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The latest Honest Government Ads... this one is really only of domestic, Australian interest as it's a broadside fired at the West Australia government Edit: More domestic Australian stuff... now that we got the right wing government under Morrison (where everything, including parts of Australia were sale) ousted and have a new leftie government, it's time to boost the size of the Australian military and maybe rattle a few sables at geopolitical threats

No, with the CP the focus generation only stops when the Psion receives a critical hit (which is too good imo). Blood Sacrifice is an auto-hit, so the focus will still flow. Technically the setup of main weapon + the bashing shield Tuotilo's Palm IS a dual wielding setup. You can pick Two Weapon Style and that works. Full Attacks of the Rogue will use both weapons (main + shield bash) and all attacks (including primary ones such as Soul Annihilation) will have the reduced recovery time of a dual wielder. It is ALSO a weapon & shield setup. You can pick Weapon and Shield Style, too and it works. This, combined with the spamming of a primary attack (Soul Annihilation) makes this combo so good: you mostly attack with the main hand only and avoid the weaker bash attack - but you keep all the speed advantage and all the defensive advantage. You can totally use another dual weapon set. But of course you will be a bit more squishy. Defenses have increasing returns. A few more points of deflection (and reflex) can make quite the difference. If you get grazed instead of hit the damage you receive is a lot lower. If you get hit instead of crit the penetration will be lower, too which might lead to the enemy underpenetrating which also means a lot less damage that you receive. At the same time you won't gain a lot of dps because your strongest attack is Soul Annihilation and that doesn't care for the offhand weapon. But for RP purposes it's totally fine to use something else of course. Sun & Moon is very good for a Soulblade because it does two weapon attack rolls with each strike: one with the fiery flail head, the other with the frosty one. Soul Annihilation dumps all your current focus into raw damage (+bonuses from weapon quality, Sneak Attack, Deathblows etc.) as soon as it connects. If you connect with the first flail head you will dump all your focus. It's 0 then. The second flail head will connect afterwards als already generate focus again! So you will execute Soul Annihilation and still go out of it with new focus. This means that you can actually spam Soul Annihilation all the time if you wish. Afaik that's the only weapon that can do this - that's why I recommend this one specifically. Of course any other weapon works with this character, too. But this special feature of Sun & Moon is... well... special. Yes - not much kills backline dudes faster than Soul Annihilation. Beguiler is better used as a caster of debuffs with the occasional weapon attack. Because Beguilers can gain a lot of focus from casting a large-AOE deception on a buch of enemies (Phantom Foes, Secret Horrors etc.) you usually want to start combat with them casting a bunch of Deception spells and not zip around towards the backline. The secret sauce of the Beguiler is that - officially - he only gains focus when casting deception spells on enemies that qualify for Sneak Attacks (aka have an affliction) - but the Deception spells already put an affliction on the targets and only after that the gme checks if there will be a focus refund for that. So a Beguiler doesn't need to apply afflictions with something else (melee attacks or whatever) - he can just cast his stuff right away and burst from focus gain (if he hits enough enemies). At the same time he doesn't do any extra melee damage. Soulblade - as I said - has the perfect melee tool for hunting backlines. Of course the combination Trickster/Beguiler makes a lot of sense thematically and RP-wise. But for the role you want to fill it's not the perfect combination.

Hey Fireballs, I appreciate you providing us all this additional data! The forums going down was actually us doing a rather sizable backend update and we have a bit more to do for tomorrow, but sadly I don't think that will fix the issue. There is, however, another Invision forum update (the service we use for these forums) available for us to push Live, but we need to get our database up to date before we can. We should hopefully have all that stuff updated by the end of the week, but I'll still be testing things out in the meantime. If you learn anything else, please don't hesitate to continue letting us know Thanks again Fireballs! -SChin

it isn't difficult to condemn violence (admitted stoopid and petty violence) even when it is directed at folks you don't like. y'know, if the media hadn't told us that musk implored his followers to vote republican, we woulda' never been aware. we figure musk followers is either 1) people who already share musk values and were gonna vote red anyways, or 2) the highway accident rubber necks who, knowing musk has asperger's and lacks a social filtre, is just waiting for him to say something asinine so they can laugh or roll their eyes. is difficult to imagine either o' those two groups changing their votes based on a musk request. the rest o' us find out 'bout musk silliness 'cause the media tells us which bits o' business news and train wreck quality social faux pas is worthy o' being documented and memorialized. we decided to not buy one o' musk's cars after initial making a deposit. we cancelled the purchase 'cause o' musk views as 'posed to our opinion o' the auto. amounted to an effective + 68K fu. ain't much more need be said 'bout musk from Gromnir. HA! Good Fun!

What's the difference between a fiscally responsible Republican and orcs? One's a fantasy character, and the others are the bad guys in Lord of the Rings.

Ukraine cannot and will not ever accept "freezing" Russian territorial gains, because that will automatically become the de facto border in time. The most Ukraine will accept is a return to the pre-war status quo, but even that only with full compensation from Russia the damages of the war.

I voted. The ballot machines were weird, I had to pick choices from a screen then insert a couple of pages (one at a time) into the machine to have my choices printed on the paper, then the printed ballot went into another machine. As far as I can tell there isn't any benefit to this over the digital machines. Anyways PARODY ALERT DO NOT TAKE THE FOLLOWING AS A FACTUAL STATEMENT THIS DISCLAIMER BROUGHT TO YOU BY PARODY+ I'm confident the guy who through a hard seltzer at Ted Cruz will win the election and be the best governor in history. END OF PARODY THANK YOU FOR USING PARODY+ BASIC UPGRADE TO PARODY+ NITRO FOR $5.99/MONTH FOR THREE MONTHS JFNHSJDONDBDKNDBDUODH82&#>$,;÷>÷8÷^÷7×9[;1^#7$]$(,==&÷88÷>&=÷<$8=9;=<#*=;=;$>=,^=<$>&=<$>=;=;=<=,=;<> I'll give you it in dogecoin.

shifter gets all forms, so you don't have to really pick. but Boar form is particularly special in vanilla (i think one of the community mods fixes it) because the boar form damage-over-time-on-attack lasts an *extremely* long time, and stacks, so you can get it to stupid high damage numbers. only the shifter boar form does this, the other druid boar forms, while good, don't last nearly as long to let you stack so much of it. i would actually not prioritize PER as much because ranger gets so many good ways to increase accuracy. i would instead focus on dexterity and/or resolve. the way i think of the stalker's deflection bonus: it makes it pretty painless to dump resolve a bit, but can also make a full-defensive play extremely powerful. so you can invest more in offense stats, but if you want to be really tanky i'd go with a race that gets +1 resolve (human or orlan) and basically go all-in on resolve. combined with beast claw in late game (and either spiritshift form or hatchet/dagger early game) and some +resolve and +deflection gear you can be very very tanky. b.c. ranger gets stuff like marked prey or stalker's link for lots of bonus accuracy, it doesn't hurt your offense nearly as badly to go so strongly into resolve. (but like i said, you can also just use it as the opportunity to move some points from resolve to an offense stat without hurting your defense)

Another nice thing about this build idea is that we only need 2 pieces of equipment to boost every stat except PER: the cap and the belt. Add in a PER enchant on your armor and you’ve got boosts to all stats. Then add in rings of protection and deflection, the gloves of speed, and maybe a preservation enchant, and you’ve got quite a defensive powerhouse. Don’t forget arcane veil and wall of draining, of course! EDIT: and llengrath’s displaced image, too, for reflex.

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Deep Wounds and Deathblows do work with spells (Sneak Attack does not). For Deep Wounds to work it has to be pierce/crush or slash dmg though. Blooded does work with spells iirc. I think the rest doesn't in general. However, there are some spells that count as melee attacks and thus work with all lashes if I'm not mistaken. I believe Jolting Touch was one of them. I did something like that on the Monsterlasher build (in the build list).

I performed my civic duty and voted today. Oddly enough, there were a bunch of Colorado Republicans on my North Carolina ballot. Naturally, I voted for them.

But I don't see anything in that article saying the US is looking to freeze the conflict; only that they want to push for peace talks, AND with Ukraine at those talks in a position of strength. That's a far cry from saying the US wants Ukraine to cede their territory to the Russians.

For a solo character, could use Good Friend crossbow for Holy Power spellbind! EDIT: this would allow for different headgear if one doesn’t wish to use the company captain’s cap. Still, the immunities on that cap are nice.

That was my point, the Roman legions had centurios and tribunes drafted from the more experienced rank and file. Showing initiative in battle was encouraged and properly rewarded, like at the Battle of Cynoscephalae where the Macedonians suffered a crushing defeat because the legions in pursuit of routed enemy groups saw an opportunity, split off half a legion and attacked the rear of the Macedonian phalanx without being ordered to do so by their commanding general.

I think it was supposed to be neither. Just a bit informative. A current affair is the kind of tv show that just tells about lesser known stuff happening in society if I understood it correctly (since I very rarely watch TV)

Hello, by advance please excuse my English. It's not my native language, so I use google translate. I find that the mutations for weapons are not really suitable. When playing on higher difficulty. Mutations for weapons are changed too often depending on the fight. I propose to make a statistical sheet for each weapon. regardless of mutations. The more we use a weapon, the more we increase the lv of the corresponding weapon. for example: a spear will have a maximum of 10 lvl in its stat. The more we type with the more we will increase the xp of this weapon. And weapon related mutations unlock based on weapon exp Another example: A spear lv 1 no mutation. a spear lv 3 mutation lv1. A spear lv 6 mutation lv2... we can master each type of weapon without having to go through the menus each time to change it. Because during the exploration it is not uncommon to have to face several types of enemies each with a different weak point.

... y'know, this ain't actual wrong. is not schrödinger per se, but at least one explanation o' quantum mechanics suggests that is not an either/or but rather that every possibility does happen-- in one universe, the cat lives and in another the cat dies. so assuming the drawing is indeed random, and random don't necessarily mean what folks thinks it means, then yeah, every potential winner is indeed gonna win in at least one universe. so... congrats? HA! Good Fun! ps with infinite universes n' such, Gromnir, who has not purchased a lottery ticket since the late 80s when we did so once and failed to win, did in fact purchase a powerball ticket in 2022, and won. so, you don't even need be a ticket purchaser to be a winner?

mi problema con este material es que al romper el clavo o tornillo no genera sonido y aparte el material que expulsa es muy pequeño y el color se similar con la tierra y eso molesta mucho :c.

Ukraine must be truly incompetent to not have won by now then

It's not really any different from how it was with Trump and the absolute outpouring of news outlets constantly writing about and reacting to everything he said on Twitter. Well, elsewhere too, but the least we could do is stop caring about the hundred or so tweets he would send out a day. Nope, guess we're gonna start to doing the same thing with Musk - people just can't stop clicking on it.

ty for the quick and thorough reply! also encouraging that my reading of the forum wasn't too off, lol. so many fun builds and people stoked about them, but sometimes hard to tell if all the advice is current. quick follow up Qs: esp given the warm advice I've seen in the forum (and the fact that it was kept up to date, ty @MaxQuest!!!), I'll be using the community patch. I'm sold on trickster / soulblade for my first run, but... * does the damage from the bloodmage recovery skill interrupt psion even with the CP (since I thought that adjusted it to crit interrupt instead of hit)? * would making trickster / soulblade dual wield (deflection focused to be sturdy?) for rp reasons be a huge kneecap (vs the minmax shield / flail you suggest) or viable? * any reason trickster / soulblade over trickster / beguiler? I'm assuming too much redundancy in skills (tho diff pools, right?) or you're trying to meet my desire for more DPS?

Pity thread incoming. Probably would have had a III by now. Nothing scratches the itch - hell, even my yearly Infinity Engine game playthroughs don’t feel right anymore because I enjoy Pillars so much more.

Okay I know this is late considering the age of the games, but I didn't really get to play when they came out, I ended up with Covid and was essentially bed bound so I fired up the Xbox and messed around with game pass and I stumbled onto these games and though "oh look , it's kinda like icewind dale I loved that game as a kid..." now I'm hooked I've been running around reading everything the lore and depth of world building are amazing. The story is a slow burn that many have criticized however it feels like it was designed from the perspective of a traditional TTRPG campaign there is so much to do. I can't speak higher of these games and I can't wait to replay them with new classes as my main so I can RP different choices more in line with that character. I am now working on finding the originals in physical format on Xbox ( I purchased them on steam but I also want a physical backup incase internet is for some reason i unavailable or if I no longer pay for game pass these have become my new go to game replacing dark souls

Hello! Is it possible to make the chest icons only visible when standing in front of the chest. It's a bit annoying when all the icons (for example in a warehouse) show through the wall, floor and other chests.

There is a contingent of reactionaries in fandom(s) who make everything unbearable and comparing them pieces of **** would be an insult to ****. They can all burn in hell. I don't think we should ignore them, because they do overlap with the ongoing wave of stochastic terror being unleashed and are a danger to others. But I don't don't see any of them here. Maybe ignore is just working for me and there is a guy posting 10 hour videos about how wokeness is killing whatever, in which case that guy can go **** himself. Really dodged a bullet there I guess, somehow this forum is less insane that much of the internet. Anyways I'm rewatching Breaking Bad and Meth Damon has arrived. For some reason I really like seeing Jesse Plemons in stuff, I have no real idea why.

you could be right. we active avoid media stories and reviews regarding shows and movies save from those limited sources we trust. am recalling it were difficult to find opinions regarding captain marvel which weren't at least as much 'bout politics and social concerns as they were reflecting on the quality o' the movie. am not doubting such is happening with she hulk. too bad. HA! Good Fun!

This better not be parody, else Musk will ban you. I may vote tomorrow, Beto is better than Abbot but I wish I could vote for the guy who threw a beer at Ted Cruz.

Voted. Republican because Musk said so.

It was lonely for about 4 hours while the servers were down.

am thinking you are serious over analyzing based on your personal knowledge as 'posed to the ordinary mcu fan. what % o' viewers knows all the jen walters comic stories... or cares? *shrug* am not a fan o' she-hulk though it started ok... and the suggestion by some that the problems o' the show is just masculine knee-jerk to feminist content is a cheap dodge in part 'cause she-hulk is a terrible vehicle for feminist issues. the show started ok. sure, once again we saw the almost reflexive subversion o' the damsel in distress schtick. jen were instant overcoming the need for a male authority figure or teacher, which ain't a complaint 'cause abandoning the introspection and the obi-wan/merlin tropes advanced the plot and for a sitcom it woulda' been kinda tedious to need deal with incremental overcoming the hulk curse. jen became a hulk and yet unlike the majority o' her comic book iterations, she rejected the hulk stuff 'cause she already had a meaningful existence. as a successful attorney, jen saw the hulk stuff as nothing more than an annoying obstacle and she weren't gonna let bruce or her own hulkness interfere with her life. good on you jen. good on marvel for not going with the stoopid "mousy" jen walters who graduates suma **** laude from law school but nevertheless gets her powers after she is the accidental victim o' a mob hit aimed at her father, the la county sheriff. mousy is in quotes 'cause such is how jen walters is described in the comics in spite o' being a successful and attractive woman. tv jen knows her own worth and that value ain't dependent on being a hulk... at least for one episode. %$#@ gonna avoid spoilers, so apologies for being vague, but jen suffers some career setbacks 'cause o' her hulkness which makes her want to be a hulk even less, but then she gets a new job offer, but more important, boys. *groan* got an intelligent, successful, funny and attractive woman who rejects sooperpowers, but then... boys. somehow unable to find a date in la without becoming a 7' viridian centerfold straight out o' a teenage comic geek's wet dream, jen embraces her hulkness... to get laid. %$#@ and %$#@ anybody who tells us our criticism is 'cause feminist something or other, 'cause that is a terrible direction for a s'posed feminist show to take. oh, and the show somehow managed to get worse from tinder she-hulk, but were ok 'cause blame it all on formulaic mcu writing as the real bad guy o' the show... or something. and yeah, there were funny moments we much enjoyed, and yes we did like tatiana maslany, ginger gonzaga and tim roth, 'mongst others. dare devil were a nice addition. but tell us she hulk were disliked 'cause o' men not getting feminism is as cheap as were the she-hulk ending. the show had an actress we saw as more than capable who were a positive female character, right up until boys. squandered talent and opportunity to try and bait and switch feminism. shame on mcu for hand waving at feminism with their cheap schtick while indulging the same old stereotypes and tropes. ... guess you could say we were disappointed, and had nothing to do with our comic book expectations. HA! Good Fun!

Yesterday I took my sister and her fiancé to the shooting range. He did shockingly well for someone who's never fired a gun before, he was almost as accurate as I am, and I've put roughly 1000 rounds through the gun. My sister didn't fare as well, though, in her defense, my Glock 40 is much too big and heavy for her. It's literally the largest handgun Glock has ever produced. On the bright side, she handled the considerable recoil of 10mm Auto well. Next time we go we'll rent something smaller and easier to wield. With my membership, the rental is free, I'll just have to pay for ammo (unless I rent another pistol chambered in 10mm).

hm, do you think Berath will forgive her herald if he decides not to wear his armor? edit: bah, i made this post because on my screen EdgarBB's post showed up 6 times. refreshed, and of course now I look like a crazy person

I actually thought Toshiro Mifune gave a great performance as the bandit Tajomaru when you consider who's point of view the story is being told from.

Okay. I believe I have solved it. Right, so using enter for linebreaks means everything past that linebreak gets removed. I can see it as I submit the post, how the rest just disappears. But, shift+enter is fine. Worked both for editing a post and making a new one. I attached an image that might be relevant.

My friend and I have been playing a grounded save for about a month or two straight now. We’ve come to the end of the game and are looking to max out all of the charms and gold cards but it’s proving to be ridiculously challenging. The drop rates for charms and gold cards is so random and unfair. For example we’ve killed nearly 1000 water creatures and haven’t gotten the gold cards for them. I think there needs to be some kind of scaling method to where the more you kill, the greater the chances are. And for bosses, there should be an increased drop rate due to the decreased interactions with them. Please look into this. We love a challenge but this is ridiculous.

The wiki lists a 1% chance for gold cards to drop from normal creatures. According to my observations, this is approximately the way it is in the game, and this is quite an acceptable value. However, for creatures that are few on the map, plus they have a long respawn time, this value should obviously be significantly increased (at least up to 5-10%). And at the same time, introduce some kind of outfit into the game (for example, a trinket), which additionally significantly increases the chance of dropping gold cards (and at the same time the amount of loot from mobs).

'Archimedes Waveswing': 20 years of research leads to successful trials of this wave energy converter (interestingengineering.com)

if you're open to doing ranger again, have you tried a stalker? the bonus deflection and armor, on top of beast's claw later on (requires a bit of metagaming) can make the ranger surprisingly tanky. since you get the most important effect by tier 6 (beast's claw), you can multiclass with something that can boost the damage output some more (for example, i did furyshaper and got bored by how easy mode it was) edit: if you're curious about ranger and druid again, a stalker + shifter would be reeeeeally powerful, probably way more easymode than my stalker + furyshaper. a shifter boar would be able to do tons of damage, while the bonus AR and deflection would keep you extremely safe in shifted forms while being very fast. and you can spell cast with stupid accuracy when you're not shape shifting.

Ok you have bounce web elevators now you need fall nets. Jump off of your tower and safely fall into a net. Lot's of fun for the entire family.

Kevin O'Neill artist for LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMAN, MARSHAL LAW, NEMESIS THE WARLOCK amid his many credits.

Those are salient points, but AOC didn't reply to my DM respectfully asking for feet pics so both sides are equally bad. "Deny feet, get heat" - Quentin Tarantino

Agreed, I am expecting comprehensive GOP victories but once the midterms are over then we can analyze why and where the Democrats are going wrong

And tomorrow you're going to see millions of people who used to be D lifers walking away from the Democratic Party. The news media, being totally in the tank for the Democrats, always loves to highlight and showcase only the R crazies. But ordinary average people know all about the D crazies too, who are absolutely 1:1.

Propaganda is a wonderous thing