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During prohibition, Winston Churchill got a prescription to drink alcohol when visiting the United States.

Impromptu survey of friends and acquaintances reveals that the people I know : Don't wonder about how they'll die Believe I am "strange".

This one popped up today on my YT recommendations and it was on of the most savage pieces, which describes some shortcomings of RuAF in communication on frontline, I’ve watched this year.🔥

Me: Go outside for a bit, come back inside, walk to fridge and wrap my hand around the handle. *a little time passes* Hubby: Walks into the kitchen, sees I'm in the way/standing there, asks what I'm doing Me: "uhh..what, um...I had a soda in my room and I think I was trying to decide if I wanted to grab another now, so I wouldn't have to come back out in 10 minutes, then I guess my brain shutdown" ...such is my life since the diabetic "coma" stuff. 🙄 Edit: on the bright side, the weather has been really nice. Almost spring-like. Still cool but the sun is warm and pleasant.

"Keep on hand"

I had my first death in Hogwarts Legacy. I jumped off a cliff with the intention of getting on my broom mid-fall, for style points, and flying off. My less than dexterous fingers fumbled on the controller and SPLAT. Still no combat deaths, though. Despite lacking challenge, combat is always fun. The possibilities for entertaining combos continues to expand as I learn new spells. I'm currently doing the broom upgrade quests to get maximum broom. The broom races are a good time, I hope they add more tracks in the future. As an aside, these are the mods I'm currently running: Someone needs to make a mod changing the balloons you can pop in the game while flying into Chinese spy balloons.

beta have not looked at the fixes, so none o' our typical snarky commentary. edit: Otherworldly Companion's templates granted incorrect number of uses to Smite Good/Evil – fixed; we suspected this day would arrive, but we held out hope it never would. HA! Good Fun!

Condolences on your loss. A big favorite of mine. Love the 999 stuff, but liked most of his work that I've encountered.

They need symbolism and solidarity for that still after the ocean of money and weapons ? Huh. US media is going to be in a coma from the furious masturbation over this visit. I like an air raid siren being triggered while he spoke, brilliant bit of theatrics

Malc remember you said you were going to try not to be so cynical, its the anniversary of the invasion in a few days and Bidens visit is about symbolism and solidarity for Ukraine and its efforts Thats what this visit was about

Condolences on your loss, @ShadySands

Mind posting a link to the instructions? Curious to see how complicated they are, and googling "hogwarts legacy ansel camera hex edit" didn't turn anything up besides a random 4chan page I'm not going to look through. I've done some hex editing in my time, so if there are instructions already laid out, it shouldn't be too difficult...in theory.

Sorry to hear that, Shady

Condolences, Shady.

Without Ansel in combat, one can disable most (or all) UI elements and then record dozens of very short videos and hope you get lucky, but mostly, you do not. From that tho, there aren't that many combat animation variations anyway. But it'd be nice if you could see another angle other than mostly your chr's backside. Oh well! 😄

Sorry for delayed response. Looks like I missed a lot of discussion, can't address everything said but have a few comments. First I like the idea of buffing heal companion to more like savage defiance, though since this is a low level pick it does nothing to address making SC rangers preferable, which is why I think you need a better healing buff on Bonded Fury. Like could do hardy companion => robust companion and add more healing on bonded fury, alternatively hardy companion gives heal 10+health per 3s for 15s, hardy, and bonded fury gives robust for stacking. Have you tried changing Bonded Fury to give all tier 3 inspirations? Then playtested it a bit? I think that would be enough to make SC ranger competitive. And it sounds overpowered because "all tier 3" but it's on the pet so it really isn't. It will still be worse at combat than any properly built character including companions by a ward margin, and keeping it up requires most of your bond. I'm honestly not that familiar with most of the SC bond regeneration, though I know distraction training doesn't really work as is. And I'm pretty sure adding pet on-crit resource regen will not work in the encounters you need it to work without intuitive. So here is a proposal for bonded fury 2 bond, gives all tier 3 inspirations for 30 seconds, 50% chance return bond on pet crit Keep it .5s cast, 0 recovery. If you add recovery you are really going in the wrong direction with SC ranger. Besides, it is a passive buff, not like an attack ability, doesn't make sense to have a recovery. The 50% chance is just an educated guess, would have to playtest it. But the on-crit bond return is really only going to work with intuitive except in easy encounters. Intuitive + Energized will give the pet some combat utility so it can do some interrupts, swift some mobility, and robust some tankiness. It still won't do a lot of damage but it will be useful at least. Alternatively the on-hit/crit seems all right. I think making the pet better at combat is what can make SC ranger something you'd actually want to pick, as the pet is really the identifying hallmark for the ranger. Or if you don't like robust since it isn't stackable, 2 bond, gives intuitive, energized, swift, brilliant, courageous, hardy, +10 (or more) health per 3s for 30s, 50% chance return bond on pet crit I don't think having Bonded Fury pseudo-mandatory is that big a deal. You basically get four L8 picks (2 at 16, 1 at 17, 1 at 18) and there are five L8 choices. And I'd think most builds probably wouldn't pick both twinned shots and whirling strikes. Or if they wanted to, less pet-focused builds could skip Vengeful Grief (or Great Souls). I like the Vengeful Grief 25% action speed buff, though could just make it an enhanced fury on pet death which is similar effect and matches the description of the ability better (fury with tenacious / nimble or whatever) Having some kind of healing available to the ranger himself would also be cool, not strictly necessary but could make melee rangers better. Like add to bonded fury a "ranger receives 15% of pet damage dealt as healing". -------------------- I know you think I'm basing all these suggestions on solo play but I'm not. Solo is what initially made me notice how bad SC ranger is compared to MC, but the same holds in parties, and I've played with parties quite a lot, though recently more focused on solo. The SC shortcomings just aren't as noticeable in parties because you have other characters to pick up the slack. But the fact a build can do okay in parties doesn't mean anything by itself. I could make the worst build possible and it would still do okay in well-built parties because if this is a game where some classes can solo (and it is), then you really only need one truly well-built party member and the rest can just stand there getting murdered. I know that's an extreme comparison but you probably get my point. For role comparison, I did mention a ranged crit build centered on stunning shots for CC is the only real reason to consider a SC ranger. Though even a ranged CC build has good (better imo) alternatives like ranger / monk (instruments of pain, stunning surge) or ranger / chanter, ranger / cipher, both of which don't have this specific method of single target CC but have arguably better ones available like mental binding, thunder rolled like waves on black seas etc., in addition to other resources like better healing, summons, etc. For ranged DPS, ranger/cipher is better, ranger/chanter (sure-handed ila + energized + summons), probably also ranger / rogue and ranger / fighter For melee striker, ranger/cipher is better, ranger/barbarian is better, ranger/fighter, ranger/wizard, ranger/monk, probably ranger/priest and ranger/rogue (haven't played rogues that much outside of parties) For offtank, ranger/cipher, ranger/fighter, ranger/barbarian, ranger/paladin, ranger/monk, ranger/wizard, ranger/priest all better For tank, no combinations are ideal but same listed above are better Parties or solo, there is presently very little reason to pick a SC ranger over something else. And I didn't even mention the combinations without ranger, like SC monk, monk/fighter, monk/barbarian which are way better at striker, offtank, and tank roles, or devoted/troubadour which is better at ranged dps. (And I may be arguably off on some specific comparison because I haven't played every single one of these, not the point, the point being there is virtually always a better choice) -------------- And I know you like Heart Seeker, and *maybe* in a party that is a good enough reason to have a SC ranger, at least in encounters where enemies heal a lot, but generally I think you are better suited by something else. My perspective is this: anything that requires 4 bond is just going to be really expensive in the hard encounters (megabosses, DLC bosses) where you will run out of resources very quickly if you use the active abilities, hence active abilities becomes less important than things like stacking accuracy to hit with normal attacks or stacking deflection and healing to tank or CCing the enemy. Potions of enlightenment address resource loss somewhat, so that you can still use *some* abilities that require limited resources, but I've found you can sustain at most one 12s/bond duration ability (with max INT and INT inspiration). You can sustain multiple abilites in some cases if the durations are longer and/or there is resource return or ability to extend the ability (like blood storm on crit). Generally it is much better to use your resources on long duration passive abilities you can sustain (like hardy companion / bonded fury / shadowed hunters, or swift flurry with monk, or blood storm + stalwart defiance for barb) than using on twinned arrows or whirling strikers or whatever. This probably isn't true in easy encounters, but it is the hardest encounters that function as gates for builds and therefore it is important to make sure a build has a chance of surviving the toughest encounters, moreso than how it performs fighting mooks.

Not much of a protest, the most dangerous thing was the guy with a sniper. No mentions of it being orchestrated by Russia.

Okay, what I'll do is polish up what I did for Durance and release it on Nexus as a demonstration of a custom Sidekick. and since Custom voice sets are something I am messing with at the moment, I'll include a ported version of Durance's voice set with it as well. 😁

Still no firm release date beyond an estimated "a few months" but certainly by year's end: Brings to mind a certain Calvin and Hobbes strip that would certainly have caught a ton of flak if released today

Hogwart's - I like how they incorporate many spells into the quest problem solving. It at least keeps me from forgetting some of them even exist. Stealth-killing is still my favorite thing in the game. Again, it's not the best thing to try in some situations and some enemies it won't outright kill but I put stealth-dmg. enchants on half my gear and it's a bit OP (at least on Normal) but I find it more fun that direct combat. I am a little annoyed how many times you go to pick up coins and it's 1 or 3 gold, not even 25. Like why even bother.

If you make a custom history the first options for each choice are usually the best (or at least as good as the others). Important (possible) exceptions, and the only things you really need to check 1) which God you pledged - hylea is the best for nearly every case because she's the "good" option but more important you get hyleas bounty which is incredibly useful food for most of the game when your skills are lacking, and for many builds remains the best food throughout the game. If you're doing a no rest run which id recommend then hyleas bounty is the best food 2) whether to sacrifice a companion and who. There is no reason not to besides role-playing. The wiki has a list of bonuses under status affects (effigys resentment). Best one varies by build but Sagani is most useful for the largest number of builds 3) make sure devil of caroc spared harmke. Its the best armor you can get for about half the game, and for some builds may remain the best 4) aloths starting equipment depends on whether he was made GM of leaden key. If no he has keybreaker scepter, if yes then thaos headdress. The headdress is better unless you need an okay scepter early 5) whether eder remained faithful to eothas determines if he starts with night market amulet (+1 religion +1 stealth) or mayor of dyrwood for dyrwoodan mayor amulet (+1 bluff +1 diplomacy). Neither is terribly useful but the +1 bluff is harder to find for stat checks than religion or stealth, but stealth is very useful also 6) whether pallegina did her duty and screwed over the dyrwood. She gets better armor if she did her duty but it isn't amazing so not that important. Can't think of anything else of significance

My grandma and Richard Belzer. Not saying they're related but I'm not ruling anything out either.

Some of us are still using ancient systems... Got an intel ax210 wifi car for my MB (the old card is useless now (since windows 10) because of drivers), buuuut it's got different plugs for the cable and it has 2 connections instead of 3. The number of connections is not an issue and I knew that it had a different connection on the card (U.FL), but for some reason they used MMCX connectors for the antenna instead of the SMA ones that are pretty much standard and I thought they were SMA because they looked similar. Finding an MMCX/U.FL cable locally turned out to not be possible, so now I wait for ebay again. I ordered a RPSMA/U.FL set of cables too, in case I decide to go with a 2 wire antenna for some reason, but I doubt I will have the will power to disassemble the board again unless the signal is really weak. Will take some pictures of the process when I get all I need.

It continues. The only good thing about nutrek: