoot from stealth you'll apply 6 pulsing AoEs (3 webs + 3 pulls) with insane accuracy in a heartbeat. And all pulses will interrupt enemies if they crit. At the same time they can't move and get pulled together. It's just not fair. Also, with high Arcana very useful against hard to hit enemies because Imbue Shots get Arcana as accuracy bonus - and Spearcaster does that, too. I just leave the modal on . With SH Ila I'm still fast enough to prone-lock those enemies.

I think the report talks about Da Vinci descendents, not specifically Leonardo, going back to Leo's great, great grandfather and exploring five major branches of the male lineage (as they're tracking the Y chromosome).

Hmm, it would probably be a lot more effective if we developed a drone that could "crop dust" an entire street at once with gas instead of small pockets here and there.

So police should use live ammunition ?

we already have some redundancy of durations via intellect (outgoing durations) and resolve (incoming hostile durations), so I do not think it's a bad thing if CON duplicates might on the healing end. con is already weird in that extra health is even less useful because healing from a given caster grants the same absolute amount on a 300 health char as a 200 health char, so essentially once you eat up the extra 100 health "reserve" the 300 character has over the 200 character, the two characters essentially don't have different health, unless you manage to overheal the 200-health character a lot. The overhealing is more relevant earlier on when health amounts are lower and it's more likely you can overheal, but ironically CON is even less effective at that point because it's a percentage boost off a very tiny base -- class differences in health will probably matter more. i forget which rtwp RPG it was where most healing effects healed a % of health (maybe it was tyranny?). i thought it solved the con problem quite nicely. you could dump con on your squishy wizard, but then your potions would hardly help you out, whereas healing a paltry 20% on a beefy tank could still be a huge save.

What's motivation ?

Mhm, there's something about Japanese that makes this sort of overacting much easier to bear, or perhaps that's because it is mostly unintelligible. That trailer was bad. Why are all of Kill la Kill's trailers made to make the show look like its serious business? I get why Shaft made the Madoka promotional material in the most trollish way possible, but trailers like that one just hurt the impression. Wait, Madoka was Hotaru? Holy crap. I watched one of the movies with the English dub, and Madoka's voice was... yeah, not really... her Japanese seiyu was bad enough, but the English VA took the cake and ran away with it. I guess I should apologize to Mima for being overly sqeaky in Clear Card. I guess its also a little easier to make the girls from Sailor Moon sound more natural and like real characters/real people. Outside of being magical girls they mostly are, and that's a huge part of the charm of the show (obviously). In Madoka all the characters are tropes distilled into either deconstructions or subversions. I thought it worked well enough. It's not my most favorite VA work ever, regardless of which version, but it was servicable, except for Madoka being really annoyingly high pitched at times. It was the rest that made it great, from the toying with expectations, to the insanity of the labyrinths, to... uhm... the soundtrack itself. But yeah, enough talk about Madoka. Luckily the really noticable 3D panning in Kill la Kill is somewhat limited, as it is usually used to make the academy seem more "impressive" than it is, but you already saw what I meant then. Sometimes the screen's just full of everything and trying to take everything in becomes extremely tiring. All right and significantly less terrible than expected is pretty high praise. It is a mockery of fan serivce, assuming you'll get to the fourth episode, you'll see that was clearly intentional and not just a happy accident. You're right about the premise and the plot not really mattering. There's almost nothing of it for the largest of time, unless you count Ryuko and her quest for revenge (well, information on her father's murderer). The actual plot starts two thirds into the show with a really heavily telegraphed plot "twist" and proceeds to immediately fly off the handle in a way so you just can't take it seriously. I thought it made fun of NGE at some level, but that might have been just me. I'm kind of afraid to google and see, because that invariably leads to fandumb posts.

am not surprised. has been kinda glut o' cookie cutter ya fare the last few years on netflix and similar services. listening to boardie feedback has informed us that more than a few who in 2018 mighta' given something like ragnarok a chance by watching most or even all o' a season before reaching a conclusion is now hitting their threshold after an episode or two. don't need more than a couple episodes to see ragnarok fall into same old ya patterns. what we saw o' ragnarok was no worse than other ya shows we has tried to watch. not better either. am thinking more than a few boardies is waiting for better, but are no longer optimistic such is probable. HA! Good Fun!

for cardio we don't need "buddies" and is unlikely we would find anybody willing to join us pre 6:00am for our morning rides. current is too hot to go any later, and by mid august the air quality is gonna force us indoors to stationary bike and rowing machine. long 'bout early-mid november, when the air clears a bit, chances are the rains has started and a cycling schedule becomes weather dependent. january and february is coldish and windy. we look ridiculous in our thermal gear, but riding in winter is not unpleasant if you dress appropriate, with special attention to fingers and ears and nose. nevertheless need to go early as inevitably the winds pick up as the sun gets higher in the sky. honest, march thru june is fantastic for cycling, but the rest o' the year requires a bit o' intestinal fortitude, and even during spring, am ordinary riding at times few buddies would voluntarily join. we live in a curious community with retirees and a few serious hardcore athletes. greg lemond once lived 'bout 1000 metres distance from where we live today. +10 years past our community were kinda an ideal location for a cyclist as we are at the base o' the foothills and you can find flat or incline or anything in-between. increased summer heat and +3 months o' predictable dangerous air quality due to now yearly wildfire problem has had a less than positive impact. even so, we got a surprising number o' winter and summer sport olympians living not far from Gromnir... and we would be nothing but dead weight if we tried to join that select group. got no illusions 'bout our abilities compared to international level athletes. the other significant group o' folks in our community is the people who believe playing 18 holes via a golfcart counts as cardio. sure, there is a few people who are not olympians or golfers but most o' them is gainful employed and have lives to live. now the gym and weights is different. have always preferred working out with somebody who could spot us. not need a cheerleader, but work out with somebody makes less likely we will take off a few too many days. heck, work out with somebody makes less likely we take off a set. no doubt is same for cardio. regardless, we much prefer to have somebody reliable at hand when am doing squats, military press and bench. have never once required a spotter when doing cardio. HA! Good Fun!

early on I agree with you, but later on I feel like one generally has enough ability points or spells and action economy is more of a thing that empowering an ability/spell starts making more sense. Accurate Empower goes a long way into making empowering an ability/spell really worth it. As alluded above, I pick up Acc Empower on most characters that can when they're high enough level. There are some exceptions - for example a martial multiclass barbarians I may not have anything worth empowering (oh yay a longer frenzy...). After that it depends on the class. Single-class damage dealers get penetrating empower, then potent empower. Single-class misc classes get lasting empower, and then maybe the other two if needed. The only specific "rule" I have about empowering is sasha's, like others have said, but also least unstable coil + the right caster, and weyc's equipment. Other than that, I just suggest that even on upscaled PotD you don't really need all those spells - a properly empowered high-level spell will obviate the need for more spells because you'll be doing so much more extra that the fight will be over much sooner. E.G. one cast of a fully-upgraded empowered missile salvo will be enough to kill most FS bosses on its own. I'd also suggest that empowering an ability is much more useful for a chanter because getting half your resources back is rarely ever nearly as good when you're automatically generating them. (Somewhat true as well for monk and cipher) it's a little tougher with martial classes because they are more constrained. i may also have specific uses that i'd rather have the efficiency of more ability points than making one ability use more powerful - for example, mc fighters or mc/sc rangers i use are typically interrupt machines [mule kick or concussive/tranq shot] so i'd much rather just keep interrupting than make one interrupt slightly better. but otherwise i wouldn't underestimate how effective e.g. an empowered dazing shout, empowered inspired strike, empowered tier 9 paladins [properly geared] can be.

Are they still his descendants if they aren't descended from him?

That one English trailer you linked some time back made the English dub sound pretty awful if I'm remembering correctly - not quite Madoka English dub levels of bad, but still not really tolerable. Let's see... Yeah, no, screw that. Everyone in this seems to have went to that one infamous Academy for Overacting English Anime VAs Who Don't Voice Act Good. Speaking of voice actors/actresses improving or even outright making characters, something else almost as equally important is the voice direction they're given in the first place! The VA for Rei in Sailor Moon is great for her, has a wide range of natural-sounding tones while still possessing a definite consistency that you couldn't ever mistake for anyone else, specific voice mannerisms and little vocal expressions that add to her character, and she sounds like a relatively normal person even with her unique voice which is appropriate given the type of character she's portraying - difficult to ask for more, really. The same lady playing Homura in Madoka sounds one-note and emotionally stunted while having gone to that same aforementioned ill-reputed academy. Part of it is the character she's portraying, part of it is the general voice direction given to everyone (Homura was probably the most pleasant out of everyone in the English dub of that show - Madoka herself was screwdrivers in my ears...and apparently she VA-ed Hotaru in Sailor Moon, which once again tells me that Madoka's issue is a totally a direction problem, and so I am grateful that whoever was handling the VAing in Viz's Sailor Moon knew what the hell they were doing so that I could love so many different VAs in that show, even for smaller characters). Okay, I just watched the first episode, and it was...actually alright and significantly less terrible than I expected! I tried the English at first and it was predictably horrific, so I quickly switched to the Japanese, where I quickly learned that multiple characters speaking at once (or somebody speaking + kanji characters in the background), which has already happened a few times, basically results in entire lines being cut from the subtitles because some lines go by in literally a second or less, and I basically can't even see what's going on visually because of it. The good news is that the ridiculous 3D panning makes me motion sick anyways, so it's not like I really want to see that anyways. ...At least this is an actual show instead of (bad) visual novels disguised as shows like the other two things I tried to watch earlier. Not sure what to think of the "fan service"(?) yet, it's so over-the-top that it feels like a mockery of fan-service that no longer really even feels like fan service. I like that I didn't get smashed with plot/premise crap that probably won't even matter and instead it just jumped straight into what the show's about with barely an introduction - that was a good choice for a show like this.

Realize I got the DLC for Mechanicus but never actually played any of them, so I guess I need to run through the game again. Killing time in FM18, Brno won the 2022/23 season and did so unbeaten. Think I'll find a new challenge, not sure what country to go to - maybe Italy. As for new games, still need to get started on Star Ruler 2...

Not to spoil too much, but her arc was well planned enough, so even with a less engaging (and engaged) VA she would have worked on some level. It would not have been as good, obviously, with someone who didn't nail her voice that well. I mean, and that's with not understanding any of the words. I felt just as negatively about Shaoran at first. I should have figured out by the time Meiling arrived that she'd be a fine addition, because really, that anime can do no wrong, but I still didn't like her hyperactiveness and abrasive behaviour. But then the anime kept making her the butt of the episode, and... 🙊 I finished the original Cardcaptor Sakura easily. Would you enjoy Kill la Kill? I'm going to lean strongly in the direction of no. It is really funny, makes fun of everything you dislike about (modern, but not only - the ridiculous combat sections with the talking were clearly inspired by the likes of DBZ) anime, but is that enough? I also found it super hard to watch because it simply is massive sensory overkill, I can't overstate that enough. It sometimes rivals the insanity going on in the Transformers movies. The goal of the anime is clearly to accept that and just roll with it, which would be fine if I didn't have to read the subtitles. I'd suggest trying the English dub, I read that it does feature Rei and Usagi for certain characters, so the talent is there, you'd just need to check if the voice direction doesn't bother you. There's every chance it could, because of course it is overdramatic in the original, to the point of being ridiculous. Like everything else in this. Except that one part where it dipped into really dark, creepy territory for what seemed like no reason at all. I don't know if its available on Netflix in the US, but firing up the first two or three episodes should be enough to see if you can stand the assault on your senses - before trying to see if you find it funny enough to continue. Reasons. 🙊 Indeed. I never thought I'd like Cardcaptor Sakura as much as I did. I just really tried it on Netflix because it came as recommendation to watch regarding the origins of modern maho shojo, next to Sailor Moon, and that from someone who thought the original Sailor Moon anime had great story episodes. Hey, well... turned out great.

But isnt that how the downtrodden "punch upward"? By destroying the local town and businesses where they live?

Pffft, rookies. They should squat in some public spaces for months (years?) on end. Or perhaps chains themselves to some infrastructure projects.

https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/amnesty-international-sa-condemns-looting-in-kwazulu-natal-and-gauteng/ The former SA president, Jacob Zuma, who has been complicate in billions of Rands of corruption charges over the last 10 years was jailed last week for......contempt of court for not appearing at an enquiry around a particular case of corruption. He received really bad legal advice and basically thought he could ignore a binding, subpoena to appear in court He was jailed for 15 months for this particular infraction. Now in parts of the country we are seeing looting and blatant criminal acts perpetuated by people who primarily belong to the same tribe as Jacob Zulu and in the province where this tribe is dominant which is where I grew up, Kwazulu Natal. His tribe are Zulus and most Zulu people are not involved in the criminal acts but small groups are However this criminal element has burnt trucks at toll bridges and looted and attacked malls and shops They need to deploy the army because allowing protracted, violent strikes to continue never achieves anything constructive in the long term

England scored early, so Italy had to make most of the play. Bit of Mourinho style turtling going on, followed by a late stage Mourinho style failure to turtle effectively enough. Not a great day overall for England, lost the football and they still have to put up with Richard Branson.

I never felt that negatively about her, but her first impression certainly was not a positive one. But I genuinely believe that you have the right (voice) actor/actress playing the right character, you can somehow make a character that probably shouldn't work be great. Didn't realize Kill la Kill was that short - that makes it a little more appealing to me...buuut I still haven't really seen (or read) anything from it that would make me think I'd actually enjoy watching it, so yeah, probably not, . Glad you were finally able to finish something for the first time in a while, . Why? Just inexplicably let her stay with no explanation if it makes the show better! (e): I tried out She and Her Cat. I made it just about 3 minutes before it cemented that it was another one of those faux dramatic animes where characters just stand around and look wistfully/aimlessly at nothing while soft piano music plays over somebody monologuing. There really needs to be like a subgenre of anime for this sort of thing, because I've run into it a handful of times now and I have exactly zero patience for it. Straight into the garbage with no chance of redemption it goes! Sorry, movie, but sometimes when you know, you just know...and boy, do I know. (e): lmao, and then I tried 5 Centimeters Per Second, and the first five minutes is literally exactly the same except even more extreme. This is me right now with these movies: Why do I even try new things? ...Because sometimes you get a Perfect Blue, Sailor Moon, Sakura, or (first season) Ranma, that's why.

Motivation is where you find it!

Everyone needs cardio buddies to make it more enjoyable to knock out the miles. My running group gets me out of bed very early, but I'm always happy I did. I don't know that I'd call my Cycling group buddies. They are all jerks and my entire purpose in life is to not let them ditch me too early into the ride.

Sorry to hear but at least that great meat wont go to waste. During this lockdown, and the fact I am single, I have on several occasions cooked a whole roast, different types of meat, just for myself 🐷 So I eat it for lunch on Sunday or Saturday and then I have delicious leftovers for sandwiches for the next 3-5 days so nothing is wasted 🥘

MMO players and Stockholm Syndrome.

For solo I'd suggest Tactician and Steel Garrote from your list. Steel Garrote would be my preference. The rest is cool in a party but not as reliable in a solo run (if you don't like to use Smoke Veil) imo.

Sort of (very) old news... but interesting none the less. I'm sure poor @Gromnir is fed up with explaining that the BG2 npc is named after him and not the other way around, so lets just revisit that particular confirmation, that it is indeed so 😂

I also think CON would need a little boost because it's not that important if you know what you are doing. But instead of using it for deflection I would do something else with it. Resolve raises deflection (I see no good explanation for this but it's the way it is - so one could also argue that CON might raise it some way, but I digress...) and duration of hostile effects on you - and still it's a dump stat in many builds. Mostly it gets dumped in offensive builds because it has no offensive purpose. Same as CON. The other attributes do contribute to offense and defense - and I guess that's why we see CON and RES dumped so much - offensive character seem to be more fun I guess. Atm you can build around low CON and RES relatively easily. With good healing and enough AR it's not too bad if you have lowish health and deflection. But it's difficult to make up for dumped INT or DEX most of times for example. Since I can't see a way for CON influencing offense in the Pillars system I would double down on the defensive capabilities. I mean in another system I could see CON influencing an endurance pool that lets you execute more special attacks than somebody with less endurance. Something like that. But in PoE/Deadfire we don't have that sort of endurance pool that fuels attacks but specialized ones for each class which wouldn't make sense to get influenced by CON. Instead of raising deflection to simulate "tanking" DMG my idea would have been to give CON not only +/-x% to health but also give it damage reduction. So a character with 10 CON suffers the incoming damage unchanged (besides armor and other DR effects of course), but somebody with 20 CON not only had more health but also would have a damage reduction of - I don't know - 20%? That's 2% per point. I just made up that number. A char with 3 CON would receive more damage than is actually incoming: +14% (a bit like Hekwalker or Assassin passives). Since damage reduction is quite impactful due to double inversion mechanics I wouldn't go higher than that maybe. But that would need playtesting. Another idea was to influence "healing received". At the moment a healing ability that heals 100 health will heal up a squishy completely from near death to unharmed - but only give like half of health back to a really beefy character, from near death to bloodied. Isn't that a bit unfair? What's all the max health of Mr. Meat for if your pool fills up as slowly as Mr. Glass's does? So a char with 10 CON would receive +/-0% of the applied healing, a char with 3 CON would get a -35% malus (5% per point of CON) and a char with 20 CON would receive +50% healing. Those were my two ideas I had some time ago. I also suggested the RES change (influences hostile durations). Don't know if Josh read that or cane to that conclusion by himself. But unlike the RES change CON was only boosted from 3% per point to 5%. So maybe those ideas have some flaws I don't see now . Anyway - I would implement either DR or healing factor, not both. I'd prefer the healing factor I guess. It's mathematically less complicated and makes most sense imo. But both could work. That way somebody who dumps CON will be really soft and can't counter with high armor values and/or healing that easily. It would make CON a lot more attractive I think.

On my Priest of Wael playthrough I remember talking back to Rymrgand during the failed experiment, but not so much that he would kill me via dialogue. Later I started Beast of Winter, and when I tried to go through the portal Rymrgand asked me if I was the same **** as before. There was a Priest of Wael unique shady/clever dialogue option along the lines of "You must have confused me with someone else." to which Rymrgand's reply is basically "Nice try" and another instadeath via dialogue. Also if your character has minor intercession, all the priest classes have unique descriptions of just what a minor intercession is if you use it after contacting a plagued ship. For Wael, everyone aboard the ship blacks out and mysteriously wakes up back at their post some time later.

And, totally agree, will crash through your base and chase you even if you’re under water. If one spots me, I just load my last save.

Agree!

We used to have one here, but they removed it in favour of low wooden desks that are 5 cms above knee height. So yeah, I'm looking down at the screen, eye height is about 25cms higher...

Work. Rusty legs on a link that ****ed me up, was going to pull out the support legs when they suddenly got stuck, and then I had a massive bruise on the upper arm. Bruise is long gone, but I've got some massive pains. The neck got messed up from misjudging the distance when reversing some trailer or such. Steel and concrete stops against steel and I get an unexpected headbang session, do that over a few years time. I think. 🤔