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Hey Y'all! I hope you had a great holiday break and weren't testing this the whole time! I had sent this thread to our web developer so he could see everything you've been doing and I've gotten confirmation from him that we should have a fix for the line break issue! It is currently on our testing server and awaiting a push Live once we approve of all the other web changes that he has along with it. I'm hoping we can have the update out sometime tomorrow or Friday at the latest. Hopefully it will fix the issue so you can finally get some peace of mind with this particular issue Thanks again for all the testing and for bearing with us while the issue persisted.

Glass Onion - I'm not sure if I fell asleep or zoned out or what, but there's a significant chunk of the middle of the movie I either didn't see, or don't remember, or something. I didn't care enough to go back and watch the part I missed. I did get a bit of entertainment out of Daniel Craig's hilariously bad southern accent, though.

symbolism is not mutual exclusive from evocative aspects o' story telling, which is precise why emotions and relationships is not elements o' fiction but is hopeful consequences o' skillful used theme, plot, setting, symbolism character, etc. symbolism, when recognized, should amplify an essential quality o' the narrative. sir gawain and the green knight is a bit more character driven than other early english writings, so it actual has more potential modern appeal than other stories written contemporaneous. nevertheless, it does eschew many modern conventions which attempt to focus on the reader empathizing with characters. the green knight movie is a better than fair adaption o' sir gawain and we found the emotional impact impressive. unlike modern stories, sir gawain don't use character backgrounds and motivations to make the characters relatable. these is s'posed to be larger than life events and personages who perhaps only exist in myth. were not necessarily s'posed to be relatable. is in part the symbolism which brings the story down to a more manageable level for audiences who ain't characters outta myth, though the movie does do a much better job o' humanizing and we already noted sir gawain were much better in that regard than most contemporaneous tales. a few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. he watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. the time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. it was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the bog of allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous shannon waves. it was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where michael furey lay buried. it lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. his soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead. you may read joyce w/o recognizing the symbolism positive radiating from every paragraph, but when you see the layers o' theme, setting, and symbolism synergizing, you may appreciate a story like the dead on a different and arguable more profound level. minor characters, through symbolism, gain emotional depth otherwise missed. a crpg example, though not specific symbolism, is the use o' macbeth in bg2. irenicus, particular with david warner reading, is ez to appreciate as little more than the typical mage gone mad with power. once you see all the repeated allusion to macbeth, it becomes extended metaphor fodder and then even minor characters such as kalah who is providing foreshadowing for the entire bg2 narrative and also contributing to the macbeth elements, achieves a new depth and possible a new level o' appreciation when such linkages is recognized. viewed insular, kalah is a throw-away character who contributes little to the bg2 narrative and whose name is almost instant forgotten. the thing is, from a storytelling perspective, kalah is much greater than his seeming limited contribution to the bg2 story and his passing is far more evocative when is seen as part o' something much greater than typical low-level side-quest fodder. writers such as the aforementioned joyce all too often become so obscure with their symbolism and themes and is so invested in creating manufactured depth they forget to make a story compelling for an audience other than the author themself and perhaps a handful o' literary scholars with multiple PhDs. is crap writing from our pov if it only works for a handful. symbolism and other elements may contribute to story telling even if they ain't consciously recognized, and am thinking such is the case for green knight, but when the author's goal is to astound a limited audience with his/her deftness and cleverness as 'posed to reaching a broader audience on an emotional level, then am thinking the work has become self indulgent as 'posed to art. nevertheless, each reader or viewer o' story is gonna have a different threshold for what is author fail and we cannot say any specific audience is wrong, even so, am personal seeing the symbolism o' sir gawain and the green knight, which were translated incomplete but well in the recent movie, were adding to the storytelling and made the film more evocative. regardless, symbolism is not s'posed to be separate from emotional appeal. nobody would give a mouse fart for virginia woolf (edit: butchered the spelling virginia's name) if symbolism were divorced from evocative. HA! Good Fun!

My 970 is spinning up a storm running Pathfinder WotR.

y'know, am thinking the dark materials books is far more likely to result in a middle school kid asking themselves and their parents tough questions than would be a reading o' atlas shrugged. in that sense, phillip pullman is far more dangerous to Christian dogma than is ayn rand. 'course am not thinking faith has value unless it is resilient in the face o' tough questions, but am also simultaneous not without empathy for the parent afeared for their crumb snatcher's immortal soul and recognizing they just don't have the capacity to answer the questions young bartimaeus is plagued by after reading the subtle knife. am not making excuses for clergy or parents who instead o' discussing challenging topics with kids decide that ignorance is bliss, but am understanding their not unjustified fears. a child who learns to question fundamental "truths" may very well come to conclusions parents and clergy do not recognize as legitimate or right, and then what does momma bartimaeus do? HA! Good Fun!

Well now I know to avoid going too far north. I've been eating a bowl of full fat greek yogurt (unsweetened) for breakfast because of time constraints and being lazy. Not nearly as versatile as eggs and not super tasty, but a nice bulk of protein to start the day. There's also the good ol protein supplements made from processed whatever that are a stable of my ****ty breakfasts. Apparently the void that devours posts is much hungrier than I am.

aside, and admitted spam material from Gromnir, am thinking children's authors is too often overlooked and more than a few writers o' literature and movie fiction would do well to read more kid fiction. is a whole lotta symbolism in stories such as the phantom tollbooth, the chronicles of prydain, coraline, northern lights (the golden compass) and a swiftly tilting planet, but chances are kids miss the symbolism on a conscious level. the capacity to baffle grad students o' literature doesn't confer a level o' inherent worth on a novel. first goal is to make the audience wanna read and finish the work, yes? such an observation should be axiomatic but is nevertheless overlooked too frequent. just one example, but phillip pullman's books is not skimping on symbolism or allegory and is influenced heavily by milton's paradise lost. the character o' lord asriel may paradoxical represent both satan and "son of god" from milton's work. religious themes dominate pullman's novels. is a helluva a lot more going on in pullman's books than is in the typical dickens novel... which if you paid attention to the first part o' this post is so not a criticism o' dickens. complex ≠ better. that said, pullman's books is meant to be enjoyed by kids, who is not sophisticated enough to understand all the author craft... or sleight o' hand if you is annoyed by such pretension. pullman simultaneous challenges the PhD folks while telling a story many young audiences embrace. HA! Good Fun!

Very interesting stuff from Germany: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-germany-influencers/ History can be excruciatingly harrowing: in the 20th century, Germany was a kind of a scourge for Europe because of all the things that it did. And now it's creating huge problems for Europe because of the good things that it leaves or has left undone (both militarily and in support of Ukraine) and because of the things it has done in response to its earlier deeds (i.e. tying itself to Russian energy in an effort to work out peace through trade). No blame attached to this comment, just exasperation at how things can go.

Fingers crossed, then.

Hi! I guess you mean this one:

Steve's (and other YT'ers) ever growing frustration/anger/befuddlement has been quite entertaining. I think I'll want to buy at least one more gpu/pc in the next 3-7years, but after that I may never build another PC. I honestly use my tablet for net browsing 98% of the time now, there's firestick or other options for streaming tv services (so I don't even use a PC for that these days), and I rarely game more than 8-12 hrs a month anymore (vs. addiction, haha). More and more often it's zero hours. I'm reaching a different stage of my life or whatever you want to call it, at a good time, I guess.

"No peanuts"

as a matter o' clarification, am thinking it is misleading to describe dark materials as anti-christian though is arguable some justification in such a position. am understanding how young readers might have difficulty making such a subtle distinction between christianity as a personal belief and a fantasy Church which is most assured pastiche o' real world catholicism and christian sects. organized religion, specific organized Christianity, is a clear target o' pullman criticism. regardless, a fear o' children asking difficult questions is a position we see as untenable, but is admitted a bit arrogant making such judgements w/o having to deal with the real life difficulties o' raising a child. HA! Good Fun!

Same deal for me, although I have much more free time on my hands so I still try to enjoy some games. Which is a sad affair as I spend a lot of time watching other people play games after work, well that and youtube. The younger me would be pretty mad I think...

Yeah, if I was doing anything that needed or really even encouraged me to upgrade, I'd probably find the motivation to do so. But gaming isn't really a major hobby for me anymore (and hasn't been for maybe seven years now), and even when I am inclined, it's by and large either retro-styled or straight up emulated crap that doesn't need it, so...

Non-edit: The forums are trying to force me to use AP style quotations by not letting me post unless I convert, but I'm not falling for it - y'all will just have to deal with crappy image posts instead.

I get the feeling Steve is not very happy with the RTX 4070 Ti. Going to be interesting to see for how much these things are going to go in stores here. If it actually ends up being cheaper than the 7900 XTs, the value in terms of performance gain vs. cost over the performance of an RTX 3070 (Ti) isn't as bad as US MSRPs suggest (still not good, mind you), and as long as 7900 XTXs cost 1600€, well, never mind... Also, uh, good job making the 7900 XT look good. Edit: all that said, hard pass on this generation.

I wasn't allowed to read The Golden Compass as a small child, as my mom apparently thought/heard it was too anti-Christian. Of all places to draw the line, she chose the weirdest ones. Ten years later, she somehow ended up reading it and told me it was actually really good. Thanks, mom. Well, to be fair, she had pretty much given up the entire idea of organized religion and didn't want much to do with other American Christians by that point, so I guess it's understandable her stance had changed during the same time.

Egg shortage around these parts, due to avian flu and new chicken housing requirements as CO is moving towards cage free only eggs, which sucks for me because I've been having scrambled eggs with ajika every morning for a couple of weeks now. I don't normally eat breakfast or even lunch but I had some meds that required food and I had to take them first thing in the morning. Was just some steroids that my dermatologist prescribed me because my skin broke out in Trill spots but now I've gotten used to eating in the morning and now I'm hungry when I wake up when before I wasn't.

https://pathfinderwrathoftherighteous.wiki.fextralife.com/Ki+Arrows at fifth level and beyond, with a shortbow a zen archer is doing monk unarmed damage. (edit: can't link even though we added the ki arrows info moments ago.) At 1st level, a monk gains Improved Unarmed Strike as a bonus feat. The damage dealt by a Medium monk's unarmed strike increases with level: 1d6 at levels 1-3, 1d8 at levels 4-7,1d10 at levels 8-11, 2d6 at levels 12-15, 2d8 at levels 16-19, and 2d10 at level 20. If the monk is Small, his unarmed strike damage increases as follows: 1d4 at levels 1-3, 1d6 at levels 4-7, 1d8 at levels 8-11,1d10 at levels 12-15, 2d6 at levels 16-19, and 2d8 at level 20. If the monk is Large, his unarmed strike damage increases as follows: 1d8 at levels 1-3, 2d6 at levels 4-7, 2d8 at levels 8-11, 3d6 at levels 12-15, 3d8 at levels 16-19, and 4d8 at level 20. 'course as a zen archer you use wisdom as your attack bonus modifier, so chances are you is always gonna be enlarged and then legendary proportions for later game. take a few points o' umd and have hurricane bow scrolls on hand for major battles. HA! Good Fun!

I don't mind, though. They can keep doing that for all I care. Maybe the war will then end sooner, idk.

Aftermath of Makiivka hit. Russian MoD started to blame mobilized themselves, saying, that the attack was due to their usage of mobile phones. According to some milbloggers, the mobile phones of mobiks are confiscated as soon as they get to the front. Relatives of some survivors are also saying, that the Russians are also "taking care" of survivors in various ways, just to cover up this mega ****-up and save their own hides. EDIT: Yestreday Ukrainian General Staff reported another big hit similar to the one in Makiivka, reporting 500 KIA+WIA in village of Western Kherson Oblast. So the numbers of KIA is definitely lower, but the pattern is the same. A big bunch of mobiks/servicemen in one place, being hit by long range artillery. Man would say, that Russians would already learn since the summer, that putting a lot of men together with their equipment is very very bad idea.Instead, they are doing some witchhunts to find someone to blame for it...

I try to script everything but I've never scripted summons as a mage. Not sure in what situation you'd want to cast the phantom. I have some ideas but I'm not certain it will work how you want. If you want the phantom up at all times could just do a cooldown with the duration of the spell (or duration of blackbow) and cast it when you have concentration, targeted at enemy by greatest number of enemies. Another way to check if you have a summoned weapon, assuming you normally use a melee weapon would be have two blocks like this block 1:Self: Has Summoned Weapon (not) => action: self, caedelbald's blackbow, cooldown (lesser of blackbow, phantom) block 2: Self: ranged weapon equipped and target: engaging or engaged by self, action: essential phantom, enemy, prioritize by greatest number of enemies, cooldown (lesser of blackbow, phantom) This way it casts blackbow and then immediately casts essential phantom, should keep both up at least until the phantom is killed. If you don't want to stick the phantom in the thick of things you can use least engagers. You can isolate blocks to execute when the phantom is up with target: is summoned AND target: is spirit AND target: has summoned weapon (target type ally) This block should (I think) auto cast essential phantom if the phantom is knocked out, but it won't cast the first one so you'd need multiple blocks target: is summoned AND target: is spirit AND target: has summoned weapon AND target: is unconscious, action: essential phantom Scripting would be so much better with an OR button...sorry if this is confusing.

Nope. Edit: No need to play Kingmaker first. Only some minor references.

I reached the underground transit, Warden Krieg isn't far now. I'm playing on veteran difficulty and while I wouldn't call my build full-on glass cannon, it's definitely glass cannon adjacent. With that in mind, I've gotten horrifically murdered quite a few times already (whereas with some other builds and on regular difficulty I didn't have my first death until after Warden Krieg), the latest of which was in the warden's cellar. It was one of those shrines that drops a bunch of good loot but you have to clear a bunch of tough monsters that spawn when you click on it, so I knew I was in for a tough fight. I was proactive and dropped a couple of glyphs on the ground near the shrine, then activated it. I was not prepared for what happened next. They dropped like 5 hero monsters, 2 of which were summoners, and 10 tough monsters into the (relatively small) room. Suddenly there were like 50 ***holes right on top of me. Needless to say, I died very abruptly.

That's some range. Dandy was voiced by the same guy who did Abbachio and Dr. Gel's VA did Old Joesph. There's probably more, but so far at least I haven't heard Jotaro or DIO, whose vas are probably the most recognizable to the point I can't help but associate them with ORA ORA ORA or MUDA MUDA MUDA. And Meow is voiced by the same guy who does Franky in Spy X Family.

This is your short post? Embrace the low effort and stop making us (by which I mean me) look bad. Now this I can relate to. And I had mother****ers bothering me on both holidays when I'd normally be off.

Still can't use the forum at all in Firefox, posts don't work, reactions don't work. (EDIT: still eats everything past the first paragraph in Chrome too. So entirely unusable, unfortunately)

Enjoyed a brisk walk with the dogs in the dog park. Sunset was phenomenal!

Frank Drebin > Poirot > Holmes RIP Leslie Nielsen

Switch to a VPN located in the US?

Another generation, another...uh, generation that I skip. Man, my crappy GTX 1060 is getting a little lean in the years... Although there could be a great mid-end card that I could eventually be persuaded by, regardless of how poor value the enthusiast products are.

Yeah, egg prices have gotten pretty crazy. I think I've mentioned it here before: no eggs means Bart starts eating people. Protein is the only worthwhile food, and eggs are the king of easy, flexible protein that can be used in a wide variety of ways.

Myers's Rum and Pepsi Mango Two things I don't like some how turned into one thing I may like too much.

I think I have to watch Bocchi the Rock now since this song actually slaps. It will be my first musical anime.