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I went to the ren fair today: I'm not presumptuous enough to dress up as a noble so there I am in my gambeson and cloth coif. A good time was had. The Carolina Renaissance Festival always puts on a great show.

Go to grocery A, buy 12 of an item. Go to grocery B and see item on sale for $1.50 less each. Unable to properly articulate the rage I experienced

Had a craving for kiwifruit. Ate a kilogram of kiwi. Still have a craving for kiwi. ._.

They wouldn't dress like that if they weren't terrorist.

It's clearly an upper case K rather than a lower case k though. Upper case K --> Kelvin, or absolute temperature so it's Good Guy Intel accurately representing that their chips run at 2+ times the surface temperature of the sun. (Some might say it's that way because they just use all caps because they want to shout about how good their chips are and it actually is the abbreviation for kilo. To short circuit any such discussion may I point out first that the chips are lower case i5/7? Checkmate, Inteltheists)

He just didn't realize that the "K" is a multiplicator too. Just times 1000. Intel won that a long time ago.

We've been watching a lot of Beat Bobby Flay who I call Roberto Flavor. He wins an awful lot even with visiting chefs having the advantage of picking what they make. Been watching for ideas on what to make because things have been a bit stale. The other day I made a Cesar salad with baby romaine and crispy fried capers.

Katharine Kerr Daggerspell, and Elizabeth Moon Sheepfarmers Daughter

Applying death of the author to product naming is a new one for me, but it does make sense. Where's Lindsay Ellis to help me navigate through computer components and corporate marketing? tl;dr: bad, everything intel is doing with the "14th gen" is bad, it's bad

Yeah, that's it. In theory it is three novels and two short stories gathered into one omnibus, without any of them having been published separately before. They are so awesome, Black Library knew people would want and demand an omnibus edition, so they decided to give people what they want directly. Don't buy it. Bland, boring characters even by 40k standards. Zero investment by the reader.

Not gonna lie, my tongue did feel a bit felty

A Ukrainian band/woman with a very interesting singing style... styles? First a bit of reggae and then a clip from Wacken

Mu tongue would not survive it. After about 5 of them it start to sting.

WoT S2E4&5 TLDR: up and down, especially in terms of continuity consistency- far more obvious when you write the reviews after watching the next episode, probably should have done that from the start- but still OK.

I like them alot, but I read them first time when I was a teen so I'm very biased towards them. The Deverry series especially.

I'd agree that Catholic Church analogues are 'lazy' (though I'd suspect the writers would call them 'familiar' instead). But they're not unrealistic because Belief is not founded upon Logic. They're parallel/ immiscible concepts. Or to put it another way people here don't think "wow, it's a miracle that my molecules don't fly apart/ collapse", but it is. You have to have exactly the right level of Fundamental Interactions for us to exist and you need that combination to have occurred from an infinite variety. Obviously it has, or this post wouldn't exist, so reading this is a minor miracle. Hope you all appreciate it. Similarly turning water to wine with a spell may not be thought of as a miracle in a magic world, but it is. I can't think of a single world where basic real world physics doesn't exist, and that says you cannot turn one set of atoms into another (well, you probably can, but if you're mucking around with subatomic physics then there's a relevant Clarke quote instead) Kind of disagree with the Jesus miracles, while he had some one off unique spectaculars he performed other miracles too, like healing. Not much practical difference between healing lepers or the blind or cripples and a Heal/ Cure Disease spell, and that was definitely a repeatable skill rather than one off.

Some notes about death of 1000 cuts, I used it a lot while testing my Surrogate Challenge mod, looking for a way to damage Dorudugan fast enough without 0 recovery cheats. DOTC does not work with Ectopsychic Echo (that is a echo only ability), but it works e.g. with cheap & fast cast mind blades, it is great if you have at least 2 enemies to ping-pong between but even against a single boss you can cast mind blades fast enough to prolong death of 1000 cuts every few seconds, and differently from disintegration death of 1000 cuts can last a lot this way even with something with high res like Dorudugan (and you can use Magran belt to summon a hostile blight and ping pong some mind blades). With less tough nuts DOTC is ideal to use before disintegration

This, at least, serves a purpose in the story, with the Power being more dangerous to man and the prophesied hero having to learn to use it on his own with the risk of dying and dooming the world. Not that it makes that much difference since the prophecies also say he will destroy the world. I might have gotten the wrong impression or maybe it's because I read the books long ago, but there were probably a lot more female wilders that survived learning on their own than male ones, who would end up being noticed even without much skill.

Not directly related, just my visa application, which includes the work permit, was approved at approximately the same time.

It seems to be he wants to design dual system, like what Deadfire ended up trying to be. I think he is right on the money - RTwP adds additional challenges on top of number crunching tactical game. Some players handle it very well, quite a few don't. And when doing turn-based playthrough I did thing that the game made a lot of enemy designs more understandable, and there was a more noticable distinction between quality and filler encounters. Way back I did suggest that PoE3 could really dial in difficulty and design for Turn-based combat - and those who need it (like myself) could use the clarity of turn-based combat, while players capable of analyzing combat as it happens in real time could go RTwP. You could dial in tactical difficulty of the game without making it inaccesable. And if one wants to make encounters quck and unchallenging RTwP + low difficulty setting should do a trick. But let's not get our hopes up. I am happy to see that when asked "what would you do with unlimited budget" JS answer is "PoE3". At the same time, he might not be willing to do it with anything less, so I will still treat PoE as an abandoned IP unless proven otherwise.

Congratulations. --- I am delighted to share that I have earned my MSc Data Science with Distinction degree and was granted permission to work. Currently looking for work (IT Support Technician with 4 years of experience or Junior Data Engineer with no experience).

That got a laugh out of me! Fair enough I see where you are coming from. I do not agree completely (I agree with the fact that women are becoming obsessed with it and that is not good) and think you are taking it to the extreme in this particular case, but I can respect your opinion. All that I will say is to never ever read the Kate Daniels series, well maybe only if your life depended on it, but even then I'm fairly sure you would get a brain aneurysm. Tbh, I don't know how I even got to book 4 in that series. @uuuhhii Did you ever try Malazan Book of the Fallen?

After letting BG3 digest for a while I think it managed to hit a lot of the same notes of BG1+2 by having absolute maniacs being incredibly silly. Things like the talking chicken or strange oxes are memorable and add texture to a game. I don't think PoE did that as well and really could have benefitted from some dumb bull****.

*snort* and we thought Gromnir were old. hoon is so stuck in 20th century thinking. never read a cyberpunk novel? multinationals is not near concerned with the old power politics models as they is with the bottom line. when the inevitable amazon-berkshire hathaway-johnson & johnson and microsoft-disney mergers final and inevitable occur... HA! Good Fun!

Watching more Russian dubs of Star Wars films, as I have the lines near memorized it's great practice

am aware there is a couple better than bullion proponents who frequent this thread. am also gonna admit we didn't know about the idf info regarding box stock. HA! Good Fun!

This Forbidden Fiat rolls over enemies even on difficult terrain and hits like a truck... It's a real trickster too: you never know what's gonna happen when you turn on the ignition.

How about Forbidden Fiat/trickster? You have flagellans path, escape etc. And that build is sturdy enough to tank a little bit with good defenses. or maybe sc monk and use all the fun abilities (skyward kick, raised torment, launching kick) and finally whispers of the wind?