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By this time tomorrow I'll be in Wisconsin. See you guys later!

Some burger places have them for their fries, yeah. Full disclosure, since I figured I'd need to eat way too many burgers to get more forks, I went to a store that sells the forks wholesale. Now I have a thousand wooden forks... I think it is part of an EU eco thing. IKEA now does wooden spoons for deserts at their in-store restaurant. McDonalds has paper drinking straws in their drinks. Though the best was going to a restaurant in Germany a couple of years ago and getting thick pasta (bucatini or something like that I guess?) instead of straws.

I have been recycling wooden forks from fast food joints. Turning them into cute cats. Made four so far And just finished framing one of them with a quick sketch of the Acropolis as a background. Now I need to do a few more sketches for the others, then get started on the cats friends commissioned. It is funny. All I wanted to do was not throw so much stuff away; feel less guilty about all the garbage. And now people are asking if I can paint cats for them as well. A friend even asked if I am considering doing this for money...

I'd say say hi from us. But maybe you don't want to bring up your weird online support group 😄

Sounds like some good power metal lyrics.

Lost Judgment Japanese games always have the best looking food: My #1 priority in this game is to help the Seiryo Rabbits win the national championship: If RGG do decide to change the protagonist for future games they could go with Kyoko Amasawa: If the game happens 2 or 3 years from now (presumably Yakuza: Like a Dragon 2 [or whatever they call it] will be the next RGG game) she'll have finished high school by then. She's already an amateur detective, she just needs to learn to smash people with bicycles and traffic cones. Also, she has an adorable pet dog which she trained to be her detective partner: Speaking of adorable animals:

That's the TV anime. The OVA was made by Triangle. The OVA is pretty much a loss at this point, but maybe the TV anime isn't so bad. Being made for TV might have curbed the, uhm, fanservice a little. One can hope, right? I haven't really watched much over the weekend either, but that's mostly Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous' fault. Next couple of weeks will be really busy at work too. Yay.

Steins;Gate 3 and 4 I have no idea what is happening but this show sure is something.

With Kitchen Stove's thunderous report, you can ascend instantly as you know. Also, if your accuracy is high enough, you will often be able to ascend from the two shots of The Red Hand. Another great weapon that is available early is the essence interrupter, which does pierce and shock damage, so it's great against pierce immune foes. These are great early weapons for a SC ascendant. You might also consider trying a melee witch. The speed bonuses on the barbarian side will let you spam powers very quickly which ascended, and melee is generally faster when it comes to building focus in my experience.

I've been playing this build and it's amazing. Early on the brute was a very sturdy and competent warrior with Monastic Unarmed Training. However, things got crazy once I got Amra and upgraded it. In the first fight following this, a bounty, I struck out at an enemy, surrounded by several other foes and a horde of skellies. Poof! There was a en explosion of greenish skeleton smoke and gibs and everything was destroyed, including, unfortunately, a party member who got too close to the mayhem. It's a crazily OP build, but definitely keep the party members away as Boeroer recommended!

AJ *is* my second source of international news (alongside BBC), as I like to watch what happens in the world (besides the often heavily "Western" focused media). AJ is my goto site for news about Africa, The Middle East, South and South East Asia. BBC for stuff that happens in Europe, China and North America. Religious extremism is everyones problem, regardless what continent it happens on.

That's pretty standard on any sea-front / beach area doing fast food in the UK. Chips (aka proper chips, not french fried chips), mussels, ****les, etc all tend to come with those wooden forks in that style. Also, a lot of fish and chip joints provide them if you're just asking for a bag of chips.

Blackwater --> Xe --> Academi. Which I believe still exists, though not independently any more. Can't help but think that the main reason for picking Wagner is to maximally annoy the French rather than for any practical benefit. Ironically, it's illegal for Russian citizens to work as mercenaries at least technically, which is one of the reasons Moscow always has to deny having any involvement with them despite there being obvious links. That, and their alleged tendency to beat people they think are stealing from them to death with sledgehammers while being stupid enough to film themselves doing it.

Adding new enemies to existing encounters is fairly quick and painless, at least random encounters. Within worldmap.gamedatabundle, look for WorldMapEncounterGameData -> WorldMapEncounterComponent -> CreatureSpawns Here I have edited the Rock-Stoper Rodul encounter so that he has no crewmates, by removing all other entries in the CreatureSpawns array 😄 { "GameDataObjects": [ { "$type": "Game.GameData.WorldMapEncounterGameData, Assembly-CSharp", "DebugName": "RE_SD_Rodul", "ID": "f4049eab-742e-4df5-845b-d262ece1502b", "Components": [ { "$type": "Game.GameData.WorldMapEncounterComponent, Assembly-CSharp", "CreatureSpawns": [ { "SpawnPrefab": "prefabs/characters/poe2_npcs/random_encounters/vtc_encounters/npc_re_captain_rodul.prefab", "SpawnType": "Boss", "AppearsInDifficulty": "15", "EmergeIndex": 0, "AlternateSpawnPrefab": "", "CrewKilled": 0 } ] } ] } ] } Here, I additionally added Hauani O Whe: { "GameDataObjects": [ { "$type": "Game.GameData.WorldMapEncounterGameData, Assembly-CSharp", "DebugName": "RE_SD_Rodul", "ID": "f4049eab-742e-4df5-845b-d262ece1502b", "Components": [ { "$type": "Game.GameData.WorldMapEncounterComponent, Assembly-CSharp", "CreatureSpawns": [ { "SpawnPrefab": "prefabs/characters/poe2_npcs/random_encounters/vtc_encounters/npc_re_captain_rodul.prefab", "SpawnType": "Boss", "AppearsInDifficulty": "15", "EmergeIndex": 0, "AlternateSpawnPrefab": "", "CrewKilled": 0 }, { "SpawnPrefab": "prefabs/characters/poe2_creatures/cre_ooze_black_mountainous.prefab", "SpawnType": "Any", "AppearsInDifficulty": "15", "EmergeIndex": 0, "AlternateSpawnPrefab": "", "CrewKilled": 1 } ] } ] } ] }

Looks like there is a supply problem on the mercenary market? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/25/mali-approached-russian-private-companies-moscow-not-involved Mali going shopping in Russia. What happened to Blackwater (who made quite a name for themselves in Iraq)??? 🤔 Mali has asked Russian private companies to boost security in the conflict-torn country, Moscow confirmed as the Malian leader accused France of abandoning Bamako by preparing a large troop drawdown.

That is an interesting question. If you'd asked me 20 years ago if I loved my country my answer would have been an unequivocal "yes". Ask me now and I think I'd answer it differently. What is my country? I love my countrymen very much. Americans are generally good and decent people. On average we are generous, charitable, and are generally willing to help total strangers even if it's not 100% safe to do so. Plus we invented tailgate parties. You might argue that people living in prosperous nations where simple day to day survival is not an issue can afford to be so. But I've been to prosperous nations where that is not the case. Japan for example. Everyone is polite and respectful but if something bad happens you are own your own. Someone once described it to me as "millions of people alone together". That was my observation there as well. Social interaction between strangers just does no happen. It's not even uncommon in the US. I love that about us. On that note I found Canada & Mexico to be very similar to the US. I think because people travel freely between the three countries we all share more of a social culture than folks realize. There isn't much to love about the US government. Other than it somehow manages to not be it's worst self most of the time. That is something I guess. Mark Twain said "Patriotism is loyalty to your country all the time and loyalty to it's government only when it deserves it". I think that sums it up for me.

I went with a Dwarf from the Living Lands (21). Berath Blessings for another 2 (23). Then I get bracers of Ogre Strength very soon which leaves me at 25 right away and don't even need Frenzy's bonus. Without Breath Blessings 21 is also enough of course. A human from the Living Lands would also do. Or an Aumaua from wherever. Currently I'm at 27 MIG without food and without Frenzy (just from items and story passives like from the Cauldron). With food I could hit the cap - but I'm not aiming for that. The high MIG is nice for the healing on kill which occurs all the time - which makes my Brute kind of immortal as long as there's skeletons and no hard CC (but the Brute's resistances help). Another reason to get Mountain Dwarf (resistance to Constitution afflictions which Fighter has no passive for). Getting enfeebled and even weakened is kind of bad even though it doesn't completely disable you. The rest (dazed, immobilized, frightened and so on) is not a problem because as long as you are not completely disabled you can always kill skeletons for healing. But I'm also running two chanter's - and both have all three resistance phrases. So in a pinch I can switch then to that songs and they will remove all afflictions very quickly while switching to Ancient Brittle Bones (to get skeletons out).

It's just PR speak for nationalism. You can try to paint it prettier than it is, but it isn't. My signature pretty much covers my thoughts on "patriotism". When the various lords, counts, dukes, kings etc. figured out they couldn't get the serfs to flock to their banner and die for their rulers, they came up with this splendid new idea in 1648. Patriotism! Trick the peasants into believing they are part of something and they'll die by the thousand (or millions, in last century) for an abstract entity that replaced the old structures. Worship your nation state instead of your local baron. It's still the masses dancing to the tunes of their masters voice. It's pretty genius really. Not happy with the system? But you're part of it. Hard to argue against, right? Now shut up and march this way, it's where the front is (because the peasants on the other side of that front belongs to another "nation"). Nothing has changed, only the name and what the rulers call themselves. So no, no sympathy for nations, nationalists (or the self proclaimed "patriots", who are just tools for their masters).

I didn't even know there was a first DLC. Thought the game bombed completely. Personally I couldn't even make it through 2 missions... not sure if I should give it a chance again or if that's it for me..

Another episode of Nadia, another episode that is primarily characters just yelling at each other over dumb stuff. However, unlike the previous episodes, this one felt like it was actually written by some of the people that made earlier episodes, because instead of being dreadfully boring and annoying, there was actually some fun and enjoyment in it. Not only that, but the episode's animation looked like it was made by the original animation team. The next episode...GASP, actually had something materially happen in regards to the plot, even if it only was at the last couple of minutes of the episode and the episode ended on a cliffhanger. Incredible. Could've really done without the 6 or so utterly worthless episodes in between, but maybe we're finally at the end of the tunnel here. Maybe. Maybe after I've finished Sakura and need something totally different yet slightly familiar, . Just kidding, I'm never watching K-On, I already told you that. And if I ever write any posts to the contrary at some point in the future, you can rest assured that they're lies told by my evil doppelganger. However, my evil doppelganger isn't so bad, really, so you should continue to converse with him.

Hi guys, over the past couple of months I've been working on a few mods for Pillars of Eternity: Deadfire. Now that I've completed them, it's time to share: My Custom Catalogue mod adds enchantments and upgrades to some of the unique items in game that don't do anything except look pretty. It also adds a few new unique items including Xoti's hood and Mirke's tricorn. My Subclasses & Abilities Reworked mod looks to provide new options by adjusting certain subclasses and abilities to make them more appealing. For example, all of the wizard subclasses no longer lock you out of two schools. Instead, specialized wizards have longer recovery times. Some higher tier abilities are also changed to make it more appealing to go single-class. Finally, my Multiclass Names Redux mod simply changes a large number of the multiclass names into better sounding ones.

I personally love your Custom Catalogue mod, since there is few mod that rebalances/revises PoE II items. It is really annoying for me that there are lots of unique items having no unique stats at all.

That's one hell of a heel turn.

I think natural gas heating is cheaper.

That is amazing! I have been to senior living condominiums in assisted-living places before and they are seriously depressing. This sounds like anything but.

I don’t know. I’ve never really thought about it. When I bought this place I had this idea of a completely self-sufficient property. A home that could generate its own electricity, grow its own food, supply its own water. I sort of have that. Not 100% but pretty close. Well it was a lot of work though. I can’t imagine I would ever want to live inside of a city limits again. Traffic, city ordinances, noise, meddlesome homeowners association‘s, crime, I never have to worry about any of that. It’s quiet here. Peaceful. My front porch faces east and my back porch faces west. I can sit and watch the sunrise in the morning and watch it set in the evening. There is no artificial light for miles and you’ve never seen more stars than I see here every night. I hear coyotes down in Anderson Tully. Crows gather in squawk along the tree line following the creek. There is an owl that comes around and hangs out in the tree over the workshop. She seemed to be fascinated by whatever Sunny was doing when she used to patrol around the garden in the evening. Sunny and Tommy’s final resting places are here, down by the creek. I don’t know how I could ever walk away. But if that guy was right and I got even close to what he said we could get I could retire right now. very conflicted

Not ruling it out but it’s way too early for that! But I’m definitely going back up next week. This time she asked me to stay with her. We’ve spoken almost every day!

‘Night Court’ Sequel Starring Melissa Rauch & John Larroquette Lands Series Order At NBC – Deadline A little startled, Night Court to return, and Lorroquette reprising his role.

Both the Russians and Chinese have plenty of citizenry who critique their government, they just do it "flying low" like on the internet (netizens) and in small circles etc. In fact, the government often likes these critiques because it helps them gauge public opinion better and in turn direct policy accordingly. Really not much different from the U.S., I mean technically you CAN go out on a podium in town square with a loudspeaker in the U.S. and trash talk Uncle Sam, but you bet your sweet rear end that you're gonna be on The List if you choose to do so.

I put it in my guide, but there are so few that I can just try listing them off the top fo my head (there are so few that it almost just seems like a bug that these were all applyovertime instead of applyontick) priest cleansing flame cipher disintegrate rogue deep wounds ranger wounding shot edit: whoops, forgot about druid taste of the hunt

wael + rogue (streetfighter in my case), wael + fighter (a monastic unarmed training build) remains some of the most enjoyable builds i've done from a MC/priest perspective. you'll do less buffing, because you'll be burning spell casts on Arcane Veil and Mirror Image a lot for massive protection. getting gaze of the adragan and arkemyr's wondrous torment at high levels are also fun. skaen works for a martial multiclass, but honestly i'm a bit burned out on the subclass because of my deadfire ultimate run so i don't have specific recommendations for it. it sounded like you were interested in eothas, though, and honestly eothas doesn't offer as much for offensive martial multiclassing. i did try eothas with a paladin (kind wayfarers) as well as with a beckoner, and it was pretty acceptable play for both, you just give up on some direct offense in favor of indirect offense. though given your preferred stat spread, maybe the latter two are angles you want anyway (my beckoner wielded a shield and acted as kind of an off-tank with lots of support spells, so missing out on e.g. might and accuracy wasn't a big deal because most of my power came from lots of summons). both of these will definitely work. i'm also going to put a plug in for Bellower. Not as much flexibility/cheese potential as a troubadour, but can do some insane things with all the extra PL you get on invocations, and the flexibility/cheese potential loss is somewhat made up for by being MC with a priest. ascendant with SoT is also good, but can also get a bit boring. you pretty much only really get much use out of ascending once you have salvation of time (otherwise the focus efficiency isn't nearly as great as a single class) and non-trivial fights can play out extremely same-y once you unlock that spell. almost literally any priest build will be viable for megabosses so long as you have a combination of brilliant, barring death's door, salvation of time. they will basically carry your party. you need some special handling for auranic and hauane's cleansing effects, but a priest puts you on extremely strong foundation.

You didn't even get to the weird part yet.

And for being made by Madhouse, it doesn't even look all that good. ...I mean, it looks a lot better than most of the crap that came out around that time, but still, . I'll keep you updated on Nadia. I need to watch the next episode of Sakura something fierce (and Devil Lady), but a busier than average week prevented that...and I won't have time today, either. MAYBE TOMORROW.

I found these two pictures in earlier threads as you said, but there was no attempt of making watermark or regular potraits out of them. Someone uploaded pictures like me and waited.. so i guess i will also wait until someone has the time to make them. Thanks for the help nonetheless.