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There's a sizeable big tiddy obsession worldwide that seems to cut across cultural lines and permeates different media and subculture. I can see an argument for anime/manga that big ol tiddies make it easier to distinguish a character as being a woman, considering that faces can often be drawn similarly. Another is that in a medium that allows and encourages exaggeration, and as such making large breasts is not much different than giant swords or gym gods. Regardless anime isn't alone in this, superhero comics are often notorious for comically (OH MY GOD! A dumb pun!) exaggerated figures. So who is to say whether this is exaggeration in a medium known for it or because Japan considers large breasts especially attractive? It could be both to various degrees. Uh, I almost typed a few paragraphs about NSFW stuff. Somehow I had the sense to stop when it went into pondering about the Freudian aspect of expecting/desiring women in more matronly roles to have more ample bosoms. Okie dokie, time to talk abouts something else. GioGio Golden Wind: The Gang Takes a Boat Ride. If JoJo is consistent about one thing, it is the danger of vehicles when vampires or stand users are around.

I'm not sure I'm ready to see Lucifer do the run of shame after the DNA test results are revealed...

If Daimon isn't shirtless 80% of the time with a large sometimes flaming pentagram on his chest, its Hellstrom in name only!

Dogma, Kids and Ferenheit 9/11 were the films Disney declined to allow Miramax to distribute after the Weinstein's sold to Disney. The problems with what became Rise of the Skywalker, from what I understand it, had to do with allowing The Last Jedi to veer wildly off the planned three act narrative so much so that it no longer matched up with the script that was being prepped for the third film. So they brought Abrams back both as a response to the negative reaction to TLJ and because the other director left after the work they'd did amounted to nothing and he couldn't make the film he'd planned. RE Chairchucker's reference to Helstrom, it started life under Marvel's TV unit (Agents of SHIELD, Runaways, The Inhumans, Cloak and Dagger) and not the movie banner (the, er, movies and the current Disney+ shows). And it was sanitized from everything I've read (they don't even call Daimon's sister Satana, but "Ana" and he's no longer the son of the devil and she's no longer a succubus*). They did fire the director for old tweets (but re-hired him) and the actress (who had a history of dumb tweets and they probably would have been better off just telling people they didn't hire actors based on their ability to tweet), but I think the latter was more because they've been trying to win SW fans over after the mixed reception of the SW films as they've kept another actress whose had some tweet controversies but who isn't in the SW stuff. I imagine there's never going to be a one-size response to these things. *yes Marvel has a sometimes superhero and sometimes supervillain who is the Son of Satan and one who is a Succubus. They also had a heroic/villainous half-vampire, full vampire, 2 different werewolves, a science vampire, several witches, a mummy, a swamp monster, etc. It was the 70s.

That's because he doesn't want to pay child support on the hundreds of illegitimate children he's fathered. We gotta get Satan on the Maury Povich show.

That's the idea.

Not quite as the Nicaean Council… close but not quite

Heroic New York Police Officer Runs Out on Thin Ice to Rescue Dog Floundering in Frozen Lake – WATCH

Sadly, that is the response you normally get for Window systems. With higher end servers you get, "have you tried stopping and restarting the daemon"?

Should be a section for "Just wait until they stop asking about the problem"

Why not milk the Gabe is God crowd for as much as you can? If people insist on only buying on Steam they're asking to be exploited if not by devs/ pubs then by Valve; and why would developers be 'nice' to Steam when they leverage that market dominance and the presence of so many steam only drones to keep their cut higher than anyone else? The simple solution for someone who wants to play it is to (1) but on Epic to save yourself 50% or (2) rent it on gamepass for ~80% discount- legally you're renting it from steam anyway, you just aren't being charged monthly. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the EU will actually block the sale on competition grounds. ARM/ nVidia will be blocked too, for that matter.

I don't think that's specifically a Japanese thing.

If some game is on GOG and not steam, it most likely means, that the game was broken, and the GOG made some custom made executables, so the game can run on newest OS and HW. A lot of older games, are much better products on GOG, than Steam, and they are working most of the time "out of the box" and older Steam games needs some manual fiddling. Anyway, GOG probably solved my problem, and offered me 77% discount on Mechanicus - Omnisiah Edition, which I will most likely use instead of the NWN2 50%

I think in Marvel, Lucifer/Satan only has the two known kids. But then Mephisto has pretended to be Lucifer a number of times, and I think "Satan" is treated like a title, so there may be other demons who were Satan who had other kids that wouldn't be related to Lucifer/ the Hellstroms. She probably won't suck the life force out of Bruce...probably.

Sweet! I'm glad those items are on your radar for getting some scaling. It's always sad to have an item with an interesting mechanic that ends up being underwhelming.

The problem, I think, is that what a lot of people are railing about isn't CRT. Its stuff like the 1619 Project and other educational approaches to presenting information about historical and systemic racism. They've been lumped together behind CRT because CRT was a easier way to refer to a group of things that some people don't like / find uncomfortable / think is skewed. I find it notable that all of the people railing against things like the 1619 Project and other efforts to provide more context to various topics suddenly pivoted to CRT; the only reason I can think is that it was pithy, easy to refer to and had "race" in the title, so everything that anyone didn't like could easily assume CRT contained it. Most education is built around the idea of giving a broad foundational knowledge. What you consider "gatekeeping", most educators would feel is providing a large enough scope of knowledge for the student to be able to adjust to problems that may not fit entirely into one field or the other later on in their career. Or that may be more useful from a perspective of how you relate as an employee (say writing and communication courses) vs how you accomplish the tasks assigned to you (major courses). Its, of course, a huge area of debate in Higher Ed, as there are people who believe that getting students through school and into a job as quickly as possible is more important than continuing with the traditional rounded education (and to be fair, most Engineering schools have probably paired the non-essential course down to the barest minimum. I know the local university trading heavily in Engineering students starts students in Calculus as no other math is as applicable to the majors).

It seems your obsession with scaling is really... escalating. OK je sors.

This may look like an old forgotten scripture to you. But to me, it seems that the scaling is weirdly applied #Obsession.

A big issue is that most of the item related properties you're relying on are "Passive" . And Passive abilities from items don't scale with PL, character level or anything besides base stats. All the following items are on my TO DO lisit for next version of my Balance Polishing Mod : -Effigy's Husk -Mantle of the Seven Bolts -Cape of the Falling Star -Unstable Coil Effort one scales with Weapon Quality enchant. This leads to poor PEN, Accuracy and damages. [MECHANICS] The weird aspects of scaling - Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Characters Builds, Strategies & the Unity Engine (Spoiler Warning!) - Obsidian Forum Community Oh I was suppose to be on a "modding break", but I'm happy someone eventually ran into the problem I was trying to address

"...and Théoden could not be overtaken." Theoden is/was always one of my favorites. I probably like him more than Frodo, truth be told. Sure, he was written/done fuller/better in prose, but his movie version still resonates (much due to the actor who played him) and I loved that they at least put those few seconds in the film of his white horse suddenly pulling ahead of the front.

The problem with being a cop is if you are doing it well no one knows you're doing it. It's the bad ones that get all the press.

Anonymous Shopper Buys Iconic Pantera Guitar For Young Rocker Who Always Came in the Shop to Play it

Myao is really beginning to remind me of Nadine the Brain. I have no idea if there's a video of hers with subtitles, but let me check... yeah, no, but a short clip, it's not like you can't hear what's going on even without missing the meaning entirely. Unlike Myao, who is funny and all that, Nadine is real... and she has a kid. Yeah. Oh boy. Someone save the little bugger please. Anyway, great episode. edit: So in case you want to know what's she's talking about, she's saying that chocolate is good for children because it contains milk, bread and sausages don't make you gain weight because they contain no sugar, unlike organic vegetables. Yep. That's... yeah.

I finished 255 forks now. In the process my carpet now is partly beige/brown, as is the sleeve of my cardigan (after I probably hadn't shaken the spray can well enough before doing a beige/brown undercoat for a few forks and the paint hit my sleeve and the floor behind me). I also have a light blue pattern on the laminate after not having cleaned the nozzle of another spray can before using it, resulting in the paint spraying sideways out of the can. By the end of this I'll have a colourful apartment one way or the other.

Small progress update: CallGlobalScriptAfterTimePasses will stall while the game is paused, which includes having menus open. This makes it useful for delaying certain scripts until after the Character Creation screen has been closed, rather than having to enter another scene and wait for a second scripthook to trigger. So now, directly after Character Creation, we will smoothly be granted XP to lv 16 and the Superior-tier gear, then have the Legacy History window be displayed! It's thankfully possible to block off the parts in Engari's conversation which triggers the optional artifact-seeking quests without having to edit the convo file itself. (Since we want to enable their corresponding challenges by default, having the dialogue and quests popping up would've been akward and misleading.) All the relevant convo nodes has HasConversationNodeBeenPlayed conditionals, and can be prevented from playing by utilizing MarkConversationNodeAsRead scripts. What remains: Generate unique base campaign items into SSS vendor inventories. Increase experience and gold gain throughout the campaign. (I think I will do this using the ArenaEncounterComponent's WinScripts property, giving bonuses to encounters if this is a Standalone Seeker Slayer Survivor playthrough and it was the first time the encounter was completed.) Implement the Engari convo blockers. I actually tested and completed the campaign with this mod just now! (by spamming KillAllEnemies in the console ofc )

Holy crap, now theres 20 rings! Were going to need more Hobbits.

I just like it. I have no argument other than that. I don't think all games should be isometric but my favorite ones tend to be.

Do I? Seems like very run of the mill sarcasm to me.

and yet here we are... again. lord only knows why you would mention the nypost as some kinda source for credible and true news reporting. you gotta be joking. having a little joke to see if Gromnir paid attention to your laundry list? however, we would be curious to see an actual brookings article which convinced you crt is guilty o' the following: "I do not think that history should be over dramatized and I definitely do NOT think anyone alive today owes anyone else an apology for deeds done by people long dead. Nor do I think it's healthy to tell people they are victims and it's all stacked against them." keep in mind the considerable number o' times we has heard you claim a source said something which it most certainly did not, leading us to correct you. so you throwing out names o' publications sans links or quotes is less than convincing given your track record for suspect recollections. no doubt you will come back and tell us you misremembered or thought it were brookings instead o'... whatever. am also having no idea what a local tennessee print sources is telling you, or whether they got a noteworthy skew. perhaps forgot to mention the info were gleaned via an opinion piece or somesuch? nypost? serious? HA! Good Fun! ps: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/07/02/why-are-states-banning-critical-race-theory/ CRT does not attribute racism to white people as individuals or even to entire groups of people. Simply put, critical race theory states that U.S. social institutions (e.g., the criminal justice system, education system, labor market, housing market, and healthcare system) are laced with racism embedded in laws, regulations, rules, and procedures that lead to differential outcomes by race. ... Scholars and activists who discuss CRT are not arguing that white people living now are to blame for what people did in the past. They are saying that white people living now have a moral responsibility to do something about how racism still impacts all of our lives today. ... The approach of some Republican-led state legislatures is a method for continuing to roll back racial progress regarding everything from voting rights to police reform. This is a horrible idea and does an injustice to our kids. Laws forbidding any teacher or lesson from mentioning race/racism, and even gender/sexism, would put a chilling effect on what educators are willing to discuss in the classroom and provide cover for those who are not comfortable hearing or telling the truth about the history and state of race relations in the United States. Ironically, “making laws outlawing critical race theory confirms the point that racism is embedded in the law,” as sociologist Victor Ray noted. ... dude.

In the US all engineering disciplines start with a core set of classes that everyone takes before the classes of whatever discipline they picked. Statics, Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Strength of Materials 1 & 2, and a programming language. For me that was Fortan so that tells you how old I am. Calculus 1 & 2 and Differential Equations are a prerequisite for all of them. And you will not get past them without that knowledge. And it only gets more in depth from there. I have a BSEE and my specialty in antenna design and RF network design. Fourier transforms are a big part of my profession and if you don't know integrals and diff eq you can not do my job. What you said, suggesting that higher math is some kind of gatekeeper holding kids down it way off the mark IMO. I wouldn't go so far as to suggest everyone be made to take it. There is no benefit in that. especially if their career plans don't need it. But if they do not the doors to STEM will be forever closed to them. And they definitely should be.

In my case that some people is The NY Post, Brookings, The Nashville Tennessean AND the Commercial Appeal (neither if which is "right wing") and other places of the like. The theory DOES have detractors other than angry parents, Republican politicians, and nutjobs wearing Viking helmets and painted faces running through the halls of the capital. Personally I do not give a f--k about it. Teach it in college. Teach it in kindergarten. Do. Not Care. When multiple informed sources I find credible (meaning not the types I listed) make the same observations I figure there is at least a grain of truth in them. I have less than zero interest in actually learning the details so I'll take the word of credible sources and rephrase my comment thusly: If the criticisms of CRT that have been reported in multiple media outlets that I personally find credible are true then I do not think that history should be over dramatized and I definitely do NOT think anyone alive today owes anyone else an apology for deeds done by people long dead. Nor do I think it's healthy to tell people they are victims and it's all stacked against them. Better? I'm sure the CRT program makes for interesting reading but right now all my time is dedicated to resolving non-linear interactions caused by slit diffraction on the cheap chinese antennas this company wasted it's capital on.

Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran, episode 8: Myao breaks her neck (or else dislocates something), then runs into a faith healer promising healing if the villagers let go of their worldly possesions and join him and his clan in training. For show he "heals" two of his disciples, who clearly are in on the scheme, of their "pain" and Myao is so impressed she keeps bugging him into "healing" her of her neck issue to the point where the gathered victims villagers demand that the good healer work his magic on her. To the dismay of all his gathered inner circle, he agrees, then casually remarks that without proper training first, it might not work immediately, then does his spiel, Myao is startled, falls over backwards and the impact fixes her neck. Good job Myao. Good job.

What We Do in the Shadows: s3 1-4 Holy **** this is brilliant.

That was really good!

James Webb Space Telescope marks deployment of all mirrors.

9 rings for mortal men doomed to die, 7 rings for the dwarven kings on their thrones of stone, 3 for the elven lords sipping chardonnay in their treetop swimming pools, one ring to rule them all, hash naz grimbatûl etc etc and yeah I can't be bothered looking it up. The elven rings were made by Celebrimbor alone, independently of Sauron, so don't have a corruptive effect though they are bound to the One Ring in terms of power output. The Dwarven rings exacerbated the users' negative racial traits- greed, mostly, with a bit of jingosim- but their stubborn nature could not be overcome by them alone. And yeah, men are feeble and corruptible, so for them it's wraith time. Wouldn't be at all surprised if the Dwarven Rings barely get dealt with at all though.

They also killed a deer, and a lion, and totes advocate sexual assault against sleeping princesses! Oh my!

The intro for the movies was 99.9 times better...

Heh, my wife had a "dull headache" for a few days last week and talked herself into the rona. Took her and got a rapid test and PCR test, and there was nothing wrong. @KP on top of ZA WARUDO Hopefully you dont come down with Covid dong.

My household is dealing with it as well. My daughter tested positive over a week ago. She had actually just had the booster, so at first we thought her not feeling well was just a reaction, but we took a test to be safe and she was positive. After a week of staying home and quarantining, she tested negative and was feeling a lot better. It was mostly low grade fever and congestion, although she was nauseous on day 1. The whole household has been testing regularly, and this weekend my wife tested positive. So now my daughter is recovered, my wife is quarantined, I am sleeping on the couch, and my son is complaining about a scratchy throat... My wife's symptoms are minor as well. We are all vaccinated and recently boosted, so that seems to be helping. Other than some hypochondria, I'm feeling great. I ran a solid 10k yesterday. I am supposed to keep reporting to work unless I test negative or have symptoms.

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