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Sh*t, thanks. Ok, so some of the bonuses have their WhenToTriggerScript values set to OnPrologueComplete. According to decompiled code, these are triggered when the ActivateNewPlayer script is run. (In vanilla I presume this is when control jumps from the Watcher's "spirit" to their body.) We don't have a body double in the Temple of Toamowhai to use, but the good news is that you can target the existing player character with ActivateNewPlayer and trick the game into granting the bonuses. Bad news is that this awkwardly hides their portrait until the player has saved and reloaded... Alternatively the bonuses could be granted in the S4 post-character creation script, but there are no conditionals for checking whether a specific Blessing has been picked. I had already made sure the Mythical Adra Stone is added directly to your inventory if Mythical Discovery was picked, but that was possible thanks to that blessing triggering OnGameStart and then sets a flag which I could use in the conditional. However that would not be possible for +2 Attributes etc that trigger OnPrologueComplete and don't set flags. So the two options are either to see if there's a way to "re-activate" the existing player without their portrait disappearing, or just add all relevant OnPrologueComplete bonuses to the player in the S4 script whether the player picked them or not. Currently these are the bonuses that are not being applied correctly: Infamous Past Bonus Skills Bonus Attributes +5/50k Starting Money

For that random slice of nostalgia..

Sidenote: actually what that Kritter Klub does is make me go back to wanting to create/have a no-kill cat shelter, where I could house 15-20 at a time, try to find homes for them when you can etc. I suppose the city wouldn't really let me build one in the backyard tho, and I'd need a lot of extra money to run one (vet on hand and all that).

I haven't seen it and I'm not interested tbh. What I have seen is the newest season of What We Do In The Shadows and it is ****ing good.

Lockheed Martin delivers 300-kilowatt laser to Defense Department - Breaking Defense Now were getting somewhere! w00t

True, but I was talking about actually having Wenduag in the group after the prologue. I wonder how many players don't even realize she is a romanceable option because when choosing between Lann and Wenduag, Lann wins elven out of ten times, particularily in case the game begins with her betraying you, which is... probably true for most players too.

from a "right mind" pov, none o' the female options is reasonable. a demon created for the purpose o' seducing mortals and corrupting their souls? a treacherous spider mutant with an inexplicable accent who has already tried to kill you? a character with a hidden alignment (no warning sign there, eh?) who in combat shouts one o' the following: you will be today's sacrifice! the spirits demand your blood! the world in crimson! *shudder* sorry, but the only "right mind" option is available extreme late and there is some serious question marks with that romance as well, but nothing compared to the three core choices. 'course game reason need not be o' the right mind variety. is a fantasy rpg after all, but am admitting all the choices appear designed to simultaneous ridicule and pander to the worst gamer notions o' what makes for a good fantasy romance. HA! Good Fun!

I feel like I'm probably 2/3 of the way through Steelrising. I quickly abandoned my earlier strategy of switching between halberd and fans as it would force me to split points between power and agility and just went into a power build. The two weapons I use now are both halberds with the same moveset. My main halberd does a little more damage and, more importantly, significantly more impact, and it has a shield special ability, which I almost never use since I prefer to dodge to create distance to take advantage of the halberd's massive reach. The other halberd I use exclusively for its ranged attack special ability. Both are upgraded to level 5, which is max. I do so much impact that I nearly always knock enemies down with charged attacks, even bosses, and often knock non-bosses down with regular heavy attacks. I wonder if this game has NG+? If so, I hope it allows you to respec; I'd like to try out a different build for a second playthrough.

I was meaning more the way that Humanoid has it, how much EVGA 'really' 'hates' nVidia vs how much they're saying they do in the hope that that provides leverage for them. Funnily enough, while I may loathe nVidia with a burning passion that makes star WR102 look like a cool dip in the pool I apparently manage to consistently underestimate their malice compared to some... apparently Linus (of the TT variety, not of the 'f___ nVidia' variety) thinks EVGA won't make AMD/ Intel cards because they believe that Jensen will permanently blacklist not just EVGA the company, but everyone who works for them. Which is cartoon villain level.

Since the IPA were porking me up, I switched to vodka and coolaid. Who wants to wrestle?

Ha, I found a way to prevent the portrait from disappearing. If the Player is targeted by ActivateNewPlayer while there is another member in the party, and that party member is then removed, the portrait is not hidden. By adding an extra party member to the Prologue_Party object, we will start the game with a generic companion alongside us. Right after doing the ActivateNewPlayer trick, running "ActivateObject Slot0 False" and "RemoveFromParty Slot0" will erase the extra companion from existence, while triggering the bonuses as appropriate

mentioned earlier, and perhaps it has been fixed, but elk were broken when we tested. elk should get three attacks and a free trip when using gore... and keep in mind as the elk levels, it should get more more attacks as its ab increases. when we tested, regardless o' level, the elk were limited to a single gore attack and there were no free trip. on paper the elk receives mighty charge, multiple attacks and should now be benefitting from free trips on gore attacks. elk should be a fantastic option and am thinking it would be a good daredevil build particular for a few cavaliers. immunity to flanking as well as the mighty charge numbers is nice additions particular for cavalier types. am not sure 'bout bully 'cause even with the boar and triceratops we cannot current choose trip-related feats, so am not certain how exact the trip is being implemented. regardless, be warry o' the elk. we got what you were saying and am agreeing. the thing is, the same reasons for not having the spider mutant in the party kinda make her/him/it (in the pnp ap, wendaug is referred to both with male and female pronouns and am not certain is a mistake) a not right mind choice for romance. HA! Good Fun!

The +5/50k Starting Money seem to function when set to OnGameStart from what I can tell. Doing the same with other problem blessings and changing their scripts to instead activate delayed globalscripts seems to get them to function properly as well. Though that might introduce some compatibility issues when the mod is toggled off and on, or if any other mods affects the cost of Berath's Blessings.

trump has no property interest in the documents at issue in judge cannon's ruling whether they is classified or not, so a demand for the return o' such documents and a request for special master review o' such by means o' a civil 41(g) motion by trump lawyers is nonsensical. the doj makes the point we see as dispositive but that media lawyers keep glossing over in their five-minute takes on cnn and msnbc. again, so is clear, trump is demanding that his property, which were improper seized by the feds, should be returned to him 'cause o' special harms he suffers by being deprived o' his property PRE-indictment. if bob is being investigated for illegal ivory smuggling, and during a search o' bob's property the fed's seize his personal automobiles, even though is nothing in the warrant which suggests evidence would or could be found in his car, nor any suggestion bob were using his car to transport ivory, then bob could petition by means o' a 41(g) for the return o' his car(s) particular if those vehicles is his only means o' transportation. should be obvious the sensitive documents seized during the warrant search o' mar-a-lago is so not like the bob scenario. judge cannon don't suggest the documents were improper seized. furthermore, trump hasn't explained how the government intelligence documents is in fact his property, 'cause that would be silly. also, it takes extreme imagination to concoct a special harm trump suffers by being deprived o' US government state secrets. the fact the feds might use the documents to build a criminal case against trump is so utter not the kinda special harm a 41(g) motion seeks to cure. this whole exercise is mind-blowing stoopid. now for an eventual prosecution o' trump for action and inaction related to the espionage act or some other code violation for mishandling and obstruction related to state secrets and sensitive intelligence, the issue o' if and when trump declassified documents may be relevant, but for the current 41(g) pre indictment kerfuffle, is red herring material. am genuine dismayed by the level o' stoopid being indulged for no reason other than the fact trump is an ex-President. ... am not liking to do this, but our only reasonable explanation for judge cannon's ruling is that she has future aspirations which would be undermined if she delivered a ruling unfavorable to trump. IF cannon is seeing herself as an appellate judge in the future, the only way that happens is if a future republican President offers her the job. rule against trump almost guarantees her name is not gonna be on any near-future republican Presidential short-lists for appellate, scotus, ag appointments. and yes, perhaps from cannon's pov the special master is a minor inconvenience for the doj, so no biggie. the thing is, even if cannon were correct and that the doj is overstating the intelligence concerns related to the seized documents, there is no legal justification for her ruling. HA! Good Fun!

Cobra Kai was such wasted potential. They either changed creative lead or they simply never knew what they had.

The current list of kanji taught in school in Japan contains 2136 characters. That is considered baseline literacy by the Japanese Ministry of Education, and the characters that official government texts are limited to. Newspapers and other modern texts have more than that - Chinese language tests expect you to know at least 2500 characters (and 5000 words, and for what that is worth, that number is around 10000 words* and the 2136 kanji for Japanese) for the higher levels, but the same caveat exist. Certain words and grammatical elements are written in hiragana in Japanese writing, the Chinese grammatical elements are still Chinese characters, not a simplified syllabary. You're right about the diminishing returns though - knowing the most common characters in either language will give you the abiilty to read a lot of texts and look up the rest in a dictionary. Still a far cry away from being literate in the strictest sense. Japanese also has furigana to help with the reading of less common characters. Being able to comfortably read texts really does require more characters for Chinese than Japanese. Academic and literary circles are an entirely different beast - especially in Japanese, where they come with their own set of rules, much like business Japanese has its own set of words and ways to express oneself that is fairly different from regular (but still polite) Japanese in everyday conversation. *Japanese has an excessively large vocabulary. There's a whole slew of forms for the copula, for instance, a simple verb particle with predicative function for sentences that would otherwise lack a predicate. Da, de aru, desu, de arimasu, de gozaimasu and de irasshaimasu are all the same thing, to be used in different contexts.

Tried to continue watching s3 of Cobra Kai. Suffered through 2 more episodes, cringed hard when they were showing those flashbacks of good-guy with this asian girl. Really don't think I will keep watching this show.

still looks not right, i will wait for this:

Ember: Crazycakes will start 'hitting' on you in some fashion really soon, don't worry.

Hehe... yeah, I got to the point too where some templars decided to run away with my old flame, Ember. After first searching the temple (hey, templars - temple, amiright?), the two houses and the abandoned building for hiding templars and their prisoner, I started searching places I haven't visited on the world map. Currently at Wintersun, uncovering some fishy masquerade going on Edit: Speaking of old flames, ye gods, Daeren and Sosiel are some pushy guys. Went from polite attempts to say no to definite "shutdown", not interested. Edit2: If Greybor or Regill starts hitting my barbarian, I'll do the facepalm thing... bring me some women dammit!

Finally updated 7 Days to latest stable (20.6) to use the updated map generator. Thus briefly I was obsessed with making maps again. Didn't last too long however. The force-repeatable drone-duplication "glitch" - the reason I avoided updating for a while, I like having two drones - actually still works, apparently. Anyway...I feel like I need a bunch of games like Stray - short, simple, linear, adventure/emotive, atmospheric/pretty to look at. But more involving then a pure walking simulator. Cat not required. But as usual, can't find any offhand. Most more "casual" games now are full of crafting, survival, skillz, 9million items/materials, enemies, clvls etc. Although I guess the dev who made Stray had a game before that that some people really like. Outer Wilds. Don't usually like "space/planets" games but maybe I should try that. Or just replay Stray even if I said I likely wasn't going to.

Maybe I should add that I'm not interested in all these series because of some "they've ruined ..." nonsense. I've just tried and tried so many times over the past 5 years and I can't get into what Hollywood is producing anymore. I'm either simply bored and slightly annoyed from being bored, don't "get" anything, or find it all too predictable etc. There's plenty of other things to watch if I need eyeball massaging. @HurlshortYou keep on being positive and non-jaded, gogo. Sometimes I like reading about how someone actually liked something, around here. The most impartial review of Rings of Power I've seen made it sound like while it might have some writing issues evident in the first two episodes, the series itself had some promise/potential and one should have a wait and see approach. That said, I haven't seen it so dunno. (edit - you changed your moniker again, I had the @ wrong, haha.

I'm also watching the current season of What We Do In The Shadows, and it just seems to keep getting better. But I just finished episode 4 of Rings of Power, and it just seems to keep getting better. They've got a few different storylines going and they are all pretty engaging. The Dwarven parts are arguably better than any of the movies. They've given a glimpse into the day to day life of the dwarves that I really only got from LotR Online. Speaking of which, I'm now playing LotRO again. It's not like GoT. It's not like WoT. It's like the bloody movies, so if you enjoyed those, you will enjoy this show. Unless you get hung up on race in a fantasy series, apparently. *shrug* There is a kid named Theo that has an absolutely fascinating story arc going on. I don't want to spoil anything, but I'm on the edge of my seat to see how that turns out.

RTE (and this time Cavasoglu too) get chairs, everyone else sits on a couch? Something must be done about those Turks, they never learn- and, please, no suggestions they exchange the sofa for ottomans. Though the thought of Putin, Lukashenko etc perched on a fancy footrest is kind of appealing.

While maybe very slightly curious, I have no actual interest in Rings of Power and I never watched more than one season of GoT so not interested in that either. If they make a Dune series, don't care. If they make yet another ST or SW series, don't care. At this point with most such series I'd rather watch paint dry.

^ Reminds me when we tried to get an estimate re: a minor issue with the simple straight-line back roof gutter. Got quoted something like $4k-5k because claimed whole gutter had to be replaced (this was 5+ years ago, too). 2k we might've accepted but we laughed and went back to putting it off. Sadly we have no trusted long time person for that kind of stuff, since hubby usually can do most minor things or at least jury rig it. PITA trying to find people in the Bay Area who aren't just trying to rip you off since all ppl in/from the Bay Area ofc must have the incomes of Clint Eastwood. Actually, sometimes people in other cities would do the same, once they knew our address. You could see their eyes light up "oh, you're from....?" ...in other stuff, I've spent way too much time binge watching a YouTube channel called Kritter Klub, which is full of cat, dog (and other) rescue stories. YT's algorithm always gives me one of them now and again but this time I'm running their their whole upload catalog which is huge. The video is culled from an actual S. Korea SBS animalfarm/rescue TV series, but I think they make/use their own YT/captions/subtitles, not sure. Anyway, some are horrifying, some are heart-melting/inspiring, some are tear jerkers. I guess I'm just wanting a pet again.

It was time to visit the Commander's Court again and, I have to say, resting there was one of the best decisions I ever made. Back home, Ember decided to start a cult. What could possible go wrong?

Sure. Ukraine is a resource rich country, and they will likely see a need to remain well armed for the foreseeable future.

Yet another Titan, the Treasurer of Les Invalides: I rescued Jacques Necker: More Fashionrising:

Yeah, you guys might want to check the description of the Soulshear glaive.

I was interested at one point because of the lich path. But I can't get past the setting. It makes Forgotten Realms look like Malazan.

I replayed a bit of Kingmaker after WotR, and the writing has improved, IMO. In Kingmaker, it was sometimes just so horrid... The background plot I felt was better in Kingmaker, WotR is pretty standard D&D fare, with demons and all that. I'd still claim that WotR is one of the best D&D games, not because of the writing, but because of choices it starts giving you and how they're realized in the game. Spoilery stuff, so won't go into it too deeply.

You're right, and I just watched the movie yesterday. Sam Spade does get a little rough with"Ruth Wonderly", though. Granted, she's playing him and he knows it. On the other hand, that doesn't make her any different than Cairo and The Fat Man.

Er...that's the line where he slaps Gunsel, IIRC. Have I misremembered? EDIT: I haven't gone completely out of my mind, yet. But its Cairo, not Gunsel/Wilmer, he slaps