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Return of the Obra Dinn Such a satisfying experience. Easily the best detective game I have played. In case you are unfamiliar with the premise - you get to explore memories of crew of a West India Company ship, and you need to deduce identity, fates and potential killers of each of the crew members. You need to correctly solve three fates for the game confirm those as correct - so cheesing the game would be difficult. A minor nitpic would be that solving some of the last fates will require abuse of said system - "I have couple candidates, so if I try switching them around and see what combination the game will confirm" - meaning it is actually impossible to exactly determine character's identity without confirmation system's existance. That said, to get there still some deduction and process of elimination has to be made, so I found it satisfying from gamey side (also my brained was also wired by this point to rejoice at the sound que of 3 fates solved - I should make it my morning alarm for a better start of the day). [edit]Just one YouTube video in, and it is clear enough that I missed at least some of the possible clues. So it is very much possible that all identities are solvable through deduction, but I just brute forced some of the final solutions[/edit] An actual complain would be that the secret chapter, unlocked only if all available fates are solved was underwhelming. If there was something meaningful to be found in it, than I have missed it.

My sister and her fiancé are planning a trip to a beach resort in Colombia for both the families later this year. With this in mind, it would behoove me to know at least some Spanish. Hence, I am starting to learn Spanish via the Duolingo app, on account of it being free and me being a cheapskate.

Thank you for desescalating, a break sometimes helps. Just quoting a post from someone else : So there are other people than me that consider Swift a bit redundant for Maia/GH and believe that SC Ranger already has too much healing. Hard to satisfy everyone 🙂 But for me the statuts quo is ok (Shadowed Hunters would remain the extra SC Ranger heal) provided that Heal Companion is buffed because this one was a bit meh. Especially if SC Ranger gets more Bond, he could heal more than MC. Energized will be implemented on Bonded Fury. For the other 2, refer above. It was not my argument at least me neither. Actually thanks to you I have found a relevant glitch, see below about attack speed. That doesn't explain everything, but that should reduce the gap between our perception. Vastly, the ranger himself is king of accuracy so there's no surprise it comes on top (and you haven't even use Hunter's Claws, which can help vs bosses). That is why I'm comparing the pet to a Rogue, who doesn't have huge accuracy but high damages bonuses. And tenacious I guess. Because without, it would be 12. Well, it IS Pierce / Slash actually. They are all Pierce / Slash. I've checked once again. As I said they have the damages roll lof a Stiletto (actually better : 8-13 vs 8-12), minus 1 PEN but dual type damages. The base and attack speed are actually exactly the same as the stiletto, except for the glitch I found today. I'm not sure how you get so high with ranger. Maybe with unique items and Mythic Upgrade (which are limited). But that's quite expected from a well-equipped DPS build which indeed top a pet. That said, the pet has +50% from Predatory's Sense and +30% from Merciless Companion. That is above what ranger gets. But Ranger has way better accuracy. Indeed. Items and better starting stats are what gives Ranger an edge. Here we are. This is the Issue I just spotted. Some pets count as dual wielding while some other do not, with absolutely zero justifications. They all get 3s base attack recovery, but only Cat, Bear and Wolf counts as dual wielding (Cat gains a speed modifier on top of that). I've checked in game, then checked the game files and they are absolutely aligned with my observations (which makes it easy to correct). Basically Boar, Bird, Antelope and Stag all all gimped. They should get -30% recovery. That's a x1.42 multiplicative DPS factor that is missing on your particular pet DPS !!!!!! I will obviously correct this. Note that Car and Bear Aspects of Galawain (but not wolf) seem to have the same issue. Pet gets Predatory's Sense, Merciless, Marked Prey and (against about half of targets) Survival of the Fittest. That's comparable bonus damages, and only items can grant Rogue similar accuracy. Most of this results from higher stats and items. (and no armor I presume). But without unique items, pet damages are still comparable to a lvl 20 Rogue with DW Legendary Stiletto and Legendary Light Armor. The unique weapons / items do make a big difference though. Indeed. But Dorudugan is extreme and makes many builds suboptimal, because of its immunity to many things including interrupts. That thing is why I plan adding 50% attack speed on Vengeful Grief, granted that the Ranger would still do suboptimal damages with it, but less (counterbalanced by the utility of Heart Seeker making the fight less long, which is enough utility at least with a party). It's unlikely, if you pick the damage talents. But the speed factor glitch lead to this conclusion on a vanilla / current BPM Boar. Yet you seemed to discard the Bond Generation solutions. It is combat utility (especially because Rangers have quite varied abilities) but somehow you didn't like it. That's why you sounded a bit hard to satisfy to me 😉 I'm not set on what I'll do. Current plan for Bonded Fury : - 0.5s/0s cast/recovery - 0 bond, 60 cooldown (up more than half of the time). I want to make SC Bond pool more forgiving. - Energized and all other Tier 2 Inspirations - 15% chance of +1 Bond on Hit/Crit But I'm not completely decided. That said, from this point, I would prefer to tweak the values. Yes, I checked it, but seems a hard code bug and I can't correct it. +25% recovery. Basically a bit more than light armor, but the armor doesn't have a "weakness", so it isn't so bad. Basically a generic scaling light armor. Oh and Monastic Unarmed Training for everyone has been implemented and tested. All classes will get it in next version.

The last couple weeks I've been trying to get into a regular routine at the pool, and today I started to see decent gains in my swim times. I always feel good after the workout, but getting up at 4:30, getting to the pool at 5, and swimming for 45 minutes is not the easiest schedule to keep. It doesn't help that it is super cold, windy, and rainy right now and it is an outdoor pool. At least it is heated, so once I get out of my car, there is a lot of motivation to get into the water ASAP. I have a half ironman in Morro Bay in May, so I really need to stick with the schedule for the next couple months.

Probably because of PoE1…and just the name of the weapon type in general…I expected Hunting Bows to be somewhat lacking in damage compared to other weapon types. But after running the numbers I was shocked at how wrong I was. Hunting Bow+Modal (other factors ignored, base weapon stats) did more dps than even a monks fists or dual wielded weapons with speed buffs! Of course, there are clear downsides of the weapon and its modal…the low inherit PEN of the weapon, and the accuracy debuff of the modal (-15). But I think these downsides can be mitigated quite a bit with class skills/abilities, and taking into account that Hunting Bows use best of two different damage types. Fighter - is probably the easiest “fix”. Disciplined Barrage and Confident Aim upgrade hit types, so as long as youre not missing entirely a lot of that accuracy debuff should be negated. Conqueror Stance+Barrage negates the ACC debuff entirely. Rolling a Devoted bumps PEN by 2, which isnt a bad idea with Hunting Bows, since it has two damage types, so you likely wouldnt need to change weapons anyway. If anything, you ought to be overpenetrating at that point. Ranger - gets a ton of ACC buffs to begin with. Marked Prey+Marksman+Stalkers Link should be +25 ACC that I think stacks with each other, and Driving Flight bumps the damage even more. Sharpshooter might actually be a great pairing with a Hunting Bow, as you can bump Hit to Crit or +1 PEN as needed, and the +10% to Rec Time doesnt hurt as bad with the modal (-50%). Cipher - takes a bit to get it, but Borrowed Instinct (+20 ACC) at the start of the fight eliminates the ACC penalty and then some. Then they have Hammering Thoughts (+1 PEN) early to make up for the low innate PEN. Monk - better than Id have thought at first. Dance of Death boosts ACC a lot as long as you dont get hit, which is possible as a ranged character. Later Thunderous Blows can give +2 PEN. I didnt test it, but I want to say that Force of Anguish works with HBs, as kind of a funny “get off me” ability if an enemy gets past the frontline. Anyways, Im sure there are other synergies and/or buffs that can be used to negate the Hunting Bow downsides, just thought it was interesting how damaging they were with the modal and wanted to mention some that jumped out at me. Something like Devoted+Cipher with a HB seems particularly powerful now.

Taking out many of the weirdest, darkest, and most interesting elements of stories, which are often times pretty foundational to what those stories are trying to say, always strikes me as pretty wrong. But more importantly, I want to see the keeds cry when Ariel can't bring herself to murder her prince and kills herself instead. Yeah, that sounds like a good time. Well, you know, I'm not sure that The Little Mermaid was originally written for children in the first place...

Probably. In Lost Girls, Peter Pan rides the schlong.

My biggest issue with FFXV was the story. The boy band was great, had the game just been a boner comedy about 4 chums going on a wacky road trip, it could have been awesome. The main story was an absolute disaster in how it was told IMHO. The pacing was horrendous. Granted, it's nigh impossible to do proper pacing in an open(ish) world game since there's nothing stopping the player from forgetting about the main quest and ****ing off for 20 hours. Still, FFXV was particularly egregious in this regard. Characters would just suddenly appear in the story and act like I'm supposed to know who they are, then I wouldn't see them again for a quarter of the game. At one point a character dies and it's supposed to be this big emotional scene and I'm like "oh no, it's... wait, who is tha? Oh, it's that guy, whatever his name was, that I met for all of 10 seconds 8 hours ago and never saw again, I'm so heartbroken". It felt like a lot of important story was cut from FFXV and the game still wound up being too long. I shudder to think how bloated the original plan was.

Yes, I changed it for my own game to +30% (based on your mod), which definitely doesn't feel too overpowered. +20 all defenses (that stacks quite nicely afaik!) is a huge buff for a defensive build, +40% damage might be very powerful for caster multiclasses, however they usually have a harder time using melee abilities, so could still feel rewarding and fair enough.

TL;DW remains the same. [X] SKIP, this time Steve even agrees on account of this not topping any charts and therefore not getting a "chart topping bonus" (that no reviewer should give out anyway and just leads to 13900K CPUs). Anyway, for gaming, as expected, the 5800X3D still makes all of the new ones look like bad value for the money. Well, unless you really want those 850 FPS in Rainbow Six Siege and CS:GO, but in those cases one should either get the 7950X3D or an i9-13900, not this... whatever it is supposed to be. What was it Steve said in the video, you're paying 15$ per 1% performance uplift. That's just bad value. Guess we now know why AMD didn't provide review samples. In games where the extra cache helps, it helps up to 98% of the performance of the 7950X3D, but the results are really incosistent. Looks like AMD really took 700Mhz off the upcoming 7800X3DX in order to not kill their own higher end CPUs in gaming. Let's see how well these things sell. If they do well enough, at least the AMD fanboys will have to shut up about nVidiots buying overpriced trash that was intentionally gimped to fleece gamers.

My first Peter Pan experience was in the theatre, which sounds fancy. It was fantastic watching the actors fly around the stage. I was pretty young, but I still remember it fondly.

That isn't false. But at least SC Ranger has a lots of ability point to spend on Ranger side (granted it is... well... their only side). So I would say it is a bit less an issue for SC. For MC, it might be a reason picking Ghost Heart since it requires a couple less talent (can ignore every defense and healing talents) I wouldn't pick Bear Fortitude over Predator's Bond, though. I think most pet talent are rather balanced, usually granting at least twice the benefit of what they would do for an actual character. Nice to hear. That being said I'm considering another change, to Shadowed Hunters. Shadowed Hunters is currently rather balanced on its own, but I see a potential issue and an opportunity : 1) now with more Bond regen, one might want to keep Shadowed Hunters up most of the time, even more than previously. But it feels suboptimal since Intuitive lasts much more than the other effects. Basically, by refreshing the regen/debuff reduction, one waste 30s of Intuitive. So I would like to set Intuitive to 30s too. It is not possible to rise the overall duration of Shadowed Hunters or lower the bond cost. - With 45s base duration and a lots of Intellect, one could reach the critical duration of 90s for Shadowed Hunters. Potion of Enlightenment would allow permanent invisibility. This + Lover's embrace means super slow auto-win. - 30s base duration and 2 Bonds cost would lead to the same consequence. I will probably simplify Shadowed Hunters to set all components to lasts 30s from the cast. The current mechanism where Intuitive only starts after invisibility can be fun, but might have been a bit obscure. 2) If I had to nerf Shadowed Hunters Intuitive, I would obviously have to add another effect (with regular 30s duration) to make it balanced. I was thinking about something defensive to synergize with the healing. Initially, I thought about adding some Deflection (as BPM Shadowing Beyond for Rogue which provides Deflection even after invisbility breaks). But maybe something that is harder to get with party buff would be better. Such as 25-50% Hit to Graze. I'm not set about the value. There would be an obvious synergy with Distracting Training. Could be also another defensive effect. I could also add a bit of healing (12 per tick instead of 10 maybe). I'm not suggesting more to avoid copying too much Savage Defiance. The idea is that SC Ranger could go perma Shadowed Hunters to endure in battle when necessary, sometimes throwing Heal/Hardy Companion in the mix. Thanks to regenerating bond, one could sustain this for quite a while. With Potion of Enligtenment and reasonable Intellect, it would already be half funded. I think it should do the trick of "extra healing for SC ranger" since it would encourage using Shadowed Hunters defensively. Thanks ! Just quote the post as usual, then go to the part you want to add your reply, and type twice on the Return Key. EDIT : Also, hunter's Fang seems a tad weak compared to Beast's Claw. Up +20 all defenses is huge. Up +20% damages... err less. I would probably set Hunter's Fang to up to +30% or +40% damages.

There is also a controversy about this game, that it is funding the Russian Army efforts at Ukraine, as it is said, that Russian Government has stakes in the studio as well. https://www.escapistmagazine.com/atomic-heart-controversy-explained-mundfish-russia-ukraine-war/ For me good reason, to skip it, unless proven differently, and released on GOG.

In PoE1 the best bows were also hunting bows (Persistence and Stormcaller). In PoE2 it was also well known that hunter bows had the best ranged dps due to their modal (only the Red Hand and Frostseeker can do better). Their biggest drawback was their damage types - slash/pierce AR can be both very high (especially on PotD) - however the Essence Interrupter fixed that. Ranger/cipher and ranger/monk are very powerful combos with great synergies (with both Frostseeker/Essence Interrupter).

am suspecting your recollection is the norm as 'posed to the exception. perhaps too few parents nowadays is reading to their kids, but even if they are, am doubtful peter and wendy makes top twenty lists. we frequent lament how underappreciated is authors o' children's fiction, mentioning lloyd alexander, phillip pullman, simon juster, madeleine l'engle, rudyard kipling and neil gaiman just to name a few. am old, so am no doubt ignoring a whole catalog o' recent authors making great youth fiction, authors o' whom we ain't even aware. furthermore, is vast repositories o' fairytales and mythology from 'round the world we would be reading to kids before we would ever get 'round to considering barrie. heck, we would even read shakespeare before trying barrie. have seen criticism o' the recent trailer other than epic music in a movie trailer. New live-action 'Peter Pan' trailer shocks with major character changes: 'Diversity nonsense' predictable. the book peter and wendy is pre adolescents, but the author did not otherwise describe their appearance in any detail save for attire. tinker bell? author left her visual characteristics up to the imagination o' readers, and her personality is as broken as is peter's. 'ccording to barrie, tinker bell is so diminutive she may hold onto no more than one emotion at a time. disney influenced the multitudinous versions o' peter pan which followed far more than did the original novel and play. as such, the expectations 'bout character appearance and personalities is more linked to disney than barrie. gonna repeat, am not a fan o' the barrie works but we also weren't a fan o' disney, so we had no good will built up in advance o' the trailer. the trailer changed our mind for the better, 'cause while we ain't a fan o' barrie, we ain't ever seen an effort to do peter pan based on peter and wendy v. peter pan. peter pan is functional suffering a curse which keeps him perpetual shallow, selfish and smug, incapable o' making and maintaining meaningful relations. the curse ain't some kinda faustian bargain in which he sacrifices his soul, nor is it akin to greek tragedy in which he were cursed by the gods for impiety. peter pan is a kid in perpetuity. that's it. you would think such cynical thematic material would be a hard sell particular for family movies, but every few years there is a new effort to do peter pan. fascinating, no? while am not a fan o' barrie, am curious to see what a director produces when trying to be faithful to barrie themes especial 'cause am believing most people is like bartimaeus and they do not know the source material. curious, the expectations created by disney allows a director who is faithful to source material to nevertheless surprise audiences with something unexpected. HA! Good Fun!

Women Talking (2022). A period drama about women and girls in a traditional Mennonite colony who find themselves frequently being assaulted and raped by the men of their colony with no reparation or resolution available to them. The men say they are lying, that what they are experiencing is merely flight of female fantasy; one of the young women decides to take a sickle to her would-be assaulter. In response, the women and girls are finally recognized and given an ultimatum by their church: forgive the men responsible for the attacks...or abandon the colony and their only chance to gain entry to Heaven. Fantastic options from the point of view of religious and uneducated women and girls, I have to say. I am not at all familiar with Peter Pan outside of the Disney stuff, and it's been quite a while since I saw even any of that. Weirdly, I have stronger memories of Return to Neverland than I do of the original Disney animated film...but not strong enough in either's case to really have a good grasp to see exactly what you mean.

I've had it many times and it's pretty good. They have a food truck that used to come to the Denver Fed Center once a week. Of course, I think many of my family's fry bread is better but I grew up with a lot of similar foods.

https://www.tocabe.com/ @ShadySands They had this authentic Native American restaurant on Diners, Drive-in and Dives. Its in Denver. You should try it, they dont have a huge menu but they do have delicious Bison Ribs 🍖

Well I finally beat persona 4 golden. Was good... the end of the game "that's not the real boss, THIS is the real boss, jk, this is actually the final boss. And now for the real final boss" was definitely getting annoying. Also I read that there is another TRUE final boss if you play new game plus... which I will not be doing. Now I don't know what to play 😞. Soul hackers 2 is on game pass but I'm not sure I can handle another atlas game at the moment

I am kvetching on the weather here. I've had about 3 and a half days of weather good enough to do priming and painting in over the last two months. I thought it had turned a corner last week, but now we're back to a serious cold snap due to icy winds from Siberia. So I have scattered pieces of Mando armour waiting to be properly done that I can't because we keep sinking below 10 Centigrade temps and that causes the paint to go funky. And of course my budget was on the spray cans that I can't use inside the house. I've been nibbling away on the small accessories, because I can nip outside, spray and then put them back in the house instead of the garage, without the house getting fumed up. Which I can't do with the significantly larger armour pieces. Still. I do now have some shiny. My DT-10 heavy blaster "clean" and assembled (now I need to give thought to how I'm going to approach weathering it):

If they can make the world look like that, I'm sold.

In Soviet Neverland the schlong rides Peter Pan.