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maybe he is like cable from the x-men, but instead o' suffering from a teachno organic virus, rfk jr. is bat crap crazy. RFK Jr.’s reign of error: Correcting the record about yet another false claim he just made https://scottlilienfeld.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/bowes2020.pdf In conclusion, our findings paint a multifaceted, albeit still hazy, portrait of the modal conspiracy-prone individual. A mixture of narcissism and undue intellectual certainty, on the one hand, conjoined with poor impulse control, angst, interpersonal alienation, and reduced inquisitiveness, on the other hand, may provide a personological recipe for a tendency to | BOWES et al. 13 impetuously latch on to spurious but confidently held causal narratives that account for one’s distress and resentment. To the persons fitting this portrait, positing a world populated by malevolent actors hatching secret plots may be comforting, as it may afford at least a partial explanation for their otherwise inexplicable negative emotions. From the standpoint of cognitive dissonance theory (Festinger, 1962), it may be psychologically easier to invoke an external attribution, in this case, a conspiratorial worldview, to account for one’s dissatisfaction than to posit an internal attribution. Such individuals may not see a compelling reason to double-check their intuitions because they are certain that they are correct. additives in the drinking water turning kids trans? wifi is melting your brain? the guy is a walking, talking cry for help but some have decided he is a reasonable political alternative? okie dokie. anywho, perhaps rfk jr. works out not to increase pushup count but to keep his demons from dragging him deeper into the abyss. you and Gromnir cannot see the infernal beasts which is forever howling in his ears and worming through his brain. we see a guy not able to manage ten pushups, but that is 'cause is impossible for us to perceive yog-sothoth pressing down on rfk jr. HA! Good Fun!

as am getting older, am aware o' our advancing decrepitude, but 8ish pushups for a s'posed fit 69 year-old man is not particular impressive. is within presumptive average range and nowhere near newsworthy. https://steelsupplements.com/blogs/steel-blog/how-many-push-ups-should-you-be-able-to-do am also pretty sure rfk jr. has already had hip or knee replacement surgery... which is so utter beside the point when a s'posed Presidential candidate is promoting the theory that chemicals in our water is turning kids trans. for chrissakes, how is that kinda thing (and hardly a solitary example o' lunacy from rfk jr.) not an obvious disqualifier for voters? post covid US is a scary place. edit: after all the major SCOTUS rulings is known, we will offer thoughts: moore v. harper (elections), counterman v. colorado (first amendment), US v. TX (immigration/deportation), haaland v. brackeen (indigenous people adoptions), sackett v. epa (clean water), allen v. milligan (redistricting and race), students for fair admission v. harvard v unc (affirmative action), biden v. nebraska (student loans),creative llc v. elanis (gay wedding website/first amendment), groff v dejoy (employer duty to provide time off for sabbath). bold = waiting on decision. HA! Good Fun!

Necropolis was a good book. And I think the fact that the book about the fall of Calth basically is a copy of that style, shows how popular it was. (Also that to get quality into the Horus heresy, Abnett had to copy the style of one of his old books)

My reaction to that is sorta "what gameplay?" 😛 If one is the type that likes games to be almost literal movies 80% of the playtime, it could be the game for you. Seriously ... watching Asmongold (and some others) it's like NPC's - gotta fight tyranny, lets go beat them up - Asmongold - "Let's go, I'm ready!" ---melts into another cutscene NPC's - "blahblah, over there." - Asmongold - "Let's go, I'm ready." **repeat two more times* --fight lasts 50 seconds. ---tons more cutscenes. And on and on. edit: yes I'm aware jrpg's can like this kind of storytelling, but 16 is extreme. That reviewer in the video is not wrong on the ratio. In depth cutscene story telling/watching may appeal to some ... but it's not my style. But! you can jump-stomp-attack enemies with your chocobo while mounted! That's almost better than petting the dog!

Secret World is one of my all-time biggest gaming disappointments. I wanted to love that game so much. It's like the game world was created specifically for me. Secret society conspiracy theory stuff is my jam and the writing was quite good, even if it was cliche as ****. Voice acting was solid, it looked good, for the time it came out. *sigh* You know, good writing and an interesting setting can get me through mediocre gameplay, perhaps even bad gameplay, but the combat in Secret World was so terrible and mind-numbingly boring that I just couldn't do it. I wanted to power through it to experience the game world, Lord knows I tried, but the combat was so off-putting that I lost the will to continue. Everything about it just felt wrong. There was ZERO feedback. Characters just floated around like they were skating on ice, everything had an input delay. Just awful.

Black Library books are a bit like the old Dragonlance books, D&D books, Forgotten Realms books, you name it. Some are good, some are bad, some are getting close to great reads and some... you grind through because of sheer dogged determination to not give up something you started. Even though it would’ve been the sensible thing to do 😁

Gaunt's Ghosts should probably have stopped with the third book. But it went on for another three and another three. And some characters get killed off and others have their personal story arc resolved, because personal story arcs can only last so many books. And then the characters are no longer interesting and you read the books out of habit.

Bartimaeus is known to be, and has been called, much worse than that, . If I'm already bothered by these things in the first book, guarantee I'll be positively seething about it by the end of the third book if it doesn't get any better.

Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person Last 40K books I really enjoyed were the Calpurnia ones.

She actually got her own series. Two volumes, Pariah and Penitent. Lots of intrigue and mystery and a possible reconciliation between Gregor and Gideon? (Ravenor). It's been so many years since I read the Eisenhorn trilogy, that I've forgotten much of the details. Must have been very early 2000's...

Abnett has that issue with every book series it seems. Even Gaunts Ghosts, if you ignore the characters who turn generic ****bags, everyone else turns generic awesome veteran guardsman

How is he so muscular yet he barely manages a few push ups?

The Waaagh! is on.... there can be only one Warboss

There were rumors that he stole some nuclear weapons a few days ago, which I kinda doubt, but who knows. In any case, it reminded me so much of Metal Gear Solid, it's almost funny. Looks like I wasn't the only one.

The verification didn't chnage anything but I uninstalled everything and the DLCs and reinstalled it and it seems to have stopped. I have no idea why - what an odd bug. But thank you.

Yeah, I agree with the sentiment that Dragon Quest (originally Dragon Warrior in North America) was the first of what we would later call JRPGs. There were games before Dragon Quest before it that we might call JRPGs, but DQ is the game that popularized the genre. Interestingly, it was a western RPG that heavily shaped what JRPGs would become, that game was Wizardry. There were some kinda sorta RPGs in Japan before Wizardry arrived on the island nation ,but Robert Woodhead's seminal blobber changed everything when it took the country by storm.

Are you really surprised about the outcome? You know, there was already someone who received safety guarantees from Russia not long ago, and we can see how it all turned out 🤷‍♂️

I realize now that I've taken the wrong approach. Forget about the man's policies. Vote for RFK because he's shredded.

I also saw these reports this morning. Classic Putin. Prig is such a complete idiot (and soon to be a dead idiot).

FInished Bioshock Infinite. Visually, very pretty. Thematically, incoherent mess where creators use that gimmick of theirs as banal "a wizard did it" because nobody told them that no plot twist is better than stupid plot twist. Did the DLCs too, they didn't make much sense either, also made exaggerated caricatures out of already not exactly subtle original Bioshock's characters. Were surprisingly bleak and dark though, which was nice, and second one reminded me I still have DIshonored 2 to play, which was also nice. Now off to do Minerva's Den from Bioshock 2 and I am so glad to be able to save whenever I want to and not when the bloody game allows me to.

Hello! I guess you knew that when you use the Dire Talon (sabre) and enchant it with Wurm Call you will have a 20% chance on crit to summon 3 wurms? Did you also know that if those wurms die they will leave a body hat only disappears after combat ends - unlike the summons that you gain from your abilities (that includes summons from items that give you an active summoning ability like a Whale of a Wand's Fantastic Friends - they will disappear on being killed and leave no body)? I surely didn't. But those wurms' bodies will stay. And wurms are beats... 🐤 That means that you can consume the body with Flesh Communion. All Corpse Eaters: This can help your Corpse Eater to use their Flesh Communion in every fight - you "only" need to crit often enough and then get a wurm killed. You can do so yourself by attacking it with the weapon itself (there's a chance that you crit and summon another bunch of wurms and so on - there's no hard cap on how many wurms can be on the screen) or by using some friendly-fire spell like Shadowflame or whatever. If you crit a lot (hello Swift Flurry/HBD) you can summon a lot of wurms - and some might end up dead even without your interference because they are just weak. The bodies will be there until combat ends. So nothing speaks against piling up some wurm bodies for later in the fight. Of course this doesn't have to be done by one and the same character. You just need somebody in the party who will crit a lot with Dire Talon in order to prepare a rather monothematic Corpse Eater buffet. I then also tried it with Hel Beckoning (summon Hel Imp on killing spirit) - and this also leaves the body of the imp when he gets killed. But alas: it doesn't work for Flesh Communion. I forgot that Imps are not wilders - they are primordials. And since Flesh Communion only works in kith, wilder and beasts... 😢 Off to Essence Interrupter you say? Right! It works, too: If you crit and then kill any enemy and let's say a Xaurip gets summoned (and then killed) - you can consume its body. Same with Ogre Pirates. Unfortunately there's several summons with Essence Interrupter that are neither wilder nor beast (oozes, guls etc.) - so it's not very reliable. Also some of the summons take some time to kill compared to the very weak wurms that Dire Talon gives you. And some summons don't leave a body when killed - like the Boars wouldn't do that for me for example. But still... it can work. I didn't find another suitable item for this interaction - maybe you know one. Anyway - with this you can make the Corpse Eater better in long fights that usually don't have "food" for him. Bringing your own targets for deliverering crits will make it easier (for example Many Lives Skeletons). Don't know yet if it's worth it though - or if it's too fiddly. We'll see...

I managed to get through the zombie infected fishing village with two characters. It was one of the best done lovecraftian villages in any game. But the gameplay *shudder* The demon infected motel I never got past. Just couldn't force myself. If they turned it into a Netflix show, I'd watch it.

Cyber Knights: Flashpoint demo Character customization is locked in the demo but you can choose from 1 of 4 presets. I went with wastelander. In the tradition of XCOM, at one point I missed 5 of 7 "70% chance to hit" attacks. Base management is mostly locked in the demo as is the market. The game's not going to win any awards for graphics, but it was the political machinations, trying to navigate a web of backstabbing and deception, that I really liked in Star Traders: Frontiers, and, from the bit I played in the demo, Cyber Knights: Flashpoint seems to have that in spades and will let you make choices that can take you down very different paths, for good or bad.

Anyone seen this? I can't decide if it is something I'd like to play or not:

Never mind the new Prince of Persia game, this is where it's at:

I'm apathetic to the Star Wars IP but this game has potential to be really great. Of course, I thought the same thing about Watch_Dogs Legion and that turned out to be meh. Hopefully this game lives up to its potential.

Well, it doesn't help that the story npc just disappears instead of escorting you as she was supposed to do.

Resuming my pt (this time for real🙂). I went with Lan and Wenduag to visit Savamelehk and entered a certain archmage’s tower. He took a message to Galfrey, who answered with mere silence. Later I took Ember to meet with Nocticula and the Hand freaked out for no reason (I wonder how bad it would have been if I had accepted the power). Also booked a trip with Nocticula Airlines and it was a completed disaster. First the ship crashed on the opposite direction I was supposed to go. Then Arue rolled a 2 on a Stealth check against Dagon pirates. My mc killed the enemy captain, but we run out of supplies and failed at hunting (the crew was eaten) because the game decided that this time the skill check would not be done by one of the companions. Apparently, that solved the problem because we resumed our trip and there was no more mention of supplies. How many people died hunting? Was the crew so over numbered?🤔

Do I get to pick which ancient enemy I get? Maybe it's selected by culture. I'm Polish so would I be given Holy Roman Empire for free? The entire HRE might be a bit much. Maybe just the Duchy of Bohemia.