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Tested it with the console where I can remove/add abilities at will. First of all: there is no water dmg of course. But damage that is done with abilities/weapons which are keyworded with "water" (most of times it's crush damage I think). Althought the Heart-Chime amulet always says "Lunar Heart" on your char sheet it will give you the proper effect, just named wrongly. In the case of Marine Godlike it converts 30% of attacks that are keyworded with water into healing (20% of the damage that would have been dealt). But only if you don't have Wave Walker... ... because Wave Walker does indeed prevent Water of Life from working. It will prevent any water-keyworded attacks from hitting in the first place. Water of Life expects a hit roll with an additional damage roll - so it can transform the dmg into health. But a damage roll will never happen for water-tagged attacks if you have Wave Walker.

Or is that.. "cancel culture"?

Survived the Con. Got back home midday and semi-sprawled, went for the cup of tea, then settled back into that pre-interview analysis and presentation building. After a two year break, it was good to see the MCM London ComicCon back in action and all the vibes that went with it.

Tried attending some agile cult meeting, they wanted us to develop an Epic to extract a man from under a burning car.

Mutation: Fly Lord. Kill xx flies 3 ranks. Rotten food restore hunger , rotten food restores more. Rotten food also recovers health

With regard to war crimes and war criminals in the US Civil War, there was absolutely no shortage of both on either side. there’s no such thing as a clean war but that one was particularly brutal and nasty by Western standards. That was more so true at the end than it was in the beginning. For a couple of reasons. In the first two years of the war both armies were very well led and disciplined by professional and experienced officers. By the third and fourth year of the war a great many of the professional officers and real leaders in both armies had been killed off or otherwise removed from the battlefield. In the last two years it was clear the south had lost and the desperation of fighting on home soil cranked up the bad acts to an all-time high. Neither army thought twice about flying the black flag. And yes US army “atrocities “ against southern civilians were both common, documented, and rarely punished.

can't make our self take camellia beyond act i and some limited act ii content, so our favoured strategy for playful darkness involves pillars of life, a sooper intimidator and prayer-- not the spell but actual prayer 'cause a couple bad rolls results in a needed reload. with the aforementioned prayer you may also get lucky on a couple mass heal scroll uses, but those is kinda an expensive option. is possible to build seelah and/or sosiel into achieving near overwhelming intimidator status. a player character or merc inquisitor or dirge bard is gonna be best options, but understandably not many folks feel comfortable creating a fromage-based intimidator for their main. regardless, pc or companion, need sacrifice one level to get thug, but is worth it to see playful darkness scamper away when it fails the spamable intimidation checks which is not subject to sr and is not actual a will save, which is part o' the reason why the bugged vavakia vandguards you will encounter later in the game is so devastating. and keep in mind the intimidation tactic works 'gainst every demon lord as well. recommendation: use moss pottage camp meal for the stack-with-everything skill boost 'cause every point counts. why pillars of life? no save. no sr. can cast 'em pre combat and may cast multiple iterations in the exact same location. am s'posing you may plan ahead and have sosiel prepare pillars scrolls and then have nenio cast 'em... and unless has been fixed, part o' the beauty o' intimidation resulting in fear is that unlike party members, each time playful runs through stacked pillars of life, he/she/it takes damage anew. might wanna check and see how many is purchasable from the cleric in drezen and possible at the temple of the good hunt. pillars not maximized or empowered do 10d8 damage... each. even if has been fixed and you don't get the repeat damage, play in tb means each time playful runs away and then returns, it gets at most a single attack. not a you-win button option, but is another workable approach which am having personal used core and hard and it has the advantage o' not depending on camellia. HA! Good Fun! ps just checked and arsinoe does not sell pillars of life scrolls, so unless you bring sosiel or have a priest main, you need craft scrolls to make this tactic work.

Just make a canoe or kayak that you can haul like a stack of stems that way you can uses it in the pond or the flooded area by rash. The other flooded zone has to many mosquitos and would be problematic......

Hey everyone, Thank you all for reporting this to us! We have been receiving a TON of reports about this, and as such, the team has been investigating and think they have a fix. It's expected that this fix will be coming in a hotfix patch soon to help get you all back on track. Sorry for all the trouble this is causing as I'm sure it's much more difficult out in the back yard without those arrows and traps. Thanks again for all your help everyone!

Changed it to your liking!

I remember one of the history books trying to make it about states rights and economics, and everyone in class was like "but...states rights to keep slaves and the fact that the rich people wouldn't make money without free forced labor that slavery gave them!" Like a lot of insults, its overused to the point of meaninglessness. And mostly seems to exist to shut down conversation.

From his part in the documentary, no, but was talking about looting, destruction of property - which I guess is par for the course in warfare in 19th century (well ok, even now.) - so maybe was referencing Sherman. The documentary does have a certain bend to it, so I guess they would choose the dumbest things the guy says. The guy was celebrating "Confederate Heroes Day", so at least I learned that's still a thing.

Me too lmao. There are some interesting alternative facts about that subject. I wouldn't mind if "cuck" got banned from the internet tbh.

Grounded needs a dedicated server option. My friends are not always online when I'm online so would be nice if you where able to host your own server so everyone can join on the own time

In the grand scheme of things these were smaller posts, really.

Yes, one guy said the South never invaded the North. Sort of curious how he thought stuff like Antietam or Gettysburg went down, to be honest. I barely know any Civil War history beyond stuff I skimmed Wikipedia over, but geez. You should ask for the names of his history teachers so you could go slap them

It all started when the union attacked Fort Sumter! LOL someone actually tried to tell me that once!

You seem confused about history Malc, everyone knows the Civil War was actually the " War of Northern Aggression " !!!

I've replayed the trilogy a few times (although I never played the updated ME3 endings). I think the things that disappoints me the most about the trilogy is that the series starts as pure heroic space opera and by ME3 the series is "war is hell, there is no good choices, life sucks and then you die" kind of storytelling. Which isn't bad per se, particularly had the series always been that way, but I don't find that to be a satisfactory conclusion to what started as a heroic space opera. I could accept the sort of darker ME2 with the idea it was the "Empire Strikes Back" of Mass Effect, but instead it was like, in movie terms, ME1-3 were Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back - Full Metal Jacket. 'Fixing' the end of ME3 is never going to fix that tonal problem with the series.

If Marine Godlikes are naturally immune to Water based attacks, does this mean that Heart-Chime Amulet literally does nothing for them?

That is unfortunate since the Blade of the Endless Paths -in the right hands - is one of the best two handed weapons in PoE. As all weapons it's not overpowered - but it's pretty great because it has speed. Due to the multiplicative speed stacking in PoE, the speed enchantment is the best DPS enchantment (besides wounding). Tidefall is good as well, but it's not "much better" than the Blade otEP. For particular classes/builds the Blade is actually better (melee Cipher, marking Paladin for example). But yes: Tidefall comes earlier (with the right metaknowledge that you'll need 10 mechanics and the scouting mode to even find it) which might lead to the assumption that it should be worse. But that would not follow the basic item design principle I mentioned earlier so... It is a weapon that has exceptional qualities for certain builds - but is not especially good for others. Combos like cone AoE + afflictions and other special attacks like Soul Annihilation and cone AoE + AoE abilities (for example Clear Out) on one hand and Offensive Parry (retaliation) on the other hand make it a very good pick for certain effective (rather diverse) builds. Thus it doesn't "suck" per se but can be a cornerstone of a fun and successful playthrough. It depends on how you play Xoti. You don't need to use something else if you don't want to. Both weapons are tailored to her and her class combos. For me it's a good thing that you don't necessarily have to switch out those (style- and lore-wise) fitting weapons. But you can for example focus on kill-stealing/interrupting with her (and get 3 wounds everytime you do that because of her monk subclass which in turn is great with Rooting Pain) - then you would rather want to use something like Twin Eels for example. Or you focus on her Blessed Harvest spell and give her a Morning Star + modal instead of sickle + lantern so she doesn't miss the spell. Also works well. I once gave the Sickle away to the party Rogue/Barb (skilled him for max Religion) and paired all the speed buffs, Sneak Attack and Deathblow stuff with the up-to 60% dmg bonus and the speed bonus of the sickle. Made Xoti an SC Monk and used the Lantern to gain +4 wounds and +1 Mortification when killing squishies with Inner Death. I like that you can play around with weapons so much. This wouldn't be possible if weapons would be desiged more like in the BG series or so where they just become more powerful the further you go. Granted - this is more attractive to players who play multiple times/try out multiple chars and less for one-time players who couldn't care less I guess.

There's a lot to unpack, and that feels a bit like the joke about a physics professor asking their students whether hell is endo- or exothermic in nature. Short answer: Yes. Longer answer: Directly after episode 5 this would have been a resounding no. Much much longer answer: It wasn't all bad, actually. Take out the really terrible parts of episode 5, and you're left with one embarrassing episode and a few transformations that are a little too sketchy, and some fan service that should not have been in there, but isn't too overboard. Ultimately, most of the show's runtime is just as you predicted it would be. The biggest issue is the schizophrenic attempt at welding a Cardcaptor Sakura age group magical girl cast with an attempt at mature storytelling and an adult target demographic. This was made specifically to attempt to appeal to the demographic that watched Sailor Moon as adolescent boys, I guess. It's familiar enough to "feel" right, it just really messed up with the erotic/suggestive content in episode five and the age of Nanoha, because much of the runtime you simply don't buy that she's a nine year old. When Nanoha gears up and walks headlong into a battle that may very well kill her and ends it with Usagi's typical "We fought, don't you think it's time to try and be friends now?", all you really get is the incredibly Japanese thing to do: Make characters far too young for their own good. It also adds to the JRPG feel, because that is a very prevalent thing in JRPGs too, when young boys or girls are inadvertantly thrust into a situation beyond their ken, but resolve to do something about it anyway. Usagi spends an entire season not wanting to accept her responsibilities, and only truly does so after she's lost everything. All Nanoha needed as a nine year old was finding a magical ferret and a talking red marble with an AI turning her into a techno-mage, and two episodes to properly learn how to control it. Still, and that says more about what I've watched recently than it does about Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, it's been enjoyable enough. Unlike with Lady Asuka, Love Live! and Magic User's Club, I was actually looking forward to finding the time to watch an episode or two. That only stopped dead in its tracks after the loli incident. The most damning thing is, there's no real reason to watch this, in the same way that there's no real reason to play random JRGP #2321. Visually and in terms of music it's not impressive, but at least not offensive. The storyline is fine, but not great, and the writing is... fine too. It's a bit messy and sometimes confused, tries to add too much in too short a span of time (space ships, technobabble and the space cops are all things that could easily have been dropped without making any difference) near the end. It really is much like an anime version of random JRGP #2321, but it's nowhere near as bad as X is. What I liked about it, for the most part, is one thing that carries an undue weight for my enjoyment of entertainment - atmosphere. I loved the feeling the anime gave off when it wasn't trying to be disgusting. It's the same feeling I get when thinking back to playing Final Fantasy Adventure on the Game Boy or the journey of your character in Illusion of Gaia or Terranigma. It's much less about how good the sum of its parts are, how good the parts are, or how well they go together. That is, however, preciously little to go by as far as recommendations go, and I doubt you would find anything in it that would lastingly appeal to you. You might tentatively not hate the first few episodes, but the serious mode and the storyline, yeah, no. That's not character driven enough, and episode five would make you delete all anime you still wanted to try. edit: Oh, and welcome to the secod thread I ever made on the Obsidian forum! Figures, the first one was to provide the BISIMGs to download, the second one was foisted upon me, but I like this approach with splitting off the end of the old thread more than the lock and repost. That was a good idea, @Gorth.

I had a friend with a video game addiction. He'd play for two days straight without sleep, ignoring everything else. Failed uni, couldn't hold a job, eventually ended up with heroine. Shrink says as an addict he's prone to addiction in general, not just drugs.

Here it is, finally...Neon Genesis Evangelion, the original Human Instrumentality:

Some people are really struggling with video game addiction... so GDP could become a real issue. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58979895 Cam Adair finally realised that his addiction to video games was out of control when it made him consider ending his life. "I struggled with it for 10 years," he says. "I dropped out of high school, never went to college, and pretended to have jobs to deceive my family. "I eventually wrote a suicide note, and it was on that night that I realised I needed to get help. I'm now 3,860-day-free from my gaming addiction." ... "The pandemic led to me spending more time than usual watching Twitch [a live streaming service that focuses on people playing computer games], and YouTube," says Mr Adair. "Much of that [YouTube] content was game streamers and games too, both of which can be strong triggers to relapse and play. Thankfully I was able to stay away from a relapse, but I know many people in the Game Quitters community who did unfortunately relapse during Covid."

The blessing of Murdoch media... providing a shrine for human stupidity where they can congregate and sing hymns to their own ignorance. Blessed is the moron, for he shall not see it coming. I mentioned in a previous post, it's not a unique US trait. Murdoch media in Australia is the spitting image of Fox News (his Sky News network is same all over the world). People started looking for alternative news sources in Australia after NewsCorp got called out by police and fire departments for deliberately lying about the sources of the bushfires two years ago. It wasn't climate change, it was a combined army of thousands of arsonists roaming the country side, making it look like it was climate change that was to blame!!! I'm not even kidding, the truth is completely irrelevant to any Fox/Sky News reporting. And they both attract the same kind of people to the comments sections.

so, deflection? you were the guy posting per capita gdp. now is a matter o' neighboring countries and dystopian futures? and yes, china could, possible, in the future, if they overcome their self-made population nightmare, become more economic prosperous than... mexico. have no problem agreeing with that. doesn't change how myopic and oversimplified were your initial observation. @kanisatha were a bit more generous with your non analogous numbers than is Gromnir, but am admitted no longer generous with comrade silliness. HA! Good Fun! ps oh and preach to the choir maybe 'bout the poverty issues the US could/should be addressing and how many times has we needed point out that more than 1/3 o' the recipients o' national and state welfare programs is children. add mental and physical disabled and such numbers increase. those who complain 'bout handouts should be ashamed when faced with such numbers, but aren't. point out most adult welfare recipients get benefits less than six months? is a inconvenient fact. point out how many us military veterans is homeless and living on the streets? etc. 'course you, as is typical, look external when the most immediate, pressing and solvable concerns is domestic. fix mexico is a big problem. get homeless veterans with mental health issues and medical conditions the help they need? can fix the veteran problem if we chose to. don't fix is more than a national tragedy and embarrassment but hey, you can talk mexico if you think it salvages your gdp generalization. pps minors current represent 44% o' national welfare program assistance in the US, and the % would seem to be a bit higher for states, but each state does their own math gymnastics, so is tough to come up with a reliable number. closer to 1/2 than 1/3? say 1/3 for those who quibble, but +44% is safe bet.

compare the population of ireland, a small homgenous nation, to the bay area of the US... just the bay area of california. ~half. ireland is half. similarly, compare per capita gdp for bay area to the nations you wanna cherry pick. heck, do for silicon valley and situation is even more extreme. the US is a large and diverse nation. apples and oranges. heck, china has the advantage o' being homogenous and the chinese per capita gdp is similar to kazakhstan and neck-and-neck with mexico. mexico? serious? so... is another situation where comrade reads something somewhere and w/o benefit o' any kinda serious researches or studies, he blurts out a generality which predictable will not age well for him short-term or long term. HA! Good Fun!

I have finally earned enough reputation with Red Devils in Rebel Galaxy, to get into neutral and earn one of the rarest achievements in the game. It was today mage pain in the ass... The RNG on mission board was awful, I either get to guard pirate ships made out of the glass, which were impossible to safe from obliteration, or I did not get any missions for them at all. I was just cruising around two systems, and landing on various orbital stations, with no luck to get some decent and finishable mission So after 3 hours, I finally got third mission to finish, and my reputation dinged right away. Next time, I will be visiting the first Red Devil station and checking their equipment \o/

Games Per Day is misleading, because some games are played for 30 minutes a day while some are played all day. So Gaming Hours Per Minute (Gaming Power Parity) should be used instead. I this essay I will...

Doesn't the G in GPD stand for gaming? Games Per Day per capita seems games related.

Hah, you've clearly never moved with kids. It just means more stuff and having to repack everything the kids pack because they don't listen to you. Although I do dig that my daughter can help me move the big stuff now.

I believe dispersed suffering applies to any sort of kill whatsoever. So casters can use Frostfall as a statstick and pile on the duration of negative effects. I personally think it's just a win more item though, if you're annihilating lots of enemies than you don't need ridiculously long debuff durations if you just kill em all instead. What I guess you could do is once again do some sort of Berserker/Beckoner cheese, only instead of spamming Chill Fog, you get a super lengthy Disintegrate on Dorudugan or something so that you can just wait for him to die. Edit: found a hilarious Youtube video of someone doing the Grave Calling cheese with a Tactician instead. Arguably stronger as you're also immortal due to Unbending procs.

Blanks are regular ammunition that have propellant but no projectile. For a semi automatic firearm to use them you have to stopper the barrel. In the military we had a red box with a screw that you actually screw into the end of the barrel that traps most of the gas from the propellant burn so it will work the action of the rifle and chamber the next round. I believe in this case Baldwin was firing a handgun so the barrel of the handgun would have to be blocked inside in such a way that it wasn’t visible. Usually that means “leading “ the barrel. Blocking it permanently with lead or silver or some other malleable metal. Once you do that the gun can never be used for regular ammunition again. I was reading the description of the movie and it sounds like it’s an old West movie. Which means the prop would’ve been a revolver. Since it’s not semi automatic there is no need to block the barrel. So that really comes down to inventory and asset control. How did live ammunition get on the set? as accidents go this is about as tragic as it gets. Alec Baldwin is a pretty substandard human being by most of my criteria. He treats his children and the people around him like garbage and has a reputation for just being an all-around ****. That said I’m certainly sympathetic for how he’s feeling right now. This is not his fault obviously but it would still be a very hard thing to deal with knowing that you were the one holding the pistol at the time.

In Lee's case, it was a squib load in the barrel used for a close-up to make it look like the gun was loaded with real bullets. It wasn't cleared from the barrel when the prop or arms master loaded blanks into the gun, as I recall. In this case, it was the Director (Joel Souza) and the Cinematographer (Halyna Hutchins) who were shot. Souza was wounded and Hutchins was killed. This makes me speculate that they were probably filming a scene where Baldwin was supposed to fire multiple times at the camera for a POV shot. Could have been too short of a range, or could have been the wrong gun used, or an improperly loaded one. I'm sure the investigation will take some time.