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This is me: https://kerameion.gr/ But what with Covid and all, I am expanding my activities.

Actually I stole that joke from Malcador.

You're in good company, I think @KP the Torque Dork keeps one of these too. Though probably less encrypted... but no less stalkery. IIRC he even calls it "obsidianstalking.txt" or something like that.

Are they as creative about it as ours is? Because our Ministry of Finance embezzled money through funding fake studies, one of which was actually on the topic of fighting corruption and embezzlement in government divisions. Gotta appreciate the chutzpah, if nothing else.

Ow nooo… come on, I just had a shower! 😖

Yeah, Sex with Hitler showed up on my Steam that way. Even with the adult block on. But if I want to go to the store page for a Fallout game or similar, I have to age verify.

Yes, the loot bug with essence interrupter is has been fixed. And it was one of my favorite weapons when playing a ranged cipher. It's usually my first weapon, and latter I pair it with the red hand, switching back to it when facing pierce immune foes. You might consider an ascendant/helwalker. Helwalker will give you big boosts in STR and INT, speed, and also and additional +2 PEN from tenacious. The downside of Helwalker is generally fine with a ranged character. You can always activate blade turning if you get mobbed by melee heavies. Or you might consider an ascendant/ranger. This combo has the highest possible ACC in the game I believe, and with high ACC you'll crit a lot, which will help mitigate PEN issues.

So I don't need to feel bad for having googled all veterinarian ladies in Guard Dog's vicinity to make sure we on the forum approve of who he is dating?

Some of the enemies that have high fortitude also have resistances to CON and/or MIG afflictions so you are left with the Morning Star. There is no immunity to Body Blows. THat's why I like to combine Gauntlets of Greater Reliability and Willbreaker's "Make them Flinch" in combo with some miss-to-graze food. That way you can "Body Blow" any enemy rel. reliably no matter how bad your ACC is. By the way: A wizard is nice as partner for a DoT-Druid because Ryngrim's Enervating Terror lowers Fortitude via Weakened but targets Will(!). And Will is so easy to debuff for a Wizard (hello Miasma of Dull-Mindedness + a club). I once brought an SC Black Jacket just to be able to lower fort and will with Morning Star/FlailClub in an AoE with Clean Sweep (because the AoE is rather big for a weapon attack).

New York and Illinois indoor mask rules: Governors expected to announce end or rollback of certain mandates, reports say - CNN

I've just finished a quick playtrhough after reaching lvl 20. It was fun, plenty of crits and high damage numbers. I'm guessing it would be less effective on higher difficulties. Attack and recovery speeds were ridicoulously low, I saw as little as 0,4/1,8~2,0. Generally a fun enjoyable playtrhough if you come with the mind set of being the "hero" and focusing on it. Fun factor goes to Kabaoru, amazing greatsword for a crit build. Damage wise Voidwheel was on top. With all the passive healing from chanters phrases, paladin and equipment aura, pet per kill hp, late game the character almost always ended with full hp, despite additional damage from berserker's frenzy. That also made picking a human race a bit pointless, as the character almost never became bloodied. Composition wise, druid felt a bit useless, the healing was used only early, only the aoe insect spell and aoe thorns were of any impact. Late game only PL7 Rust and PL8 Hit to Crits spells had any meaning on bosses. What did ruin the enjoyment and fun factor was an abundance of summons. They were more than not blocking the path to enemies. Too many chanters I guess. Pure chanter was a bit unnecessary as well. Earlier phrases were nice, summoning dragon was pure joy, but the penetration on Devoted Berserker wasn't stacking with the buffs. Resource recovery didn't restore Druid's spells as well I think, which was the main point of it, plus it was a cone chant. Curse pillars were a bane of my existence, I had to go out of my way later on to pick a druid spell which would work on them.

many times over the past decades we have been able to make money w/o having a job. am knowing the money is from a job when a large % o' what we had thought we earned disappears immediate and goes to the government. HA! Good Fun!

We have a similar protest here which is labeled as being alt right etc, but the 2nd most popular flag there is actually the Maori Sovereignty flag; not exactly a staple with neo nazis and the like. Does get rather amusing constantly being told that it's all alt right imported american conspiracy theories from Steve B*nnon and his coterie of trumptards- and there is a lot of MAGA stuff, to be fair- when every shot has a uniquely local flag being waved enthusiastically by decidedly brown people. The most amusing in absolute terms though? Could be the guy who thinks face masks cause lung cancer, and that the media deliberately make them look stupid? Or maybe the South Island convoy forgetting that Wellington is located in the cunningly named 'North Island' and that they couldn't simply drive across Cook Strait; leading to them trying to organise a Dunkirk type operation on short notice...

The round bit was storage. Most likely grain. The rest are walls from various phases, from likely 800 BC to around 1000 AD. The site was a pottery workshop in antiquity. I have 5,5 wells underneath my foundations (half a well is under the neighbouring building), and we even found a large slab of unused clay. We found traces of the old road, and the clay pipes of the antique water line still have water trickling along. Don't tell the archeologists I posted this, but this is back from 2009 when we had the dig:

it’s currently on Kickstarter

*taking notes* for some reason i never considered using an aoe weapon effect to spread the modal debuffs. that's slick, i gotta try that

I never really sat down and did the math for them before, but Hunting Bow + its modal does crazy dps. Higher than any other ranged damage outside of specific weapons like The Red Hand. Now, I wrote them off mainly because of two legitimate concerns: -huge Accuracy debuff for the modal (-15) -Hunting Bows have low base Penetration However, at second glance this isnt quite as big a concern as I thought. Hunting Bows innately have a +5 to Accuracy, offsetting the malus a bit. And it does best of two different damage types, so you can often skirt around the Pen issues. But the real combo Ive noticed: Hunting Bow + Devoted. Disciplined Barrage/Strikes + Confident Aim will frequently ‘upgrade’ your attacks, so the accuracy hit is far less painful as long as you can get Misses off the table. Not to mention the Acc bonuses from Warrior/Conqueror stance. Devoted also gives +2 to base Pen, so between that and the two damage types, your penetration issues are largely dealt with. I find that any multiclass I have with a Fighter, hunting bows are now a go to. My humble Priest/Fighter mostly based around buffs is now able to shred enemies with just autoattacks as well.

What makes hunting bow's PEN issues go away very early is Essence Interrupter which does pierce/shock. I don't remember a single enemy who has high pierce AR AND high shock AR. Anything that has high ACC bonuses (Monk, Ranger, Cipher) is great with a hunting bow because the -10 ACC loss isn't even noticable. Fighter is also cool, but I don't like that only Penetrating Strike works with ranged (two handed) weapons.

I must update my detailed files on all of you. As an aside, it can quite an interesting hobby to keep a dossier on people, but people find it creepy. Remembering their birthday is fine, but writing it in an encrypted document is "weird". Pft.

Finished God of War. Mostly. There is still some sidecontent to do, but I am not sure how long I will be willing to put up with forced RPG elemenets, grinding, and flawed combat system. I am having less and less fun everytime I boot it up. We will see when the well will dry up completely. I feel like I am getting really snobby as of late. I didn't like God of War much. I didn't dislike it either. It's a very AAA affair (but in good way) aiming for as wide of a market as possible, juggling multiple different things people might want to play a game for, and mastering none, though at the same time doing none of those too badly. I think I just prefer games that do one thing, but really well. I think the game has potential, though. I felt in similar way about DOOM 2016 - a game which I appreaciated on some level, but it just let me somewhat bored. But DOOM: Eternal was a surprise delight when i played it on gamepass recently. Let's hope Ragnarok will address GoW issues, figure out how to make combat work without all the flashing arrows (I mean seriously, what's the point of creating zoomed in cinematic experience, if you have to add so much UI elemenents for it to be managable?!) and just make combat more mechanically consistant. It's a looker though. Honestly, I enjoyed watching GoW more then playing it. A perfect silent YouTube walkthrough game perhaps, at least the main storyline. The game made me reinstal DMC5 though - that's a godly combat system.

That has got to be one of the strangest reasons to not game anymore " Im too old ".....its a hobby, you never too old Its like saying " Im too old to read a book ". You may not have time anymore or your interests may change but you never too old to game 💻

I did not play it, so can't say. The whole series of games seems like a bad taste cash grab catering to people who think they are cool or edgy or what the kids call it these days, for playing games that stand up to established societal norms, even if they don't know what established, societal or norm means.

Everytime I try and load up multiplayer it crashes. I pick my character and it begins to load me in and about half way thru it loading I get sent to my Xbox home. Can anyone help?

Torches and pitchforks up next up for Mitch McConnell? (probably violating some kind of party constitution when making sense)

HA! Good Fun!

Speaking of which, I just had a major, hearty laugh: No, but he picked a creepy inn as vacation spot.

Speaking of Crusader Kings, I made the terrible mistake of taking off Steam's adult content block, and was recommended a game called "Sex with Stalin", because apparently it was similar to Crusader Kings III. Well, yeah, I guess, in a sense.

The latter, because it's more effort than I can be assed to keep them separate.

Started playing guitar again... does that count? No games have been able to hold my attention lately (years it seems)

As far as netflix anime goes, I was surprised by how good it was. Trailer out for chainsaw man. Maybe I'll watch it as a refresher for the manga whenever that continues.

I think I started a new job. Not entirely sure. Also not entirely sure what I'll be doing. But that I am good at. If suddenly I get money, I'll know I started a new job.

have mentioned previous how much o' a concern the shadow docket proliferation is: (from a may 2021 post) however, our biggest concern regarding the current Court has gone complete under the radar: the shadow docket. To get on the shadow docket, any litigant can apply to a single justice, who decides whether to forward the dispute to the full court. Five votes among the nine justices are needed to grant a request. No oral arguments are made but opposing attorneys can file briefs in opposition. To be granted, the request must meet certain criteria, including that the applicants would suffer “irreparable harm” if it is not granted. The public generally sees the court as sorting out matters of national importance through extensive briefing, oral arguments and lengthy rulings that explain the law. But the number of substantive shadow docket decisions rose dramatically during the Trump administration. In those four years, the government filed shadow docket applications at 20 times the rate of each of the two previous eight-year administrations. The high court granted the government’s requests in a majority of cases. https://www.reuters.com/article/legal-us-usa-court-shadow-video/the-shadow-docket-how-the-u-s-supreme-court-quietly-dispatches-key-rulings-idUSKBN2BF16Q with acb's arrival those shadow docket cases is occurring at an increased rate and a majority is being decided 5-4 or 6-3, with no written explanation as to why the Court barred State action, granted relief or even executed a human being for all practical purposes. rulings just kinda happen and most don't know what is taking place or accept meekly the new norm the majority is establishing. ... am personal a textualist who +90% o' the time were in agreement with J. Scalia, but this Court is... is no real majority decision here precise 'cause is shadow docket, but Kavanaugh, in a footnote no less, recognized that either side might win if fully argued, which should put the burden on AL and as such complete undermines the granting o' a freaking stay. most liberals is gonna be enraged 'cause it looks like the Court is trampling voting rights, but this were inevitable as soon as the majority swung right. we tried to warn you all that the Courts which were rejecting trump campaign election lawsuits were gonna be supporting State efforts to marginalize minority voters using many o' the same arguments, so am not the least bit surprised save to note that J. Roberts, who has been 'bout as adversarial towards individual voting rights and fed limits on State efforts to undermine minority voters, is joining the more liberal Justices in dissent. you got no idea how extreme the infractions has gotta be for Roberts to join with Sotomayor on a voting rights case. even so, IF this case had gone through the normal process o' argument the offer o' a written opinion, we would woulda' predicted an AL win. saw this coming. however, and more concerning, this is yet another shadow docket case which diminishes the Constitutional Rights o' Americans w/o even the offer o' a majority opinion and even Gromnir who were early to raise alarms on this issue is surprised by how common is the occurrence o' what were once considered exceptional. this case is gonna get national attention, but media is gonna focus on the voting rights aspect. Americans got no idea how much o' a paradigm shift is the current exploitive use o' the shadow docket, and is no reason they should be concerned with the issue getting so little attention save from a handful o' con law honks. the freaking Court is arguable going rogue and they is able to do so in plain sight with hardly anybody noticing? am admitted surprised and inching towards genuine alarm.

Its out today! If someone wants to try MP hit me up! I would love to try MP CK3 with anyone, sadly my usual friends are too old for games

Hmm, looks like that all of the Wii Us in the world were bought up by the bunch of Osbidianites 🙀

I can't laugh at you, I'm one of the other 9 people that owns a Wii U. Musou games are definitely not for everyone My favorite of the bunch is Dragon Quest Heroes 2. I never played the first, but word round the campfire is that it was essentially Dynasty Warriors with a Dragon Quest coat of paint. 2 is more of a hybrid of a musou and an open(ish) world RPG.

This thread details pretty well why this is terrible and concerning.

I liked the show but I grew up with offensive comedy and comedians and am not really bothered by much of anything. Except unrealistic apartments/living arrangements in sitcoms. There's no way the three of you could afford a place that size in that part of town, not on those salaries.

same here we have bases and zip lines all over the place so many hours put in we do not want to start over again

Wifes game does as well. Tried reinstall, no good. Tried deleting old stuff not in game anymore(sickly pillbug parts/armor), no good. Power cycle, no good. Convinced her sister to start. Sister-in-law has never played before, and she has never installed the game before. When my sister-in-law hosted it worked beautifully, no issues at all. Wife hosts... crash to home. It's in the old saves. I hope they can fix it, there are hundreds of hours invested, and parts of the base have become sentimental to my wife and child(she plays on wifes profile right now since multiplayer is down). We would like to add to the main world (Wifes) with our friends and family.

I'm having the exact same issue. Happened since the new patch. Wasnt ever an issue before. I tried un installing and re-installing, loading earlier saves with just myself and then with my partner...doesnt matter. Single player works loading from miltiplayer saves. I wonder if its from loading a multiplayer save as single player, then progressing, saving and then trying to go back to multiplayer after it saves as a single player file... But regardless, thenafter you cant load a single save file from multiplayer. You just crash to xbox home.

Sure if they wanna. I think one of the reasons for not doing it last time around was reduced budget, and now they've got that MS money. Another stated reason was 'don't wanna', so I guess we'll see if that's changed.