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Naw, I think that was atleast 4, maybe 5 fps

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/finland-retrieves-anchor-seabed-near-broken-gas-pipeline-2023-10-24/ Finnish article - https://yle.fi/a/74-20054483 I guess if you're going to damage a cable intentionally, that might be one way to try it on the sly.

Each day I ask myself, what would Ja think.

Ja Rule Says Drake, DJ Khaled Not Obligated to Speak On Israel ... - TMZ https://amp.tmz.com/2023/10/11/ja-rule-drake-dj-khaled-dj-vlad-israel-hamas/ I know everyone was curious on Ja Rule's take

@Hurlshort https://sanjosetheaters.org/theaters/san-jose-civic/#event=reclaiming-food;instance=20231028120000 you should make t-shirts. "i spent $250 to see rfk jr. and all i got was a (another) lousy measles outbreak." but serious, even in san jose, who is spending $250 to hear a bunch o' crackpots repeat the same doggerel they is sharing for free online? edit: Ex-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows granted immunity, tells special counsel he warned Trump about 2020 claims: Sources meadows cooperation were assumed back in june but it were a tea leaves reading situation. also, keep in mind this is an "according to sources," story which ain't been confirmed, so am advising caution. update: am gonna repeat our caution about placing too much trust in online "according to sources," reporting. narrow use immunity for meadows as 'posed to blanket use and derivative is a plausible explanation, but am thinking by now a few obsidian posters recognize that we got a policy o' waiting for reliable evidence before we start proselytizing. is so many ways to look like an internet a$$bag, so why set yourself up for predictable tyson fury moments when a little patience will insulate you from deserved mockery? HA! Good Fun!

Carage got nerfed pretty hard in that regard. Unlike Carnage, WotEP's cone-shaped area of attack (AoE) does transport all attack effects (focus generation, SHattered Pillar's wound generation, all CC effects like stun for example, push effects from Knockdown or Force of Anguish and so on, dmg bonuses from weapon quality or stuff like Sneak Attack etc). Also every attack roll in that cone-shaped AoE can trigger another AoE attack IF your attack ability has its own AoE. Example: Clear Out (Fighter) has a cone-shaped AoE attack - and every attack roll from the cone ot WotEP will trigger a cone from Clear Out. AoE times AoE if you will... Same with Heart of Fury (Barbarian), Whirling Strikes (Ranger), Whispers of the Wind (Monk)... Soul Annihilation works a bit wonkily with AoE weapons: the first hit will get all the raw SA-damage, the next enemy will get close to nothing, the enemy after that will get a bit more again and so on. It's not predictable which enemy will get how much raw damage (besides the initial target) but it's pretty decent nonetheless. Citzal's Spirit Lance does the same and so do Serafen's blunderbusses "Hand Mortar" and "Fire in the Hole" (those two don't work with Soul Annihilation of course because they are ranged weapons). Citzal's Spirit Lance + Soul Annihilation is a very good combination. That's what makes a Wizard/Soulblade a surprisingly good melee character (besides the great self buffs and the fact that).

imma stop you right there. Carnage isn't a physical attack. Carnage is a "spell-like" ability that is triggered by your weapon strikes as a barbarian, and the damage is keyed off very few things, basically just: your base weapon damage, might, and power-level scaling. it doesn't interact with things that modify your weapon attacks or are based off your weapon attacks. it's basically a whole other thing. this is why i call it "spell-like" - it's like a spell in what few things actually boost it, it just so happens that the damage is based on your primary weapon as opposed to a fix number like for an actual spell.

Zoraptor wrote that Russia looks good by comparison, which it does, because Israel is far more deadly when it comes to targetting civilians. Just look at the numbers he provided. I once did a fair amount of work related to Mossad, and it was both extremely interesting and quite shocking to learn what a bad partner Israel can be. They are extraordinarily greedy when it comes to collecting intelligence from their allies, but they absolutely do not hesitate to be stingy and deceptive when it comes to sharing their own, even with the US. This has been well documented and demonstrated. I don't know whether the well-justified ire of the US actually led to any changes in the way Israel behaves, but I doubt it. My pet peeve with the Israeli government, by the way, is their attachment to the anti-semitism rhetoric: any and all criticism is almost instantly labelled anti-semitic. This would seem to imply that according to the Israeli government, it is incapable of making mistakes or being wrong, which doesn't seem very likely to me, in reality.

Back when he was actually funny.

hmmm. the uk didn't want jews in the british mandate lands o' the middle east. the jews and arabs in the british mandate were doing a bang up job o' creating chaos for the brits, so the brit solution were to delay dealing with the issue. temp uk solution: keep as many jews as possible from relocating to the british mandate lands. after ww2, jews would escape detention camps in europe and then the brits would capture 'em, usually at sea, and lock 'em up in the dozen or so pow-style detention camps on cyprus. very humanitarian. 'course the uk wanted jews in the uk even less than they wanted 'em in the british mandate lands. US were hardly angelic bystanders. truman tried to pressure the uk into opening up the british mandate to displaced jews and the british suggested that if truman wanted to save the jews, then the US should take 'em, but truman couldn't get Congress to accept the relaxation o' nativist policies from previous administrations until 47, and there were no positive jewish immigration laws passed until 48. immediate following the war, truman sent a guy named harrison to inspect the detention camps where jews were being kept in europe. after reading the harrison report, truman contacts gen. eisenhower in august o' 45 and orders him to improve the camp situation. "As matters now stand, we appear to be treating the Jews as the Nazis treated them except that we do not exterminate them. They are in concentration camps in large numbers under our military guard instead of S.S. troops. One is led to wonder whether the German people, seeing this, are not supposing that we are following or at least condoning Nazi policy." eisenhower took the matter serious and personal, which led to dramatic improvement in living conditions for displaced jews who nevertheless remained, for years, in US supervised concentration camps following ww2. the situation for jews in camps managed by other powers were no better. again, 48 is when the US final opened their doors in a meaningful way to displaced jews. 'course almost simultaneous the US state department began adding limits on any and all immigrants whose country o' origin were soviet. is not so much forgotten history as it is history which were rare if ever taught, so there weren't a chance to forget that jews and other peoples detained, abused and murdered by the germans continued to suffer the tender mercies o' enlightened europeans and americans for years following ww2. regardless, the uk worked hard to prevent jews from reaching their middle eastern colony. brits delayed doing anything meaningful for as long as possible, which is the most common political solution to difficult problems even if it is almost always a fail. edit: so @Elerondobserves how curious it is that two thousand years o' retributive christian antisemitism is glossed over by so many. in response, one poster responds that he were raised in an atheist country... germany. germany? HA! Good Fun!

WoT S2E8 On the positive side, it's far better than the previous season's finale, despite my multitude of complaints. On the negative side that's largely because of just how bad s1e8 was. Worst episode of the 8, though it's always hard to judge season finales fairly. Series negatives: number 1 by far is the persistent lack of care to detail and what changes actually mean going forward, plus the related issue of all the nonsensical drama. Nothing seems to have been learnt from GoT either, where that sort of thing ended up collapsing the series into a complete thematic and narrative mess. The OC additions are not compelling and time could have been far better spent elsewhere. They want to use iconic book moments but don't want to do the work to make them work. It's far too much the Egwene and Moiraine show. Positives: far better overall than last season despite that and I'd go so far as to say I more or less enjoyed most of it despite the fristration. Lanfear and Ishamael are good, though Lanfear is always exactly as 'evil' as the plot requires. The acting is pretty much all good, most of the sets are a vast improvement and it certainly doesn't look like Xena despite the massive budget most of the time, unlike S1. The scripting in terms of words said is also generally fine, it's just the context of them which is too often bad. They really, really, have to work on the plotting and planning, and maybe just maybe cut out some of the fanboying for pet characters. Just a tad, lest we get a million jokes about renaming the 3rd book The Egwene Reborn. Will I watch S3? Probably, at least if they give me another free trial period for it. Actually paying might be a stretch.

Solasta Inkeeper: What's your poison? Fighter: We need a room for the night. Thief: Separate beds. Inkeeper: Eh, as long as you pay, you do you. Enjoy your four beds.

And tolerance of Jews is not only fuzzy thing in western history textbooks. They forgot to tell that many people that were liberated from Nazi concentration camps, like for example gays were just moved to german prisons to serve their sentences that they received during Nazi regime and they were not acknowledge or compensated as victims of mass murder until 1985 when they got mentioned in speech by German president. Romani people didn't get much better treatment by their 'liberators'. And quite rarely you hear mentioned things like that State of Croatia annihilated about 25000 romani people which were virtually every romani that lived in Croatia. And after the war The courts in the Federal Republic of Germany determined that romani weren't persecuted because of their race but because their crimes, even though it is estimated Nazis killed 250k-500k romani (although no one knows for sure because no one was interested to know how many romani there were Europe before the war and how many were left after the war). Also romani who were forcibly sterilized or illegally deported from the Germany were left without compensation. West Germany acknowledge that Romani were racially persecuted in 1965. And in 1982 Helmut Schmidt acknowledged that romani were also victims of genocide. I have still not seen history textbook that directly tells that Europeans, even allied countries continued to persecute victims of Nazis long after the liberated them from the Nazis.

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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.

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.

I found this tiny creature pet. It was so cute/hilarious, not so much in looks but in the miniature keystone-cop running to keep up with me. I loved it. Then I forgot about it for a little while. Finally summoned/pulled it out again and...apparently it grew up. Which is cool, but it's not cute/funny anymore. The game itself tells you straight up. Still, hey, don't tell me what I can/can't do. Only about 18,446,744,073,709,551,423 to go! I got this! 😛 Bubble planets are cool to wander around in. It's such a "zen" game, if you want it to be.

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