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Done with Bard's Tale Trilogy: If any of you want to play and have not played any, do yourself a favor and play either the first Bard's Tale, or Bard's Tale 3. Stay away from the second game, and for the love of god don't play all three in a row. Since the game keeps track of some stats, I can see that I've skipped almost 1600 battles. The game also gives you the option to transfer character stats and experience between the games. Don't do that for the third, you end up hurting your stats. That's because level ups increase a random character stat, and once they're maxed, they're maxed... and level ups don't give stat points any more - and the last game has much higher stat caps than the second. The game gives you a huge experience boost right at the start anyway, so nothing's really lost. Third game might actually be the best of the three, but if played as third of three back to back, you're sick and tired of everything. Heh.

I will not believe in the idea of A Consequence for Trump until he is physically inside a jail cell. That said

I might add that the whole Effort+Avenging Storm thing doesn't work too well against megabosses themselves most of the time because their defenses are usually high enough to prevent frequent crits from a Druid. But it wipes ads like not much else - which is convenient - and is especially awesome once you get Great Maelstrom, too. Then it's unbelievable AoE dmg for the Druid on top of all the other nice stuff he can do. Least Unstable Coil works beautifully with Avenging Storm as well as Great Maelstrom, so such a Druid can become Brilliant on his own rel. easily with the help of an Empower point. Also an empowered Avenging Storm + contant SoT (so it won't ever stop) with repeated Maelstroms is cool as hell imo.

A couple of hours of Inscryption, a singleplayer roguelite-ish card fighting game that everyone was raving for when it came out. To my surprise (as someone who can't understate how much I don't want to play any deckbuilding, card fighting games...nor roguelike games), it's actually pretty cool and fun. Basically, every attempt to win you go through little maps of random encounters and events, like a little miniature campaign (pretty similar to Faster Than Light). The fighting mechanics don't seem too terribly deep, but that's not to say you'll always win; just the opposite, you'll lose but get stronger. Lots of variation with how cards work but not overwhelming so...and a few of the cards that you have are actually characters that give you drips of information about the setting/what you're trying to accomplish as you play, and all that's done fairly well so far too. Maybe this game earned its Overwhelmingly Positive score.

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A dose of khapa tea, which confers immunity to poison/disease effects, is available in the Port Maje Governor's house. It was almost certainly placed there to prepare the MC for the dig site. It makes you immune to the spider's paralysis attack, and also the Xaurip's paralytic poison later. It's definitely worth using as your food for your first rest before heading to the dig site.

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there's also tons of enemy abilities that you won't be able to find that are poison/disease keyworded. honestly the paladin ability is probably underrated because of how difficult it is to reason about it. but there's like tons of paralyzing poisons (very common early-mid game from xaurip skirmishers), high-level naga with poison-based attacks, slimes with disease based effects, a couple of undead effects, etc. when i pick it up i'm rarely ever disappointed with it, it's an almost must-have.

Reporters AI didn't interviewed lived in one of the schools AI was talking about in their report. You can make your own conclusions were they eyewitnesses or not Ukraine army putting setting their troops that they endangered civilians (which includes those reporters). EDIT: Dismissing reporters just because they are reporters is just arrogant and stupid, considering they they are trained to document and retell things they witness. It is their job to seek full picture and report happenings with details. So they are excellent eyewitnesses if you want to report what is happening in area where they are currently themselves working to report what is happening. But it is good that you think reporters are unreliable to tell what is happening and are pack a sad when people don't think they are important, that is attitude that you should keep when you read reports from AI's reporters 😋

Most of times when an ability says poison or disease in the description you can assume that it's keyworded accordingly. There are some exceptions but not too many. Unfortunately those keywords themselves don't get displayed in the tooltips. But when you see something that says that "Antidote" will counter it then you are safe that Righteous Soul also would. When a hostile attack is poison or disease then it won't hit you. If this attack also carries a CON affliction then you are right: resistance won't matter because the attack won't hit you in the first place. But there are a lot of attack rolls that carry a CON affliction but are not labeled poison (see Ryngrim's spells or some Concelhaut spells for example) - here Iron Gut will help. On the other hand it's rel. easy to get a CON resistance via items - and they don't stack. But then on your third hand (huh? ;)) you might want to give those items to party members who cannot get a resistance any other way... 🤷‍♂️

Other thing you can see on the screenshot I forgot to mention : there are 2* Frightened and 2* Immobilized afflictions : Secret Horrors (active) and Echoing Horror (passive) seems to stack, as like Mental Binding (active) and High Tide (weapon). That mean 2* -10 defenses (-5 for deflection) to correspondant stats. After all, that work in a same way with Inspirations's stacking rules. @theleeI think that can be interesting to know!

Speaking little bit about humanitarian laws, here is an example of Russian take on it, By General Major Vasilyev from their Outpost in Zaporozhia Nuclear Power Plant.: "This will either be Russian land, or scorched earth," he said. He also told his soldiers that no matter how difficult orders they could receive, they had to execute them "with honour," calling them "liberators." And another report about how the AI was doing it research in Ukraine's occupied territories and filtration camps:

This is a build around the interaction between Shared Nighmare, Time parasite, Current's Rush (high tide) and Frostfall (Dispersed Suffering and Shattering Head). Against groups of enemies, this character can clean the map, leaving survivors like the shadow of themself. Classe : Ascendant (higher max focus) Race : Elve Stats : Might : average Con : low Dex : average Per : high Int : high Res : low Principales passives and abilities : Borrowed Instinct (+20acc (and def) to scoring crits) Time Parasite ( to speedly try to crit) Shared Nighmare (Biggest AoE to spells and High Tide and Shattering Head and Dispersed Suffering) Greater Focus (to enhance the Nighmare AoE) Hammering Thoughts (damages are dealed by weapon) Two Weapon Style (to reduce the recovery for Current's Rush) Lingering echoes and usual CC spells Equipement : Thaos' Headdress (Heaven's Cacophony is great too) (+1 int +5acc vs flanked, or +2int and avenging storm for High Tide, Dispersed Suffering and Shattered Head) Mirrorback (safer at distance) Charm of Bones (+2int, very resistant minions) Gloves of the Dungeon Warden (the build is around crit) Ring of the Marksman (ranged) and Ring of Overseeing (AoE) Later, the Whispers from the Depths Boots of the Stone (later, the Vithrack Silk Slippers can greatly make the difference for survivor enemies) Girdle of Mortal Protection (good and cheap) Gipon Prudensco (free move, buff to reflex and deflection) Current's Rush (Main Hand) with upgrades and legendary, better with Mythic Frostfall (offhand) with Dispersed Suffering and Shattering Head In combat, the principe is to casting Borrowed Instinct and other CC spells on the most resistant enemy ; during this time, attacking at ranged distance (so only with Current's Rush) other enemies to trigger the Ascension in the first time, and High Tide with relative AoE. High tide can proc itself High Tide on crit, and when do a kill, proc Dispersed Suffering that can proc on crit Shattering Head, that can also proc Dispersed Suffering on kill. Because of the high AoE size (Shared Nighmare, int and ring) the 4 or 5m radius of these abilities are really big and concern a lot of enemies. This is because Dispersed Suffering proc on any weapon kill, and Shattering Head on Frostfall crit (Dispersed Suffering is a Frostfall attack). Each kill mean +20% hostile effects duration (Dispersed Suffering), and an unique first crit can do many kill with this setup. If staying enemies are under the effect of Borrowed Instinct or Time Parasite, their durations can "explode" and by the way make growing the correspondant beneficail effect on the cipher. The Vithrack Silk Slippers, when reapplying a CC spell on enemies, do an adjustement of the duration of the affliction, but in reality when dispersed suffering proc nearby, the 20% is applied to the total duration (not current duration) so not only the duration of the spell itself but the totality of the casted spell (It is hard to be evident in english). To illustrate this point, I made a screenshot at the tavern I try the build : I cast only one time Secret Horror and Mental Binding before High Tide proc. As you can see, there is many proc in the combat log, and the blood on the floor show the after-high-tide effect. Of course, there is many way to exploit Dispersed Suffering (Berserker on skellies with Grave Calling in main hand, Ranger with mortar or the Weyc's Wand in main hand, etc) but SC Cipher seem to me the most suitable classe to make a Current's Rush/Frostfall build, combining high speed, high accuracy, high AoE size for the high tide effect.

I haven't played Inscryption yet, but I did play both previous Daniel Mullins games and in those 2 games the main draw wasn't the surface-level gameplay, but rather the beneath the surface mysterious meta narrative.

Thinking of doing that to my son's room

My daughter did that to her room. I do like to tease her when the wifi goes down and she can't control her lights though. 😉

Predator trained all his life to lose to a 80 pound proto-feminist.

Well, if we take into the account a device made in Ukraine, then the most plausible option would be a big box of Ukrainian Vodka set at the right spot. The drunk Russian Soldiers then took care of the rest 🤣 Edit: on more serious note, some theorycrafting after this message already appeared which are pointing to Neptune being the culprit.

One more video of Kaboom, and it is ****ing HUUUUGE… And this is the official version by Russian MoD. https://t.me/bbbreaking/132365 Russian ministry of defence says explosions of several aerial bombs as result of accident caused the fire and further explosions at airbase in Novofedorivka. No damage to aircraft It’s either one of the rare occassioń that Russia does not lie, or they just do not want to admit, that their S400s all accross Crimea sucks walrus balls… I leave up to you, version you’ll consider to be more plausible 🤷‍♂️

Other thing to do with Effort/AS is to spam the 10 Minoletta's Bounding Missiles from the Missiles Glove with the reloading inventory trick (there are two missiles glove sold in the game). Minoletta's missiles in general work like a charm with Effort/AS because of the number of missiles.

It's not. It gets mentioned at some point later.

Thats a good video and honest, the girls are cute. I love the Russian English accent They made me several me laugh several times with the " American conspiracy theory " and " owners going to end up in the Gulag " and " imagine having to cross out the name McDonalds on the sauce " Sad how many shops are empty, thats sanctions for you. In summary it doesnt look like much has changed with the new "Russian bootleg McDonalds " ...its still junk food that is eatable but its average like normal But good video about how normal Russians feel about the reality in Russia since Putins War started

Yes, Strand of Favor (or Cabalist's Gambeson) + Soulblade will get you the biggest AoE possible (with Shared Nightmare). No Priest involved. Only hefty cheese.

'(Let's Get) Physical' is the first song I can actively remember being #1 in the charts here. The video certainly can be interpreted a little differently when you're older than 5.

Yes, this build doesnt require any babysitting priest to be efficient, and the max focus while ascended is 285, in other side it is 260 for Beguiler and less for Soul Blade. I didnt try but that is a good idea! Every things that boost the AoE size is good for the build, but every items you mention are already used in my party (4/5 are casters) ; it is better with these items that is true. I weared the Gipon Prudensco because of the 20%recovery malus, reflex and deflection bonus and the disengement immunity, to avoid any confrontation at melee range, but Aloth's armor is the more optimised clothe to AoE focused caster like this one.

My prediction: a great deal of very damning evidence, for a total of: 0 (zero) consequences

They're totally different. The Paladin ability Iron Gut gives you resistance to CON afflictions, so you can shrug off sickened and downgrade weakened and enfeebled, which is good because these afflictions are rough given the penalty to healing. Righteous Soul on the other hand makes you immune to abilities (such as many druid spells and rogue abilities) that have the poison and disease keywords. It's nice too because some of these effects, like toxic strike, can be nasty. The overlap is that many of the poison/disease abilities attack fortitude, which is lowered by CON afflictions, so getting hit with the latter can make you more vulnerable to the former.

i think you have this reversed - soul blades are penalized on their max focus, and ascendants are boosted. i assumed that's why constantin picked ascendant, and not necessarily for the ascension effect.

I only remember two songs... both from a very long time ago

you summon a Flame Blight "by accident" a lot when using Frostseeker's multiprojectile attacks + AoE proc in combo with Driving Flight. when you carry an injury with Rekvu's Scorched Cloak you will be immune to fire damage but instead heal from it (20% iirc) Flame Blights hit you but will heal you still, every hit will unlock the 10% freezing lash from Horns of the Aurochs So basically you get some healing and a practically permanent freezing lash on your attacks - and of course the buring lash from the belt without any drawback (other than the minor injury that makes the Scorched Cloak work).

That interaction is cool. I tried several combos with Current's Rush, but not with Frostfall. A SC Ranger with Twinned Shot + Driving Flight can also proc a High Tide chain on a group of enemies pretty reliably. Also works with Whirling Strikes. Of course: smaller AoE A Monk with Enduring Dance and Razor's Edge + Duality:INT should also be a good candidate. Shooting with the scepter's modal even gives wounds. A Wizard can use both weapons' effect with their Phantom, too. So any combination of Ranger, Monk or Wizard could also be nice. Aloth's Armor provides more AoE size (+15%) and stacks with Ring of Overseeing (+10%) by the way. Also a pet like Loki (+15%) will help. There are even pets who have the party effect of embiggen AoEs a bit - something for Edér then?

Have you checked how the aoe weapon effects interact with belt of magrans chosen? I mean, you want many (weak) enemies, and maybe with the fire blights it might be even a strong build up against single-high-defense targets?

That's interesting. You should have gotten the FF healing and wound when hobble expired. Good to know that it is not working as expected.

as boeroer said, chill fog is standard wizard recommendation and still very good because of inversions. a couple others to think about: maxed out explosives and sparkcrackers (you'll need to tank or neglect your will defense and resolve). you can easily get 30+ seconds from sparkcrackers from either yourself or an ally. you can do this pre-combat, too. Rokowa's Fingers. grants you sparkcrackers, but unlike the grenade, uses an old version of the effect that checks multiple times with a high explosives. Only a couple times/day, but the extra checks really make it easy to land the effect. benefit to the above is that it's only distracted, so you get full heating up effect. if you have another rogue, smoke cloud and the upgrades can apply distracted in a huge aoe, but also interrupts so may be a bit awkward, but at least you won't care about the friendly fire as much since you'll be upgrading your street fighter. note that if you have riposte and are dual-wielding a blunderbuss and a melee weapon, riposte attacks will trigger the blunderbuss modal if you have it on, so you can get distracted refreshes in crowded fights.

Herbert Jenkins "The Strange Case of Mr Challoner" from 1921's Malcolm Sage, Detective predated S.S. Van Dine's 20 Rules for Writing Detective Stories essay by 7 years and had the butler as the killer. It is the earliest still known use of the idea; the 1930 book (Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Door) is much better known, so gets erroneously mentioned as this first. The continuing fame of Rinehart, possibly because she was a major seller and continued writing detective fiction into the 1950s is comparatively different from Jenkins, who is probably better known as the guy whose company published the original P. G. Wodehouse books than by his fiction stories (even if three of the Malcolm Sage stories were collected in a 1929 collection of best of detective fiction and Sage was favorably compared at the time to Messrs Holmes and Poirot). EDIT: To be clear, Van Dine's essay basically says using a servant (butler, maid, footman, valet, chauffer) isn't in the spirit of detective fiction (as disgruntled employees killing the person or whatever being too obvious), so doesn't call out Butler's, specifically, either.

A young lady whose Youtube channel I've watched occasionally for a few years. Usually an interesting insight into life in the Far East (living on the border with China, like real "rural" Russia). Giving an insight into life in post-sanction Russia...

For what it's worth: -50% recovery from "Heating Up" and the +50% recovery from disoriented don't cancel each other out. You will still be faster than normal. Due to the mathematical operations done when calculating attack speed the -50% is a lot more impactful than the +50%. For more info see: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/227477-pillars-of-eternity-ii-deadfire/faqs/76599/inversions So your idea with Chill Fog is still viable, especially because the enemies will suffer the full effect of blindness (including +50% recovery) while you will be faster than normal even when disoriented.

Strange in this war how it's 100% or total failure as a system. also, guessed wrong with the strike. Well, assuming this unnamed official is telling truth

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