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Which brings me back to a post I made not long ago... your government should always be challenged. Questioned. Examined. it's motivations cross examined. Held accountable. If not, you have willingly given away your rights (cue: death of a system run by the people).

Probably many people already know this, but Kalakoth's Minor Blights will continue cycling even if you summon a new weapon. So if you summon Minor Blights then immediately summon Citzal's Spirit Lance, Citzal's Spirit Lance will disappear after a few seconds.

Poor education that centers around denial ("we haven't done anything wrong") and revisionism ("actually it went like this, not like that") tends to produce something like this. I.e. people who do not understand the past and are totally unaware of the dangers it has caused in the present. The Chernobyl incident is as concrete an example of this as you can get: there is nothing abstract (like, political thinking) about a group of people ordered to dig trenches in a deadly area. Actual people are actually digging in a place that will actually kill them. The current Russia is also a perfect example of how important it is to have an opposition, politically. Even if it can sometimes degenerate into a farce (as in the US, occasionally, in the very recent past), the dialogue or even outright political hostility between the government and the opposition is extremely healthy for a country. If there is no opposition, the government isn't challenged, and if it remains unchallenged long enough, its thinking will deteriorate -- sometimes even, as in Russia right now, to a level that really doesn't qualify as proper thinking anymore.

Yeah, well, if we separate that then that's 18% for social security (health insurance, pension plan, insurance against loss of employment, etc.) and 22% income tax. In the end the difference is of no consequence to me, but it is for the state of course because the social security part goes to the state insurance companies and pension funds. Our land tax is an annual 0.2% with some leeway for the municipalities, but it can never exceed 1% of the calculated unit value. The unit values are currently based on hitherto unvalorized rates from 1973. Basically you're taxed at a maximum of 1% per year for property unit values based on a fraction of 1973's market prices. It's so little that there's a special provision in the tax law stating that when the land tax does not exceed 75€ it is to be collected annually instead of quarterly. There's also no inheritance tax, and a 30% profit tax on selling real estate that (i.e. the difference between buying and selling price). There are tax exceptions for older real eastate and for property used for residential purposes. In other words, it's a tax levied on the sale of investment properties, not people's homes.

Yeah this one does not translate well outside the US. Actually is doesn't really translate well IN the US except in the south & midwest. Both are places you go after the bars all close to eat that weird drunk meal at 3 AM while trying to sober up enough to find your way home.

To quote the great philosopher Blackadder "You'd shoot a man in the back?" "I'd shoot a man if he was on the job. It was just a shame he was awake" Yeah, if being hit by a mortar is a measure of control then Ukraine has literally no control in Mariupol since the range is ~3.5km for even a small one. The spotter is a drone too, so can't draw any conclusions from that either. The port itself is at this point pretty obviously in Russian hands and relatively secure since they're staging a lot of media stuff there.

IMHO Elric, don't hesitate to make it really good, really competitive . Whatever you decide (which seems to be focusing on the melee power), I think Spiritshift needs something a bit radical. It needs to be a true alternative at high level to very strong weapon setups. If Assassin/Druid becomes really powerful with it, fine - they still have to choose the right abilities and do a bit of setup for it. As they would need to by finding/enchanting the right weapons etc. Think that any random wizard/martial with the right grimoire can cast Zandethu's Draconic Fury or Citzal Martial Power, without needing to spend any ability point anywhere. One thought I had: would it be insane to make every Wildstrike Frenzy attack Full Attacks?

This Forbidden Fiat rolls over enemies even on difficult terrain and hits like a truck... It's a real trickster too: you never know what's gonna happen when you turn on the ignition.

Reports on more atrocities committed by Russian army 😢. This time in the Kharkov Area. There is at least one positive note added to the report. Ukrainian army destroyed 2 BTGs, and 60 more survivors of these BTGs has surrendered on March 30. According to Ukrainian Attorney General, 1222 confirmed killed citizens in the Kyiv region during the Russian occupation https://t.me/ukrpravda_news/14017

Jazz Jackrabbit sequel confirmed

Precisely. I work in an industry where all my work goes through a two-level examination process before anything is published. It is wonderful. This is how it should be. The critical feedback I receive does occasionally hurt my feelings, but this means nothing: it is the end result that matters, and I always encourage my reviewers to be as thorough as possible and as harsh as they need to be. Because once my work is published, it is out there for anyone and everyone to see and criticize. I better be prepared. In an interview, the author Margaret Atwood once spoke about her editor and mentioned what an unflinching critic that person was. The interviewer was somewhat surprised and wanted to know whether the editor never simply deferred to Atwood's reputation and let things go unchallenged. Atwood's reply: "No. Because she's a good editor." All of the above absolutely needs to applied to the political spectrum as well.

Btw, from a northern European perspective, these Russian atrocities are nothing new. This is precisely the kind of behaviour that the history of Russia would indicate. For those who have studied history at school somewhere outside northern Europe, many of these historical atrocities are quite possibly something they haven't read about at all, and fair enough: each area tends to emphasize history particularly relevant to that area. This a "fault" we all have. But here's a good example of just one thing Russia is notorious for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland_during_the_Great_Northern_War During that gruesome era, toddlers were tortured in front of their parents and parents tortured in front of their children.

Thanks for clarification, I'll keep that in mind. I used just google translate from my language. Anyway few news. After our government worked with Italian Mafia, helped to kidnap Vietnamese citizen, supplied weapons to Syrian jihadists through Saudi Arabia, completely ****ed up COVID management, which cost lives of thousands of people, and keeping convicted plagiarist as a minister of finance, I can be finally proud of them of them first time after more than 15 years... Slovakia sent thier S300 system to Ukraine. Well of course our previous corrupt prime minister leaked it to social media and Russia, which endangered our soldiers during management of this operation... https://spectator.sme.sk/c/22881823/ive-seen-the-biggest-terrors-of-war-heger-about-his-visit-to-bucha.html On April 8th Maxar made few pictures of 8 miles long column heading to area near Izyum. Ukrainians shared video on Telegram, where they destroyed huge column near Izyum. https://t.me/vekha/35275 Might be connected to each other...

Sweden regards wars as commercial opportunities for itself. See, for example, WW2 and providing iron to the Nazis.

at best this description is wrong. a critical race theory perspective would purposeful avoid trying to account for the perspective of indigenous peoples and minorities such as chinese immigrants. one o' the fundamental aspects o' crt is to allow for a dispassionate examination o' laws, rules, banking and government institutions. in a crt seminar one is gonna consider laws and institutions broad sans all the tendency to attribute blame based on the degree o' moral turpitude resulting from racial animus. lending and immigration laws may have been written with the intent to exploit minorities, or perhaps not. don't much matter from the pov o' a crt examination. disparate impact is all but presumed and no attempt to assign appropriate blame occurs with a crt analysis. more important is to explore how and why the laws and institutions with their inequitable impact change, or do not. what pressures, whether social, religious or economic, bring about changes? crt is not a fluid definition anymore than is the general theory of relativity. however, keep in mind, we already had this exercise, reviewing what the current gop identifies as crt being taught in public schools. again, ro the umpteenth time, crt is not being taught in public schools in the US. numerous states has banned teaching which might make students feel bad 'bout their race, supposed 'cause o' crt, which is nuts and actual a bit disheartening as a signifficant goal o' crt were to come up with a scheme for future lawyers to consider the impact and inertia o' systemic racism w/o all the race-based baggage. in point o' fact, is only a couple state legislatures which decided to use the crt language in their bans, which kinda makes sense as is not genuine crt which is being banned. elements o' the gop, mostly conservative radio hosts and bloggers, recognizing the resurgence o' fear and intolerance in their party, realized how truth and reality is less important than the capacity for a particular complaint to go viral. gop is current focused on grievance and outrage. those elements o' the gop, much like the former President, were willing to say ridiculous and unfounded just to see how The Base would respond. crt, through the inexplicable alchemy o' social media, conservative radio and fox news managed to get a foothold in the gop psyche. crt is an obscure theory created by lib academics and it is complex and obscure enough such that only a small number o' folks is knowledgeable enough to pushback on mischaracterizations o' the graduate level material, and those folks pushing back is gonna be the so-called liberal intellectual elites the current gop reflexive decries as socialists, communists and purveyors o' fake news. also, as idiotic as it may sound, am suspecting Critical Race Theory became a gop bogeyman as much 'cause it were including a memorable abbreviation and it sounded just sinister enough in conservative ears regardless o' what it actual represented. people keep looking at crt bassakwards. crt, the thing the gop is fighting against, were never the issue. the name stuck as kinda a catchall description o' white outrage at being perceived blamed for every misfortune which befalls a minority while simultaneous accused o' white privilege no matter how dismal their own circumstances might be. the current gop is telling The Base that the real victims o' 2020s racism is whites, just as they sold the base on the idea foreigners flooding in from across the southern border is why they can longer have a decent working class jobs, etc. is all bs and trying to explain gop crt complaints rational and reasonable is a mistake which has, unfortunate, led to many liberals and democrats adopting the the stoopid talking point and thus magnifying the problem. democrats with no more idea o' what crt is nevertheless feel compelled to pushback 'gainst republican crt misinformation, which is exact what the tucker carlsons and alex jones want. gop is about grievance and outrage, and is a mistake to legitimize that kinda stoopid. HA! Good Fun!

I escaped once and immediately uninstalled the game. I was later told by someone else that there was still more content, but I'd had my fill. I think playing and 100%ing The Binding of Isaac like a decade ago has forever made me wary of ever trying to 100% a roguelike ever again.

Well Russia have planned to take the North of Kyiv, the Bucha, Borodyanka and Makariv, all were not meant for the world to see, just for the Ukrainians. Thankfully they were beaten and run away, so the rest of the world can see, what Russia is capable of... And speaking of Wagner, they are only in the east, and they lost today/yesterday 1 whole division there. Bucha was under the "reign" of Chabarovsk units, which committed all of these atrocities. And the names of all members of the division/battalion are already in the wild. So I expect, most of them will have accidents at a tea parties in very near future, to cover up all that ****...

Well most of the Russian commanders were alive during the disaster, this just underlines the fact, that Russia's worst enemy was always Russia

Y'know, I don't think I've posted here since we got our cat!

Please, for the love of all that's good and right in the world, stop it. The only thing that's worse than Mari is Mari with what looks like heavily oversaturated and hyperbright colors. Yikes, I feel like that image directly penetrated my eyes and singed my brain. Feels like Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop, except... worse.

i still haven't decided if i'm ever going to play it, though

.gifvs don't automatically embed and play, afaik, and literally the entire point is to make the rest of your guys' eyeballs be forced to see what I'm posting because I know clicking a link is too much trouble for somebody just casually scrolling by,

Companion's Prelude from Sasha's Singing Scimitar apparently works even if it is in your personal inventory. Here it is affecting other members of the party: And here it is in Pallegina's personal inventory: I wonder if any other equipment behaves like this?

Kind of looks like a s300 if you look at it at an angle.

That wouldn't surprise me. The Russian armed forces are apparently an extraordinarily vicious place for anyone to be in -- which partly explains the morale problems the invading army seems to have. Plenty of conscripts commit suicide because of the cruelty they are subjected to in the army. Russia is someting of a totalitarian state, and has been for quite some time. This nearly always means that all the institutions are very, very cruel. Schools, too, but the armed forces and prisons in particular. There's a delightful picture right there: this kind of stuff is what the Russians do to their own people, in times of peace.

Serbia planning to conquer Europe, I see.

As I said, I have not seen it, despite one of our journalists have provided the links to the material... And as monty said, I am not planning to watch it as well. The journalist has good enough resumé to believe him, what he said about the incident, without me needing to see such ****ing insane **** which this guy has done...

SEL is the new CRT, peeps. Keep up with the times.

I would not even know how to do this 😃 Updates : - Stag form : make the all defenses bonus passive so it stacks with similar effect. - Wolf form : make the movement speed bonus passive so it stacks with similar effects - Wolf form : add a passive +20 defenses Vs disengagement attacks - Fury : kills while shifted also grant +10% damages (up to +30%) until the end of the shift (this and attack rised to 10-15 elec damages, 8 PEN, 3s recovery and 1 bounce 80% damages) EDIT : I'm not a big fan of per Kill abilities, but this one reinforces some pre existing aspect. Also Fury will have a good auto attack for boss fight with the new damages, so the per kill bonus is there to complement them for more trash oriented fights.

Well, they are ok even with the recorded one, because they were all staged by Ukrainians... /sarcasm off

More info about Alexey Bychkov, apparently, Russians made the first positive thing during this conflict and detained him.

How about Forbidden Fiat/trickster? You have flagellans path, escape etc. And that build is sturdy enough to tank a little bit with good defenses. or maybe sc monk and use all the fun abilities (skyward kick, raised torment, launching kick) and finally whispers of the wind?

I'm not set on the values yet. 45% might be a bit excessive. Maybe 35% lash for MC would be enough. Maybe I'll go halfway to 40% (that's a +10% with Potion of Ascension) A "good" DPS unique should provide around 40% lash. Well, there is no 40% lash, but Mowdyr, for example, has 20% lash, up to 20% action speed and a few utility. When a Rogue MC with a Monk, it gets up to +15%+20% lashes on top of what an Unique Weapon provides. Plus attack speed etc... MC with a druid replace your lash by Wildstrike's (and only when shifted), so I don't think it would compete. I get what you say about active ability comboing less, but active abilities : - Won't work on foe druid, cause IA. I really don't like that - Would make Wolf less special (albeit it could get a passive instead) - Is a lot of tedious work 🙂 I tend to avoid creating new abilities for BPM. That's a principle I followed until now, and I don't see a clear reason to change for Shifting. Nope. I think Shifter is fine (compared to other subclass). I stated it earlier. Shifter subclass has never been about better spiritshift. You might have liked it this way, but BPM avoids changing the feeling of a (sub)class. Shifting to "the right form" IS an advantage though. Yup, that's exactly what I think. (bar minor number tweaking). No. I don't think I've hinted at any point that I agree that Forms should get more bonuses. This would be a job for another mod 🙂 The druid active part is it's spell. Beast form is for me about brute power. Maybe for fury I will add something. Just a reminder : BPM is a lot of work. If you want me to do something, please try to start from what I consider to be the picture of the current situation, and that I shared earlier (recap below). You can challenge these statements, point some additional issues for you, or your can agree with some issues and try to find a solution. But if you give solutions to stuff I don't consider to be problems (and not try to convince me that there is a problem), well, I won't agree. @Exanosconvinced me Fury weapon was unfocused, that's why it is currently in my list. Now, what I consider satisfying (bar a couple minor adjustements) about Spiritshift in current BPM version : - The cooldown for long fights. - Balance between Shifter and Animist (so basically Shifter vs other subclass). Granted that Spiritshift has too become a bit more desirable to keep for Shifters to be satisfying. - Wildstrike contribution to casting. Medium/Minor but helps using various spell (as I stated before, you should consider not using this to buff your "best spells", as some unique items can be better, but to boost secondary elements. The new Blight summons help toward that, I think.) - Balance between the 5 main Forms - Wildstrike Frenzy because Entropy (and party support, Stag's Horn, whatever) - The way Lifgiver uses Spiritshift What I should think more about : - Focusing more Spiritshift about fighting better. - The exact role of Fury form (that I'm leaving aside a bit for now).

The similar was always teached here as well after 1989, unfortunately last 13 years or so, the Russian and neo-nazi propaganda started to be tolerated by state apparatus and also by our media, just to get clicks, and now is the situation, that 30%+ of people here support Russia, and believe, that Bucha and Kramatorsk incidents are staged by Ukraine to smear Putin's name...

Looks like it was just a Russian propaganda, that they seized it. Allegedly, this happened day after they released that statement.

Nope, I rather not... That kind of **** is disturbing even reading about it...

It's like a bad dream you can't wake up from 😝 Hi @alanschugood to see you around again! 👋

I guess a non-godlike druid/priest bathing in is own maelstrom under BDD whiile wearing the helmet adding %lash with elec damage received should quickly reach stupid lvl of damage....

Diary of a Lost Girl (1929). It's always good when a film starts off with a huge text dump like this one did: You could've just said "this was hacked together from ten different surviving versions of the film". There are some scenes (just some - presumably from one of the more inferior masters that they used) that look like this, so if fidelity of ancient film is a requirement of yours, beware: Turns out, the six or seven second .gif I made was over 200 MB and nothing will host and play it as a .gif - a huge amount of noise makes for very large gifs, particularly at 1080p. Okay, here we go, 54 MB @ 540p is a little more manageable: A couple of oddities, but nothing too distracting, really... I can't understate how cruelly unfair it is that so relatively little of the 20s were filmed and especially how little of it was filmed with sound, and never mind any of it being in the least bit interesting. Anyways, the last film was basically Lulu is a clueless/self-destructive womanizer*, and this film was instead Lulu is not a womanizer...but everyone treats her like she is, so then she - surprise! - becomes one. I have to say, big improvement: didn't think I'd ever even sort of really like a silent film, but this was oddly mesmerizing and at least a little brilliant. Strangely, it's literally the same director, lead actress, and year of release as Pandora's Box, but I don't know, I enjoyed it a lot more. The style of everything was different, and I think the weirdly intense soundtrack helped a bit, too - it's amazing what a good soundtrack can sometimes do.

Also speaking of beating ISIS... one Russian soldier (already identified as Bychkov) has released his own video on Telegram doing unimaginable things to toddlers and gloating about it... On a more positive note, Ukrainians are still kicking Russian ass at Mariupol. Especially at Azovstal, and in the suburbs to the east despite Kadyrov's TikTok Battalion claiming they own the whole city. Not gonna show any links, but if you really want to see what happens to Russian soldiers at Mariupol, search for "18+ «Азов» в Маріуполі знищив БМП і піхоту" on Youtube for 36 seconds long video released on Українська правда channel.

Well if you have stolen BDD and SoT... you can bathe in your own Meteor Showers - or use Moonwell for the fire counter might work too!

edit: HA! Good Fun! ps have mentioned previous, but donkeys is just 'bout the most underappreciated domesticated animal evar. they are at least as smart as dogs and as likely to bond with humans. most got sweet dispositions and is quite affectionate, though they tend to be territorial, which makes 'em excellent guard "dogs" and they is fantastic at dealing with coyotes. growing up on a ranch, our favorite critters were our burros, and little in our experience over the years has changed that opinion.

It's great to see someone say this, because to this day many people, even intelligent people, keep being stuck on this mindset that military invasion is the preferred way for countries to get resources. Military invasion is a stupid way to access resources, and buying/trading for it is sooooooo much cheaper.