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The real funny is always in this thread.

So you mean your perception shifted?

I saw this. Didn’t get it. Moved on. About an hour later it hit me and I started laughing.

the indians name (as 'posed to redskins) didn't annoy us personal, but am getting how it bothered some. on the other hand, a few o' the indian mascots over the years... as for new name, am thinking cleveland missed an opportunity to change the dynamic on naming. coulda' appealed to fan base and made the baseball team front page news everywhere in the US for at least a few days by changing from indians to michigan sux. HA! Good Fun!

Driver's Ed over here has never been something related to school. Of course, we have to wait till 17 to get a provisional license, but all lessons, and the tests themselves are paid for privately. Funny note, I have a friend who went out to the US back around.. oh 1999/2000 and got married to a girl in California. He went out with his UK provisional driving license, never having taken his test and gotten a full license. Showed his provisional to the DMV and did the "I'm a UK citizen moving over here", and they gave him a USA driving licence to use, since apparently whoever he was dealing with at the DMV didn't actually understand the UK's split of provisional / full license. Then on a return visit to his family over here, he showed his DMV issued license to the relevant government body as a full driving license, so they then gave him the UK driving license. He's not taken the driving exams in either country. Although I'm assuming by now, with the power of the internet, that sort of bureaucratic overlook has been tidied up.

First part is true. Second part was indeed a problem at release and during the first year after release. But: Deadfire broke even during the second year after its release and since then has continued to make profit. It's just a trickle now I guess - but nevertheless: it's profit. So, while it's still not a big financial success - and more importantly an unexpected disappointment for the once enthusiastic PoE/Deadfire devs - I think we can't say that it did poorly anymore. But of course the whole story still might not be a huge motivation to tackle a third installment of PoE. If Obsidian/MS does this it's mostly for the fans of the Pillars series, not for shareholders. On the other hand... knowing Microsoft's wish to be able to offer a broad portfolio of (non-AAA-) games for Gamepass... who knows? I haven't lost hope. But of course there will be no crowdfunding.

They need to put that quote on a card.

A couple of guys at Chris Creamer’s site worked up a few logo concepts for Spiders that were really sharp Oh well.

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Someone had a very interesting HOI4 save.

I just had one of the weirdest talks ever. I'm working from home today beause nobody else is in the office so why bother, suddenly someone knocks on the door. I often get to take deliveries for neighbors when working from home, so I think nothing of it and open the door without checking, which turned out of be a funny mistake. Nope, no delivery guy, just a Greenpeace activist. Since I'm working from home today, I'm just wearing a white, plain cotton t-shirt which right now has copious amounts of food stains on it, and comfortable but severely oversized running pants. I still haven't gone to the barber shop and hairdresser, which means my hair and my beard is a major mess right now. Between that and having had a rough week at work with barely any sleep, I literally look like a bum living on the streets. He stares at me and goes: "I came to tell you about the bees that need help and how we're fighting for them, but... you can't really support us financially right now, can you?" And I'm like, slightly perplexed by a random Greenpeace stranger showing up at my doorstep: "Yeah, it's been tough, you know, with the lockdowns, man." "Short hours?" At this point I transitioned from shock to a state of being annoyed by door to door soliciting. "Yeah, at first, during the initial lockdown, then I got fired. I worked at a shipping company but the continued lack of air travel almost killed our business, but if you want, you can leave a card, and I'll call you guys up once I find my footing again, yes?" "That's rough man, I'm sorry. Take care." Guy left without giving me his card. There's a lesson in never judging a book by its covers in here, I'm sure. Not that I would agree to donate* to people who solicit donations like that (and certainly never to Greenpeace Austria, that bunch of twerps). It's bad enough when they approach me at a mall or at a railway station or any other sites where they prepare their annoying ambushes, but going from door to door, that's a new low. The only other people who come by regularily are Jehova's witnesses. As much as I hate talking to random strangers, I've had Greenpeace people approach me so often that I'm kind of used to it by now. *Don't have anything against donating to charities or voluntary aid groups. I'm a Red Cross supporting member and donate to our local volunteer firefighters, and I regularily buy an overpiced newspaper that homeless people are allowed to sell on the streets to get by and provide something for them to do that's not drinking (the seller gets to keep half of what he earns). Or I used to, before being stuck at home for a year.

I'm pretty sure that they did some calculations and found that if their voters kept dying they'd lose a few elections, so they flipped overnight. That or business groups leaning on them to get people back to work. In either case I don't think it's going to work because opposition to vaccines has become so entrenched and widespread thanks to certain media spheres. I think there's a certain comedy to people who thought covid wasn't real dying because they refused a free vaccine out of fear it would microchip them so Bill Gates could assume direct control.

Nema problema 😃

Should it?

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So I’ve made many Crusaders as my frontline tank but never using SI. I want to try a build around it. Gear wise I know what I need, the only question is attributes. I feel like you are starved. You need MAX RES for reduction of SI’s hostile effect. You want good Might (only way to increase SI damage besides PL), INT for AOE size, PER for ACC and you can’t dump CON you need the HP and you can’t dump dex because your recovery will be titanically slow. What do you guys think a good attribute distribution is? You have to pick 3, maybe keep PER at 10 since it’s a party and not solo? Use party members to debuff and give ACC?

"did you hear that Joe died?" "really? how?" "from the flu" "ah, then it's not something serious"

It has been called "cheese" since I remember on Gamebanshee forum in the early 2000s. Then it was Baldur's Gate "cheese"

Hey guys, when you're done with the series, plz watch the Utena film as well. It adds more weird AND more squick (of the same AND also different kind than in the series)! Me, I remember really liking it, squick and all (in the context of that bizarro universe it looked artificial and therefore less squicky than in more reality-adjacent stuff). No Satoshi Kon, but quite satisfying nonetheless.

Yeah, no kidding. When Nanami is your best written character (she's actually pretty consistently written, more straightforward than most other characters, she has SOME although not enough character development, and her character itself is very...DISTINCT, can't be any doubt about that), you have a serious problem with your characters. And it's a good thing she's mostly only around in the more comedic absurdist episodes, because that very "distinct" character would probably be the worst in the more important episodes. Nanami is also who convinced me to try out this show, because there was a clip of her on the Sailor Moon Says channel that was just hilarious. RIP Sailor Moon Says. I'm actually not as down on the show as you are, but I am watching it with someone else and the sheer unintelligible absurdity of everything frequently breaks our brains and provides many laugh-out-loud and/or facepalm moments. The actual thematic stuff...the stuff that the show is so desperately trying to impart at the expense of literally everything else for some goshforsaken reason, is mostly flying over our heads entirely. Like, there's a vague sense of the themes...but trying to actually understand all the details would be like staring straight into the abyss. Just can't do it, it's utter madness. There's a reason I made that comparison to Evangelion once I got around episode 23...what the hell are we even doing here, guys? (e): Although maybe that's a disservice to Evangelion - I think Evangelion's easier to understand and follow, especially on just a surface level when you're just trying to make sense of the literal events that occurred. There have been a few parts in Utena where I can't do even that... (e): Also, in regards to essays and such - to be fair, what I wrote really applies to general film/TV shows and not just cartoons, .

I can only guess, I didn't invent the term. 😄 It's mostly used when you trick the game, either by abusing bad AI or bug exploits or in multiplayer games just by repeating the same broken strat over and over with the hope people don't find counterplay. Since people very often also like to say "stinky cheese" I would think thats where the term comes from, you keep repeating smth broken and "old/stinky" but theres nothing the game can do to counter it.

Whoa whoa whoa, lets walk that "no bacon" talk back a bit.

Omg, now I understand why in 3 or 4 occasions I could cast 2 invocations of that type in a row, I thought "I did something that allowed me to use it 2 times, I don't know what it is but it was good for me" 😆 Well, we'll see how it goes without those few points of deviation, as a preference I prefer not to use it, but it's good to know how it works hehe, out of curiosity, why do you call these little bugs "cheese"?

That's the dilemma my wife and I go through. Some people like veggie burgers tasting like veggies and others want them to taste like meat and my wife is in the first camp and I'm in the latter. I actually like impossible burgers and used to eat them all the time but it's important to note that it's not really a healthy option and is highly processed.

The last time you wrote a post this long you denied that you've joined the essaying club based on that it's just a few observations. I let that slide. However, now... Welcome to the club. Take a seat, here's your membership card. I'm afraid we're a little low on snacks and drinks right now. Going through arough patch here, being close to eviction after losing my job and all. I'll reply in more detail later. If there's one thing I'm majorly disappointed with about Utena, it's that it really is a letdown character wise. Considering it was written by the same guy that managed to and who was the writer behind Minako's wonderful insanity in S (as well as Makoto's Haruka worship episode), which all tied really well together with the first half of the season's character theme of accepting yourself as you are, instead of trying to be what society expects you to be, it really is just... just nothing of the sort in Utena. Pure thematic exploration is fine for me in a sense, assuming it is limited to feature film length or with an anthology series. However, at 39 episodes with recurring characters, it would really be a lot better if those characters were good. I don't know what I was expecting going into Revolutionary Girl Utena, but the longer it goes on, the more I find myself barely caring. It was fun in the beginning, had a weird setting and strange things happening, but the more it progressed, the more it became weird for weirdness' sake, and thematically obtuse for no reason, and then the squick began. Utena in itself is a manga adaptation too, but it comes from the same group as the anime that was founded by Ikuhara after leaving Toei, I doubt that counts and was probably pretty much planned. I wonder if that would be a good time to contrast this with Violet Evergarden, which has an entirely different approach. You watch the anime, and Violet's entire "plot" in the 13+2 episodes is almost pure character development, while her interactions are limited to characters that need to be strong because most of them you won't see again after the 25 minutes of the episode. The premise of most of these episodes is thematically tied to a continent recovering from a devastating war, and people trying to move on and live their lives as best they can. Everything that happens with the secondary characters only works because they were given the same care and attention as the recurring characters. They were drawn up and put in the situation/premise of the episode, and then act accordingly. That's how the show gets this massively emotional reaction from its viewers when watching episode 10. The premise is really simple, the plot is barebones as they come and you can see it coming from a mile away, but nothing of that really matters.

An interesting note. On the Steam page for this game there are items already listed under additional content for this game. One is a season pass, and if you click on that it says season pass for the three upcoming DLCs for this game. So three DLCs confirmed.

Ah, Americans.

So, just some general thoughts on...film theory (or whatever you want to call it) from having watched Steven Universe, Sailor Moon, and now Utena (though I still haven't finished Utena). There are a few distinct elements in shows like these: plot (both main as well as smaller individual ones), themes, and characters. There are others, such as the world and setting among other things, but these are the three I'm going to examine. This might get a little lengthy (but absolutely no spoilers on any of these shows, especially because I really only mention Sailor Moon at length), but I promise that there's a point to it all and I think it helps explain why some shows (or parts of shows) are written inconsistently or bizarrely and yet other parts are written brilliantly with even the same sets of writers. Okay, dissertation over, tl;dr: good characters should pretty much always come first, good plots/themes second and only where they're natural and actually work.

Resolve for deflection is only useful for Act 1 and super early in Act 2. Thankfully you can respec attributes unlike in deadfire. Later on you get so much deflection from items that wasting resolve on it is pointless. You might have seen in the vids I linked I had 127 deflection without potion and scroll and 149 with both up (and 139 if flanked). As long as you have little saviour or similar items with +50 defenses while stunned, have fenwalker for - duration on paralyze and always enough vital essence potions and moonlight scrolls, that is plenty of deflection. Lategame fortitude is much more important than deflection, especially in Llengrath fight with piggy spell, so I aim for 190 fort at least for that fight (as you saw I got that with maxed per) so con is definitely better than res.

more specific, am thinking a few on the right realized they need to be seen advocating for the vaccine. people dying, +99% of whom is unvaccinated, is an inconvenient fact which will hurt the gop in 2022 and 2024. however, a serious change in tone or a real effort to get people vaccinated is unnecessary if a simple video clip may be offered to refute the predictable death cult accusations which will be coming from democrat challengers. the gop don't wanna fully alienate the base which is invested in their belief that vaccines is either dangerous (more dangerous than the virus) or that taking the vaccine means you are embracing the liberal agenda-- today they force the vaccine on you, but tomorrow they will be taking your guns or your bible. the sudden support from the gop for vaccines need not be meaningful, but it does need be recorded for posterity. recall what happened post january 6 when trump were accused o' directing a crowd to go to the Capitol and fight like hell to make it known american patriots wouldn't accept the rigged election results? at cnn and msnbc the clips where trump and mo brooks and rudy inflamed crowd were on full display. at fox, clips o' trump asking the protesters to be peaceful were played on a veritable loop. you not need much fuel for the gaslight effort to work for those who wanna be gaslit. am suspecting the gop wants plausible deniability. +600k dead bodies wasn't enough to convince the base that trump f'd the response to covid-19. more dead bodies won't be meaningful save for fact it is gonna be easy to show a direct link 'tween the new dead bodies and the unvaccinated. gop and fox news needs to be seen refuting vaccine hesitancy so they may respond to the inevitable current and future accusations o' irresponsibility, but don't expect gop politicians or media types to go far in advocating a sea change for the vaccine. nobody on the right is gonna risk alienating the base 'cause that puts viewership and votes in jeopardy. HA! Good Fun!

I still have the opinion that SI is super meh though. Not because of the self damages (at least one can build around them), but because 4 zeals is as overcosted as it could be. Maybe it's tolerably good on SC Paladin with Divine retribution and some Summons (this one won't lack Zeal, and you can also upgrade SI).

How about you watch a nice episode of CCS to clear your palate. Also that sounds ominous. I really hope that isn't what I think it is.

edit: there is minor profanity in the following tweet. warning for those sensitive to such. HA! Good Fun!

The Outer Worlds was on sale on Steam for $20, and the expansions were another $20. Not exactly a huge deal, but I played it on the Gamepass originally so I'm happy to have it added to my steam library for that price.

Utena just said "I don't get it" at the end of an episode. Neither do I. Watching this anime is like being permanently stuck in the ending of a David Lynch film.

unvaccinated players on the first night of training camp may look at private pyle with envy. HA! Good Fun!

PC - July 28 Consoles - September 7

One of my Cpt brothers and his wife have moved into a new house, rental for the moment, due to space restraints in their owned house. So we had a family gathering for my Cpt family and with all the violence in the country , which has almost subsided, my Dad was also in Cpt. We had a delicious curry, some drinks and laughs.....we tend to take things for granted in life but the brevity of life is real and you never know when something could go horribly wrong so I really appreciate family time together They have these really cute dogs and an even cuter fat cat ....George

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.