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I've had the word Apprenticeship on a test for about twenty years. The students are supposed to describe the process of being an apprentice. Today a student wrote that an apprenticeship is a ship that holds many apprentices.

Coworker with 2 more years experience didn't know you could update multiple columns in one SQL update statement. Long ago I knew God would punish me for my sins

If a ship of apprentices all become journeymen, is it still an apprenticeship? Asking for Theseus.

Kassandra showed the vets that she paid attention when I was playing Saints Row.

You just want to know what she looks like, in case you truly anger me and I send her to take you out.

Took my cat to the vet's. Right out of the carrier she went for his throat. No "where am I? What am I doing here?" Just "I remember you feth!" He tried those thick leather gloves. She ripped them off his hands and tossed them across the room. I tried putting her in the straight jacket like contraption. I'll now have some cool new scars in my face. It took over 30 minutes to restrain her and then she still bit through the leather gloves into the hands of one of the three vets (the fourth had fled and locked herself in the surgery room). Take aways from the experience: Vet 1: if you ever visit any vet again, first give her something to calm her down. I've never had such a violent cat ever. Vet 2: her bite is like a cobra. Suddenly she strikes. Like a cobra. Vet 2+3: she is really smart. She knows exactly how to block every move we make. Such a smart cat. Vet 4: if I don't make eye contact she may not pay attention to me.

Me : "Hunter's Palm" It's like Face Palm but with a bonus vs Kiths

Thank God, mine only figured out cupboards and brings me chocolate, bonbons, and books instead of dead animals.

That was exactly the scene that came to mind for me as well

My cats will emit a soul rending long drawn out moewing noise from within the cat carrier non-stop the entire drive to the vet, but the second we walk through the door they totally chill out and let the vet check whatever he needs to check. Except for the temperature check, they dont like that and ears go back flat. They may be overweight too but I apologize for nothing!

Thank God you guys are here! Hahaha I have to take a better look on Concentration then! I will let you know once I play again! Thanks!

When Hauani o Whe is about to die (very little health left) you cast Disintegration on it. When it finally dies (health = 0, doesn't matter from what damage it dies) Disintegration must still be active as hostile effect. If that's the case it won't split into lesser oozes and the fight's done. When interrupts don't work then Hauani o Whe (or its child ooze) probably has Concentration stacks left. You have to remove those with (more) interrupts until they start to really interrupt the ooze and prevent merging. Iterrupts will cancel the merging action but not totally prevent the oozes from moving towards each other. Crossbow+modal or Arbalest+modal should work fine (once Concentration is removed).

After a week long break, I have started again with DS2 playthrough. I was not very keen to go into Gutter, so I have postponed it, until I felt relaxed enough to make another attempt. And it went much better than anticipated. First I have went for Royal Rat Vanguard and finished it on first try. No complications, and no clumsiness this time 😄 Then I went for Gutter. To my surprise, I got to second bonfire, without a single **** up 😄 But it did not took long, to make one, on my way to the Ant Queen, where I have not seen a missing planks 😄 After that, I have run around to light all sconces to summon the Red Phantom at the end of the area. After a victory, I moved slowly through the Black Gulch just to get obliterated by the first of the Red Phantoms here. I was not able to hit him at all, just few times with the Lightning Bolt. Then I have cornered myself into one of the caves, and my days were numbered 😄 The second encounter was funny one, as he pushed me with one of his hits into the abyss. I started to bitch aloud, just to end up completely surprised, after I've landed on one of the small alcoves, which lead to the big cave with Giants. Cleared them fast with lightning bolts and after traveling up with the lift, I have finished the phantom as well 😄 The second on was much easier, as I was able to lure him into the bonfire cave, where I was able to kite him a little bit and finish him of soon. After that It was time for the Rotten. I equipped Fire Resistance Ring+3 and Ring of Steel Protection+1, and started the fight. I got him to 25% without being hit a single time, and then I have started to do stupid things again 😄 and almost burned myself in one of the fire pools. I ended up with less than 1% HP 😄 Luckily, I was able to avoid the boss and heal up a little bit and then to land the final hit. So both bosses today on first try, and as a reward, I got one more trophy for crafting final Hex from the NG+ boss soul.

I just click "Close to Board"... I always found the fighting pointless and boring. If I do get caught in a fight I just jibe and sail away. The only thing I hate about the fights, if you turn tail and run you lose morale for 'fleeing a inferior enemy' also when it is 3 red skulls and 10 levels higher than you. That annoys the hell out of me.

Lamplighters - I played this on the gamepass and never got into it, but I was in the mood for a good TB combat game, and it was on sale on GOG, so I grabbed it. It caught my interest better this time around. The combat is a bit awkward, but mostly well done. The story is decent. I'm enjoying it. I'm bummed that this is the game that kind of damaged Hairbrained, as it is pretty solid and a nice attempt at a unique IP. That being said, I can see why it didn't sell well, as it does strike a strange tone. Still, it has gotten better as I've played it more, and I am looking forward to finishing it. I did read an article recently from a lamplighter producer that said there isn't room for more Xcom style games to thrive. I think that misses why this game struggled. There are a ton of good games with Xcom style combat that have done well. Most aren't charging full price. JA3, for example, was a solid hit. Also BG3 succeeded with similar TB combat. The reality is the Lamplighter setting is very niche, and they thought it would bring in a larger audience. It was overly ambitious.

Finished The Outer Worlds. Despite being oft rather lukewarm to ok with it, I still experimented some after. I'd advice NOBODY to grind through Monarch (in particular the surface) solo, without companions (there's perks for going solo). That's what I did. Better to take the perk that lets you sprint faster and just run past enemies (no problem, really). Or invest in leadership (+companion perks) and take two companions. Actually, they can roast pretty much everything alone. So this is it. The officially last Cain&Boyarsky game. But also by far the safest. Still somewhat interested in the Whodunnit DLC, seams like a neat, self-contained idea. It's not like there's anything bigger out there ATM. Games are taking forever to develop thanks to the obsession with fidelity and pixel perfection, there's been delays -- and even Obsidian's last game technically was Pentiment. And generally, this SHOULD be 100% my type of game.

The other two: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/yet-another-studio-formed-of-disco-elysium-alumni-has-announced-a-cerebral-sci-fi-rpg-just-to-confuse-you https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/former-disco-elysium-devs-are-working-on-a-spiritual-successor-at-new-studio-longdue-though-robert-kurvitz-and-aleksander-rostov-arent-involved Sounds interesting, though I strongly dislike the sound design in the trailer.

Me: "Oh, I remember this song from when I was a little kid." *off-key loud* "SHE WAS BLINDED BY THE LIGHT! WRAPPED UP LIKE A ... dushin? ... ANOTHER ROAMER IN THE NIGHT, BLINDED BY THE LIGHT!" "SHE WAS BLINDED BY THE LIGHT! WRAPPED UP LIKE A ... *du-mumble* ... ANOTHER ROAMER IN THE NIGHT...." Me: "What the heck is he saying anyway? Probably 45 years hollering the 1st phrase but mumbling that one word. The internet exists now..." Me: .... "Oh."

Destiny: Rising is a new mobile RPG shooter set in Bungie’s Destiny universe - The Verge

Maybe he wanted to shoot just regular people and not Trump. It's america after all.