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dear lord. you are actual trying to gaslight folks into believing that you inserted a single link, w/o any kinda acknowledgement the link were antagonistic to your pov, into your shotgun list o' critiques o' sb 132 and the transfer o' trans prisoners to women facilities, 'cause you are open-minded and wanted to provide a balanced approach? lordy. the receipts. am recalling @Gorth once observed: "Sharp_One was never man enough to own up to his mistakes. Too much narcissism in that one, would be surprised if he stayed away." you may not recall the poster in question, but sharp_one were hopeless and intransigent to the point of insensibility. he were comical stoopid at times and an utter joke in the minds o' most o' the community. don't follow sharp_one's example. be better. HA! Good Fun!

I think it's weird that people accuse her of 'being a traitor' for defending her clients to the best of her ability as is required by her job. It seems like a lot of people who aren't her clients could use reading a book about the US government, history and justice system...

Looks like Axis Football 2021 is adding create a team and more team customizablity. I will be buying if only to provide the devs with my much needed opinion on what parts to focus on improving next. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1641830/Axis_Football_2021/

Seems like an excessive response to a xbox controller.

Madden VS Axis Football Tag line: no matter who wins we all lose.

That's my dogs favorite snack, he eats them by the swarm.

If it makes you feel any better, I used to pretty regularly call you Skarpen_One before I used my adblocker to strip your existence from these forums via some custom filters, but...wait, why am I in here again? Oh, right, because I disabled my adblock a couple of days ago and forgot to re-enable it.

A fake moustache would be an improvement. The current incarantion is just Clark Kenting. Without glasses.

The design comes straight from the manga by the looks of it. It's funny and kind of, hard to describe, fun to listen to, at least with the original Japanese voice acting. I'm having a hard time describing it, really. The way they talk is almost as if someone's talking really slowly and deliberately to a foreigner, and their speech patterns are noticably different from regular Japanese, so that's either a dialect or - more likely, I guess - to show that they didn't have much interaction with adults and simply retained their child-like speech. They meet another character in the third episode where this becomes readily apparent - they're saying the same words, just differently. Not that I have any idea how old they're supposed to be. Chi can drive a military half-track motorcycle that looks a bit like the ones used by the Germans in World War 2, and Yuu can haul large stones around and shoot her rifle with quite an astonishing degree of accuracy (Yuu also appears to be the more brawny, less brainy of the two, but then can be surprisingly perceptive). Then there's the absurdity of the two pondering life's existential issues in the wasteland in their special way. The third episode begins with Chi asking Yuu what she thinks the meaning of life might be, and Yuu just whacks her over the head with her rifle. Chi asks what that was for and Yuu says: "I thought you went cazy!", and silly stuff like that happens right after they both wonder if they have died long ago and are just trucking through the afterlife, only to later conclude that the afterlife surely wouldn't be this cold.

If I'm remembering it right, Sharp_One had another guy post a goodbye thread because he got mod locked and his posts stopped being approved after a while. Not sure why he was mod locked, I remember seeing him post a meme from a neo-nazi polish site (lmao) before his posts started showing up hours after they were made so that could have something to do with it. Regardless of whether Sharp_One has left or is still here in a fake mustache, I think it's funny that the right-wing media sphere suddenly cares about prison conditions when trans people are involved. I guess trans panic is taking up all the space in their heads these days.

It's ok to be wrong, or make mistakes on the internet. Stubborness isn't a virtue. According to bible law, it's even punisheable by lapidation! (Also, I still think it's pretty funny that "skarpen" is slang for "sharp one" in my country).

THE GREEN KNIGHT (2021) - surprisingly faithful art film like take on the source material. Very striking images. There are some minor changes (in the original story, Gawain's early adventures are glossed over, yet they are seen here. This shortens the time in the later part of the story and there is some restructuring of the end. The biggest change, IMO, WILLY'S WONDERLAND (2020) - Nick Cage gets an odd job in order to repair his car, and spends the night cleaning a restaurant. Some teens bother him and the local sheriff dislikes him. 10/10. RISE OF THE MUMMY (2021) - microbudgeted horror film from the UK. The kind of film where a priceless mummy is left unguarded in a classroom and characters look straight at things but don't see them for a scare later on. Fun if you like this type of film, terrible for everyone else.

Quick post because I really need to go to bed, otherwise tomorrow (well, today) will be bloody hell, but... I get that. CCS is so ludicrously well made - for the most part - that you can't help put place it above other shows that might have had more impact or meaning if you had to give out a number. Funny how you haven't even seen the episodes I would consider the absolute best of the series yet. Except 16, of course.

In the event that it may help you, this is how I would rate a number of anime/cartoon shows I've seen thus far, movies included where applicable (...and using notes from the site where I rate stuff): Legendary Idol Eriko is currently teetering between a 7 and a 7.5, I think; the OVA Miyu was a 6.5, this anti-magical girl TV show Miyu is sitting at about a 7 as well six episodes in. A 6/10 is "fair", 7/10 "good", an 8/10 "great", and a 9/10 "fantastic"; I've never given out a 10/10. On my movie site, it says I have rated 324 movies with an average rating of 61%, so being a 7/10 is actually legitimately supposed to be "good". Anyways, hopefully this provides some greater context for how I feel about the shows I'm seeing/have seen, . *NOTE: My ratings are...I'd estimate roughly 75% subjective, 25% objective; I'm not about to give a show or film that was objectively well-made but very unappealing to me a 1/10 just because of that, and the inverse is true as well; so just because I place Cardcaptor Sakura higher does not necessarily mean it is my all-time favorite show over Steven Universe...just that its objective qualities are so good on top of being subjectively fantastic. Meant to reply to this at some point, but forgot. Well, first of all...it was the opposite for me, everything felt even dumber and more fraudulent because of both of those, but whatever, more importantly...

In what can only be called an utterly surprising move* Pfizer and Moderna have jacked up their vaccine prices by $5 a shot in their latest EU contract. Good to see the benefits of mass production and competition resulting in lower prices, as always. That increase alone is more than the total cost of an AZ dose. Still the $40bn+ windfall for Pfizer and Moderna from the EU alone will do wonders for their share price. Oh, and Sky News Australia has got themselves a week ban from Youtube due to covid misinformation. A Murdoch media outlet spreading misinformation, big pharma jacking up prices in a crisis and politicians helping big pharma jack up prices by nobbling the opposition and passing the cost onto their citizens; not exactly the most unpredictable news ever. *also really surprising is that Pfizer claims that 2 doses and both sufficient for long term protection and that an additional booster is required, depending entirely on whether they're talking to potential or existing customers.

Well, that's it, this is going to be next after Girls' Last Tour, Stardust Crusaders and Ts... a screw that title, that other show with Sakura and Shaoran.

More Miyu: this show so far is functionally basically a not-as-good (in either senses of the word) horror version of Cardcaptor Sakura...but a horror version of Sakura is still pretty interesting.

We are all oby.

I know for a fact there are none of those around. I live in Tennessee where taxidermy is considered a legit and highly respectable career choice! If we had those I’d be seeing their mounted heads around

"White man's opinion" I stopped reading there.

Please send him over! 😭

Depends, are chupacabras considered natural?

Finished Horizon: Zero Dawn Great game overall, would highly recommend. So most criticism I have should be considered of the more nitpicky sort. If you haven't played this I'd recommend picking it up (unless this genre is just not up your alley, of course) The lore is pretty great and hits close enough to home to be a tad disconcerting. Can't go into any more detail without at least minor spoilers, but the settings is right up my alley for sure! The environmental storytelling is rather on point. There's quite a few collectibles and a few of them are actually really worth collecting for the lore bits, especially the "Vistas" are top-notch (the Banuk statues are OK, the rest is..."ehh"). I appreciate how they made it fairly hard to miss any of the major lore collectibles (journals etc) unless you really don't pay attention, and as far as I can tell you could go back to most places should you miss anything anyway. My initial impression was a bit unfavourable due to how mine and Aloy's early goals didn't appear to quite align. The game solved that issue beautifully though. There were, unfortunately, a few places with "forced dumb" where you're forced to just stand around and watch things happen "because story", or where your character makes certain decisions you almost know will backfire. Most of these instances I feel could have been handled a lot more elegantly than they were. A few main quests are (or contain) large exposition dumps which I feel could have been handled a bit more peace-meal. Gameplay-wise the game works rather well on mouse+keyboard. Combat works fine, with a few minor niggles, like animation locks sometimes meaning you get hit because it potentially locks you into a long animation which enemies then "cancel" with a faster attack while you can't do anything about it even when you see it coming. There's also at least one enemy type in the Frozen Wilds DLC that's horrendously obnoxious to fight except with one very specific weapon whose ammo eats resources like there's no tomorrow. Your growth in power is rather well done and closer to how S.T.A.L.K.E.R. works than most other MMOs, level ups mean relatively little, with skills mostly opening up additional options (except for melee attacks) and the power increases mostly come from a combination of better gear and a better understanding of your environment. One minor niggle is that whoever gets the killing blow, gets the XP, meaning friendly NPCs often steal your XP. Can be a tad frustrating when you're fighting something very tough and some guards pass by and manage to get the killing blow. The one thing I absolutely hope they'll fix in the next instalment though is the inventory. There's so many machine and upgrade parts and you really don't know what's useful and what's not that inventory management is just an utter nightmare where you'll keep stuff you end up never needing, while tossing things that you then later (quite literally) have to go hunt for. The same goes for some resources that I didn't use until I needed boatloads of them (see "specific weapon" from before) As mentioned earlier I didn't like the Hunting Grounds. After the disappointment that was the "stealth" one I mostly ignored them. The DLC had a quest that was hunting ground related where you were set up with a limited arsenal (only specific weapon and limited amount of ammunition) to accomplish a task, but without a timer which I felt would have worked a lot better for most of the Hunting Ground trials. So I really hope they go that route if they want to retain the concept for the next game. From a technical POV...well, my Gog copy CTD'd twice on its own, and screenshots are very liable to crash the game as well (seen that on Gog with other games, so not sure if Gog issue or game issue, regardless, my usual screenshot-happiness suffered greatly). I had one instance of textures simply not loading, forcing a reload, and a few cases of them loading slowly. There's also the "optimizing textures" bit that's bugged, it's supposed to help the game load faster but it ran on every game launch for me. I tried some of the troubleshooting tips but none seemed to work, so game loading times were agonizingly slow. The UI is acceptable. It's a fairly direct console port and the most annoying part of it is the inability to "slot" more than four weapons at once, which is purely a controller-imposed limitation as you can swap out weapons in combat without drawbacks, so would be nice to see that resolved in the future. Overall would rate it an 8/10 "Very good".

I am still playing Skyrim. That is my dullest game I haven't quit. All because I adopted kids... It isn't just dull gameplay wise. It is dull visually, with all those gray mountains and snow.

As fun as the trip down memory lane may be, this is the 'politics/current events' thread not the 'let us rehash the history of posters who asked to have their account deleted' thread. Let's try to get back on topic.

Kingdoms of Amalur is the dullest, boringest, uninenteringest game I ever played, and yet I somehow sank ~50 hours into it. Has to be its MMO-typical timesink drug. Mercifully, I didn't finish it, since my proper MMO, SWTOR, have fixed my OCD real fine.

Interesting to know, thanks.

Game is quite underrated imo, the class building and world is actually quite well made. When it was released I kinda dismissed it as a single player MMO but time works wonders.

There's always the ignore feature! But I'd rather talk about how trans panic, in addition to CRT and vaccine conspiracy, has just taken over the minds of some dip****s instead of one guy we all know is a series of words that would mostly get auto censored by the forum software. Dr. Adams on Tantalus, his mind empty.

"Unfortunately there is no such user and the search only returns mostly you referring to this guy so I must assume he's a figment of your paranoia." so, the person o' whom you were unable to discover 'cause there were no such user, you divined alternative names for your search? ok, show us. receipts. show us how you discovered alt naming conventions from near entire before you began posting. show the returns from such searches and the numbers o' responses which result in a finding o' "mostly" compared to the 204 from a simple and obvious search o' the former poster who abandoned the board weeks before you arrived. and again, using the suspended poster's moniker in a search yields literal hundreds o' options which is quite unreasonable to square with your "figment" observation. you are so terrible at this and am taking advantage o' the shortcoming you share with the former poster. HA! Good Fun! ps amusing, but Gromnir doesn't even figure as "mostly" with a search o' "sharpie"? not even close.

It's simply how the manga is.

I love it when someone leaves and they post a tell off thread. It’s been done a few times and it was always amusing.

lmao I just saw the two(?) main characters, and they're so bad, they're almost good - it's like the designers just said screw it and gave up entirely. ...Almost good, but not quite - some tweaking to make them look a little more tooney, and I think they could've gotten there, . Maybe head shapes that didn't look like watermelons would've been a good place to start...

new release but we were getting an advanced copy. is fun so far. HA! Good Fun!

Bugs aside (laugh, please) I am having a great time in Grounded. BUT let us please pet worker ants and ladybugs. I see them all the time and would love to feed them or just give them a big smooch!☺️ Please consider. Yes this is a serious post, I love cute bugs. Thank you.

yes and no. making them mandatory would increase the number of vaccinated people but at what cost to social cohesion? the main problem with this whole situation is that governments don't have the trust of their people. given the complete inconsistency between the rules made to stop the spread of the virus and the behavior of those who make these rules (which is a blatant disregard of these rules while the rest of us are paying fines for just taking the trash out of the house without a mask on), you can imagine that any kind of trust towards the government and the "specialists" that advise the government goes out the window. especially if said specialists seem to change their mind any time the government wants to use the virus as an excuse to pass some law. so when this same government and their "specialists" say that the vaccines are safe (vaccines that are still experimental by any medical standard) its hard to find people willing to believe a word of it... and making them mandatory is just more oil in the fire of mistrust. oh and did they give out a list of who these specialist advisors are where you live? because here we only know that there is a committee headed by the minister of health that advises the government on what measures to take but not who's in that committee and if they are qualified.

I just finished playing this about 2 weeks ago. Fun game, but if it wasn't for my OCD I wouldn't have finished it. The spawn rates get ridiculous at a certain point.

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Unfortunately I don't have a *definitive* answer for you, but I have some insight. If the "progressive" outcome you're seeking is a potential ending but the numbers you crunch say that you *can't* get Truth<5 and both Confident/Idealist >6, then it seems to me that only one of confident or idealist need to be at 6, or they must combine to 6 (I don't know which of the two it would require). Since, otherwise, that outcome would normally be impossible to acquire (yet we know it is possible to have that outcome). Sorry I can't tell you what to do exactly, but hopefully this can bring you to a resolution and you can continue the quest to its conclusion happily

I guess we'll find out. Worf on Risa, fun not allowed.

60% of astronauts test positive for active herpes virus in space

JA2 1.13 is a huge improvement and doesnt really change the game, so I think you should use it. Just stability and quality of life fixes. I am on my 3rd playthrough of Underrail, and this time it is going much better. My first crossbow guy got stuck in some vents and was overmatched. My 2nd pistoleer petered out in Core City. But now I am a psionic master and I think I might actually get through the game.

Marvels Avengers is free to play for the weekend. I got through the first level/tutorial. If I were to parody AAA gaming, I might end up using this game as a template. The first thing I saw after I started the game was a tutorial on how to use their store. When I actually started the campaign, I immediately got a popup of like a half dozen in-game currencies or crafting materials I know nothing about. Then it's following markers, watching cutscenes that are trying way too hard, and doing QTEs for a while. Then the explosions. It's... I don't know what it is. There's a logic to it. Let players try out all the characters before they have to pick one. But if I were to take that as a vertical slice, I'd never pick it up again. Even giving it benefit of the doubt that was some early development stuff they were too rushed to revise, I am not picking it up again. Thor just beats some guys up in a small arena. Then Iron Man does an on rails auto-target shooting sequence... and beats guys up in an arena. Hulk's turn to do linear platforming before he's tossed into an arena. Cap's turn is just more arena. Ending up lastly on Black Widow, who is now left with the boss fight. All the while the game keeps flashing messages telling you to use your cool moves that really aren't. I have 50 minutes in the game and I want them back.

Do teacher's unions support democrats because democrats support education? Or is it vice versa? My wife is a public school teacher and was a registered Republican through her 20's. But eventually it seemed like voting Republican was a vote against her livelihood, so she has been a little less keen to vote red in her 40's. The Republican party doesn't seem to be in a hurry to change that. As for the liberal bent of most educators, I know I've gone over this before, but you have a group of people that spent 5 years in college to take a job that is high on intrinsic rewards and low on monetary ones. Of course they are going to be idealistic and less conservative than the average person.

I know this is an ancient topic, but back when there was no expansions, when fighting the adra dragon was crazy. And no one could beat it. I was one of the first people to not only beat it, but solo it, along with 2 others, this paladin, and a priest guy who set infinite traps. And I maxed constitution. My whole party always insta died at the start, even with high defenses. Except me, and that gave me enough time to heal the max, and I had enough deflection/fortitude to tank the rest of her stuff and keep healing to max. I think action speed's overrated, especially on a wizard that never gets hit, when you do those beams that fire every 1 sec for 10 secs, that's really fast and totally unaffected by dex. Then every time her wing sweep came along to try the one shot again, it'd always take me to like 10% hp. Even Eder always got one shot, but my 20+ con wizard, with all kinds of buffs always survived it then laughed off the rest of her attacks, i eventually just stopped taking the party and saw I could solo her eventually. So yeah con isn't bad, though tbh it shoulda had + deflection, not perception. Should in POE2 aswell. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Btw my stats were (just roughly remembering) Might 10 Dex 3 Con 18 Perception 18 Intellect 8 Resolve 19 (without items chargen) (beat adra dragon with this setup solo before they patched and changed perception) (When they patched it, I used a char editor cause I was honestly pissed cause I got perception for deflection, not accuracy, and set perception to 10 and might to 18) In POE2 I got the same setup, except I just kept perception this time cause I learned much later accuracy really is just better, might kinda useless if you never hit, especially on POTD.