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Who are you and what did you do the real Guard Dog!

Did you count the time it took to write the post? Because I don't think you counted the time it took to write the post. Remember what I said about "insidious forms of trolling" that cause us to write paragraphs for naught? You are being trolled by Alex Kurtzman, . Although this week it appears he was a lot less successful than usual, so at least there's that!

I like to believe that Kars picked up on it based on what Stroheim said and that they didn't bother to name Santana because he only spent 9000 years at the gym.

Easy: When management guys get one, it's what they mistakenly believe they're worth above their regular (already inflated) pay, and when the grunts get them it's a way to make them not notice that they're underpaid and overworked.

Other than the common stuff that you are probably already working on, this is a list of things I feel need to be changed or at least looked at. 1. The new combo system Limiting the damage of the first hit is extremely restrictive for slower weapons. People who use heavy weapons are basically forced to do all 3 hits which ruins their stamina. Instead of a 3 hit combo being 50-100-150 damage, a better fit might be 100-100-150/200. That way instead of punishing players for not doing the combos you instead reward them for playing that way. 2. The weird armor class damage resistance. For those unaware, light and medium armor INCREASES damage resistance by 20% and heavy armor DECREASES damage resistance by 10%. I know this is done for balancing purposes, but messing with damage resistance seems antithetical to the point of the armor. If you want to nerf heavy armor and buff the lighter ones, increasing/decreasing movement speed might be a better choice. You could also change the amount of stamina needed for actions. 3. Durability I am not the first to talk about durability and I almost certainly won't be the last. I am not saying remove durability or make it cheaper, I just think that there should be later game methods to make it more manageable. The best method I thought of was to add a system where whenever x amount of durability is lost, the max durability increases. It doesn't remove the need of repairs, just lessens it after a while. 4. Durability loss on death This one I don't feel too strongly about, but durability loss on death feels outdated. You already loose quite a bit of durability in the fight, to loose more on death seems a bit cruel. 5. Weevil Shield materiel costs (please) I have played this game for a while and have gotten pretty decent at the games combat. What helped me the most was the Weevil Shield. It makes combat much less demanding and helps you get used to the combat system. The problem is that this is the earliest shield you can get, but the resources needed to craft/repair it are slightly limited and perishable. A new player most likely won't scan raw Weevil meat and if they do, they likely will just cook and eat it instead of making a shield. My suggestion, replace the raw meat with Weevil Noses. Although they have a chance not to drop, I think it will help newer players immensely. 6. Milk Molar tweaks There NEEDS to be a way to respec. I doesn't have to be free, but it needs to be an option. 7. More specific info It would be kind of nice if things showed exact percentage of increase or the exact proc chance of certain abilities. This next part is mostly just wishful thinking so it is not numbered or really bothering me. I would like a way to obtain more milk molars outside of finding them. It would be neat if they dropped from certain enemies or if they could be crafted. A mutation or something that increases the drops from enemies would be nice. If the Rock Cracker mutation increased the amount of resources you get to make upgrades easier. If Coup de Grass also increase crit damage a bit.

Well, it's not working on me. I'm not afraid of anything.

Welcome to the reason we no longer engage the posts, just the posters. Carry on.

Do you have an article from a source that doesn't use laughable terms like 'Marxist school board members'? EDIT: Side note while we're discussing terms. 'Triggered' is a word that refers to actual responses to recurring trauma, and does not mean 'provoked any kind of response.'

Emperor: Battle for Dune solved it by spreading to multiple planets.. I really liked that game...

Elegant bit of work.

It cracks me up that people still worry about poor folks taking advantage of welfare, the dole, or whatever you want to call it, when the wealth disparity is insane. The middle class isn't struggling because someone is getting too many food stamps.

Something like this would be awesome to build on the outside of buildings, or bring resources up the sides of cliffs and buildings.

A little less friendly I'd say. But I don't get out much. Most of my day I'm working. Aside from my cousin and her family I don't know anyone nearby so whatever friends I have here are really Gail's friends. But I have gone on calls with her a number of times to help and that has been a great experience.

Nope

I don't know, "The King of Stocks" doesn't sound like a reliable source to me. Doubly so when they start ranting about "far-left Marxists" or whatever. https://www.ktvu.com/news/voters-oust-san-francisco-school-board-members-in-special-recall-election Additionally: https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/school-board-recall-signals-strange-bedfellows-of-san-francisco-politics/ So it started out because butthurt parents wanted to offload their kids on the schools, got a ton of cash pumped into it, and was decided by what appears to be a low turnout.

Here is a local source on Bruce's dumb story: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/What-conservatives-are-getting-wrong-about-the-16924985.php

Why be terrified of things that in no way, shape or means can you effect? Things (not just this, but anything) outside of your control will either happen or it won't, you worrying about it only affects you. Better to put effort in things you can control (preparedness or mitigation at your personal level).

Yes but you an ex-Marine, the rest of us are terrified

Honestly, CNN is only slightly less bad than Fox, except with the opposite bias (pro Dem vs. pro GOP). Got any actual links (besides the Fox copy paste site)? Edit: at least you know with Fox, if they get anything more than the town name right, it's accidental and not on purpose. Their sports results are a bit harder to falsify, so those may be close to the truth...

Yeah, can't have teachers not following the party line... Come to think of it, It sounds familiar somehow Warning: This story was brought to you by Fox News. Treat as such.

That quote shows that they had authorization from UN security council to use force in order to protect civilian population. That they did poor job doesn't change fact that they acted with security council's mandate.

I just think it's irresponsible and reflects poorly on you to use the language of mental illness to describe someone who disagrees on a point.

Whatever you say snowflake…

Surprised NATO didn't bomb the rest of Africa while they were at it. They love killing people that can't fight back.

Sorry that I triggered you. I’ll try to be more considerate in the future.

Just because you mentioned it, its revealing how you wont comment on the story and reality of what happened but only concerned by my choice of the word triggered And it reinforces the observation how some of us comment on the poster and not the post ...thanks for confirming what has already been pointed out

Heh, that reminds me of the VA hospitals. I think any (honorably discharged) veteran can freely enroll for VA health care, but having been to the VA hospital in Chicago in the mid 1990's, I can tell you that it should only be used as a last resort. But maybe things have improved since then.

Technically NATO has only once attacked country outside of NATO and without approval from UN security council, In Serbia 1999. As in other cases NATO members did attacking outside of NATO and NATO come later on to peace keeping with approval of UN Security Council. Although NATO has couple times participated in air campaigns approved by UN security council In Bosnia 1995 they bombed forces of Army of Republika Srpska who where seen as threat to UN safe zones in Bosnia. In Libya 2011, Nato enforced non-fly zone and bombing camping with approval of UN Security council in order to protect civilians after two Libyan fighter pilots fly their fighter to Malta after Muammar Gaddafi had ordered them to bomb civilian protesters. And Nato participated in counter piracy mission in Red Sea between 2009-2016 to protect ships from Somalian pirates.

I think that would qualify it as an infinite improbability drive.

No thats not how 30 million South Africans live but nice try. Its insensitive to live in a first world country and think that is how all people who live in poverty live. But I suppose NZ does have its own issues like KFC smuggling cartels so I shouldnt be dismissive You right, the 46 % isnt homeless. Its complicated and their are different levels of state support and social programs that assist this 46% to survive. I support most of these social programs in SA because some of the poverty is directly linked to Apartheid legacy and if it wasnt for these programs their would be many South Africans living in worse poverty like you see in many other African countries Also what Zora is talking about is not how most of the 46% live, he is referring to what we call squatter camps and they examples of the worst kind of squalor outside of homelessness Many of the 46% are recipients of free housing called RDP (reconstruction and development ) houses by government. These houses are small 2-3 bedroom places that arent great but better than corrugated iron shacks. Then we provide reduced rates for electricity and other services around what we call " indigent services". Also government provides free public sector healthcare and free public sector schooling in most cases. Unfortunately some of these public sector intuitions are not well run or administered so sometimes you find kids getting to grade 12 with a subpar education and they unemployable. Also in the townships you can buy food and goods generally cheaper compared to what we would pay for food and goods from the malls and supermarkets Then we have a real and growing black middle class and they actively participate in what we call colloquially " black tax "and this is where most black people from the middle class and up help their family members financially. This an example of the kindness and humanity you see in SA https://www.justmoney.co.za/news/2018/03/01/understanding-black-tax/ So that is how the 46% survive in most cases, I hope this answers your question because it is a good question and one that matters?

Exactly. What is needed is something that improves the quality of life of people without moving truckloads of money from the middle class (through taxes) to feed the balance sheet bottom lines of the already wealthy. As for Russia operating outside it's borders, last time I checked Google maps, Chechnya was still within the lines around the Russian Federation. Not trying to justify, but to understand why the west isn't to be trusted (i.e. them telling you, you can't do what they themselves have been doing for a long time, so why shouldn't we do the same)

It's not long (it's tl;dr; after all), but it's an interesting view

The only real risk (with things like UBI) is rampant inflation and the top 10% getting even richer, as that is where everybody's UBI ends up anyway. It may take a few weeks for the extra dollar to make its way up the food chain, but rest assured, it's where it ends up.

Scientists Make Breakthrough in Warping Time at Smallest Scale Ever When I want to make time speed up I just play Crusader Kings 3

Own a corrugated iron shack. Have a dozen people living in it. Don't have power (or jack the lines to get free power). Get water from public access. That's how much of the world's population still lives.

With single-handed Scordeo's Trophy and the modal you will most likely see the best results I think - using the -5% recovery variant which works for everything, not only weapon attacks. I mean it works with spells and whatnot, too. The -10% variant doesn't. The best way to stack it is using Wall of Draining imo because WoD constantly effects all new stacks, too. With Driving Flight it would be twice as fast. With Wall of Draining all stacks will get prolonged which makes it very easy to just pile up more and more of it. You can't get to -100% (not with reloading because the is a floor cap due to the reloading animation and not with anything because the -5% stacks aren't just summed up) - but you can get really low recovery in rel. short time, slinging spells very quickly - or when at very low recovery summoning stuff like Caedebald's Blackbow or so. I could also see the -10% variant being fun with Citzal's Spirit Lance. Maybe with Clear Out one can stack the first few instances faster, but with WoD you can stack a lot more after some time. Other abilities that might work well: Whirling Strikes, Heart of Fury, Barbaric Retaliation...? I can see Heart of Fury as "charger" - and then do very fast Driving Roars or so.

Can't be all that bad if you can spend the meetings chatting with us.

@rjshae I thought you would appreciate this

These are good, they look like weed stems as well as silk rope. I wonder what else would be used to make it. Hopefully this is added soon.

Netflix is making a Bioshock movie. Wonder if Ken Levine will bring all that experience from MASH to the party...

Stadia is still a thing? Anyway, sounds like a good time for a new playthrough. Shame it's still impossible to find a GPU at anything resembling reasonable prices, and with the dropping of 700series support I'm now literally on the minimum spec GPU-wise (GTX970)... There's two things that come up commonly that are, as far as I can tell, still not addressed: more stuff to do once you're "done" with the game that isn't just driving around and shooting up random gangs. Would be neat if they could generate semi-random Fixer jobs. I'd compare to Bethesda's radiant quests, but maybe something a bit better/more challenging than their system ability to not look like a clown Additionally, as far as I can tell form the patchnotes, most more "visible" cybernetic augmentations are still NPC only (at least without resorting modding) Edit: oh yes, also still no New Game+ seems like?

@Chilloutman Someone out there did read our minds.

I really think Grounded would be really fun with split screen especially for people who have friends that own a different console or that don't own one at all so they can still play together. A survival game with split screen always sounds like a good time to me!