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Bruce, we hope the ruling will be based on the evidence. Because any person who honestly looks at the facts knows that Israel is guilty. But the individual judges aren't impartial. They are human beings and part of the societies they grew up in. People will always expect a US American to not vote based on facts but on US policy. As a German citizen I am not going to trust the German judge until he proves me wrong. He is more than welcome to do so. But if you were to follow the nosedive in freedom of press in Germany the past few years, the extreme bias in reporting, not just on this issue, I am terrified of the direction Germany is heading. We have seen where that leads before. And of course everyone will expect the judge from Lebanon to vote against Israel.

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I think I am in the last book in Bookwalker. What is interesting is that, while it is a small game, it feels a bit like the opposite of other games. A lot of games, you have a very fleshed out start and then, as you progress, everything becomes less rich, as the devs ran out of time. In Bookwalker later books you enter aren't necessarily more complex in gameplay, but they feel at the very least just as involved as the first one. So I am quite happy that the game has been a constant experience. You don't get that as often as I'd like. And I even enjoyed the "big reveal" in the plot. Or at least the first big reveal. There may be another down the road.

Isn't Germany making a 3rd party submission to the court on Israel's behalf as well? I guess the question is whether they actually care about that. Is the purpose of 'international law' to have an actual rules based system that limits power and is fair to everyone, or so people can say that it exists to legitimise themselves... The answer for the ICC is pretty obviously the latter, at least under Karim Khan. The ICJ is an older institution though with less susceptibility to influence and even setting Khan aside without some of the more, uh, interesting built in aspects of the ICC like allowing western countries to investigate themselves. Sting never loses his faith in you, no idea why he even wrote the song. He's infamous for having people betray him but not learning- Ric Flair, Lex Luger etc. Wouldn't be a surprise if Flair betrays him once more for old times' sake too.

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one can say the same thing about every part of the world the inevitable collapse promised by the pursuit of endless growth is very obvious now

I can, and have, in fact, say the same thing about Murica. It seems to not just be the US and Germany either. I mean, I can say the US beyond a shadow of a doubt, because I live here and I've witnessed it with my own eyes time and again, but it seems to be most of western and central Europe too. I can't say if it's a coordinated effort, but when it's simultaneously happening in Murica, Canada, and most of western and central Europe... My spidey senses are going off. Back to the matter at hand, I have no horse in this race. I have no allegiance nor enmity to neither Israel nor Palestine. What I care bout is, in order of importance: 1) The killing stops 2) Justice is served

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For the chanter (my favorite class ) it says that the bonus for Great Soul is 15% phrase duration, not 20%. Just a typo right?

That fight is much more fun when you do it in Chapter 2, although I am uncertain if I was supposed to be able to reach it in chapter two. I think it took spending Navigator's Insight to create a warp route to the system. Should have been a hint, I suppose...

Finland is part of Nordic countries. Nordic countries are Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Often Nordic coubtries are mixed with Scandinavian countries, which are Denmark, Norway and Sweden, although some could argue that Denmark isn't really part of Scandinavian Peninsula

This works with the community patch and I am very happy and grateful for this awesome community.

Just had a random planet fight with 3 chaos marines and some big ass chaos helbrute. They did not get to shoot...

just like that --- By the way: the focus generation of reaping knives is not tied to the knives themselves (for example an essential phantom with Reaping Knives who got the weapons from its wizard master generates no focus for the cipher). Instead it's a seperate "buff" on the character you cast the reaping knives on. But that also means that if you replace Reaping Knives with let's say Concelhaut's Draining Touch or Spirit Lance or whatever summones weapon, you still get +5 focus per hit. Or better: per attack. The AoE hits of the lance don't produce any focus unfortunately. Don't know if that's exploitable - I just found out. Edit: heh - Forbidden Fist attack also works for focus generation if you had Reaping Knives cast onto you (at least with Community Patch).

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.

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"

The international community should seize Israeli assets to fund the reconstruction

All three should be charged. Putin should not be charged with what he is though, the only reason he faces that (and it went straight to an arrest warrant forgoing the usual probe) is because the west doesn't like him, and he can't face charges of Pillage or Waging Aggressive War because if he did Blair and Trump would be there too. Which they too should be.

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