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Decided I'm finally ready for Disco Elysium's Jamais Vu playthrough, going with opposite build (high yellow and red, low blue, miserable purple), so far its less fun because most contributions come from level-headed skills like Perception and Interfacing so I really miss my previous buddies Inland Empire and Esprit de Corps. And Electrochemistry is suspiciously silent too. Guess I'll run a parallel High Purple build too.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/russian-disposable-incomes-drop-q2-economic-data-paints-gloomy-outlook-2022-07-27/ Here is an updates article about the state of the Russian economy after 2 quarters, the Western sanctions are a big part of this. Sanction do work but they work slowly and in different ways depending on the types of sanctions

I guess one of the main reasons why people don't mix Bloodmage with Forbidden Fist too much is that vanilla, Helwalker or Nalpasca Monks would gain wounds from Blood Sacrifice (which is a nice synergy) while Forbidden Fist (and Shattered Pillar) do not. Besides that it should work well - as most Sages do. Enfeebled + any afflictions should be a nice combo.

...I'm definitely not thinking of Princess Mononoke and the intro sequence where Ashitaka sacrifices* himself in order to save his little sister before leaving his village being the best part of the film and it all going downhill from there on. Nope, not at all, .

Through Galaxy, yep, I'm still on the wayyyy old patch before the spellbook merge "fix". Not sure how's it with executables. Speaking of Extended Bugfixion, I doubt I'll play it if nobody picks up Combat Relief mod, because its modder just quit. 'sfunny how I mod my other games to expand the experience, and Pathfinders just to not ragequit.

Get her to watch JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders with you. 48 episodes of OH MY GOD! will create lasting memories.

In case it saves you some labor I believe prostitute bonuses and other "until rest" bonuses like Dawnstar's Blessing already completely stack with other bonuses. It is only resting bonuses from food and inns that have janky stacking.

The Home Stretch (0.14) This update will be notably lighter than previous ones as we have been putting most of our focus on 1.0 work and polish, which will be our biggest content release to date. The Home Stretch (0.14) is the final major update for Game Preview before our 1.0 Release in September. New Features Convert Non-Custom Games to Custom You can now convert any non-custom game into a custom game at any time while playing to be able to tune values on any game as you go. Gnat Pet You can now tame and own a bumbling little gnat pet. Pets are also more helpful and less squishy as outlined in tuning changes further below. Rest Time-lapse Upon resting, you will see a quick time-lapse of the yard as the 8 hours pass. BURG.L Moves! BURG.L has acquired enough chips to remember he can roll his treads to inspect the Oak lab and fulfill his assistant duties. New Features: Windows Store Builds Import Save The "Save Game" interface now allows importing Steam saves into the Windows Store version of the game. New Crafting Content Rotten Meat Slurry: For taming Gnats. Cookery Meals are now crafted at the new Cookery building instead of the Oven. Meals can be created much earlier in the game now. Unlocked by purchasing the "Cooking 101" Science Shop unlock which is one of the default unlocks you can purchase once unlocking the ASL station. Changes / Tuning Armor and Weapon Upgrade Changes Quartzite, Leather Scraps and Leather Plates has been removed from the game. Upgrades now require a unique, non-respawning, resource found across the yard Armor upgrades require "Fashion Nuggets" Levels +1 through +5 require "Fashion Nuggets" Levels +6 and +7 require "Cool Fashion Nuggets" Levels +8 and +9 require "Rad Fashion Nuggets" Weapon upgrades require "Tough Nuggets" Levels +1 through +5 requires "Tough Nuggets" Levels +6 and +7 require Globs similar to before, but are crafted out of "Cool Tough Nuggets" Levels +8 and +9 require Jewels similar to before, but are crafted out of "Rad Tough Nuggets" Cost of upgrades has been dramatically reduced Levels +1 through +5 Weapons start at 2 and increase linearly: 2 → 4 → 6 → 8 → 10 Armors start at 1 and increase linearly: 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 → 5 Levels +6 and +7 Weapons start at 5: 5 → 10 Armor starts at 2: 2 → 4 Levels +8 and +9 Weapons start at 5: 5 → 10 Armor starts at 2: 2 → 4 Tough Nuggets can be found by harvesting Stones of Toughness. Fashion Nuggets can be found by harvesting Rocks of Fashion. Fashion and Tough Nuggets can also be found in lab chests. At certain points in the game you'll unlock crafting recipes to create Fashion and Tough Nuggets, transitioning the resources from finite to infinite. Note: Rad Nuggets will not be able to be crafted until 1.0. Factional Reactivity / MIX.Rs / Waft Emitter The amount of destruction that can be done to larger bases has been lowered. Each faction now has a different reputation value requirement before it becomes upset at the player. Players will no longer be attacked by lots of larger creatures at the same time. Larva have been added to Factional Reactivity and the Waft Emitter. Buildings destroyed by defense event creatures now drop a small amount of the resources it took to build it. Base attack difficulty will slowly ramp up over the course of a playthrough instead of being able to instantly go from easy to extremely hard over a short period of time. Base attacks will can no longer trigger while in a lab or underground. The Waft Emitter will no longer work in the Haze while the haze is still active. Improved creature spawning locations for base attacks. An Auto-Save will attempt to trigger right before a Payback attack or MIX.R event trigger. Movement You no longer will be occasionally launched sideways after hitting your head while jumping. Animation Updated and improved a handful of run/walk/attack third person animations. Audio Assistant Manager boss has new music. Volume and distance attenuations of creature sounds adjusted to better inform the player about what's nearby. Unique ambient sounds added to help diversify soundscape. Improvements to overall mix and clarity. Crafting Crow feather arrows awarded per craft increased from 2 to 5. Glue Factory name changed to Glue Masher. Glue Masher has updated art. Localization Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Korean now use correct fonts for those languages. Accessibility Various tweaks and improvements to the Read To Me feature have been made throughout the UI. When navigating dropdown menu options, the index of the selected option will be narrated. Combat Final encounter in the Haze lab has been tuned: Default number of enemies reduced. Additional enemies are added based on difficulty level. Additional/harder enemies are added based on player count. Bows now do bonus damage when fully charging a shot as opposed to snapshotting. Spicy Coaltana can now trigger Burr Traps when thrown. Pets Pets will no longer leave the player when they are unhappy. Pet happiness governs various other things, but will never cause your pet to leave anymore. Pet equipment now gives pets substantial defensive upgrades +200% bonus max HP Bonus DT based on tier of equipment Bonus DR based on tier of equipment Passive buffs given for having an active pet have been tuned. Pet inventory can now be opened directly from the player inventory screen via a new "Pet" button. Weevil pet gravestone has new art. Interface The "Save Game" interface will only show saves from the current playthrough instead of all of your saves. Data page on the SCA.B has been improved Items are now recategorized to better fit the story Some audio logs and notes are now dated Items are now sorted and it's easier to spot logs and items that are missing The password being typed while joining a multiplayer game is now hidden. Custom Game Settings (and thus the Game Difficulty setting) can be accessed from the Death screen. BURG.L quests can be acquired by double-clicking them. A button to view the Survival Guide has been added to the Death screen. The "Build a Lean-to" survival quest now displays the Building Radial control next to it. Building General Dead players will no longer bounce indefinitely on vertical bounce webs until they respawn. Building Placement Floors now support cells and walls underneath themselves. Floors require only 2 points of contact with the ground rather than 3. Sap Catchers can no longer be attached to Turrets. Optimization Save game sizes have been reduced. Reduced memory usage. World/Resources House patio wood panels have been cleaned up and holes have been patched. Cookie Sandwiches now follow the new "big food" structure introduced on hotdogs and apples in 0.13. Creatures Hostile bugs tether more appropriately, including those pesky mosquitos. Scarab HP has been halved. Scarab peripheral vision cone has been reduced (it's easier to sneak up on them). Added new BURG.L quests for killing the following bugs: Black Ants, Antlions, Black Ox Beetles, Ladybirds, Dust Mites, Rolypolys, Termites, Tadpoles, Water Boatmen, Water Fleas, and Diving Bell Spiders. Ladybird Larva now drop up to 5 spikes each Art Improved player shadows while playing in first person view. Bug Fixes Major Fixes Clients can now correctly use ladders that were previously broken when built in some areas. The player cannot unbind critical controls such as "UI - Select" by binding the key to a conflicting control. Multiplayer games that have been active for longer than 90 minutes no longer stop showing up in the Game Finder window or prevent players from joining via invites. Fixed issue with users having trouble hosting or joining multiplayer games after having the game open for long periods of time. The Crow Crossbow no longer occasionally misfires. Other Fixes Sleeping creatures will no longer attack nearby players immediately after loading a save. The player will now be able to crouch after entering a turret from a ladder. Furniture will no longer collapse when replacing the floor it's built on. Palisade Curved Gates can no longer have structures placed clipping into the tops of them. Flying creatures will no longer become stuck when trying to land while over water. Resource Surveyor will no longer detect rotten foods as sources of fresh food. The player can no longer pick up items through floors. Floors can no longer be built through diagonal walls. Accepting a BURG.L quest will now show one notification instead of two. The player can no longer attach grid buildings to the moving parts of palisade gates. Saved game "Time Saved" will now be displayed correctly when saves are shared across time zones. Chipsleuth quests will no longer complete if the game is loaded after collecting the chip and before turning it in. Droplets do not merge unless they are the same type of liquid. The hauling UI will display correctly after loading a game where the player was hauling. The Defrag tooltip is now translated. Items that fall through the world will now be destroyed, or returned to play if critical. The Rest button will properly activate if the Rest cooldown expires while you have the Rest UI open. Buildings cannot be built on big food harvest nodes. Wall-mounted buildings cannot be built on swinging doors. Cacti should behave more consistently and cause less instant deaths. Mom Genes can no longer trigger underwater. Cookie Sandwich Bits will no longer spawn under the ground when breaking cookies. Bug Fixes - Xbox / Windows Store Builds Renaming a save game or playthrough will properly update the names such that they will stay renamed after restarting the game. Resuming the game from being Suspended will bring you back to the Main Menu if you were in a Multiplayer game when you went into Suspend mode. Bug Fixes - Steam Builds Fixed issue where playing another game that requires Xbox Live login while logged into Grounded would cause sign in issues. Fixed crash that could occur when signing out of your Xbox Live account in Grounded.

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Depends what you mean by AAA. Neither Avowed nor Outer Worlds are humongous project by AAA standards. Last time I heard, Avowed had about 100 people working on it, which from what I understand is about Bethesda studio size, but well under something like Ubo project or Baldur's Gate3. If they indeed aim for AAA rather then something of Outer Worlds scale, then it is hardly surprising it takes that long. Look at Bethesda and how often they release new games. Both Avowed and Outer Worlds2 got CGI trailers with no details and nothing to show. As far as I am concerned OW2 isn't that much farther in development then Avowed was when it was announced. I see no reason to believe that OW2 will release ahead of Avowed, unless the latter truly is in major troubles.

I think blood mage/nalpasca is probably the best combination from the perspective of game synergy. But I am currently playing FF instead because I just love the FF ability. It's amazing for any build that features debuffs and DoT attacks. Also, with high RES, Clarity of Agony and Enduring Dance, the FF sage will accrue wounds rapidly. And if you use the Grimoire Imprint trick, you also won't need to use blood sacrifice very often.

Right, sanitation. Which is the point of the mask wearing. Just because we could let the virus run rampant through the population doesn't mean we should. There's a net negative impact on the economy from too many people being out sick.

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I'm currently playing a blood mage/ forbidden fist, and it is a lot of fun. Wizards have great disabling spells and DoT spells that you can prolong with the FF attack's enfeeblement. I am playing a pale elf with 10 STR, 15 CON, 14 DEX, 18 PER, 15 INT and 18 RES, with Berath's Blessings. The nice thing about this build is that you can take a lot of the great monk abilities since as a wizard you can rely on grimoires and/or the grimoire imprint spell trick for your casting, and thus don't need to select spells when leveling up as a wizard, except lvl 1 when you are forced to do so. Since fists and summoned wizard spells are so great (Concelhaut's Draining Touch and the Citzal's Lance) you don't really need to worry about weapons, although ultimately you may want Magran's Favor or the Seeker's Fang for your main hand. But I strongly recommend Tuotilo's Palm for the offhand for extra defense. With it, weapon & shield style, Arcane Veil and Mirrored Image you can get insanely high DEF very early in the game. Clarity of Agony is essential, and I recommend as well the monk passives like soul mirror and crucible of suffering, which will proc a lot due to your high DEF and very short FF curse durations, respectively. Enduring Dance is worth it as well as you won't be hit enough to break it very often. Touch spells, like Kalkoth's Sunless Grasp and Jolting Touch are also thematically fun. The former does a nice debuff which you can extend with the FF attack and the latter has many jumps once your PL is high, and can wipe out small mobs as a result.

Neighbor told my mother that I dumped some trash next to the trash bin today, so she actually went there, picked up the trash and threw it into the bin and asked me what the hell I was thinking. I haven't even been close to the trash area of our appartment building in over a week (more like two) as I don't really have an awful lot of trash to dispose of - and I wouldn't buy half liter bottles of soft drinks, which was apparently what the trash consisted of mostly. Stupid ass drunk probably left it there himself, or else lord knows what or who he saw in his stupor.

Very funny clip Trevor Noah is South African and he makes me laugh. But white people in SA are different ethic groups like everywhere else in the world. Thats why I often say there is no such thing as " white people " , its just a collective term. Its like Slavs are a collective term because there are different Slavic ethic groups. Its just easier to say " white people " likes it easier to " black people " but there different tribes and black ethnic groups in Africa Anyway white Afrikaans people are descendants from the Dutch so most of them have slight way of mispronouncing words and a rough way of speaking English, not all of them but most of them. Here is an example of slight Afrikaans accent ere

I loved their British accents in SWTOR, and at least a couple of them are authentic too because their VAs are British. I'm also curious now what authentic Afrikaans accent sounds like. Brief Youtube search on the subject gave me nothing decent but this:

Watched the first two episodes. The orphanage has a punishment for wrongdoing that consists of being hung naked from the ceiling, and Riko, the main character, is of course an apparently regular victim. Her voice is also really grating, but that's something very subjective. Somewhat strange exposition dump at the end of the first episode that's basically the Cliff Notes for the book What Happened In This Episode For Dummies. Riko being in an orphanage also necessitates an exposition moment with soft piano music about her missing (presumed dead) mother and her last adventure in the titular Abyss, but to the credit of the series that happens only in the middle of the second episode, not immediately right at the start, and the scene didn't feel emotionally manipulative, it's more like Shinji and Gendo when they talk about his mother (in terms of mood, not in terms of quality). Other than that, nothing much happened yet, except: Uhm. So... well, at least none of the characters are inherently loathsome. Riko's stuck with a sort of shouneny drive and ambition to outdo her legendary mother. Not sure, that's about all I can say after two episodes. It's not bad by any means and it looks better than it has any right to, even with the character models being weird. The punishment meted out to unruly orphans makes me question our poster's assessment about the children being tortured for reasons inherent to the world they live in and not just for random cruelty. That's just pointlessly cruel for cruelty's sake - or to animate naked children. Either way is, let's say, a tad weird. Have an animated gif of the scene: Still not as bad as Nanoha's burnt off clothes-tentacle rape transformation or the girl bashing her bullies' heads into lockers. Which I'll just link here too, because why not. For everyone who missed it when we talked about it. It's time coded, but feel free to watch all of it! Anyway, still, the first two episodes were okay. Kinda afraid that Riko will end up naked some more.

Virtually all accents in Bioware games are fake. Their basic Canadian, basic American, and occasional real British are realish. Even most of their French are French Canadian doing 'French accents'. Hell, even their different American dialects (Boston, Midwest, Southern, Cajun, Jersey etc.) are fake.

Seal has strong opinion about that breakfast he just ordered.

It would indeed save some labor, I guess I will have to... check the info at the wild mare #EdgyFace

Not that I really like sharing doom and gloom, but it does look worrying... https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62310355 ...But the contraction, at an annual rate of 0.9% in the three months to July, has drawn widespread attention as worries about the economy grow. Prices for groceries, petrol and other basics are rising at the fastest pace since 1981. As the US central bank raises borrowing costs quickly to try to cool the economy and ease price pressures, fears are rising that a recession is coming - if it has not officially started already. as for the possible reasons: "I think everybody is sort of waiting for the pandemic to blow over, for the war in Ukraine to settle down, but that's not going to resolve any of the inherent systemic flaws," he says, citing high housing costs, student debt and speculative bubbles in sectors like crypto. High housing cost is not a surprise. I've been claiming for years, it's going to be a major contributor to damaging social stability in the western world...

I don't read twitter (unless people on these forums post links), but it can't be any worse than when some of us (me) read Murdoch media (Sky News/Fox News, same thing) just to groan at the lies and face palm at the sheer stupidity of comments of those who swallow the tabloid stuff... As painful as the existence of such people is, it helps you get a better view of the world and sometimes, just sometimes, help you understand where humanity goes wrong.

All right guys, I'm switching Strike Witches with Made in Abyss, if that isn't better than crotch shots of 13 year old girls wearing only underpants I'm going to make you lot watch a 10 hour loop of Nanoha's two minutes of lolicon content.

For me it was always about the hospitalization rate. If you can keep the rate manageable without a lockdown, then you should consider avoiding a lockdown because it can do more harm than good. That's probably where the US is now, although mask requirements can still be helpful as a pre-emptive measure.

I can't afford therapy, so I just power through the pain of living in the dystopian timeline with insincere ****posting to cope. BLM/ANTIFA blocked it to teach there anti-colonial propaganda ?

Grey Man was action-packed. It was like a less smart version of of the Bourne films, but the cast was stellar, so I enjoyed it. It makes me want to play Jagged Alliance though, for some reason. I'm not in the mood to fight getting it to run right with the 1.13 patch, so I might just load of Xcom 2 instead. Why aren't there any good mercenary turn based games anymore?

I am a gamer that loves to create and build. Grounded has a great building system but it could be even more awesome with some new building pieces I wish we had. -We have horizontal half walls, what about vertical half walls? For any wall type and even for the current horizontal half walls, making them quarter walls. Sometimes I don't want to entirely close off a space but still have some sort of devider. -And sometimes I feel a bit limited with the stairs, or don't feel like having greens stairs in my builds that don't use any grass. Stem stairs and half stairs would be pretty neat to have too. -Let's talk about the stem half wall and let's be honest, it's a great railing but as a wall.. it doesn't blend into the full stem walls for let's say, when you make a tower of specific height. -How cool would it be if we could provide more detail and structure to our bases with horizontal beams, this is mostly an aesthetic request. -Next up, roofs. My castle outpost towers of 1 square look a bit silly with the dome pieces, but other than the flat roof piece, nothing really works for it. So I'd love to see the dome piece but squared. Also the peaked pieces, there's no triangle wall pieces that fill in the gaps that that roof piece has, just a little finishing touch. And my last purely aesthetic request: being able to paint structures like the working bench and the production buildings To whoever reads this, feel free to drop your idea's on this post!

Electronic Arts just told me to my face that I don't have any friends On a more positive note. Despite never bringing the subject up, my boss decided to give me a raise. Not just keeping up with the inflation, but going beyond that and being an actual raise. I must have done something right. I wonder what

Sorry, I didn't hear what you said, I had to go clean up my dog's turds using my Princess Mononoke™ Giant Wolf Pooper Scooper, now what was it that we were talking about again?

You are right about that it was a generic start done amazingly and I agree that it went downhill to greatness.

Current employer bothering me every day with some way they can keep me around, annoying. But I guess if the pay is better, staying isn't all that bad.

Obligatory Prometheus + Alien: Covenant post:

Just in time... the new season 2 is at episode 4 now Saving it (new season) for when I'm going to hang out with a friend in Melbourne next month. She wanted us to watch the new season together (the young lady was the one who introduced me to Made in Abyss) Edit: If you want the tl;dr; version, two compilation movies does an abridged version of season 1 between them. A recent movie Made in Abyss the Movie: Dawn of the Deep Soul bridges the gap between season 1 and the new season 2 Edit2: I don't think nudity etc. is a defining feature of the series, but brutality, cruelty and loss is. Bring paper tissues.

By the way, you really ought to have to me complete a fifteen second investigation as to whether a show is going to be...well, that, before you start it. I mean honestly, a few seconds of looking at user screenshots and it's pretty obvious what kind of content it will have, . @kirottu recommended Angel's Egg and I liked that, I can only assume that his not-exactly-a-recommendation of Made in Abyss has to be okay. Someone besides only @majestic has to be capable of recommending things I like, right? I still remember that one part where the one girl brutally and bloodily bashes a locker room of girls' brains in. No, I don't think I'll watch that.