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If it's a fly, roach, ant, or those stupid little moths that like to eat all your flour/nuts/grains, and it's in the house, it dies. If it's a mosquito and it's anywhere near me, it dies. On the other hand, if I'm outside and I see a bee/fly/lizard/whatever got itself stuck in the pool, I'll fish it out and put it in the shade to give it a chance to recover (if it does). It's less that I mind killing an insect (vs. my convenience) and more that I don't like "suffering." Spiders I leave alone, except poisonous ones (around here that just mean black widows). Although I won't let them turn the house into a webbed mecca. Or if I'm in bed and a spider crawls across my pillow near my face, there's a decent chance I'll kill it without thinking. 😛 The funniest tale in this arena for me is still when I rescued/nursed a small butterfly back to health. When I went into the yard to release it, it left my hand and flew into the air, freeeee. Then 3 seconds later a bird came dive bombing out of a tree and ate it. I was aghast for 5 more seconds, then hubby and I howled with laughter. Such is life.

At this point I find it kinda cringe if celebs show up in video games, tbh. 😄 Especially Star Citizen, which seems to want to collect them the same way Hideo Kojima does. 😄

Shoplifters (2018). An impoverished and too big family with questionable morals live in a small shack of a home while taking in a 5 year old girl that is being neglected by her parents. It's the very first live-action Japanese film I can say that I liked without any reservations, with some very interesting ideas on family and being socially isolated from the rest of the world even as it lives all around you. The film apparently won a lot of awards domestically, and I can appreciate why.

My spiders are my best allies against the fly invasion I get during spring and summer. If I don't open the windows at all during that period they won't get in ofcourse, but I'm not keen on running the heat exchanger backwards since it's ludicrously expensive, so the spiders I've got here are pretty huge and well fed 😄

I too am a "re-homer" of all manner of insects/critters and Ive developed a pretty effective method of capture and release. I use a clear plastic cup or glass and drop it over top of the undesirable, then I slide a piece of printer paper under the cup opening, then pick the whole thing up and out the door they go. Works like a charm. I like to believe that when I pass there will be a legion of insects and animals that Ive saved waiting for me on the other side.

op is amazing light novel ended decade ago and not very popular so no season 2

Keanu Reaves IS Cyberpunk.

You could use Essential Phantom (Wizard) or Dichotomous Soul summons (Monk). When they get hit they will apply the debuffs of Sisyfo's Stone and Magnera's Chain (because they get copies of your items, the monk ones wihtout the weapon though). The Phantom can even apply the debuff from the rod (not in an AoE unfortunately since it cannot use modals). If I am not mistaken using Phantom/Dichotomous Soul even lets you stack the debuffs higher than normal - because every summon has its own copy of the item which builds an individual debuffing stack on the enemy. So you can circumvent the "max stack" of the item (if there's any). The enemy will have two seperate stacks from the rod for example if you and the phantom both attack the same enemy, doubling the max amount of the debuff.

Nice change of lyrics 😂 👍

@BoeroerThat build is seriously impressive... fastest casting I've ever seen for sure. Probably a better approach with this multiclass than trying to maximize speed debuffs honestly 🤣 Maybe using Sisyfo's Stone, Rod of the Deep Hunter and Magnera's Chain together could be fun, but then again this would require getting hit/crit to proc Sisyfo's Stone and the armor. Seems a bit counterproductive though, slowing enemies down means you'd get hit less, so it would be tough to maximize the stacks - maybe the armor and amulet are just best suited on a barb or something as a nice additional effect rather than the focus of a build. If the rod stacked more, SC cipher could be nice with shared nightmare. You're right with interrupts, honestly I think Thelee's disruptor build would be better at shutting enemies down than stacking slowdown effects. At the very least though, combining blizzard + arduous delay + blind and slicken for some interrupts seems like a great early game tactic before you get access to the best hard cc and perma-interrupt strategies. Definitely going to try this out on my current run and see how effective it is.

Unfortunately it will be outdated by 2026 and they will need to rework the whole thing.

Was also trying to rescue a spider out of a bath tub once, accidentally killed it instead. Felt terrible, it did the death curl and everything. Left it on the piece of paper I was trying to rescue it with, checked back an hour later...yep, still very much dead. I started to move the paper and then it suddenly sprang back to life and wandered off. That little rat bastard made me feel terrible for a whole hour. I mean, I probably still hurt or scared it (I read online later that spiders doing a false "death curl" can sometimes just be a stress and/or self-protection thing, basically trying to cover their body with their legs to protect themselves as much as possible), so I guess I deserved it. I saved a fly a few weeks back. It was desperately trying to phase through a window, and I grabbed the fly swatter and took aim and...I don't know, I just couldn't do it for some reason. A fly. It must've been because it seemed like it just wanted to get out, and I could oblige it instead of smashing its guts all over a window. So I grabbed a cup and a piece of paper and it strangely let me catch it easily, which seemed very at odds with it frantically trying to get through the window. I put it outside...it's what it wanted, and after all, only spiders are allowed to roam through my domain freely.

@Gorth - I still listen to Big Country's first album The Crossing now and then. Although my favorite single is Chance. --------------------------------- Good interview, he plays the drums a bit between yaks. At 72, Copeland is still such a chaotic (personality) character and I love it. Watching him/the other two on stage back then as a young teen (Day on the Green, Oakland) was something. I wish I'd been able to see them (live) earlier but ah well. Considering I've rarely gone to live concerts, at least I got to once.

Tails of Iron I cannot tell whether the story is meant to be taken at the face value (a young monarch saving his land from very evil invaders) or not. The first death. The bard was barding. End-/post-game.

…posted on the Obsidian forums 😂

Hey, they added Henry Cavill to advertise their game in-game.

Hades. How comes I can play RPGs, both nerdy and Skyrim-y, over and over and over again for hundreds of hours and never get bored but with this - roguelike I think it's called? - I'm all "Oh my goooood the same room the same mooks lemme ouuuuut I've been here forever!!! 😭" when stats say I only did 11 short runs? Me being bad at twitchy speedy combat definitely isn't helping any, there's a god mode but to max it out I'll need like 30 (!!!!!) runs so I dunno. Oh well, at least combat isn't the thing of nightmares like in Pyre and I didn't yet rageuninstall it like Bastion. Muzik's lovely though.