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Way ahead of you! Signing the new contract soon and starting in a month. Been in the same company for way too long and I wasn't getting anywhere for the last couple of years...

Theres only one correct answer to "how are you" and its "Im good". Its just an icebreaker. Anything else and youre a psychopath.

Dark Brotherhood abducted me in the night to initiate me. I gave it some thorough thought. Would joining the Dark Brotherhood benefit my children? Offer them extra protection in their lives? Speaking of children, did the Dark Brotherhood break into the house where my children were sleeping? So I killed the leader of the Dark Brotherhood. Nobody threatens my kids.

It's easier to ngaf when you are directly employed for a company, it's another story when you are a contractor or worse yet an offshore contractor. There are usually rules for communication that you have to follow that are given by the outsourcing firm. This stops being as important once you work for a couple of years for the same client, but it's sometimes just easier to follow the rules. I usually start off with Hi so and so, and if I get asked "How are you" I just fire one back to them too. What's funny to me is that they really do start small talk by asking about the weather... I always thought it was just movies making fun of the office people, but no that really is the case...😂

Proof that Starfleet Academy doesn't pay for itself...!

I used to be a Cisco specialist but nowadays I use mostly HP Aruba. They can support PoE if you pay extra, but not Deadfire.

I did a shaman that was a corpse-eater and skaen. it was... alright. wael is probably a better choice, i just wanted to do something different. (edit: i would also not pick corpse-eater in the future. it's alright, but adds to the action economy issues when i'm busy eating corpses) i would recommend against magran mostly because the action economy is not great with barbarian - if yo uactually want to carnage it up, the more the game goes on the more spells you'll be casting and the fewer actual weapon attacks you'll be making. another reason why wael [to a lesser extent skaen] is good choice - fast spells. writs are great, but if you're thinking about a barbarian the most useful one early on for a MC is easily taken care of by a barbarian - the lack of engagement writ is very good for survivability/mobility, but a barbarian can get spirit frenzy which will stagger everything very easily which also does the same thing (procs off carnage and any other ability, including priest spells; don't upgrade to spirit tornado which breaks this unintentional stagger-happy spreading). Writ of War and Sorcery are pretty good late game MC woedica effects. Frightened are ineffective in shutting down enemy abilities that can still be extremely annoying (wizard summons, arcane reflection, priest/druid buffs, lay on hands) and these give you ways to shut them down. There will still be some abilities that can get through though.

there are some cases where you can take advantage of this (a bit, or at least it won't hurt as much). e.g. two of the shield modals give you a recovery penalty. many weapon modals give you a worse recovery penalty. it means that if you're doing sword and board and you turn on a weapon modal, you can turn on your shield modal for no downside.

Realized I should start looking for a new job.

Carolinians commonly put it on pulled pork, hamburgers, and hot dogs.

Nice, you like me when you play RPG. You really think about things and their consequence....thats real RP

Disciplined Strikes will be suppressed by Berserker Frenzy thus you should pick Tactical Barrage instead. With Barbaric Blow you will have 1-(1-0.3)*(1-0.3)=51% hit to crit chance. Here's the link @Not So Clever Hound mentioned earlier

Ark hit a stopping point for me. About time since I put over 200 hours in the stupid thing. I'm on the third map, Aberration, and fighting the boss. Only the boss does an attack that glitches me ever so slightly through the floor into an instant death zone. I lose 4 Spinos, 13 Megalosauruses, 1 shinehorn (which is like a baby deer whose anters glow), and a Reaper (which is a knockoff of an Alien Queen from Alien). The Megas and Spinos were expendable, bred for death. The other 2 will be missed. And a rock drake screwed up and didn't go to the boss arena, so it's probably still alive down at the terminal. I also lost all of my best gear, including my armor, and three sets of hazard suits. It's close to having to start over. I'm not looking forward to making more Megas. So I'm just playing other games. Picked up Dishonored after many years of thinking I hated it. One of Arkane's titles, their big one after Dark Messiah. Played it a few years ago on PS3 and found it frustrating. But thought I might change my tune for it on PC like I did Doom 2016. After a couple of levels, I might just like it more this way. Touched The Letter again. It's a great little horror VN about a haunted mansion. With one itsy bitsy problem. It has god awful pacing. Like the story starts picking up and getting to the horror when it decides to drop everything back to the beginning of the story from a different perspective. There's a reason that neither novels nor movies do this. Why do VNs insist on it? Instead of a climax and building to a crescendo it's just a really awkward sin wave. And I'm sick of getting to the good part and ending up back at the boring one.

What kind of monster doesn't put pickles on a burger? 🤪

I totally approve! The 35 minutes OVA goes in between 4 and 5. edit: The 90 minute OVA goes after episode 13, and if you watch the movie, turn it off after Violet boards the ship near the end. The ending... I understand why it's there, but I thought the film kind of Miyazaki'ed out there. Too bad.

LOGH 41-54: Finished the second season. These episodes actually have some pretty bad battles with things like people forgetting space is 3D and not being able to go around debris, for example. They keep talking about how low the wages for soldiers are, even admirals. How bad is it? If even admirals don’t know if they can make ends meet, why is there so much military spending then?🤔 Big spoilers below: It was interesting when Yang said that people don’t realise when they are the bad guys. Not a good example in this case, since the alliance citizens who want war don’t really have another option (the empire never wanted peace), but it applies perfectly to the real world today. But let’s not talk about any examples since this is not the political thread... The way this season ended gives me the impression it will take quite a while for things to get interesting in the third season. So this is the perfect time to watch something else, like Violet Evergarden and Beastars.

There is an unique parameter for all attibutes contribution to the secondary defense (Fort, Will, Ref) Yeah, it would have too. That's why I'm only rising it a little bit. Megabosses are basically the only case where it will be really significant. And all the abilities I've buffed will help in this case. Anyway, I've put this change in the optional "nerfs and rework" package, not the buff one for this reason. Thank you. I hope this could be the last change I try. I might change the game too much if I continue in this direction.

Okay, even this is quite convoluted : it isn't possible to have a status adapting dynamically to changing value of constitution. It would be necessary to code like 25 new abilities and update the ability tree in parallel (all ability tree from all profession and possibly pre-generated kith foes) just to add a scaling con effect to Tough. Sorry for spamming this forum before checking what could actually be done. I'm simply going to tune up Constitution to +/-6% health (not realistic to do more since very low con would really be impossible to play, and it would buff Megabosses too much). 6% feels like double the effect of might, so "sounds" good ; yeah I know it won't suddenly make CON much better for long battle, but it would still better than nothing. Huge health pool still have some utility (easier to maintain threshold such as bloodied because of the wider absolute range).

I found another interesting one I was not aware of that you can easily prolong: Wahai Poraga Counterattack For 2.0 sec after launching attack, return 25% incoming Melee Damage to attacker as Raw Damage Basically it may work like a permanent pain-link on yourself, could be great especially for classes playing with barring death door on and planning to get a lot of damage. I've not tested it in a fight yet but it seems to survive save/load cycles so it should work

If you have any hot chicken places by you, they tend to put slaw on those sandwiches as opposed to lettuce and tomato. It adds much better texture and flavor imo.

things like min max attribute was minor in pathfinder 1e broken and weird multiclass and archetype combo was the real problem mythic also seems to double down on the whole pre buff caster crush anything doesn't have free dispelling attack thing

RUN! Joking aside my project was in Nonstop/Tandem...

Quelle Surprise.... https://thehackernews.com/2021/07/us-and-global-allies-accuse-china-of.html

Well, to put it this way, for our application, being 64-bit is a paradigm shift.

The power of feeling external pressure to make time and effort to watch something!

Congratulations on more money (hopefully). Probably need to learn some new things here, maybe can finally learn mobile app development. Either that or remain in fintech.

a more up to date version is here, which covers your specific question a bit more directly: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/227477-pillars-of-eternity-ii-deadfire/faqs/76599/paladin TL;DR: hirelings obey their own disposition but are affected by the WATCHER's actions, so you have to watch out a bit. Obsidian-made NPCs (Pallegina, Vatnir, Xoti) have *no* favored dispositions, so they fit in any party without penalty [but also get no bonuses]

Congrats Sarex!

Thanks, I have a feeling you'll leave me permanently in the dust this time around. Heh. I'm not sure if I'll be getting much viewing in this week.

I think that would be great. Skald + Beguiler to roundout Melee/CC and Gunhawk/Rogue for ranged damage + the bird isn't a terrible pet IMO. The Gunhawk/Assassin would require quite a bit of micromanagement to be used effectively. A Gunhawk/Streetfighter with at least one blunderbuss/hand mortar and another blunderbuss/hand mortar/pistol could potentially be a nice alternative, requiring less micro?

The Dishonored series is great, I love the lore and game world. And using the combat and movement mechanics is very entertaining, especially the Blink ability and killing enemies quickly

Reported for bad taste.

link HA! Good Fun!

Ugh...that article...ugh. Not saying the film isn't worth watching as I enjoyed it (even took my parents to see it, the last film they saw in theaters), but I take issue with the article anyway. I wouldn't consider the film a satire. Not that it isn't funny, but to me the funniness is built on character and situation in the film (for example the Brooks Brothers dialogue between Cranston and Khan). "It’s written as what a child’s perception of a tough guy would be, a clever interpretation of a character originally created as a “darker” take on a costumed character that was still aimed at children." This line is almost nonsensical, but if I parse what its saying correctly, its wrong. The character wasn't originally created as 'a darker take on a costumed character that was still aimed at children', he was created because Street & Smith wanted a radio show to advertise their Detective Stories Magazine and the narrator they created proved to be popular (people showing up at the newsstand asking for that 'shadow' magazine). Note that the Shadow predates what we think of costumed superheroes (5 years before THE PHANTOM in comic strips, 7 years before SUPERMAN in comic books) and would only have literary and film antecedents of people with disguised personas (Scarlett Pimpernel, Zorro) and a few literary proto-superheroes (Hugo Danner from Wylie's GLADIATOR), with possibly the most direct antecedent being from French cinema (Judex; however I'm not sure how strong that connection really is). We can argue all day long about who the pulps were aimed at, but I wouldn't say the were particularly aimed at children; Detective Stories Magazine almost certainly wasn't; a hero pulp like The Shadow most likely was aimed at teens and young men, not kids specifically (even if kids ended up reading them). Many pulps were probably too lurid in subject matter for kids to read with their parent's knowledge. "Margo Lane ... easily sees through Baldwin’s outwards personna (sic) and uncover (sic) his secret." Because she's latently telepathic. Not saying the character isn't good or anything, but the sentence implies a savviness the character didn't have, particularly given that she's confused about what is going on for much of the film. That said Baldwin and Miller sell the connection and generally speaking the cast is great (Tim Curry, Ian McKellen, and John Lone are mentioned in the article, but Peter Boyle and Jonathan Winters (plus a number of good actors in smaller parts). "With Highlander the precision of the sword fights made sense given the film’s focus on ancient warriors, and in The Shadow it is effective given the more primitive early television stunt work the film is emulating." - Wut? Where did television ever enter into this? At worst it could be seen as emulating the work of earlier film serials (there were 4 Shadow serials) and maybe 30s Crime Drama films (2 Shadow films were made in the 30s). Not really sure where the television comes in at (early television didn't have the kind of stunt work you might see in the mid-to-late 50s and most of that is because of the studio serial production units becoming tv production units). "...the credits song “Original Sin” from Taylor Dunne surprisingly fit within the nostalgic soundtrack." It's Taylor DAYNE. Also points off to Universal for allowing the Original Sin music video to show the end of the film. But the soundtrack is good (just don't know why anyone would okay the end of the film footage for the official music video).

Title says all. That's the single just annoying thing about the game imo and should be a simple fix. Pleeeease!!!

Utena, up to episode 14. I feel like I no longer have any clue what's going on in this show. majestic wasn't kidding about this show going places...and ye gods, I'm really getting a little sick and tired of people having siblings. Let no other characters have siblings for the rest of this entire show, thank you very much.

Finally deciding to watch Cowboy Bebop.

This picture will probably be talked about MANY MANY MANY TIMES. 😂