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Walz signs universal school meals bill into Minnesota law “If you’re looking for good news, this was certainly the place to be,” said Walz. “I’m honored and I do think this is one piece of that puzzle in reducing both childhood poverty and hunger insecurity.” HA! Good Fun!

Okay, but just to be clear in case you did not do even a quick Google search, it's specifically grapefruit that can hurt/kill you. Not limes or lemons or most oranges, grapefruit. Grapefruit messes with metabolizing enzymes responsible for fully breaking down and flushing drugs, which means those drugs can stick around in you for a lot longer and in higher concentrations than they should, causing more severe side effects and/or possibly even overdoses. Here's a random excerpt from a random article that at least gets the idea across: With most drugs that are affected by grapefruit juice, “the juice lets more of the drug enter the blood,” says Shiew Mei Huang, Ph.D., of the FDA. “When there is too much drug in the blood, you may have more side effects.” For example, if you drink a lot of grapefruit juice while taking certain statin drugs to lower cholesterol, too much of the drug may stay in your body, increasing your risk for liver and muscle damage that can lead to kidney failure. Many drugs are broken down (metabolized) with the help of a vital enzyme called CYP3A4 in the small intestine. Grapefruit juice can block the action of intestinal CYP3A4, so instead of being metabolized, more of the drug enters the blood and stays in the body longer. The result: too much drug in your body. The amount of the CYP3A4 enzyme in the intestine varies from person to person. Some people have a lot of this enzyme and others just a little. So grapefruit juice may affect people differently even when they take the same drug. Although scientists have known for several decades that grapefruit juice can cause too much of certain drugs in the body, more recent studies have found that the juice has the opposite effect on a few other drugs. “Grapefruit juice can cause less fexofenadine to enter the blood,” decreasing how well the drug works, Huang says. Fexofenadine (brand name Allegra) is available as both prescription and OTC to relieve symptoms of seasonal allergies. Fexofenadine may also not work as well if taken with orange or apple juice, so the drug label says, “Do not take with fruit juices.” Why this opposite effect? Instead of changing metabolism, grapefruit juice can affect proteins in the body known as drug transporters, some of which help move a drug into our cells for absorption. As a result, less of the drug enters the blood and the drug may not work as well, Huang says. Hope you make it through the medical issue you're dealing with. If it's chemotherapy (and I don't know that it is and nobody here needs to know if that's what it is...I've just had family and friends who have gone through it and have repeatedly said how awful it is, and how it makes it so they simply cannot eat), there's a strong possibility you do not want to be having grapefruit with it - everywhere I see seems to say "DO NOT MIX CHEMOTHERAPY WITH GRAPEFRUIT". If your doctor has okay-ed grapefruit, then okay.

I got a chuckle out of Biden rejecting China trying to broker a peace. Granted, the stance that China has ulterior motives and an agenda in brokering a cease fire is obviously correct. Still, if we are to believe that Imperial Murica is NOT engaged in a proxy war with Russia (dismissive_wank.gif), and only sending "defensive weapons" (whatever the **** that means) to Ukraine, then what gives Imperial Murica the right to accept or reject any sort of treaty between 2 other sovereign nations? Gotta keep that sweet sweet racket going for as long as possible, funneling money from the treasury into the pockets of Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and the like, all while palms all around the Capitol are getting nice and greasy, and the best part is that it's happening thousands of miles away with non-Americans getting slaughtered by the thousands. Good times for everyone, except us taxpayers, who will ultimately foot the bill for the billions of dollars the fat cats in DC keep pumping into the war to keep it going as long as possible, and, more importantly, the Ukrainians and Russians dying.

Uh, did you make sure that the grapefruit was a-okay for whatever medication that was? Grapefruit has potentially fatal interactions for a pretty wide variety of medications. Grapefruit is probably my favorite fruit, but there may come a day when I'm too old and take too many medications to be able to safely eat it anymore...

That party will probably work but having a chanter (troubadour) and especially a cipher would make things easier on you for megabosses. Like maybe monk/cipher/troubadour/blood mage/(priest or druid). You probably don't want to build around megabosses though as that's just a small part of the game and you can always recruit adventurers specifically for those encounters. You don't really need brilliant for most classes. Chanter does gives a brilliance like effect but it is pretty expensive at 7 phrases. Still, with a troubadour that's like 21 seconds with brisk recitation so you could make it work. Ciphers can hand out single target brilliant for 12s (modified by INT), so a cipher with maxed INT could hand out about 24s of brilliance, a bit longer if single class, which would restore 4 resources for 70 focus. If you make the cipher a DPS monster like a devoted/cipher (hunting bow) or ranger/cipher you can get 70 focus in like one hit (though SC is good too for defensive mindweb and reaping knives). Hierophant (blood mage / cipher) is also really good. And forbidden fist / soul blade is extremely good but forbidden fist only generates focus if you have the community patch from nexus mods, which I'd recommend anyway. In vanilla the forbidden fist ability isn't considered a weapon attack and doesn't generate focus. If you want to defeat all the megabosses it is easier if you have a cipher since they can kill Hauni O Whe with disintegration while if you don't have a cipher you have to be able to stop merges. It is very doable with a full party, easiest way is likely to give everyone arbalests and crossbows with the modals to interrupt the oozes. For megabosses anything that can regenerate resources tends to be strong. So monks, chanters, ciphers, blood mages, tactician (if you can proc brilliant tactician, which is easier solo I think). But even something like a ranger is quite strong with generic attacks as long as you can keep them from being damaged too much. Just give them a hunting bow like Essence Interrupter and with hunting bow modal they do massive damage. Of the classes you listed priests and druids will have harder times in megaboss fights since they can't regenerate spells by themselves, but if you have a chanter casting "His Heart Did Fill With The Light Of The Dawn" and a cipher handing out "Ancestor's Memory" you should be able to maintain resources. SC ciphers are really good in parties in Deadfire also because Defensive Mindweb is insanely good, and you can hand reaping knives to a monk or other melee char to generate focus even faster. Another option for resource regeneration is the mod "potions of enlightenment" which adds a fairly expensive potion you can purchase in certain shops (or create, with vithrack brains main ingredient) that gives +1 resource / 30s for the rest of the fight. You can find this mod standalone or as part of @Elric Galad's Balance Polishing Mod. You might also consider the Balance Polishing Mod for its own sake, particularly the buffs package, as it makes the chanter's brilliant-like ability a little better and gives resource regeneration options to most single classes that didn't already have them (fighters get resource chance on being hit, rogues on making crits, paladins when an ally falls, rangers when their animal companion is hitting enemies (using bonded fury ability). Summons are also improved quite a bit. The balance polishing mod also has a nerf package but you don't have to install that part. https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/335 (community patch) https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/438 (balance polishing mod - needs community patch) ----- Should add if you don't have room in the party for both a chanter and a cipher a chanter/cipher is quite good, you can still cast "Ancestor's Memory" as a cipher while sending out endless summons and buffs as a troubadour. Troubadour/psion works well if the character doesn't do much direct fighting but troubadour/generic cipher is also excellent.

Resident Evil 4's Marketing is on point:

Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool

What Bartimaeus said, you really ought to double and triple check that your medicine doesn't interact with grapefruit. To my great dismay, most of mine has interactions so I've had to give it up, it's my favourite drink

Are you sure? I know of another new law, or perhaps axing an old law is more correct here, that is very popular with the kids. Just not Swedish pizza.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tax-heaven-3000-is-a-free-dating-sim-that-claims-to-do-your-taxes I guess a good way to scam info.

Got up and went for a short walk. It's cold and dreary out but it still felt good. Then choked down two pills that look like something I'd give to a horse and chased it with a glass of grapefruit juice.

@Gorth am not a fan o' pickled herring but that spread don't look terrible. am not seeing any rotting walrus/whale blubber but you nordic peoples can be sneaky with the menu. unrelated, but as soup has made a few appearances o' late, am gonna share a couple videos from jacques pépin as he is kinda our soup pole star. had never considered the quick grits as a thickener 'fore we saw the 'bove video. also, to show how flexible is the soup approach, is another variation from 2008. is so rare one is able to use "unpretentious" and "french" to describe one individual. HA! Good Fun!

Fixed in the latest release, at least according to the patchnotes. Direct link for the full installer: https://content-system.gog.com//open_link/download?path=/open/galaxy/client/2.0.60.2/setup_galaxy_2.0.60.2.exe Just start Galaxy and uncheck "run at system startup" if it isn't unchecked already, then reboot, run the setup -> should work again. I also ran into the issue, but running the manual setup always fixed it, at least until it broke again an update or two later. Still can use the standalone installer from the website if nothing else helps. I doubt SFC will get a whole lot of updates...

a couple lamplighter updates: Dev Diary #1: Game Vision Dev Diary #2: Your Agents HA! Good Fun!

"AoE spells and items didn't affect the enemies if you rested before the battle for Defender's Heart – fixed;" we mentioned this bug earlier. the thing is, the bug also disabled enemy aoe. dretch stinking clouds, which nowadays the demons spam merciless during the defender's heart battle, were similar ineffective pre patch. overall am thinking the bug made the tavern defense easier. the star rattle l00t chest being "fixed" is also maybe not such a fantabulous result as the chest is now providing goggles o' undeniable truth, which you no doubt acquired a couple islands earlier. no longer is the chest providing a broken trickster mask... which admitted were kinda broken given the level it is likely acquired. HA! Good Fun!

Wizards are going to be stronger IMO in both games, particularly blood mages in Deadfire. That said you can easily complete both games with either party. You can actually do fine with party companions (hiravias and tekehu as druids, or aloth as wizard) Tekehu also plays well as a multiclass druid/chanter, and kana is a decent chanter in poe1. It is pretty hard to mess up wizards since you can cast from grimoires and respec anyway. Aloth has decent wizard stats for an NPC. Also I think Deadfire is considerably harder than POE1, at least if you're going farther than the main story into DLC content and whatnot. If I were you playing on Hard and wanting to play druids id just go with hiravias and tekehu. They're both fun companions and their stat spread is decent enough.

https://counter-strike.net/cs2 Won't be the same without the porn sprays and racism over voice chat.

I installed a mod for that, there is an official IWD2 banter pack https://www.gibberlings3.net/mods/npcs/iwd2npc/

No specific individuals, but I sometimes listen to the old Alexandrov Ensemble (RIP). Formerly known as the Red Army Choir. They were an excellent group of male Russian singers. Sadly the original ensemble met an unfortunate end in a plane crash in 2016 (before falling out of windows became the latest Russian fashion)

isn't the game always online singleplayer should extinct 5 years ago

Hey, Dragonflight went pretty smooth. As most people quit WoW

For male Russian singers, nothing beats Vladimir Vysotsky PS according to my wife the best is Viktor Tsoi but that's obviously false but I'm not a Kino fan

If anyone ever happens to go to Melbourne some day and are curious about Danish food. I can recommend the Denmark House. An old establishment and no, nobody in there speak Danish, I tried But the smørrebrød is just as good, if not better than anything you get back in Denmark and the Aalborg Akvavit (schnaps) is imported. The dark rhye bread is fresh made in house, not the concrete bricks pretending to be bread you get in supermarkets. For me a must go to place next time I get to Melboure Yes, I got two variants of herring, because I'm a sucker for pickled herrings Edit: Found a Danish letter ø, that I could cut and paste

Well, does Mr. Dobson have a 27B-stroke-6 or not? Those boys up in Central Services are sticklers for paperwork you know...

The GOG version works - for me, at least - on Windows 11. In the configuration utility, select "primary display driver", go as high with the resolution as you can, save the settings. Go to the installation folder, pick Windows XP SP3 for compatibility mode, and finally change two settings in the sfc.ini file in the directory under the [Mouse] section. async to 0 and hwblit to 1. It is a little fiddly, but it works, at least without major graphics issues or crashes. If it crashes, well, there's always the refund option. I do not know if one can make the Steam version run with these settings. Presumably GOG changed something with the game. The game is still the way it is, so I find little enjoyment in it. That didn't change in over 20 years now. Guess it never will.

I really like OP (Obsidian Owl’s) post. I think it’s awesome how much love and care the dev’s have put into the game, and with a little more tweaking I think it would be a perfect game! PROBLEMS- I totally agree that the upgrade system needs to be revised, especially with tier III. (I think I’m ~in day 380ish within game, and that’s with very seldom sleeping.) I don’t care as much about base building, so the majority of my time has been grinding for resources. even with picking up almost, if not all of the tier III stones, I still only have one or two weapons at level 9, a small handful at level 8, and finally have most of my weapons/tools to level 7. I thought twinkling shells would have been the hard part, but really it’s been Supreme whetstones. It looks like Supreme plates are decent, I’ve gotten a decent amount from grinding ladybirds, and I’ve loved that they also drop ladybug parts. I haven’t loved the ox beetle drops though, it’s felt like I get about 1/3 horns for my trouble. The drop rate with ladybirds are also pretty low, but at least one occasionally gets 2 in a drop, with good concentrations of ladybirds in specific spots, and usually quick to defeat. Another problem with this system is armor vs weapon balance when it comes to upgrade scarcity. I would much rather easily have five level 9 weapons and one level 9 armor vs the opposite which we have now. With bug weaknesses and resistances being as they are, it’s best if one has a specific tool/weapon for the job. Contrasting that is armor can fit into many/most different situations just fine. One more change I would make is to the “natural” weapon flavors (mint mace, spicy coaltana, salt morning star, sour ax.) Each has their own flavor, so why do they take mighty globs instead of their candy elements? This just makes them much more grindy (2 stones per upgrade,) which takes away whetstones to upgrade the other weapons/tools. I do most of the playing and grinding, and a friend occasionally joins me to play through the mission bits. Between us both, it’s taking far too long to get all the upgrade parts we need to get a full arsenal upgraded. POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS- Perhaps the dev’s could change the upgrading system to be more like the glue masher with multiple types of bugs to fulfill the whetstone/plating requirement for each tier. Or like OP’s idea about having each tier of ant part contributing to their respective tier of upgrade material. Regardless, I think the rocks SHOULD respawn like all the other materials, even if it is 2-3 in game days. In the meantime, at least please fix the drop rate of black ox horns to 100%, or near that % but with the chance to drop 2? Pretty please? CONCLUSION- Thank you to any other players or dev’s who took the time to read this long post! I am a humble enjoyer of this awesome game, the devs would know much more about balancing the game than I. This is my first ever discussion post about any game on a forum, which hopefully shows just how passionate I am about Grounded! Thank you devs for all your hard work! TL;DR- Dev’s, Please fix the upgrade grind!!!

The way I kind of imagine this is your using Brittle Whetstones for Tier I weapons only for it's full path, then Sturdy Whetstones/Mighty Globs for Tier II weapons for it's full path, and then Supreme Whetstones/Mighty Jewels for Tier III weapons for it's full path. That's why I also gave two new crafting recipes into funneling making higher tier rocks with lower tier rocks, as I know that there's way too much Brittle than Sturdy, and way more Sturdy than Supreme. I do think generally though the rocks do need to respawn in some way or another, I think most people want that back and honestly it does make the game feel way more grindy (Not in a good way). I also made a new crafting recipe for the rocks and modified one already in the game. If we are talking about the bug made rocks (the one I modified), then the reason I added the ant parts was to give an extra step into making rocks and give the ant parts some more use. Lets say that rocks were able to respawn again, I would think having both craftable rocks and respawnable rocks would be way too much, however I do like having multiple options for attaining upgrades. That's way I added an extra step to the bug rock crafting recipes with this new rework in mind. I placed the craftable Brittle Whetstones(Bug parts) at the Hedge because you would be mostly using Tier I rocks with Tier I weapons, then I placed the craftable Sturdy Whetstones(Bug parts) at the Black Ant Lab because you would be mostly using Tier II rocks with Tier II weapons at that point in game, and then I placed the craftable Supreme Whetstones(Bug parts) at the Termite Hill because you would be transitioning into using Tier III weapons at that point in the game (Also would make the Termite Hill more alluring to go to). Obviously, this might not be the most balanced idea, without some modifications of course, but I do think that it is well thought out at least. I also think the way that this was formatted wasn't the best (I wrote this on a google doc and it copied over weirdly). I hope I may clarified a little bit more on what I was trying to get across.

Another mysterious fire deep in Russian territory.

galaxy is a dead end for us. am one o' those persons for whom it is impossible to update galaxy there is no manual update option. HA! Good Fun!