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My dad got out of the hospital a few days ago, I thot I posted about it but forum software must have eaten the post. He's going to be on oxygen for a while (if not forever) and has got a couple of oxygen compressors. Obvious issues with that aside, he's doing better than he has in a long time.

Worked the last couple of weekends. Sucks, but it's an opportunity to advance a couple of roles up the ladder and get out of QA. The only question is what the new contract would offer, if I get the offer at all, but things are looking good so far.

i'd also suggest that if you haven't played psion before but are interested, you really should give it a try. when you're thinking about focus generation, keep in mind that a psion continues to generate focus *while you cast powers/spells* which i feel is a bit of an unobvious interaction, or at least easy to understimate in terms of impact. this means that with the right stats/gear as you progress to higher levels you can cast tier 1 and then tier 2 powers indefinitely (you literally generate more focus passively then consume... you can nonstop interrupt [from the telekinetic burst psion power] or paralyze-lock [mental binding] enemies) and you get a substantial amount of the focus on higher powers back. add in some other spell casting from a multiclass and you'll find yourself flush with focus every time you switch back to casting powers.

the advantage is that you get a cipher w/ basically zero downtime. it's less "what does this cipher add to the caster," it's "what does this caster add to the cipher". borrowed instinct is good but is not the reason you want to do a psion/caster multiclass. more generally rather it's that you get the versatility of a multiclass caster w/out the negative action economy of having to actively generate focus, and a psion/caster multiclass mitigates the early game issues of having very slow focus generation (and late game issues where you take incidental damage or are waiting for high-level powers). you augment the cipher, not vice versa. the question is more akin to "how does adding caster to psion compare to adding fighter/ranger/monk" versus your original "how does adding psion to caster compare to adding fighter/ranger/monk"

@BruceVC, You should really play Rogue Trader. You can live your dream to the fullest as fascist aristocrat.

Damages +100% done for non-bugged traps. For Corrosive Trap, I also set duration to 12s because it seems a bit low for a Tier 1 Affliction, even considering it is the trap with the biggest AoE (2.5). It seems complicated to do, since Trap isn't a KW, and Trap PL is based on level. So I will listen to @thelee and buff damage bonus to +50% instead of +25%. Less elegant but enough. Considering a 5 people party with 2 items, it's like having an extra trap, nothing broken here.

I'm busy with NWN2 MoB and Im loving the narrative and the epic level gaming experience, Im about 20 hours in Obsidian really knows how to create captivating stories and as usual I appreciate the Forgotten Realms integration because its my favorite fantasy world with Elder Scrolls being my second I am getting a little annoyed with the mechanics of hunger and how you need to feed but thats because I misunderstood how it works and I let my energy drop to 10-15% so just to survive I am literally camping and feeding on animal spirits in the Ashenwood forest but once Im done with these quests I will feed properly on undead which will restore my energy to manageable levels I got so frustrated I was even considering loading a mod that lets you restore the energy immediately but I wont do that because that will destroy the immersion and point of being a spirit eater....so it would be a real "cheat " that undermines the point of the game. So I decided not to do that

yes, it's true, even a slightly-optimized vanilla cipher will easily out-generate focus than a psion. however, an optimized vanilla cipher/caster multiclass will never be able to out-generate the focus gen of a psion/caster multiclass. an early psion build i did was a psion/lifegiver. that thing carried my party for similar reasons to boeroer's post. if my party needed buffs or healing, i excelled at that and did that. by the time i was done casting spells i had tons of focus for cipher powers. i would basically switch between being a psion or a support caster and i basically always had uptime with spell casting. whereas a normal, un-cheesed cipher *has* to spend time physically attacking to generate focus, a psion/caster multiclass essentially generates focus by casting spells from the other caster. also i think you're underestimating the power of being able to endlessly spam powers. it is true that objectively speaking a normal cipher can out-generate a psion, no normal cipher can indefinitely paralyze-lock an enemy - at some point they have to stop and attack for a while. a high level psion can in fact indefinitely do so, and in fact i set up some AI scripts at a certain point that would either spam burst or mental binding and it is shocking in how many fights you can get away with doing this and trivialize them. that being said, a SC psion is not nearly as powerful as a MC psion IMO. if you really want to get to tier 9 powers you can, but you only get slightly more focus generation while still having a lot of drawbacks. a caster multiclass pretty much covers the main drawback of a psion, which is well worth losing tier 8 or 9 cipher powers. edit to add: historically there was a lot of skepticism about psion when it was first released in patch 4.0. and the thing is, there's a lot to be skeptical about, if you imagine playing a psion is just like playing a normal cipher. but in truth, a psion ends up playing very differently than a normal cipher, and is very powerful at that alternate playstyle. for me it was really a "see it to believe it" kind of mental switch i had to do.

With all buffs and Firearm Mastery I'm currently at 23 shots per burst. Good thing the heavy bolter's magazine is 96 shots. Yeah so that thing has 250% armor and 3000 hit points on Daring, and it still died in one turn. Mostly because the Fanatic level of Dogmatic gives your main character an ability that allows a character to completely ignore any sort of damage reduction for one round. Naturally, that's... Argenta. I mean, who else would it be. Shooting a Plasma gun with 2x INT bonus damage is nice and all, but it sort of pales compared to a 23 burst from a heavy bolter dealing 150 damage per shot because somewhere in its damage calculations, the game totally breaks down. Well, breaks down. Camaraderie stacks off Ballistic Skill, and that is increased by 5 for every stack of Versatility Argenta has, and she starts with 2, gets one for every extra turn and basically one per attack. It also has a slightly bugged interaction (at least for me) with Firearm Mastery where the large heavy bolter base rate of fire allows for an impressive amount of single shots that all stack Versatility even though they really should not. Bonus points if Cassia's overpowered abilities herded groups of enemies together to die in a burst.

Psion/Troubadour is one of the most versatile builds there is and great for a party. At the same time it's also one of the best solo builds: as the record shows it's viable for the Ultimate challenge (without too much cheese that other combos will need). You can combine summons (chanter side) with constant mind control (Whispers of Treason, Puppet Master, Ring Leader) which means that you can turn almost every encounter into a "many vs. one" scenario easily while not receiving a scratch. While you summon with an invocation your focus fills up. While you cast a mind control power your focus fills up, too. If you run around your focu fills up. Should you get disabled, your focus... you get the idea. ;). I almost never had a situation where I couldn't cast anything bc. of scarce resources. There's always either enough phrases or focus (if you don't try to spam the highest tier stuff nonstop). But you can also go another, less "minion-y" route and spam Killers Froze Stiff (or in cases of immunity Ben Fidel's Neck) and for example Soul Shock all the time at lower levels. It's a nonstop chain of debuff/CC and damage. Jut use Blightheart (bound to chanter) and even get additional phrases if you kill enemies (doesn't matter how). If you add Many Lives later as chant you can even add "passive" summons to the mix. Almost no downtime, great action economy, big impact. Btw.: Death of 1000 Cuts is more effective in combination with Antipathetic Echo than with Mind Blades - if you can use another enemy as anchor. But mobs are common in boss fights. Very cheap and procs an instance of shred 1/sec over 10 secs. It's easy to spam it without downtime. Another cool feature of SC Psion would be Shared Nightmare you can watch your AoE grow by the second. If you have a really fast dual wielder in the party (I tried a Streetfighter/Barb with daggers) then Reaping Knives is absolutely great for a Psion, too. The knives don't actually give focus based on the damage they case but instead a flat +5 focus with every hit(!). If you hit very quickly you'll produce a lot of additional focus for the Psion so that he even can spam high tier powers. I didn't try if a Monk's Swift Flurry/Heartbeat Drumming attacks also produce that +5 focus. If so then that could be used against weak enemies in order to create great focus bursts.

{ "$type": "Game.GameData.AttackAuraGameData, Assembly-CSharp", "DebugName": "Caltrops_Trap_AttackAura", "ID": "89a4008c-dec4-41b3-a312-3263b8454200" And { "$type": "Game.GameData.AttackPulsedAOEGameData, Assembly-CSharp", "DebugName": "Burning_Ground_Trap_AttackPulseAoE", "ID": "3999697c-0a58-4791-8291-6393c8ca7a7d", Note the unusal AttackAuraGameData type of the first one. This will probably have to be changed. Also Burning Ground Trap might be better with Searing Seal animation if it has to be converted to an instant effect.

Yep, you can save them in chapter 3.

Had Pasqal oneshot her and half her entourage with his plasmagun. 2xINT (Not int BONUS) extra damage actually has the game feel like it's actually 40k-ish/Rogue Tradery.

Got the gold coin this year from the Christmas bread (Česnica)

This is really solid.

imo it depends on the recipe and I view them as different ingredients rather than equivalent substitutes. Fresh pasta is an absolute must for lasagna but I wouldn't want to use it with any of the Roman pastas (a Zozzona with fresh pasta is la bombe tier) or anything you need or want a good al dente for.

A 2023 anime about dungeon-crawling and literal video game mechanics centered around a male character and eating food, what could go wrong? For Bartimaeus who can't think of anything that he doesn't hate about this...nothing, so let's check it out - these things have a good track record, after all. I'm exactly 2 minutes and 8 seconds into the episode and I really, really, really want to turn it off. I'm getting some painful flashbacks to the very first anime I gave an honest try, My Hero Academia, which is what lead to me instead trying Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon did not infuriate me every second of every minute like the three episodes of My Hero Academia that I watched before tossing it into the nearest incinerator did. You know, I'm pretty sure the hard drive that I used to store the first season of My Hero Academia has since died, and I'd say good riddance. I am now 3 minute and 1 seconds into the episode and I feel like my brain is going to explode from an aneurysm. I don't want to do this anymore. 4 minutes and 53 seconds, seeing this girl's stupid face matched with her boilerplate anime proclamation of not giving up has made me quit. I hope the hard drive I used to store the first episode this show also dies sometime soon. Yes, I could've easily just watched it on Netflix, but I didn't want Netflix trying to recommend any anime to me.

It's a pretty one sided affair isn't it. The only thing he said I agree with, is that the peace itself would have been worth infinitely more than the struggle, it takes two to tango though.

I have no idea who this "Dan" is they all keep mentioning ( ), but great/fun video for VA fans.

I have defeated the all “great demon lords” in Dark Souls and have put their souls into the Lordvessel. Fight against them were not that hard, the biggest issue as always was the Bed of Chaos. From the bosses of course 😄 As always, when you feel, that you are having easier time fighting the bosses, you start to act more carelessly and sooner or later get owned by some easy peasy enemy, misstep out of bound or pressing some button to late, because you think, you have everything in control 🙈 This is very unique thing this game offers, and therefore I enjoy it so much. I really feel, I am much more patient that when started to play the game for the first time, but on the other hand, the game can still lull me into false security and then hit me hard, when I expect it the least 😅 again and again and again 😅 (185 deaths so far 😅)

Still no controller support on PC? 🙁

According to Gamers Nexus, Starfield being nominated for and winning "Most Innovative Gameplay" was a meme campaign started on reddit to dunk on it, not that it stopped Bethesda from accepting it as sincere. Guess that's what happens when you let the common clay of video games (you know, morons) decide the awards. We all know these awards are a bit of a joke for one reason or another (simple popularity contests inevitably result in whatever's most popular winning awards rather than any honest evaluation of an entry's individual qualities in relation to what award they're up for - an especially prominent problem when most people have only played a fraction of the nominees!), but not all of us actually take the time out of our day to prove that they're a joke. Sigh. Oh, that's really soon. I can't help but notice that the main character seems to increase in size with every new game in the Momodora series...think Momodora 3 is kinda where I thought it most appropriate to stop, but certainly no farther than Reverie Under the Moonlight. Eh, as long as the developer didn't try to integrate anything from their awful Minoria spin-off, it should be fine.

we got an oven which cost as much as a nice car, but we use our air fryer(s) all the time and especial during the warmest summer months when oven cooking is an almost criminal endeavor. have become an air fryer convert. however, "air fryer" is such a fundamental misleading term. so doesn't replace oil frying. air fry feature is convection cooking. nobody should think you could make fried chicken in your convection oven, but 'cause o' wacky nomenclature people keep trying to make fried chicken and the like in an air fryer. the naming nomenclature leads to unfair expectations. non breaded chicken wings is ideal for air fryer. (aside: am highly recommending having your uncooked wings dry overnight in the refrigerator... sprinkle with baking soda will promote crispy/browning. water is the enemy o' crispy wings, so drying is gonna improve your finished dish.) a variety o' roasted veggies is also fantastic. nowadays we only cook our baked potatoes in the air fryer. falafel and salmon are great in an air fryer... but we don't cook salmon in the air fryer in spite o' the ease 'cause whatever we cook immediate after the salmon in the air fryer absorbs the fishy smell... and 'cause pan seared is also just so damned ez and good. is a bunch o' other stuff, including a variety o' french fries recipes which work great in the air fryer, 'cause those recipes also work in a convection oven. however, am not gonna try and make deep fried cat fish with an air fryer, 'cause that would be stoopid. air fryer is not a replacement for deep fry but is a (better) replacement for convection cooking in a standard oven. aside, your insta pot pressure cooking feature is also great for carnitas, butter chicken, oatmeal and a whole bunch o' bean recipes for which am able to skip the overnight soak step. admitted, nowadays am typical making oatmeal in our rice cooker 'cause our cheepy rice cooker is so ez to clean. regardless, am thinking the air fryer name is misleading and results in some folks being disappointed. can we make breaded chicken tenders in the air fryer instead o' deep frying? sure, but that is no surprise 'cause we can make breaded chicken tenders in a convection oven. air fryer is so not a replacement for genuine deep oil fry, but it is an alternative for a convection oven... the air fryer is often a better alternative simple 'cause the size o' the air fryer is smaller so is easier to circulate air and also 'cause an air fryer is gonna get up to temp much faster than a large oven would. also, the air fryer is more cost efficient to run than your oven and it won't add a large volume o' super heated air to your home during hot summer months just by opening and removing cooked victuals. edit: home fries is also a frequent addition to Gromnir menus, particular for breakfast, and we use the air fryer and the microwave to get perfect crispy potatoes. we do not par boil potatoes, 'cause is time consuming and unnecessary when a few minutes in the microwave will achieve the same result. is another recipe we use baking soda btw. after fake parboiling in the microwave, we let the taters dry on a rack for just a couple minutes... and we sprinkle the drying cubes/planks/whatever with a little baking soda to promote crispy. pop the dryish and seasoned potatoes in the air fryer and then cook at 390 or 400 for howsoever long it takes your air fryer to get 'em crispy. sooper ez... though am admitting we typical simultaneous cook bacon and a few veggies (onion and jalapeno is common) in a pan on the stove, so is not as if am complete avoiding mess. if am feeling particular decadent, am gonna grate a bit o' cheddar and top the combined ingredients. yeah, pan fry the potatoes in duck fat in a cast iron skillet is ideal, but the air fryer is much easier, less messy and involves us needing no additional oil. HA! Good Fun! ps am not a tofu guy, but the air fryer makes so ez to get crispy tofu cubes that am finding ways to include the stuff in recipes as an alternative protein source.

Saw Frieren episode 17 today... Teenagers.... 🙄 The drinking, cheating, gambling priest to the rescue 😁 Said priest evaluating the situation afterwards... Some things are consistent throughout the episodes... Frieren being irresistibly drawn towards magic grimoires, mimics or no mimics and she has a hard time getting out of bed in the morning

Yeah, ch 4 went horrible broken for me. The only reason why I've put up with it is the setting, anything that has to do with the mechanics causes me to grind my teeth. @majestic It's pretty neat in that he pops 600-700 damage over an 3x3 area and that he get's AP back from one of his background feats, and as a massive bonus you don't have to have Argenta in your party 👌