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Nailed it.

Trust comes hard to people who have lost it. People who have been hard used in the past expect it in the future. I read a book once that said people only accept the love they feel they deserve. But I think anything can be worked through.

US Marines transitions from Harrier to F-35B The Harrier is, if I'm not mistaken, the longest serving fixed wing airframe in the history of US military aviation. Even longer than the Catalina. Obviously there have been numerous versions of it since it's first deployment in the sixties. On another not it's extremely cool to see VMA-214 is still around. That unit is legendary among the "wingers".

New relationships in middle age is like trying to renovate an old house. It might have looked good on the outside and there was definite curb appeal but once you are in you have to find and repair all the damage done by the previous residents. And sometimes it's a lot of damage. Leaky pipes behind the drywall. Asbestos in the attic. Cracked foundation. Not that it isn't worth fixing. But sometimes you wonder if you even can.

I just found out that Weird West is a day 1 release on Game Pass, so I don't even have to pay anything (beyond the monthly subscription fee to Game Pass I'm already paying) to play it.

Russian central bank support ruble with heavy buy outs and Russian companies are forced to changes their foreign money to rubles. And trading of ruble is restricted. So ruble is currently full of air

If their reactions are actually going to influence which faction you join you might want to read the spoiler below:

I would say that in that case 5 years from first case seem bit harsh

Ha! It's open season on seizure of Russian assets. Game on.

New scene group called FSBros to be created soon.

Amerika deserves to have Trump back as president.

So much to the ruble payments https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russia-will-not-demand-immediate-switch-gas-payments-roubles-kremlin-2022-03-30/

Let me know what you think of Dilando/Dilandau's voice acting when he appears. I think it's a he, regardless of being voiced by a woman. Everyone keeps referring to him as him anyway. Also, yeah, guess it was too tempting to make it M-earl, right? I guess that makes sense, the anime spawned two mangas after all, one shoujo and one shounen. The shounen manga began its run before the anime aired, but was based off of the pre-production stuff and is a retelling of the anime story. Considering how the anime looks, I'm not surprised that it took a while to make it. There are movies with worse animation and less detailed art. Have I mentioned yet how much of a downgrade it is to go from this to Love Live!, animated by the same studio? Wait, yes, I did! And yes, this is definitely bloodier and more violent than I expected it to be after the first episode. Sure, the dragon gets stabbed in the eye, but that's a dragon and attacking weak points is par for the course. Didn't really expect soldiers to bleed out in an attack on a city in the next 20 minutes. Karmic justice for telling Hitomi that he doesn't need help from girls. A bit extreme, mayhaps. Good, good, at least that means I need to keep up, unless you get bored with it. That's why the action in StrikerS worked for me as well as it did. It wasn't the most riveting or interesting to watch and certainly a bit more than I wanted, but at least there was usually a point to it. Looking good is something that works for a while, but eventually stops, as I've noticed over the course of the MCU releases. The first Iron Man to the first Avengers film, the action was flashy and fun (and occassionally more than that) and that was enough, but after that each one got more and more "great, another 40 minute CGI spectacle fight" and I was all but bored by it when Endgame rolled around. Regarding the Evangelion comparisons, I somehow doubt that the characters and their fate in Escaflowne will have the same impact as Asuka and the others in NGE. I like Hitomi, and even the cat girl (and some of the others too, even though Allen remains a bit of a bore for me), but they're not really on the same level - then again, NGE was a character and depression exploration in a sci-fi mech setting, so that is something completely different, but The Vision of Escaflowne kind of invites the comparisons with the look and feel. What an outright bizarre thing to say about a fantasy isekai anime. Our cat is something in between, if she feels like it she can be clingy and follows us around constantly, and then she doesn't and just runs off and wants to be left alone. She also talks (well, meow and whine) a lot especially when she's been alone at home for half a day for a change. She's used to the company and then complains about not having any servants around. The most hilarious part is the dog, though, because we got him when he was really young, only a couple of weeks old, and the cat kind of adopted him. The dog exhibits a whole lot of cat mannerisms, the funniest of which is trying to sneak up and pounce on birds. With absolutely no success, he's neither stealthy nor fast enough. Also need to always take care with the two, I once left some fried chicken takeout on the table because I thought it would be out of reach for the dog anyway, and it was... then we watched the cat jump on the table and just throw the chicken on the floor. Ah, yeah, they're also getting kinda old now... hmm.

I really like what I see. Now is the question about gameplay, pacing and itemization.

Probably something to do with investors such as blackrock. https://seekingalpha.com/news/3812649-blackrock-takes-17b-hit-from-russia-exposure-ft If it will open this will have to materialize in sales at unsaleable asstes, i.e. a total loss of capital invested.

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/03/30/refusing-to-kill-people-isn-t-a-crime Although I am not sure if even Russian own laws matter in this case

"Merle" is indeed pronounced "Earl" with an M in both of the English dubs, which I had to hear. I've otherwise been listening to the Japanese dub. Also, did this general dude really just say...that even if the dragon were to rip off the prince's [redacted], he wouldn't run away? Didn't think I'd ever hear something like that in a shoujo(?), that's for sure, . Although, I guess by the time I saw about the third or fourth guy bleed out of his eyes when the demons attacked, I probably should've realized that it would be difficult to qualify this show as simply being a "shoujo". Poor dude was crowned king and literally minutes later, his entire city was destroyed - rough first day of his reign, I'd say. Catgirl was okay in the first episode, which is good enough for now...there's room to grow, certainly. Indeed, the second episode as a whole wasn't as much fun as the first, but it was still solid enough, and that's fine. Guess I'm watching Escaflowne. The thing about action is that...you need something more than just itself to entice me with it. Whether it's our characters learning to work together, one of the characters involved being emotionally motivated to fight for a good reason, or the fight being actually plot-important to some degree beyond just rote "fight happens here because the script says it does"...you know, it just has to be something. I will even accept action if just the way it looks is cool, because yeah, looking cool is a form of mental engagement...of course, what kind of action looks cool to me is evidently very different from what looks cool to other people, particularly because I especially value the weight of action, which is very difficult to capture. Anyways, if you can hit at least one or preferably multiple areas of properly framing and motivating action, action will usually sit pretty good in my eyes - something like Asuka's fight with the Mass Production Evas hits pretty much every single box I can even vaguely imagine, which is probably why that sequence literally brings tears to my eyes. I'll try not to make comparisons to Evangelion over the course of the show, . My old lady cat is probably in the final stages of her life, and up until recently, she's always been kind of the opposite of that. Standoffish, flighty from any kind of movement or contact, and very solitary. Now in her old age, she's suddenly become super clingy, she constantly wants to lay on and be pet by people, and she whines a ton for no particular reason when used to not ever. Yes, I've been feeling the "HEY I'M HERE TOO" factor of the cat owner life lately, .

I don’t. It might help that I got my own bed back now though 😝

Got the keys to my place and got my furniture and stuff delivered. Now I just have to do the Sisyphus thing for a few weeks, carrying boxes from the garage and up the stairs 😓

I see, so I'm not the only one who got that impression. Allen in particular, whom you've only seen in the intro so far, looks like he stepped directly out of Revolutionary Girl Utena. The strange Evangelion-esque feeling will get a bit stronger still when Escaflowne is activated for the first time, although the mech designs are of course pretty different - and the mechs in this are pretty much regular mechs, not vat grown aliens infused with human souls. Or maybe they are and I just haven't gotten to the point yet, but if it turns out like that I'll deduct points for lack of creativity and blatant stealing of ideas. Are you watching the English dub or the original? Minor caveat: The first episode is the first episode, but you've already been subjected to a fight with a dragon and Van and didn't hate either right from the start, so that's a relief of a sort, because I didn't either, and I feel a bit better about this particular aspect at least. One of the nicer things about it is that the show often uses Hitomi's point of view on Gaia to introduce elements and have the audience make sense of them without it being problematic exposition for exposition's sake. Mr. Plinkett said as much in his Phantom Menace review, a fish out of water really makes it easy to justify and properly frame exposition instead of having characters randomly tell people things they already know. It's maybe a minor thing, but it helps with immersion. Like a while back when I watched StrikerS and talked about Fate giving her students a lecture and a pop quiz in history - that brought the audience up to speed and was believable, because two 12-year-olds from backwards places in the universe aren't going to know too much of galactic history. Wonder how well the second episode will do, now that they're off Earth. Hmm. Well, that makes a whole lot more sense then, at least. The first scene with her is a little strange, but she's appropriately catty. Not in the derogative meaning, just because she's a cat girl. Overall most of the elements that would annoy me in another anime are balanced enough to not make me hate them, or framed properly to... maybe even... actually enjoy them. Merle is a cat, so of course she jumps on Van whenever she feels like it, gets annoyed when she thinks he and Hitomi are getting too close and wedges herself into situations to say HEY I'M HERE TOO. Because that's what cats do. All the time.

Probably none. Unlike Hunter Biden, Trump had no vested interest in Ukraine 😝

Nanami is probably the most disturbed character in Revolutionary Girl (and that's saying something, because there are a whole lot of very disturbed people in that show), with a whole "I will literally drown kittens to monopolize my brother's love" complex (no really, that happened)...and even she eventually took a step back before she went over the precipice and adjusted her behavior before it truly went critical. Thing is, the framing of the show makes it pretty clear she's a messed up fruit basket of a person from the very beginning, which is why the show remains watchable even with that going on. If, on the other hand, a show were to have such elements and not make it clear that it's super weird/gross/wrong, well...that'd be a much more difficult sell, that's for sure.

Definitely like the Cipher + Druid combo. Start with Cipher spells to help setup the Fortitude based abilities then switch back. I think I hit I key level for my group when I got Pain Block. Before then Konst would have issues self healing cos of being hit so much and interrupted. I didn't take Flanking or Secret horrors since Eder has Persistent Distraction and Tekehu "should" be hitting Ben Fidel and Long Nights Drink. But Tekehu having Perception 10 on PotD doesn't really help his hit rate when using offensive invocations/chants. I do have Xoti casting Dire Blessing so get Aware inspiration. No point taking Tactical Meld over Borrowed Instinct. Just picked up Plague of Insects so should melt groups even more but the single target damage is lacking. Can get Disintegration in a few levels but its another Fort attack and I just had Might+Con resistant/immune (can't remember which) enemies so felt could of done with some raw weapon damage. I think I went a bit too defensive with Eder with sword+board and Riposte etc. Having fun though, thanks for the help/ideas 👍

Escaflowne, episode 1. The aesthetic of this show is a bit strange - feels very in between eras to me. Parts of it look almost Evangelion-esque, but others...not so much. Some weird combination of the early 2000s/very late 90s and Utena that confuses my brain. The most recent remastered BDs are quite fine looking in terms of detail, and I went to go check Amazon for a comparison, since I'm pretty sure majestic mentioned that he started watching it on Amazon, but it's not available here in the states on Amazon. The dragon was one of the more odd looking things I've seen crawl out of an anime - not that it looked bad, not at all, but more like a different team of animators animated it in its own distinct style from the rest of the show. Outside of the aesthetic, the animation is also fairly impressive...well, suffice to say, I certainly can't really complain about how the show looks. The music also works better than I expected given that I listened to that soundtrack of it when we were previously talking about the music. Well, except for the outro music, . I'll take Utena's "Truth", Evangelion's "Fly Me to the Moon", or literally any of Sailor Moon's outros compared to that, thanks. But enough about all that - how's the actual show? Well, the same moron that recommended Lady Asuka also recommended this, so you know, it went about as expected. Wait...no, it seems like somebody got something mixed up here, because that was a pretty great first episode in most every respect I can think of. I had to go back and check to see who exactly recommended this to me (context for people that aren't majestic: I went and asked some people who I thought might have good ideas on pre-2000s shoujo recommendations in the context of finishing Cardcaptor, and Escaflowne was one of them along with a pile of other stuff, hence why it was something we were vaguely aware of before majestic actually tried it), and it turns out, I made an error. The person that recommended Escaflowne was a different person entirely - they recommended just Escaflowne, Sailor Moon, Ojamajo Doremi, Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, and Gokinjo Monogatari. They overlooked that I had already said I'd watched Sailor Moon, but I'll forgive them for seemingly getting at least one of their other recommendations right. Also, I'm pretty curious to see what my impression of the catgirl will be - the initial look at her in the intro, where she appears for just a moment, shows her solemnly contemplating the stars from the window of a room, and okay, wow, I'm already on board with the catgirl because of that little piece of framing. Guess we'll see when she appears proper.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/germany-g7-rejects-russias-demand-pay-gas-rubles-83718683 Their is nothing amusing about Russia trying to worm out of agreed on contracts for gas payments Thats why the G7 rejected it

I'm lev 14 and debating which faction to join. It will probably be either the Berserkers or Albs, since I want magic to take advantage of the points I've been pumping into Intelligence (to get the skills that give you more AP & XP ASAP). Nasty won't be too keen on me joining the Berserkers. I'm not sure how she feels about the Albs, but that's probably the safer bet if I want to get into her hot pants, and I do. Plus, Albs have cooler looking armor and plasma rifles.

Dang it, i see I misspelled Rug Ball as "Rub Ball" again... 😐

If this is anything like earlier From Software games, you don't have to worry about spoilers.

Over the weekend I tried my hand at making a jerk chicken marinade for the first time to put on some drumsticks. Pretty good for a first attempt, but it does need a bit of dialing in. I purposely omitted brown sugar since I'm currently on a keto-ish diet, though I suppose a bit of brown sugar in the marinade wouldn't have been the end of the world and would have added a nice bit of carmelization. It was also not as spicy as I thought it would be. I used 1 habanero in the marinade for 5 drumsticks. Next time I'll use a bit of brown sugar and 2 habaneros or scotch bonnets.

I ordered and received new screens for five of my downstairs windows. I was a little nervous because I took all the measurements myself and if I were off even by 1/16" then I would have had $400.00 in unusable screens that I couldnt return. Thankfully they all fit like a glove, and we upgraded the screen material to their "pet resistant" version so hopefully Ill get a couple of years out of them before the cats claw them to ribbons.

not a surprise that hey are moving away from field where they are getting their arse kicked the most xD

Hello, For those playing Deadfire in 2022 (hope you're many), I just released two mods: - Heal Injuries and Recover Per Rest resources on Ship: This mod makes party members heal all injuries and recover per rest resources while sailing (8h), no need to rest https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/582/ - Stealth Lights and Crafting: This mod changes the way that Stealth works, for example, who would sneak near an enemy with a torch in hand? Light sources like torchs and lanterns will alert enemies and give penalties to stealth. Also makes bombs require Explosives Skill to be used and crafting requires the relevant skill (ex: crafting potions requires Alchemy, (food, bombs, potions, poisons, scrolls, etc https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/581 Hope you enjoy.

It has a stacking limit (-32 Def with CP, -33 without it) Compared with Divine Mark -25 without the need to Hit several time. For constitency of rules, I've also decided that the Raw damages from Garrote should not be conditioned by the Paralysis (the prone part yes, would feel weird without).

-Wow you've got quite the hardware setup! Are you mining bitcoins for a living? Or maybe you enjoy playing Crysis in 16k with Uber Ray Tracing or whatever? -No, I just have... guilty pleasures in Deadfire... you wouldn't understand.

So she cheated and still failed? I think the lesson isn't that cheating is bad, it's that she's bad at cheating!

Watched first 2 episodes of Sword Art Online s2 and ... god, it gets so cringe. First season worked, because they were trapped in the virtual world, but now they aren't anymore, yet the people act as if what they are doing is serious business and a matter of life and death. It feels very far-fetched. At this point I'm not sure if I will keep watching it.

My dad had (well, still has) aphasia, and it developed at a pretty similar age to Willis. If he'd been an actor he could have kept working a fair while, since it didn't really effect his ability to read and recite stuff for years, just his general conversations. He'd have got increasingly hard to work with though. But yeah, aphasia is also an indicator for really unpleasant things like fronto-temporal dementia. You'd actually kind of hope it's due to a stroke given some of the alternatives.

You may not like it, but this is what peak military performance looks like.

Make America Great Again (Again)?

To join the Clerics I would have to join the Albs first, so either way I join the Albs and I can worry about whether to jump ship or not later. The Clerics pissed me off, though. I'm not going to post any spoilers, but if you've done Nasty's personal mission up to a certain point then you know what I'm talking about. I haven't been back there since that, but Reinhold better have a damn good explanation, otherwise I consider the Clerics an enemy. As an aside, I found out that Magalan's moon is not tidally locked like ours and also it has its own satellite. I just thought that was an interesting detail and only just now noticed it.

I'm making tacos I also had a nitro Pepsi and I think the best way that I can describe it is someone poured an entire cup of sugar into a Guinness.

Just make it Open Carry and Mic night