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I tried, and in true Bethesda game fashion I got bored. According to my steam I did sink over 32 hours into it though. I think those were two seperate attempts. I can't recall a single interesting thing from my time with that game. It's popularity truly confuses me.

im too lazy to take down decorations so i do the even more lazy thing and dont set them up at all

Just an interesting take on the current entertainment industry (movies/tv). I don't remember giving it much conscious thought, why I don't watch movies or tv these days or if I for some reason do end up starting watching something (mostly by accident), I switch off/lose interest really quickly. While not necessarily 100% correct, I think this guy hit at least a handful of nails on their heads as far as I'm concerned...

Hey, that belongs in the philosophy thread! 👍

Well, surprised he didn't start blaming THE SJWs at the start.

when we think o' movies from 1982, the year wrath of khan were released, we cannot think o' a single film which pandered to lowest common denominator and seemed willing to have a cast o' young people with impulse control issues behaving even more immature than their chronological ages. https://www.the-numbers.com/market/1982/top-grossing-movies porky's and best little whorehouse in texas both made the top ten? ... well, there goes that theory. however, we will note, 2013 doesn't have on golden pond or chariots of fire kinda films anywhere near the top 10. can you imagine the following being a scene from a 2021 blockbuster? well, you could likely imagine it, but then you might also have to simultaneous imagine that the events o' the movie V for vendetta had occurred for reals, with much o' the world population having been obliterated and that england had survived relative unscathed thus resulting in situation wherein a small number o' poncy englismen were deciding what was constituting a blockbuster. am indeed a bit sadden by the fact it requires us to imagine an apocalypse to somehow conjure up a 2021 chariots o' fire making top ten. HA! Good Fun!

Who am I to judge, I like Giorno's theme.

is not hard to find a syllabus. https://blogs.brown.edu/amst-2220j-s01-2017-fall/syllabus/ is also taught at harvard law school, which is not surprising as were invented by harvard law school lawyers with intention of teaching future harvard lawyers to take a different perspective and look critical at systemic racism. crt is not being taught to public school students in virginia. kudos if it were 'cause the syllabi you were asking for reveal this is material which requires a level o' analysis and evaluation way beyond what we expect from most high school and middle schoolers. admitted, tell a bunch o' virginia voters that crt ain't even part o' typical curriculum for undergrads at college but is maybe a graduate seminar at university o' virgina or william and mary would probable still anger a small number o' voters, but is doubtful such would become an election issue worth even breitbart's time to lambast. wouldn't have fox news fabricating outrage. wouldn't have folks like dp parroting the silliness. but don't get distracted. point is voter fears 'bout crt being taught in virginia public schools, regardless o' what crt is or is not, is the result o' republicans and right-leaning media willful misrepresentations. doesn't matter what crt is if is not actual being taught to kids in virgina schools or anywhere else, yes? crt is just an example. at the moment, US republicans got nothing, so they are selling fear and relying on ignorance. sure as hell can't sell themselves as the party o' fiscal responsibility and limited government after trump. what is most terrible is that the new politics o' grievance and divisiveness is at least in limited ways a successful strategy for republicans, so their motivation to abandon such is limited. why let little things like honesty and integrity get in the way o' victory, eh? HA! Good Fun!

Jojo Battle Tendency 25-26: Kars and the red stone. Well that was one hell of a ride. Uhhhh what in the **** was going through Araki's head when he wrote this back in the 80s? This is insane, absolutely bat**** stuff that just works on so many levels. I don't know, in the sub I'm watching they refer to him as Mugen so maybe your brain deleted Mu for some reason. Anyways the next episode is about the real Jin so enjoy it. Not spoilers for it ahead, but spoilers for the early episodes. No peeking @majestic!

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-core-i9-12900k-and-core-i5-12600k-review-retaking-the-gaming-crown https://www.igorslab.de/en/intel-core-i9-12900kf-core-i7-12700k-and-core-i5-12600k-review-gaming-in-really-fast-and-really-frugal-part-1/ No Anandtech review, yet.

While I think the guy has a point, he also kind of messes his point up (totally losing the plot IMO when he brings in that ****ing army recruitment video that all the people who get military hard-ons have been bitching about that wasn't made to appeal to the average recruit types) and I think misses the causes. Blockbuster films are so expensive these days that, yes, as he says they have to bring in a big audience. But the studios handicap this as well - they don't want to spend 100 million to make 250 million, they want to spend 500 million to make 3 billion worldwide. The increasing pressure on films to rake in ridiculous amounts of cash is a huge problem and the reason why mid-tier projects (including what used to be the 'Oscar-bait' films) are being pushed to cable or, more prominently these days, streaming and why low budget horror films and super-budget effects blockbusters are increasingly what find its ways into cinema. But its also a problem to use Star Trek (notice he conveniently DOESN'T look at the TNG films because Nemesis, at least, would invalidate his comparison between 'classic' Trek and 'new' Trek, as would, frankly, a number of episodes of TOS and TNG) because the people behind the Star Trek properties of recent years (Abrams and Kurtzman particularly) have, very basically said, they want to make Star Trek more like Star Wars, which is where their SF interests lie. This is the reason you get the weak Chain-of-Command on the ship stuff - because Luke used to be able to mouth off to Han, or Chewie could bitch about Han's driving or any of the other things because Star Wars didn't have a hard coded military structure in its heroes (and where it did have structure, like in the Jedi Order, it didn't have a strict one that would forbid the junior member questioning the senior). Its also the reason you get weak story-arcs for the characters in the new Trek movies (to the point that making nods to the old movies is character development) because they can't figure out how to make Captain Kirk fits the Hero of 1000 faces model if he's also in a strict command structure (and sadly, I kinda think "Beyond" is the best of the three reboot films even with its lame "i'm aging at 30-something" bit) because they can't crack the motivation of the characters to exist in that structure (because, sticking it to the man is cool and you can't do that when you work for the man). Star Trek's problems (and this goes back to TNG) is that it has increasingly been led by people who not only dislike SF (most of the TNG production, as I recall) but actually don't like Star Trek. So rather than trying to figure out why Star Trek works on its own terms, the increasing tendency is to make it something it isn't.

I actually remember the answer to that because I thought it was a bit of a laugh when I heard it.

Well, you could certainly make some changes that would score very highly on the wokeometer if the Dragon could be female

Laziness is not a mental illness!

What I did in my own mod was to make the Psion gain bonus defenses while their Focus Gain is disabled, though I'm not sure if that would fall within the scope of the Community Patch since it's basically a totally new feature instead of tweaking Soul Mind.

It is the year 2036. Bethesda Softworks just released Skyrim 25th Anniversary Edition for Playstayion 8 and XBOX Ə%<Œ. TES 6 is still in "development".

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

I can't speak to Manchin in WV but in AZ Sinema is losing popularity rapidly with these stunts.

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

YESSSSSSS

Just something I noted today while fighting Belranga. If you dominate her, she periodically uses an ability (Shattering Screech) that grants permanent Aware to all allies on the map. Usually this gets used on her babies, so no interesting interactions. However, the devs didn't set the ability to expire at the end of combat. If you put on Effigy's Husk and upgrade for immunity to Perception afflictions, you now have unconditional permanent Aware as long as you don't gain Intuitive through Watcher's Mien, the Fighter self-buff, or Least Unstable Coil. I don't think there's any other way to gain Intuitive.

Or upgrade telekinetic burst (that I don't use that often) so it provides 100% Hit to Graze for something like 6s unmodifiable seconds as Psion Psychic Energy deviates attacks ? (or something similar) EDIT : Partially Ninja'ed EDIT 2 : Maybe the push away of TKB should be removed to simplify it a bit ? Not sure at all, just debating. EDIT 3 : It costs 10 focus and pseudo-guarantee a gain of 6s x Psion Generation factor. For a lvl 20 max level MC Psion without PL tricks, it guarantees a net gain of 14 Focus.

What if you tied it in with Telekinetic Burst? Given its function of shoving enemies away, it's clearly meant to give the psion some space to gain Focus. I could envision something like enemies being struck by Telekinetic Burst not being able to disable Soul Mind for X seconds. Granted, that sounds like a hassle to put together in the code.

The magical McGuffin the Book of Darkness absorbs from mages to power itself - well, to fill its 666 pages. Every mage has a linker core (presumably regular people don't), and Nanoha's took all but one episode to regenerate, and so I figured it would be easier to just capture one mage and absorb the core from them over and over, but no, the book only takes one core per mage. Not sure why it is picky like that, but uhm, like, whatever. edit: The cat-girls from last episode are used extensively for fanservice. Since they're not doing anything else except some minor exposition that could have been handled in some other manner, I think that is all they're going to be good for. A pity, so many things you could do with cat-girls... who am I kidding. At least they're not fanservice minors.

CRT, where is is actually being taught, seems to be whatever the person talking about it at the time wants it to be. A boogeyman, a nothing burger, or somewhere in between. Even objectively speaking two different teachers in the same school are not going to apply it in the same way. Objectively speaking some of the things it's supposed to teach (with the caveat that I've never set foot in a classroom where it WAS being taught and only know what's in the newspaper about it. See previous comment) seem pretty wrongheaded but, whatever. I've decided I don't know (or care) enough about it to talk about it. If you ask me stupid s--t like this is far more damaging to education than whatever everyone thinks CRT is. The notion that insisting math problems be solved with the right answer, or that insisting on students understanding the logical process for math problem solving is somehow racist is both stupid AND damaging. Now that said there is certainly room for improvement in math instruction. In my own experience I was taught one method of solving most problems. And it was the same method that had been taught for decades. I read an article recently about a Geometry teacher in Cincinnati working in a largely minority school that taught her class transformations by having them design apartment layouts. The kids were having trouble grasping the concept so she used a real world example and they understood it. I think that is brilliant. There is no "wrong" way to get a correct answer. But it is VERY wrong not to insist on getting to the right answer. If you can't solve algebra and geometry problems you are not going to understand trig. If you can't wrap your head around trig you will never grasp calculus. Without that STEM is closed off to you.

According to Rapoport, it was an open secret with all the other players on the team - everyone knew, but shockingly it never leaked. Must be the best damned locker room of all time if all 60+ guys knew and all of them were determined to not leak it and not let it be an issue. And the team brass and the NFL brass knew as well, since the Rodgers camp and the NFL had corresponded over it and trying to persuade them to count him as vaccinated for his homeopathy crap, but they didn't go for it. What a crazy secret to keep up until now...and he may have gotten away with it, again, if he wasn't going out to freaking Halloween parties in direct violation of the unvaccinated covid protocols.

the imaginary crt hobgoblin is why Gromnir, who overwhelming voted republican for decades, will not be doing so anytime soon. all the republican party current offers is gaslighting and the politics o' grievance. fear o' minorities. fear of foreigners. fear o' bernie and obama. votes were stolen, save when and where republicans win. socialism is evil, except and unless you are one o' the many us farmers who has faced bankruptcy the past few years. etc. crt, btw, is one o' those douglas adams' "42" theories. not gonna find us championing crt per se. for those who aren't aware, a bunch o' lawyers came up with a theory which explains the totality o' systemic US racism and called it crt. is graduate level curriculum which is simultaneous having its greatest shortcoming being the tendency to oversimplify and overgeneralize, but it has value 'cause it forces readers/students to ask questions they may not have previous considered. https://www.foxnews.com/media/newsbusters-highlights-medias-crt-lies is an example o' the manufactured outrage. what is actual examples o' crt being taught in public schools? a single line from a book on a recommended reading list for educators? hey @Hurlsnot, how many books is on your recommended reading list provided by your school district? am not gonna ask you to be honest 'bout how many you actual has read entire much less used in daily lesson planning. what else? fox, rather gauche, links to another fox article which includes the following: "Additionally, superintendent memo 050-19 can be found on the site from February 2019 promoting both Critical Race Theory and the idea of "white fragility."" no. we read the memo. you may do so as well. is no promotion o' white fragility and crt save to note "Dr. Lane’s February Reading List I have received several inquiries and requests for the latest literature that examines the issues associated with racial inequities in education. Below are several pieces that I and other members of the VDOE staff are reading this month based on recommendations that we have received. " one o' the book titles is literal, white fragility, by robin diangelo. another book on the list is foundations of critical race theory in education. so, not promoting and not advocating making such part o' virginia public school curriculum, but rather identifying that Doctor lane, and other educators, is reading books 'bout such topics. is not even a recommended reading list but rather a recognition o' what educators is current reading. couldn't help but flashback to general milley given the current polarization in the US, am looking for insights into causes. got a scholarly work which claims to explain it ALL is making us suspicious o' value, but is not making us afraid or intolerant. as to the supposed virgina department of education presentation promoting crt... Legal Implications of School Discipline: Street “CRED” (Culturally Responsive and Equitable Discipline) (unrelated editorializing: am not a fan o' powerpoint slide presentations) https://www.doe.virginia.gov/support/virginia_tiered_system_supports/resources/2015_fall_institute/Legal_implications_of_discipline.pdf one slide o' 30 from a university o' south florida professor talking 'bout alternatives to suspension... and again, is not specific and/or explicit being taught to students. the material is for educators to consider. somehow dp, the washington examiner, breitbart, fox and the the great majority o' the 2021 US republican party has cherry picked the most random and unconvincing "evidence" and concocted more grievance outta whole cloth. crt? serious? is it that those damned libs is once again trying to blame white people for all o' america's problems? is it the ghost o' 1920-1930s era nativism rising from the grave to posses rust belt and southern republicans? the manufactured rage over crt is precise why we won't be voting republican anytime soon. HA! Good Fun!

Honestly, Metroid games don't really fit that description well, they're not bullet hell-y. There are of course some regular enemies that fire projectiles at you, but they are few and far between. There are usually a few boss fights that get a little bullet hell-y like Mother Brain every time she makes an appearance, Phantoon, and in Metroid Dread some of the later central unit battles have a bunch of projectiles flying at you, but those CU fights are so easy you can mostly tank the damage and just unload on the central unit. The irony is that later in Metroid games you don't generally do a lot of shooting. I mean you can, if you're dead set on it, but once you have speed booster and screw attack you just run or spin jump your way through regular enemies and even some bosses. You don't need to stop to fight regular enemies once you have screw attack, you just go. Samus Aran's greatest weapon is her mobility, which is why Super Metroid and Metroid Dread are easily the best games in the series, because they have really good, fluid movement and tight controls. As an aside, I think it's bonkers that speedrunners already have Metroid Dread any% down to 1:15 and 100% down to about 2 hours. I just spent 19 hours beating the game. Granted, I did 100% and I'm a very slow gamer.

I wasn't sure after the first episode because I was still figuring the show and characters out, but by the third, I was pretty certain it was a good show. I'm through 8 episodes now, and I have...I mean almost literally nothing to complain about, at all. Even the more mature/adult elements and themes are all handled very appropriately - the show has been infinitely more restrained and respectful than e.g. your Nanoha. It's a very funny show with good dramatic moments and well-written characters and dialogue, and I'm interested to see what will happen. The style of the show just feels good in general, and the animation/art are pretty solid. The thing that almost made me not try it out, which is the fact that it's highly upvoted with both the tags "martial arts" and "swordplay", has also been a complete non-issue thus far - there's action in the show, but it's all been well-driven and not routine or predictable in really any sense, and doesn't really occupy that much of the run-time relative to everything else. Like I said before, everything just feels like it works together so well. I don't know for certain if the show will inherently appeal to you, which can of course ruin any show for anybody, but that's something only you can determine. a wot

aaron rodgers lied about being vaccinated. and check the tapes from august preseason games when rogers were not in uniform. he weren't wearing masks while in close proximity to reporters and nfl personnel. so either the packers and nfl didn't know about aaron rodgers vaccination status, or they made a special aaron rodgers rule, which highlights the next question which needs be answered: who knew aaron rodgers was not vaccinated? regardless, rodgers purposeful mislead, at the very least, reporters and fans. makes kirk cousins look like a bastion o' integrity by comparison? HA! Good Fun!

As Amentep said, because he's a lying moron. At least idiots like Kirk Cousins have the gumption to come out and tell the truth about their position - this dude picked his words so carefully to craft a story with the deliberate intent to deceive everyone. "Are you vaccinated?" "Yeah, I'm immunized. There’s guys on the team that haven’t been vaccinated. I think it’s a personal decision, I’m not going to judge those guys." Nobody in the world except for insane conspiracy theorists would ever reasonably interpret that as anything but him being vaccinated - it's a pretty big breach of trust in player-fans relations, especially when he complains about the team not "going all in" (lmao, you won't even get the vaccine to prevent the worst of this situation possibly occurring, buddy!) and about the media constantly making up "bull****" stories about him (again, you've managed to do that pretty well yourself, pal). And then you throw in very obviously not following the covid protocols and arrogantly thinking he could get away with this lie the entire season...which maybe he could've, if he wasn't literally openly breaking covid protocols as an unvaccinated player to go to Halloween parties. If he got a breakthrough case of covid while being vaccinated, that would be perfectly fine. Would suck to lose him for the one game against the Chiefs, but that's the new life of covid we find ourselves in, I don't expect these guys to stay home alone for the entire lives, and having the vaccine means you're significantly less likely to contract it and almost certainly not going to have any severe symptoms. Flaunting the protocols to go to parties and crap and putting the entire team at serious risk of needlessly losing critical games while talking through the side of your mouth about the front office and the rest of the team needing to be all in? He literally just had a big speech to the team about "carrying the G the right away" over the weekend...what the ****, Rodgers? And never mind we have to hope that he's alright...there are players that had to sit out the rest of the entire season when they got covid early on last year. Just so dumb and deceptive on his part.

am almost always having homemade stock in the fridge or freezer, but better than bullion is an ez and effective shortcut to kinda turbocharge our stocks. we made chicago italian beef sandwiches the other day and we did indeed have homemade beef stock, but a nice dollop o' better than bullion added instant depth. no different with chicken recipes, though am gonna note better than bullion may be a bit salty even if you choose the low sodium variety. regardless, we have a tendency to be a bit snobby 'bout food, and particular 'bout using stock, but better than bullion is a kitchen staple for us and gets frequent usage, although is more supplementary than foundational. HA! Good Fun!

Edited. Also (finally?) removed Pegasus from the thread title. Yeah, no. I know they mean our not at all fun, dour northern neighbors the actual Germans. They just happen to speak a similar language. Or, as we like to put it: Was Deutschland und Österreich trennt, ist die gemeinsame Sprache. Loosely translated: The difference between Germany and Austria is their common language (more literally: What separates Germany and Austria is their common language). So guys, are you ready for existence to end, should I give Samurai Champloo a try? You know, if I don't enjoy it then we'll have the same situation as in Dogma and we'll all just disappear in an instant.

Called to His Bidding, the Ancient Instrumen of Death

I like Better than Bouillon and used that as my base and then threw in onion, thyme, black pepper, red pepper, bay leaf, parsley, some seasoned salt, and a few splashes of Maggi as is my way. Whatever sounds good to you and you have on hand and like I said before, I over season the water because boiling meat. I've also never done anything other than thighs or drums so dunno how that will turn out.

Waiting for the release of Skyrim on my tesla powered brain memory implant.

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.

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

Halloween Logic... Or wait.. is that... "BOO!-lean logic"?

So I will definitely agree that Dune has great visuals and soundtrack, and some very good actors sinking into roles. The cut off point in the story is pretty much where I imagined it would be. They've kept the story mostly on track. But, I do think it suffers in some of the things that are barely explained or just have a couple of lines and some off hand references to as basis for things. So I think a potential struggle for getting the full depths of things if people watch it with no knowledge of Dune. Now I wait to see what the 2nd part will turn out like....

Note that Lifegivers, while getting +5 PL for rejuvenation spells while shifted, also lose that bonus after shifting and then even suffer -5 PL for those spells. It's not like Before: 5, while shifted 10, after shift 5 more like 5, 10, 0. So you have to make the right decision when to shift. The Powel Level malus will apply to all rejuvenation spell which are still running once you shift back to kith form. For example a Moonwell that is still active while you shift back will instantly lose some of its healing power (its healing ticks will be lower). Lifegivers get +2 to rejuvenation as fixed bonus to begin with though, so the -5 PL end up being "real" -3 compared to the other druid subclasses though. So it's not too bad even if you mess up the timing with your spiritshift. Maybe the assessment of the summons came over wrongly. Generally speaking summons are always very impactful. Even the bad ones often have more impact than a different spell that is considered to be great with what it is supposed to do. Summons need no stats and power level, they just scale with char level. And you are putting an additional body on the field - it is working as a "walking crowd control effect" at least, just by being there. Like adding a sixth party member that takes hits. When comparing it to other spell effects, it's a bit like casting a spell that prevents damage or getting hit by afflictions. And that's the least it can do. Some can even do good damage or CC by themselves. That's why summons are always, by design, very good compared to most other spells. You need no accuracy, no might, no nothing butbm INT to produce a long lasting effect that gives protection and sometimes even offense. You will need less healing, less countermeasures to afflictions etc. when summons are on the field. So, any summon spell you take is never wasted imo. Now, there are summon spells that are (way) better than others. Because they not only take away attention from your party but can truly deliver more to combat. Sporelings and Primordials are such summons. They are very good - compared to other summoning spells the druid has. If you don't want to use "bad" summons - while bad just means they are worse than some other summons, not that they are bad compared to all other spells - I can understand that. Summons - at least to me - are a pretty unfun concept. They add micromanagement and can make you feel that the star of the show is not your char but his critters. Also it sometimes gets pretty crowded. So I make sure that if I use summons they better be especially cool or effective summons that are more fun to use than the standard minor blight decoy. But as a rule of thumb: you will never waste a spell with a summon when it's about efficiency of spell uses imo.

1. Sounds like an Ancient. 2. Mystic doesn't necessarily imply a favourable view of the gods. 3. Some are very good (for example Call to the Primordials), others are bad (for example Aspect of Galawain). The Blights are so/so. In certain situations they can be very useful - for example when you are fighting foes who mainly deal damage which the current blight is immune to (immortal tank then as long as it lasts). But it's like roulette. I personally never use them. Ancient's Sporelings are very good, especially in the early game. Fire Stag is generally bad, but it can be abused with the help of a Priest or Shieldbearer Paladin: if you use Barring Death's Door on the Fire Stag you can "explode" it over and over again without it dying which is like casting a lot of Fireballs for free. This trick makes it useful but not overly powerful imo. 4. No. Shifters get the best bonus spell selection if you want to make a caster that's focused on "Decay". There is no drawback to your casting as long as you don't shift, so it's not dumb at all. If nothing else you can use the shifting/unshifting as healing tool. 5. In certain encounters both can be very good. In others they are of zero use. My recommendation would be to take one of them or both until the mid game and later retrain (if you have the feeling you are not using them). 6. It's worse than in PoE (where it was really good) but still okay. But not impactful enough to build a character concept around imo.

IMO, you're mostly talking to people who check this videogame forum several times a day to discuss the most intricate mechanic/synergy/exploit/oddity or whatever. So no need to apologize for having very specific questions and deeply caring about those aspects of the game. That's why we're here for the most part . How I'd answer your questions: 1. Druid healing can be great, Lifegiver or not - obviously not Fury though 2. I think Mystic in the game is more about being curious than religious. You've never been able to explain how the universe guides your path. Behind every task you undertake is a feeling of cosmic direction. 3. The Druid has several good summons, the Ancient has the Sporelings with Wild Growth - nice early game. The oozes of Call of the Primordials are really good late game especially when you randomly get one with infinite Plague of Insects. 4. That is not dumb. Shifter is fun. Shifter is life. Assume you play in a party? 5. Yes especially early game. I won't spoil any further. 6. It is but a shadow of its former self. And a lot of enemies are immune to its Disease keyword.

For the quirky: