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This one is from yesterday: https://www.instagram.com/p/CYq55HtNB3k/ And attaching a sample of the last couple of days. Just reaching the 90 in 3 days mark now.

Theoretical knowledge is still knowledge!

How would you know?

So, like real life romances.

They can be quite intrusive, distracting and cringe worthy in real life too

I don't think VR could salvage anything from DA2, nor could it make it's romances any less awkward.

Made a Watercolor converter file for Photopea. Double-click the thumbnail of the "Portrait" layer. This will open a smart layer tab in the program. replace the Calista image with your desired picture (can remove the background with https://www.remove.bg/) Go to file->Save(Smart Object) (or press ctrl+s) and then go back to the Deadfire Watercolor Template.psd tab. Might have to tweak a few things to get it to look right (altering the properties of the "Level 1", and/or Gaussian Blur effect strength, will make the lines darker/stronger). When you are happy with the results (or just want to preview it) go to File->Export as->PNG and change the dimensions to 90px by 141px. It's not perfect, but it works pretty well. The below were all made with this file, all except 2 required only minor edits.

I find most romances in games intrusive, distracting, and cringe worthy

Juggling a little bout of depression, frustration, and isolation feeling. Working on that job hunt in half hour batches before my brain runs into a wall and needs diversion. Kind of amused, found the original "Five Year Guarantee" of the sewing machine - which showed it was originally picked up in 1971. So it is literally 50 years old. Did some playaround practice stuff for how to sew vents, pleats, darts, and a few other things for personally tailoring your clothes.

The problem that makes it unbelievable is using the terms "GOP" and "plan" in the same sentence without a negative qualifier. I kid. I'm actually beginning to agree with you on this the more I learn about what went on behind the scenes. It does not make we like or respect the Democrats any more. It just makes me hate the Republicans more. To tell you the truth I didn't think any more water could be drained from that pond but here we are.

Dont tease, show us a picture of one!

Enter if you dare.

Savages the lot of you!

e) We already have it. I mean, with social media and credit scores, we are pretty much already there. You can get cancelled quickly enough with those.

That explains why my Serb contacts on Facebook are so angry today. Well, more angry than usual.

They always seems to have a hard time playing for hours in 40c, so many players might actually feel a bit relieved if it were to happen. Best thing I ever personally saw at an Australian Open was Billy Idol performing live

Fun fact: I backed that game for 90$ or some such (pledge + shipping for some goodies). I have received my key, activated it and promptly proceeded to not play it at all, even though everyone who tried it seems to have enjoyed it.

Yeah, I'm heartbroken...

Honestly, it was just to have a small detail to kindle imagination. The plan is to have around 150 of them in the finished piece (unless I miscalculated and need 300...) So I need to have little details all over the place someone could notice.

so, what is the story behind the single blue unhappy cat in top-right quadrant? one cat receives a distinct downturn frown is the kinda thing which sets off our ocd. ... am not genuine serious btw 'bout needing the story, but is sad such does spark our ocd, which were great in our line o' work 'but is annoying in rl. HA! Good Fun!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/monett-high-school-removes-social-213807435.html Parents, man. I think the teachers would have been alright if they didn't say the alternative assigned reading would be more difficult, but I still shake my head at the whole thing. Let's create a committee for every bit of curriculum.

the thing is, in the US those methods you mention for controlling the populace ain't directly attributable to The Government, and similar options has been 'round for centuries in one form or another. of all the things we are concerned 'bout, a social credit score system taking hold in the US is not reaching the top 100 list o' worries. first we would need a national police power and supporting infrastructure, which is even less likely today than twenty years past. social credit is not like the half-arsed and doomed border wall funding or even fed agents in numbers showing up at night in unmarked vans to kidnap people off the streets o' US cities. a genuine social credit score system is gonna need be having widespread state and fed support in terms o' monies and manpower, if only briefly, and am not seeing that kinda cooperation happening anytime, much less anytime soon, though pretend as if it could never happen is also foolish. we mentioned previous, but when states began implementing covid mandates, many local sheriffs and mayors simple said, "no." ... uh, ok. what now? from a practical perspective, there was little governors could do to enforce guidelines and mandates. social credit is monumental more difficult to imagine into being in the US 'cause there ain't a national police power, so the fed government would actual have less power to enforce than the governors who sat impotent while sheriffs and mayors flouted the law. unless social credit were something which The People were near universal demanding, which is indeed a real and serious possibility and should not be dismissed outta hand, am not seeing it being a government tool. our serious response to less than serious observations. HA! Good Fun!

Spend the better part of the last 3 days painting cats onto little wooden forks. 81 cats done. Need about another 70 to finish the planned collage.

It's pretty much everything. Open world, exploration based, quick loop resets, the entire concept is pretty much the opposite of what I normally enjoy, so I never really tried to play it. The much more interesting question is why the hell I actualy backed the game in the first place, and that's not easy to answer. I haven't read up on anything, is there even a point to the game? Something to find out, or some goal to achieve?

Quantum Leap Sequel Series In The Works, Wants To Change History For The Better, Etc. (slashfilm.com)

The problem is that vaccination isn't even half the battle. We've had hospitals getting packed past capacity for a while now and that is overwhelming the medical system. The rona still spreads among the vaccinated and while right now it is substantially milder with the vax (thank god), a new variant could come along and **** that all up. We are nowhere near out of the woods yet and the government response has been either to not do nearly enough or actively make things worse. After 868874 dead bodies have piled up over the last two years I fear we're going to cross 1 million before April and that may not even be the halfway point. But my point was less of how bad the rona is and more how bad US healthcare is with being prohibitively expensive and all that. It's great I can get vaccinated for free but if I get sick with something else I am ****ed. My insurance does **** all and going outside of insurance for health care would financially ruin me.

Ok, so about the experimentations : Trying implementing a cooldown using the DisableKeywordAbility was a fiasco. I tried implementing a Cooldown to Holy Radiance (because it seems a good candidate) and it disabled all abilities for the Cooldown duration. I used the Keyword to filter the disable, but it didn't work. Implementing Spiritshift as a druid Tier 1 spell WHILE KEEPING IT A MODAL was an unexpected technical sucess. The interface isn't perfect : the modal still display as a modal (not a Tier 1 spell) but clicking on it use a spell charge. I could use Spirit**** several time in a row. When 0 spell cast available on Tier 1, the modal icon was displayed as depleted. Furthermore, re-casting Spiritshift restores the charges of the Per Encounter abilities. Which may be strong, especially for Fury. So, there is a lot to consider if I go this way. But the fact it works while changing only a couple of lines of code makes me biased in favor of it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/in-the-early-days-of-the-pandemic-the-us-government-turned-down-an-offer-to-manufacture-millions-of-n95-masks-in-america/2020/05/09/f76a821e-908a-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html It was Jan. 22, a day after the first case of covid-19 was detected in the United States, and orders were pouring into Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth, some from as far away as Hong Kong. Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week. He viewed the shrinking domestic production of medical masks as a national security issue, though, and he wanted to give the federal government first dibs. “We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,” Bowen wrote that day in an email to top administrators in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.” But communications over several days with senior agency officials — including Robert Kad­lec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and emergency response — left Bowen with the clear impression that there was little immediate interest in his offer. “I don’t believe we as an government are anywhere near answering those questions for you yet,” Laura Wolf, director of the agency’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection, responded that same day. Bowen persisted. “We are the last major domestic mask company,” he wrote on Jan. 23. “My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business. I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.” In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant. ... Factory equipment that could produce a quarter-million N95 respirator masks a day sits idle at Prestige Ameritech’s factory outside Fort Worth. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/federal-government-spent-millions-to-ramp-up-mask-readiness-but-that-isnt-helping-now/2020/04/03/d62dda5c-74fa-11ea-a9bd-9f8b593300d0_story.html In September 2018, the Trump administration received detailed plans for a new machine designed to churn out millions of protective respirator masks at high speed during a pandemic. The plans, submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by medical manufacturer O&M Halyard, were the culmination of a venture unveiled almost three years earlier by the Obama administration. But HHS did not proceed with making the machine. The project was one of two N95 mask ventures — totaling $9.8 million — that the federal government embarked on over the past five years to better prepare for pandemics. The other involves the development of reusable masks to replace the single-use variety currently so scarce that medical professionals are using theirs over and over. Expert panels have advised the government for at least 14 years that reusable masks were vital. That effort, like the quick mask machine, has not led to a single new mask for the government’s response. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/04/02/us-exports-masks-ppe-china-surged-early-phase-coronavirus/5109747002/ The White House and congressional intelligence committees were briefed on the scope and threat of the coronavirus in January and February, but President Donald Trump has not stopped exports of key medical equipment – a move taken by at least 54 other countries so far. The data show how U.S. manufacturers stepped up production and cleared out inventory to supply protective medical equipment to China for weeks, even as the threat of the coronavirus became clear. The CDC reported its first case in the United States on Jan. 20. Within the next two weeks, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had declared the disease a public health emergency. ... is not so much 'bout the kinda government we got. is not even a party thing. keep in mind it were bush who started a organized effort to get a federal level pandemic response pandemic, and then bush reduced... son reduced father's efforts. post 9/11 and after reading a book about the spanish flu, the younger bush had an epiphany and vast expanded 'pon even his father's efforts. https://www.c-span.org/video/?189676-1/national-strategy-pandemic-preparedness full speech-- worth viewing. 'course obama killed many pandemic programs only to resurrect 'em following the pandemic scares during his administration. is less 'bout government or economics as is individuals making bad decisions over and over. same kinda government and economics and with different individuals under different circumstances, you got folks looking prescient as 'posed to being ignoramuses. sometimes is same individuals making the bad and good decisions. regardless, we coulda'/shoulda' had n95 masks available for americans soon after the pandemic first became recognized. had a plan for such. unlike many nations, we had spent billions in prperation for pandemics, before letting those efforts evaporate. heck, like good americans is s'posed to do, we had developed unique tools to make streamlined ppe possible. unfortunate, once masks became a curiously political issue, then the chance o' government driven efforts to ramp up mask production evaporated. *shrug* too many mistakes repeated. free market and democracy doesn't cause the stoopid which leads to most real problems. people is stoopid and people is ubiquitous. HA! Good Fun!

They do. But as a man of culture (archaeologists, educators, architects... dunno who else) I can apply for a free pass. So until June 2024 I am covered. Then I'll have to see if they let me get a new one. They used to not charge any Greek citizens on reason that people have a right to their cultural heritage. But they changed that because it apparently wasn't an economically viable policy (read: if you give people services for their tax money, what money will you squander on your party friends?)

Nah, I wont bother until theres a candidate that I really want.

My first thought was

Was your initial post about Venezuela in response to Raithe's image? I imagine it probably wasn't, but it did come across that way because the two posts were so close together. Anyway, in the US we have quite a few socialist programs to deal with housing, food, and medical care. They just tend to be local and small scale, particularly compared to the profit margins and big business models that dominate housing, food, and medicine. So yeah, I don't think anyone outside of the extreme ends of the political spectrum is arguing for a full central planning socialism system in the US. But I sure would like a decent Universal Health Care system in place before I get too old and my maintenance costs start to skyrocket.

Hitman3 finally getting released for real on the 20th. New Elusive Target Arcade sounds better then ET as they are not time limited and they are retryable (although one attempt per day) - I felt that one attempt ET encouraged looking at walkthrough rather then experimenting yourself. Freelancer mode sounds potentially interesting. Depending on how good the roguelike structure will be. Most importantly, for anyone who didn't yet give this game a go the whole trilogy will be out on Game Pass. I will probably end up buying H3 on steam anyway - if not now (depending on price) then later. The only shadow hanging over the game is always online nonesense. It would be shame if the game would go offline sometime in the future. Oh, and I would actually like to try the VR. Too pricey piece of equipement for me, though.

Damn straight. I'm going to miss having a garden this year. It's hard work but I always found it peaceful

Uf, that's a good question. I would also add Skull&Bones to that. I really don't get that one. You had ship combat in AssCreed. You have Sid Mayer Pirates. Marry the two and you have a game. Add grinding, and microtransactions and you have a Ubi game.

Damn, the latest season of Archer is probably the best in years. Some real fun episodes, with nice character progressions.

Judging by the portrait, in Expeditions: Rome, you can play a hobbit wizard: If you can't come up with a character name, just play a woman. They don't get names. Though I am pretty certain that randomly generated nickname is calling me a bitch: You start on a boat. Which seems to be every other game these days. With teenage Caesar as a tutorial npc. Someone should have told them that a Teenage Werewolf in Expeditions: Rome does not make for a good movie title. At least my boat has pretty green eyes: And it seems I have my own patreon already set up:

I finished orientation and started my new driving job. Orientation was in Lenoir City, TN (next to Knoxville) but my truck was in DeLand,FL (near Orlando), so they got me a rental to make the trip, I loaded the bare essentials I brought with me into the truck, then I got a load from Jacksonville, FL to Piedmont, SC to get me home so that I can load the rest of my stuff into the truck. I got home late last night. Tomorrow I start my regular routine of 5 days on the road then 2 days at home. It's a bit of an adjustment going back to 53' dry van from 43' tanker, but it's a small price to pay to not have to deal with surge (the liquid inside the tank moving) any more.

I watched the "Road to Eternity" documentary... ...You're welcome. I had a go at yours, @cherryflavoredfunk

Okay, managed to figure it out myself, turns it's ridiculously easy. So here's a detailed process even for those unfamiliar with modding unity. First locate your item .unity3d file. Files are located in: SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Pillars of Eternity\PillarsOfEternity_Data\assetbundles\prefabs\objectbundle and named as in game just with "_" instead of spaces. Px# means its from dlc. Now You need UABE it's Unity Asset Bundle Extractor. REMEMBER TO ALWAYS MAKE A BACKUP COPY OF THE FILE BEFORE YOU EDIT IT 1. You have to open the item you want to change. Now export the file and open the exported one. There is a lot of stuff here but we are interested in MonoBehaviour asset, now look at the type and the one we need to open is MonoBehaviour: Equipable. Now to select it you need to click one left part which doesn't specify the type, just make sure it's the proper one. 2. Now you will want to choose export dump. And we have a nice editable .txt file. Open it and look for "AppearancePiece Appearance" there will be few values here. 0 int bodyPiece = 1 0 int armorType = 6 0 int modelVariation = 2 0 int materialVariation = 2 1 string specialOverride = "" 3. Now open the armor you want to copy the appearance form like in step 1. but here you don't need to export it, just choose the proper monobehaviour and choose view data. Look up the same part and you'll see the same int entrys just with diffrent values. Change those in .txt file to one's looked up. Save the file. 4. Select the MonoBehaviour: Equipable in the exported file but this time we need to "import dump". Save the assets file as anything you like e.g. water.assets, the .assets part is iportant for the next step. 5. Open the .unity3d file of armor you want to edit and choose import and then pick the .assets file. no conformation here but it is done in a second and you just have to save the now modified .unity3d file. It has to have the same name as the original but UABE can't overwrite files so just save it with the same name in diffrent location. 6. Copy and overwrite the modified file to SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Pillars of Eternity\PillarsOfEternity_Data\assetbundles\prefabs\objectbundle and voila, you can have a robe looking like plate armour. By raw exporting texture 2D both L and S asset and importing it to desired modded armor you can make sure the icon corresponds properly to the in-game model of modded item.