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As mentioned before, for extra giggles load up on Polar Rays on your blaster of choice (or equip a spontaneous caster with the Ring of Boreal Might) and you can one-shot those paralyzed mobs. A not insignificant number of high-level mobs like Balors and Vavakias had gone down with this method in my playthrough.

They should rig them all to blow if China invades. Bwahahahaha.

Sandman first two episodes and the beginning of the third. They mostly stayed true to the comic and the visual are topnotch. So far so good.

The reason why many guides suggest alternative armor scaling is because the longer the game goes on, the higher the charisma bonuses you can stack are, but armors have a cap on being useful. Maybe not in the beginning, but double dipping the CHA to AC bonus will eventually pay off more than wearing any armor, espescially when you pick Archmage Armour as one of your mythic feats. Crafted Mage Armor potions are great (bought ones work too, of course), and drinking a potion proccs AA. There just isn't any armor in the game that beats the combination. That's not to say that there aren't useful armors in the game, just not as defense mechanism. When characters wear armor, that's usually for some other gain, like the Hide Armor of Elemental Carnage.

Are you saying they're over?

Your math is a little off. It's actually the 80's that were 10 years ago.

It doesn't make sense, but I guess it's the premise of the anime.

Yes.

SpyxFamily, episode 2. Yor...seems to be a little bit of a smorgasbord of anime cliches, but they're at least not the worst ones that they could be, and it's still early, so there's time to get past that. My impression of Anya so far is that she's great...but I don't know why whatshisname keeps monologuing over his own dialogue (like, literally directly over it, with both sets of dialogue and subtitles playing at the same time) to tell us really obvious things that we already know. Overall, I seem to be enjoying it though.

I was goofing off and made a Trickster going all into CHA and persuasion and getting the Trickster Persuasion 3 feat. It's hilarious watching almost everybody either freeze or kill themselves when they attack me.

Finished ME3. Was rather amusing to see how Garrus and Vega with Typhoons just dismantled everything during that boss fight. Did the God Empress Shepard with the creepy monologue over the slideshow. Edit : Have started Andromeda, combat seems like it might be more interesting with movement, the Frostbite engine is aptly named, everything looks cold, heh, damn dead eyed characters. My Ryder seems to have trouble making eye contact when speaking to people. Just out of the prologue, arrived at the Citadel

Speaking of clogging arteries, big greasy breakfast: Cholesterol level rising, rising...

SpyxFamily, episode 1. Very silly, but mostly enjoyable and certainly not too shabby for a first episode. My least favorite part so far is probably the overly excessive amount of internal monologuing, but...maybe the most basic of those will calm down a bit later. Bonus points: the animation doesn't make me want to throw up.

@Lexx Title should have been "Why Films Are Way Too Dark" ....although if you want some more serious reasons for underexposure in film/tv, this video talks about it. I've noticed a trend re: color/lighting on skintones/faces in particular, any budget, even in daytime scenes, which I always figured was at least partially because of too many potential viewing setups (theaters, PC monitors, TV's, dark rooms, light rooms, HDR or no HDR) to try to account for in post (kind of like audio). (edit: ofc it's always more complicated then one thinks...)

Like Hong Kong?

Japan, South Korea and Australia might disagree with you though... about whether or not leaving an expansionist China alone is a good idea. Edit: Not to mention those people who likes computers, if it happens before anyone else gets to step up chip manufacturing (Taiwan being a major producer) https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/8/4/why-china-is-not-sanctioning-taiwans-crucial-tech-industry Taiwan dominates the global industry for semiconductors, critical components used in everything from smartphones and medical devices to cars and fighter jets.For the most advanced semiconductors, Taiwan accounts for 92 percent of production, according to a report by Boston Consulting.

This is the real world is calling... Bruce, please come back to the information stand, your parents are looking for you https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-46733174 Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged the people of Taiwan to accept it "must and will be" reunited with China. In a speech marking 40 years since the start of improving ties, he reiterated Beijing's call for peaceful unification on a one-country-two-systems basis. However, he also warned that China reserved the right to use force. Say what you will about Xi, but losing face is something he will not allow, regardless of the cost (seems to be a cultural thing, your public "face" being more important than life itself)

This was a horrible episode of Orville and horrible ending to a horrible season, all kidding aside. Now we can finally get back to watch actually great scifi like Discovery and Picard, all kidding aside.

If it's an issue of political reality vs. actual reality, of course I want actual reality to win out. I think that ship has long sailed, though. I wish I could say it was uniquely a human problem to in all likelihood doom ourselves, but really, it's probably (at least) all Earth-based life, a necessary fatal flaw in the very basic biological building blocks responsible for making life succeed in the first place: everything is programmed to endlessly consume and multiply beyond their limits in order to "win" natural selection, and it is too difficult for the vast majority of life to resist (or even be aware that it may be necessary to resist) that programming. It's just that our minutely greater modicum of intelligence allowed us to find more and more extreme ways of consuming that the rest of our animal kingdom couldn't; given another hundred million years to evolve, I'm sure some other newly sapient-level species would do more or less same thing that we appear to be doing. Now that's no reason to throw in the towel, but with the way these things work, it's probably just healthier for everyone to look at the Senate as if it were currently not Democratic-controlled - a 50-50 split is simply too tight, and at least two Democratic senators that we know of oppose eliminating (or even reforming?) the filibuster that would be necessary to make anything but token changes possible. For myself, I mostly don't generally think too much about any of these social wedge issues, since I am largely unaffected. That doesn't mean that I lack empathy for people who are affected by them (particularly with regard to the specific states that they have the mis/fortune of living in) or that I would ignore those issues when evaluating whom I am voting for, just that my brain space is typically taken up by more pressing existential matters, such as, yes, the planet currently being on fire. So I get you from that perspective, I just...I guess it's pretty hopeless with how generally broken both our society and political system are, it feels pretty unfair to lump so much of the blame on one guy that shouldn't even rightly be a Democrat in the first place, who's more or less just fairly representing the constituents that inexplicably continue to put him there in the face of Senate elections not really working like that anymore. Undoubtedly fuelled by many of the same base emotions, even if applied for totally different reasons. I'm certainly no exception: I've personally had some eminently dangerous feelings and thoughts (quite recently too), much worse than anything that anyone else has expressed in this thread, but I generally prefer to keep them to myself. They don't do anyone, least of all myself, any good.

...which appears to be a DLC, where you have to know the actual URL in order to (maybe) be able to buy it for the non-enhanced version of the original game since it's no longer an official/listed product. >.> ...don't think I'd be into guard/bandit/family management either. I could just build a small "home" in the editor and plop it into the world somewhere.

you don't need work hard to convince Gromnir that manchin isn't the real problem. heck, we remain a conservative in many respects even if we refuse to vote for any republican who hasn't distanced themselves from the new gop platform... whatever that is. am not a fan o' manchin 'cause he pretends as if fossil fuel lobbyists ain't holding his leash and 'cause he has curious red lines for legislation which involve making the lives o' kids better, but just as we don't blame the filibuster rules for failed democrat legislative efforts, we don't blame manchin for being the same guy today he has been for a long time. we said after the 2020 elections that many democrats were missing the most important lessons o' the then recent local and national contests. trump lost but there were a whole lotta republicans winning where such wins were unexpected and democrats lost ground with various segments o' minority men they could not afford to lose. since 2020, even in places such as nyc, progressives have been taking a beating and in virginia, a state moving decided purple, glenn youngkinn won with trumpy maga appeals and crt myths. many virginian conservative women who could not stomach the thought of another four years o' trump were nevertheless okie dokie with youngkinn's brand o' maga appeals. add historic inflation which were mostly not biden's fault, but the President in power has near always shouldered the blame for previous stoopid. etc. how many signs were needed, eh? expecting paradigm shifts given the current reality were utter divorced from reality. taking back the senate were huge for democrats not the least 'cause biden has been on a tear with fed judge replacements, eclipsing even trump and mcconnell's efforts during the first two years o' the previous admin. nevertheless, is baffling the kinda fantasyland expectations voiced by many liberals given the razor thin majority democrats enjoyed and the reality o' elections 'cross the country post 2020. trump with his fearmongering, portraying the democrat threat as an existential crisis and using petty and demeaning language to describe political foes as irredeemable enemies, represents a serious threat to the Constitution. is disappointing to see and hear same trumpy nonsense from liberals on this board and elsewhere, eh? however, to make perfect clear, am not suggesting a false equivalency 'tween maga extremists (seeing orban feted by the rnc at cpac, is increasing arguable those extremists is mainstream) and those youngish firebrand liberals who can't even manage better than 50% voting rates. as loopy as is a few liberals, and as much as we continue to criticize the abject stoopid which is antifa and the like, there is no organized movement on the left to overthrow democracy or to mow down personal liberties... with the possible exception o' some empty rhetoric 'bout proposed firearms bans via executive order and the like. is not a, they are all bad scenario. manchin ain't the problem for democrats, but even for a reagan era compassionate conservative/libertarian such as Gromnir, who admitted were one o' those firebrand liberals before we taught in europe for a few years and saw the alternatives firsthand, the senator from wv offends our delicate sensibilities. HA! Good Fun!

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/winamp-releases-new-version-after-four-years-in-development/ It seems the llama won this round though

Well, at least we're in RA2 reality now.

Good news everyone, Isreal about to unleash their most fearsome weapon on Russia. Sorry, couldn't resist.

ME: Andromeda = DA:I Hinterlands in spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace

I haven't been interested in superheroes for a while now, but this is just mind bogglingly dumb. There's still time. From a purely monetary perspective, actors/writers/directors could be missing out the residual payments that would come from the movie playing on TV, not to mention the potential prestige that comes with a mid-budget film doing well. This movie getting scraped could impact their career prospects by associating them with a failed project and laying the blame on them. The creative vision not being seen is also an issue, because some of those art types want their stuff to be seen. Shocking, I know.

You're not joking. It's cheaper to buy in bulk, so I invested in 1000 rounds of 180 grain FMJ: It set me back a buttload of pretty pennies, but at least I'm set for a while.

Ooh, kinky!

Still better than Scooter.

The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021). I don't normally make note of the random kids movies/shows that I watch with my nieces (particularly as I don't usually have too much of a problem with most of it as long as it's not overly cringey or RANDOM LOL kind of stuff, and my nieces thankfully generally like stuff that I either like myself or at least think is okay)...with that said, my nieces are sadists (i.e. normal children that want to re-watch something endlessly), and I have been forced to view this film several times now - my face is going to melt off like the nazi from Raiders of the Lost Ark if I have to watch this even one more time. I didn't like it the first time I saw it, but now my skin crawls even thinking about it: do not recommend.

Uhm...

Seems some of th missiles flew over the Island? Again, as US admin openly ignores other superpower's 'red line' for domestic publicity and after the Russia experience I would not rule out the Taiwan invasion or at least a full effective blockade and isolation, as China sees Taiwan and its territorial waters as its own. The information flow from the politbureau and news mouthpieces like Global Times - it seems all options are in place. ----------- Taiwan's Defense Ministry described the latest PLA actions as essentially a "maritime and aerial blockade." Meanwhile, Fox News' Lucas Tomlinson observes that "48 Chinese military aircraft, mostly fighter jets, have now buzzed Taiwan over the past two days." A little less than half of these were reported by Taiwan's defense ministry as having crossed the "median line" - which it should be recalled Chinese state mouthpiece Global Times said has now ceased to exist.