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Fun fact: The Animated Weapons that a chanter summons are all male.

Yeah, not having the time to debate minutia on the internet would be a real blow. 🤓

lololol i'm just so curious to know how this was discovered. lover's embrace enchantment?

Veteran takes his service dog back to prison and immediately sprints toward female inmate who trained him Definitely worth reading!

Called to His Bidding, the Ancient Instrumen of Death

I think on some level the Dems want to lose. Like the Republicans are busy stacking the deck to solidify power and the Democrats are...banking on magic black women to zerg rush voters to the polls. I wish they were as badass as some of these dip****s think. Biden forcing god fearing patriots to watch sissyfication crt propaganda and go on HRT would be hilarious.

Yay Atlanta!

As a Browns fan, I was going to compare Mayfield to Vinny Testaverde (for some reason I thought he won a Super Bowl with the Ravens, but it looks like I was wrong) but Trent Dilfer is also an accurate comparison. I really hated when the Browns drafted Mayfield as I felt he was too immature to be a franchise quarterback but he seems to have grown up quite a bit. I don't think he's ever going to be great, but he's likely to be serviceable (which would be an improvement for the Browns.) Injuries have been a decent part of the Browns problem, but Mayfield hasn't played very well this year (admittedly, he's injured and I honestly think the Browns should tell him to get the surgery he apparently needs and look at this as a lost year.) The defense seems to have fallen apart the last couple of weeks as well. Truth be told, I think the Browns actually really over performed last year. They might barely be good enough to make the playoffs when they play up to their talent level, but I don't think they have a good enough team to actually win. The defense isn't good enough, and the receiving core just doesn't seem to be as good in actual games as they are on paper.

If you can find me one other individual on the internet complaining about reuse of landscape assets and prove it's not you, I'll eat crow. If you can show me that this led to a steep drop off in sales from PoE1 to Deadfire, not only will I literally eat my own hat, I will petition Obsidian on your behalf to hire you as a PM of some sorts. It is definitely fine to have your pet peeves and things to pay attention to and care about (I would have literally never noticed the reused bog asset in Sayuka before), but it's a pretty far cry to using that as a basis for explaining a major, objectively measurable thing (an order of magnitude drop-off in sales). Strong claims require strong evidence. Frankly, if I had seen even one other person around here or a reviewer somewhere over many years raise it, I'd be a heck of a lot more credulous. There are plenty of outsider theories, debunked or not, that have a more credible basis - pirate theme, nostalgia overload, poor marketing, and yes even "women aren't smiling enough in this game", etc. - than yours

i don't know man, everything you just said here to me justifies the reuse of that bog asset in all those places, or that rocky mountains map. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ oh boy it's another one of these discussions again. i guarantee you almost literally no one other than you cares about a small amount of asset reuse like that. some guy on here once complained that the female portraits in this game didn't have enough smiling, i think that's a more credible theory than yours.

made home fries. am s'posing we also made poached eggs and a béchamel, but were little more than an excuse to make home fries. we like home fries, particular in duck fat. yum. the thing which occurred to us is we has seen folks make home fries and they near always add an extra step (or a wrong step) which is complete unnecessary, requires extra cleaning efforts and is time consuming, and who wants extra cleaning? recommendation: the microwave oven is your friend. ordinarily our microwave does little work in our kitchen. popcorn and boiling water? the thing is, the microwave is the perfect tool for getting your potatoes prepared for home fries. no par boiling. no pre baking. cut your tatters into whatever size you believe is right for home fries, then place in a microwave safe container with whatever fat you intend to use for cooking (duck fat is best, but avocado or even olive oil is fine as long as you are careful once you add the olive oil coated spuds to a hot skillet,) seasonings and a teeny bit o' water. shake container so potatoes is coated, then vent container and place in microwave on high for 'bit less than two minutes for a single medium russet, depending on size o' your potato pieces. more potatoes does not require an additional two minutes-- each additional spud requires proportional less time. is not science but art, but am confident y'all can figure it out with a bit o' practice. regardless, after cooking, take tatters from microwave and remove lid and allow steam (water) to escape. fork tender is goal. toss your preseasoned and fat covered potatoes in a hot skillet. we do recommend fully cooking whatever vegetation, meat and/or garlic you might wanna contribute to your potatoes before adding the potatoes to skillet. remove veggies + whatever and then cook spuds separate. near end o' cooking, return veggies to the skillet so everything is warmed through. may be heretical, but this is also a reason why we sometimes use garlic powder 'stead o' garlic for home fries. overcook garlic is wasted garlic. garlic powder is gonna be a bit more robust and if you season your fat/potatoes with garlic powder before you cook 'em, the garlic flavor will not become burned/overcooked garlic flavoring. if you cook your garlic with your veggies, then you are imparting all that wonderful garlic flavor to a mass o' slight caramelized onions and whatever but not genuine to the potatoes. regardless, don't par boil. don't pre bake. save self from the hassle and cleaning. microwave your spuds is an ideal time saver which does not affect end result taste whatsoever. downside is home fries remain nice and hot for what feels like no more than a few seconds once removed from skillet. like french fries, home fries is capable o' going from mouth scalding to room temperature in in the blink o' an eye. ideally, if you do not mind being viewed as a savage and are willing to risk burning yourself, eat outta your skillet is probable the best approach. HA! Good Fun!

That means he's imprisoned there and can't torment us, so that'll be a good thing.

He's been taken to jail for peeping at little girls. You funny ! But surly there more like Von Stroheim ?

Aloha, The difficulty on medium is far to high. The recipes are difficult to fulfill when players must beat very difficult enemies with such terrible defensive abilities. Ive learned how to perfect block consistently, Im using a full set of grub armor and a mosquito rapier. The ladybug can 1 shot me, Ive only managed to kill 3, two didnt drop another head to create lady bug armor set. The wolf spider is IMPOSSIBLY hard. Ive used acorn armor and grub, by far grub is better for keeping up the stamina, the wolf spider attcks much too quickly to perfect block consistently, I can perfect block every single attack animation, but when he does the 123, delayed 4th. It always stuns me even if I block, then die from 1 shot on the delayed fourth, full health. The only way is to perfect block all three of those hits and then block the fourth. Even a single scrape is too much dmg from poison, i will die before fight is over. Smoothies are useless. Antclub isnt working, you must perfect block every hit, which is unbelievable. The block on antclub lets hits through, and you die from poison. I will not play on mild, Im better than that. But this needs to be dialed back. Its far too hard, even a good player will be having trouble. I already have parry master lvl 3 and I havent even built a base or got a set of armor beyond grub. Im a console player, On xbox.

Aww! No more Pegasusu

Lawrence Lilarcor +3: "hold my beer, I'm coming!!". "Swing harder, swing harder! Swing harder!!" "Who's your daddy!" "Wouldn't it be cool if you could dual-wield me?" "I'm the best at what I do, and what I do ain't pretty!"

Can't do that though. It's one of the few occasions when economics and practicality are in direct sync: everything is dependent on cheap fuel, everything. The flow on effects of rising fuel costs increase the costs of everything, and make the JIT models that are already creaking from the pandemic even more shaky. There's literally no point going to electric cars running on electricity generated from coal or natural gas, and that's what the majority of the world would be shifting to, but in any case you cannot build electric cars fast enough and especially you cannot build electric ships or electric trucks in volume nor at anywhere near the level of convenience that is absolutely required by the economic model. So instead you focus on moronic things like methane. Which is the practical equivalent of deciding that water vapour is an even worse greenhouse gas than methane, ergo we should all run dehumidifiers to save the planet and tea and coffee should be taxed heavily. Indeed, the main reason methane is picked is for political reasons, since it's a distance neutral measure for agricultural goods that allows subsidies to continue. A cow eating corn grown on ex Brazilian rainforest in France produces the same methane as a cow that is pasture fed year around, but one also produces its own weight in CO2 from transport costs from feeding it in a barn 4 months of the year. In both cases the methane produced will not be methane in a matter of months. Complete and utter virtue signalling, and designed to shift the blame onto those who are not the problem, eg rice as staple countries. Rice produces vast amounts of methane due to growing in water, but, crucially, that's all carbon cycle methane. Starts as CO2, goes to plant material, rots to methane, goes back to CO2. No net effect. Still, we can then blame China and India for the problem and wash our exquisitely environmentally safe hands... You can tell how stupid a focus on methane is because it's being pushed by Germany's free advertisement for leaving the EU, von der Leyen.

Well, was a just a joke on the utter futility of our time spent here.

I like backtracking in a game, metroidvania or otherwise, so long as there is no level scaling. Coming back to an earlier area much more powerful and slicing through everything like a hot knife through butter is a fun power fantasy for me.

*minutiae

They always sound fun until I remember I hate backtracking.

I found I liked the idea of Metroidvanias more than I actually like Metroidvanias.

Did you send the entire contents and folder of the desired savegame? I originally had this game trough game pass and succesfully just copied that savegame to the Steam version I bought. Steam and MS Game Pass versions use different save file locations.

I scooped up the Castlevania Advance Collection on Switch. It's available on everything, but Switch just seems like the ideal way to play GBA games. $20 is a bargain for 3 great and 1 good game. The one disappointment is that it's Dracula X and not Rondo of Blood. I mean, Dracula X is still good, but why not include the superior version of the game instead? Oh well, I didn't buy it for that, anyway, I bought it for the GBA trilogy. Part of me wants to go into Aria of Sorrow directly, because it's so freakin' great, but I'll probably play through the entire trilogy in order (Circle of the Moon, Harmony of Dissonance, Aria of Sorrow). I just finished Metroid Dread and I don't want to do back to back metroidvanias, so I'll break it up with something else, but Circle is coming up soon.

Called to His Bidding, the Ancient Instruments of Death, Proved Yet Again How Much of a Menace Toxic Masculinity is in Our Deeply Phallocratic Society. And They Did Sing a Song of Carnage, Fair! Chanter Invocation PL15

Invalid surface. Not supported. Obstructed. And now.....Land rights? Unless the developers intend to build other content in these areas, we should be free to build anywhere in the yard. On any surface. Without restrictions that do not make any sense whatsoever. The frustration with the building restrictions is the inconsistency of when and where they occur. Don't mind having sensible rules to follow. Like building a wall too close to an item that uses the same space. Ok. Move the chest. No? Move the lamp. Still red? Ah....the Purple Chair is too close! That did it. Build the wall. Then scoot the chest back. The lamp. The chair. Ah... that's better. (Thanks Obsidian. Moving furniture was the best idea ever!) Make sense? Sure. But not being able to build a blueprint for a support embedded clearly into solid rock is frustrating. Not supported? Ah.....hate to break it to you, but....ah....it is the support. Embedded in rock. Oh, not a problem. Just build everything else floating in air and then you are allowed to place the blueprint for the support and build it. Last. Oh boy.....I hear a smoothie on the rocks calling to me. Need to chill out near the pond. No. I forgot.....The Tadpole Quartet is having a rather loud session of How to drive Willow Crazy Musical beneath my lovely lily pad mansion. Perhaps I'll go visit my friend George (the wolf spider). Haven't seen him lately. I actually miss him. Have fun everyone!

LOL I assume no pun intended there!

Not just that, but it's being reported that he's not even vaccinated, which...I have to think leads to a suspension for him at least, possibly fines/docked draft picks for the Packers, because he has clearly not been following the unvaccinated protocols. That, or there's some huge misunderstanding with the media and he is actually vaccinated. Ay, karamba. Also, he directly said in a press conference that he was vaccinated, so if he was deliberately lying about that (how could he not be if he's not vaccinated?), then...he as a person falls very low in my eyes. That'd be so stupid and dishonest.

Mandatory CRT will make the country stronger, those things are ****ing heavy.

Dammit there’s never an Andrew Jackson around when you need one!

At Bethesda: "So is there a platform we haven't ported Skyrim to yet?" "Oh, I know..."

there's also a healing component that scales. it has a very low base (20 health), though it's not nothing. edit: i said they scale with alchemy, but like any other potion they also benefit from bonus generic PL, just not the caster's (unless it's the caster drinking it)

Samurai Champloo 11 and 12. So 11 was just great, after the last few episodes I was wondering when Jin would be the focus again and here we are. 12 was a clip show. So not great, but 11/12 is not a bad track record. Jojo Battle Tendency 20-24 This show makes no sense at all and it is great. Other than the clip show episode, nothing has really bothered me at all. That's pretty impressive. Wait until you see episode 9.

Fingers Crossed! QAnon Faithful Await the Return of JFK Jr. on the Grassy Knoll in Dallas "On Monday night, independent reporter Steven Monacelli tweeted he had just encountered a crowd of QAnon supporters in the city’s AT&T Discovery Plaza, apparently in anticipation of the late Kennedy—who they believe faked his own death. The attendees believe the deceased son of the assassinated president will give a speech in which he will ordain Donald J. Trump as the “king of kings.”" ... we would like to "thank" @Raithe for this story 'cause we followed one o' his rando links to gizmodo where we discovered this latest installment o' batcrap "prove it can't happen" crazy from q-followers. edit: On the Ground With the QAnon Believers Who Flocked to Dallas for the Grand Return of JFK Jr. HA! Good Fun!

So dumb, especially for a guy whose best friend was killed in a car accident and made that specific point a part of his motivation for succeeding. Too small of a sample size for me so far to say for sure, but last year he showed better performance under pressure than I think Kirk ever has - exactly where that poor man always falls apart and makes everyone remember him as a fraud.

From the days of yore, when Gorth was but a school boy and the radio the only source of music...

I finished Metroid Dread with 100% item collection. Great game, it's definitely in the running for GotY. If you like metroidvanias you will probably love it, as it's one of the finest examples of the genre. If you don't like metroidvanias this probably won't change your mind. The final boss fight was really badass. There are 3 phases, 4 if you count the short bit at the beginning, but it's basically just part of the first phase. Phase 1 is easy once you learn all the different attacks because there are plenty of opportunities to replenish health & ammo, so mistakes can be corrected. Phase 2 is the hard part as there is no way to replenish. Everything can be dodged, you just gotta execute. Phase 3 is like phase 1 but with some newly added attacks. There are opportunities to replenish, though. Phase 1 took me 3 tries, phase 2 took 7 or 8 tries, and phase 3 I did on my second try.

In terms of having an installation at home I had every consumer operating system and consumer Windows since, uhm, DOS 5.0, which came out in 1991. I removed Windows ME really quickly after trying it for a short time. Windows 95 I had installed, but barely ever used it, the amount of games that required it were pretty small at first, and then came the much better running Windows 98. That had nothing at all to do with the major hardware upgrade in between and everything with Windows 98 having much better performance. Even the things I needed for school ran purely on DOS, like various Borland C compiler versions and a DOS based COBOL compiler (yeah, don't ask), so why bother starting it. That was before DirectX was a thing, even. Post-consumer Windows I switched to XP when it came out, then went to 7 and later 10. At school, then later work and through giving out support I pretty much came in contact with everything else in terms of Windows except pre-4.0 NT. A few things outside of MS too, like System 7 (well that was awful), and Linux (early 2.0 kernel versions back in '96). There was a time when the biggest quality of live improvement for me was the increased floppy disk copy speed from having a VGA graphics card, because someone came up with the brilliant idea of using the super fast (comparatively, at the time) graphics memory as a buffer to store the entire floppy disk content, circumventing allocation size problems and having to swap source and target discs multiple times. I feel old talking about this, but I'm not that old. I just started really, really early. Heh.

Depends on your opinion of your IT people.

as usual, the fox comments is frightening. thus far is no reliable evidence that the daughter was forced to work for sex traffickers or that the deceased had anything whatsoever to do with the daughter's predicament. all we got is the reason mr. eisenman gave the police for murdering nineteen year-old aaron sorenson after he were in police custody and one year following the murder. no lawyer for eisenman. would-be folk hero w/o legal representation is odd. am suspecting more than a few high profile criminal lawyers with a penchant for the dramatic would love to represent washington state's real life bryan mills. might be a real life taken. could just as easily be a real life the ox-bow incident or shutter island. as is our typical response, am gonna wait. you never look like a fool by waiting a bit. converse... HA! Good Fun!

It is a bit of a paradigm in software engineering to skip every other generation, because whenever you add something or change something from a stable version, there's a chance it goes wrong. That's why Windows Vista is remembered as a terrible version. The UAC was overboard, the performance was bad, drivers didn't work properly - and the last part isn't even entirely Microsoft's fault. The actual changes from Vista to 7 weren't even that large, when you look a the version numbers it becomes clear. Windows Vista was Windows 6.0, and Windows 7 was 6.1 - Microsoft just gave it a new name because the Vista brand was burned. Yeah, well, I agree with you here. Setting 10 to bad immediately breaks the pattern, because that would mean 8 was good. So, dear god, nope. Windows 10 arguably got a good deal of bad press (still gets that, actually) because updates seem to fail for people, but I never had any issues with it. Then again, I also never had any real issues with Windows 8 and 8.1 when I had to deal with it (my parents had it). I skipped it of course because I'm not going to deal with a completely different start menu unless I really have to, thanks. Granted, I never really had any major problems with my Windows installations, but I am also super picky about my hardware.

Sakura talk: I'm kind of envious, to be honest. I wish I could watch the upcoming episodes for the first time too.

My library of installed titles is growing larged, so I am trying to trim some titles I am close to completion. First on the menu is Dark Souls3 from which I took a break once I started DLCs and realized it will be the most demanding part of the playthrough. After some weeks off I have been pushing through them, and it's been some excellent content. Honestly, this is first DS content IMO that reaches quality level of DS1 DLC. Maps have been intertwined and tricky, bosses ranged from good to excellent. I am not nearing of end of DLC2 - just dragon Midir and final boss are left. Managed to trigger 2nd phase of Midir so I hope I am getting near beating him - 2nd phase doesn't seem that harder then phase1 - unless of course, there is surprise phase3 which those DLCs rather liked to surprise with. I installed through Game Pass Doom Eternal, as a first on "free" games that I want to give a go but don't want to pay for. I didn't like Doom 2016 at all - I think I am not into shooters in general but it felt to me slow, repetitive and I found collectibles annoying. I am only 2nd mission into DE so we will see how it will go, but so far.... loving it. Mobility is far better then in D1, and I think enemy design is better as well - far more aggressive, but with weak points to exploit. It has energy and excitement that just wasn't present in D1. I also like that they seemed to embrace slapstick - glory kills seem both briefer, and have some hilarious animations. Collectibles are far easier to find on the first run, even without pricey upgrades - which I appreciate. Upgrade system now feels more like Devil May Cry - gradual unlocking of toys to play with tutorialising the game, rather then something tedious to grind for. EDIT: Yup, one dragon down. He didn't trigger his super, duper instant kill if hit beam attack this time. Didn't manage to learn how to survive reliably that one.

No, like Gromnir already stated, that's just a lonesome slice of parsnip, the herb is a decorative piece of corn salad and the ketchup you get every time, even when you order the candy without ketchup. Because... yeah, what else would you expect from a guy who greets some of his customers by yelling: "You're fat enough already, I ain't cooking for you."

Lost Boys Sax Player Talks All About the Vampire Film's Legacy (gizmodo.com)

Reactions to everything these days get blown waaaaaaay out of proportions. Social media is possibly the worst invention of the last 50 years. I mean, it's a tool, it can be used for good or bad, but in practice the bad has outnumbered the good by several country miles. There have always been extremists on every end of the spectrum, there have always been wackos, and there have always been trolls. In the past, these nut jobs were (mostly) confined to their little corner of the world. They might lose their **** at a town hall meeting, spray paint hateful messages on a wall, or whatever. This would be a headache for the folks living in that community, but that's as far as it usually went, outside of the few disturbed individuals ambitious and charismatic enough to become cult leaders. Social media has provided these lunatics a GIANT megaphone with which to pester the entire planet. Unfortunately, there is a decent chunk of the population that is easily swayed. So you get someone with a strong, possibly incendiary opinion. You have someone else with an equally incendiary reaction. In the past this would be a shouting match somewhere that may end with a fist fight (or worse in extreme cases). That would essentially be the end of it. Now you have scumbag profiteers jumping in online seeking an opportunity to gain power or profit from the conflict, trolls lighting fires on all sides because they get off on chaos, and a bunch of sheep me too-ing (no pun intended) because they are easily manipulated. To make matters worse, social media made all news instantaneous. Gone are the days of investigative journalism and fact checking. You gotta get the story out first. If you're not first you get no views, so just copy & paste that statement that may or may not be a complete fabrication, and post it as quickly as possible. If it turns out to be a lie we'll post a retraction that nobody will read, **** it.