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I don't know if it's common knowledge but mortification of the soul has some strange potential: you can save up wounds if do not mind some cheese.How it works: 1. get to 1 health, BDD, SoT (I know). 2. Activate mortification of the soul couple of times -> no immedite affect, as there is no health to reduce. But! 3. The minute you get healed the affect activates -> your freshly gained health turns into wounds instantly. I got 6, so I could activate FF level 9 for +450% damage before the previous stack expired.

@Hurlshot Good idea? It should address the rampant crime in California or at least contain it ?

am suspecting you got a better chance with aclatraz than you would with adx florence trump's desire to make prisons great again, ignores the fact that the US doesn't have some kinda national shortfall of correction facilities. ... what kinda lunatic romanticizes sing-sing and alcatraz? am genuine curious how long alcatraz and the movie tariff silliness, imposed on an emergency basis for national security reasons, is gonna be sane-splained by fox and the legion o' maga pundits before they shift to criticizing lefties for fixating on alcatraz and movie tariffs when there is more important issues confronting real americans... like trans athletes and the inability to purchase raw milk at local supermarkets. late edit: ok, am admitting trump's alcatraz insanity ain't complete bad as it gives an excuse to post an old phil hartman clip. HA! Good Fun!

Talking about elections with lessons for elsewhere: Romania. Shock win in first round to anti EU candidate, heaven and earth moved to get rid of him first due to 'Russian interference' (turned out it was actually another Romanian party trying to game the system, ho hum, still gets labelled as due to alleged Russian interference by the media), eventually got rid of on financial irregularities. Great victory for democracy. Redo first round election... a different nationalist anti EU candidate wins, with 40% of the vote instead of 23%. Might be better to try addressing the cause, rather than the symptoms.

please make pillars of eternity 3 start kickstarter maybe? -Anıl Erdem Sarak

Would never have happened with Kamala in office.

India launches missiles at Pakistan Nice. Here's a 2019 paper about the consequences of a potential nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan in 2025.

Hah! Happy Birthday!

Today is my birthday; it's a delightful present to hear that from the preeminent sage of this game

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shadow docket, so we got no explanation for the Court's decision. unlike the situation where venezuelans were on buses heading to an airport or to halt an imminent execution, am not seeing the exigent circumstances regarding trump's desired transgender ban for the military. the status quo were that transgendered people could serve in the military and am having heard no genuine argument that the presence o' a very small percentage o' trans people in the military somehow threatened situational readiness o' the armed forces. even if you think that trans people shouldn't serve in the military, do you honest see the kinda emergency scenario akin to executing an innocent woman or "deporting" people sans due process when the government insists there is no practical way to retrieve those people post "deportation"? again, justices alito and thomas were baffled and outraged 'caues the Court granted emergency habeas relief to venezuelans who had been loaded on buses and were headed to an airport. nevertheless, somehow they sees tragedy inducing exigency if trump's trans ban were halted while the ordinary and admitted slow legal process worked in its usual manner. full oral argument before the appellate court with possible appeal to scotus in regards to the trans ban woulda resulted in an irreparable injury to the federal government? how? am knowing am having said this a few times, but the new scotus reliance on the shadow docket to avoid accountability is one o' those under-the-radar issues we believe deserves attention. aside, for those hopeful the Court stands up to the trump administration, am warning that history is not on your side. there is a long and storied/sordid history o' scotus cowardice. if there is genuine fear a chief executive will ignore or undermine a Court decision, the safe money bet is that the Court will cave. every american school kid hears about marbury v. madison at least a couple times before they finish mandatory education. the detail from marbury which is glossed over or poor remembered is that the Court in that case surrendered to thomas jefferson, arguable our nation's first authoritarian wannabee. anybody recall who were marbury? john adams, the President before thomas jefferson, made a whole lotta last minute judicial appointments before he left office, more than fifty, which considering the size of the fed government at the time, that was a noteworthy amount. william marbury were one o' the individuals who had received a late term appointment from john adams, but he were amongst a not insignificant number o' appointees who, while they had been gained senate approval, had not physical received their commission. thomas jefferson refused to deliver the commission to marbury... and he also threatened to undermine the Court in a number o' creative if they tried to order him to do what he did not wish to do. John Marshall bravely stands up to thomas jefferson and establishes judicial review. "Judicial review is the idea, fundamental to the U.S. system of government, that the actions of the executive and legislative branches of government are subject to review and possible invalidation by the judiciary . Judicial review allows the Supreme Court to take an active role in ensuring that the other branches of government abide by the Constitution." huzzah. that means marbury received his commission and served as a judge, right? nope. Justice Marshall found a standing argument which simultaneous allowed him to establish judicial review, but also extricated the Court from the danger o' needing order President jefferson to deliver the commision to marbury and others like him. actually, james madison as secretary o' state woulda been ordered to deliver marbury's commission, but that is kinda beside the point. regardless, one o' the most well known scotus decisions were an example o' the Court finding a technicality which would allow them to avoid a direct confrontation with the chief executive. as such it should come as no surprise that the Court routine finds a way to knuckle under when a direct confrontation with the President is threatened. expecting J. Roberts to be one o' the few Chief Justices in US history to show real courage is not a safe bet... God help us all. HA! Good Fun!

https://thehill.com/business/5284207-lutnick-skeptical-of-cutting-a-deal-with-canadas-socialist-regime/ Not a great sign for the talks today. I maintain Lutnick really should have been on time to work that day.

Let's play a game: Spot the Source We Made a Crappy Upscale From! Was it A., the theatrical blu-ray that actually has the proper colors and uses different color tones for different times and locations throughout the movie as shown in original theatrical viewings, or B., the extended edition blu-ray that's a load of busted-up garbage? If you chose A., then congratulations, you won a one-way ticket to Mount Doom! If you chose B., then good job, you have eyes. tl;dr: "sharp and clear" That's because the recent-ish 2K and 4K remaster blu-rays of LotR are just processed color regrades of the ancient original blu-ray releases. The image is sharper, yes - that's typically what these processed "remasters" (as opposed to actual re-scans of original film elements) do, sharpen up already prominent details while losing or warping smaller details. The color regrading is an inconsistent mess on top of it - instead of restoring the films to their original theatrical look (which you can see in the original non-Extended Edition blu-rays), they are all over the place - sometimes it looks more similar to the theatrical colors, sometimes it's very neutral, and sometimes it's...just doing something else entirely. The neutral colors are weird - those films used color to signify different locations and their respective tones, so it's bizarre to see a "remaster" lose that entirely at times. They're awful releases that are lower picture quality than the original blu-rays from which they are derived from (plus, as you mentioned, the over-clarification of details makes some of the already low quality 2000s CGI effects stand out even more, and the films generally lose their filmic look due to over-processing), but if you really prefer the Extended Editions, I guess they might be preferable to previous official releases. There are fan color regrades of the original blu-rays that are better quality than those shoddy remasters.

Totally agree. The others are occasionally, if you encounter resisting foe and/or you have some ranger characters (or one very strong ranged) the second choice is Sure-Handed Ila Nocked Her Arrows with Speed. Someone says Rime and Frost Followed the Footfalls of Karth can be good, but it is uncomfortable as it needs some micro etc.

and if you were wondering why trump wants to kill npr and pbs... A Maryland town backed Trump's cost-cutting pledge. Now it's a target Emmitsburg voted overwhelmingly for President Trump in November. NPR interviewed about two dozen people here. Almost all of them voted for Trump, and many said his plans to cut federal spending were a key attraction. Now, they say they are puzzled as to why the administration would cancel national training for firefighters. HA! Good Fun!

Federal judge orders NC to certify Riggs as winner in Supreme Court election “This case concerns whether the federal Constitution permits a state to alter the rules of an election after the fact and apply those changes retroactively to only a select group of voters, and in so doing treat those voters differently than other similarly situated individuals,” he wrote. “This case is also about whether a state may redefine its class of eligible voters but offer no process to those who may have been misclassified as ineligible. “To this court, the answer to each of those questions is ‘no.’” ... is not over, but keep in mind that meyer don't need to win for republicans to win. am suspecting litigation has already cost judge riggs ~$1 million, or perhaps a bit more. trump is threatening law firms who might ordinary take on such cases, so the pool o' attorneys to represent democrats is shrinking particular as the field o' election integrity is pretty freaking specialized. furthermore, republicans is able to target a handful o' high population districts in each state to challenge elections, 'cause is higher population and urban districts where democrats ordinary have the best voter turnout-- same is not true in reverse. even if democrats tried to flip the dirty trick playbook being used by republicans, chances are that targeting one or two districts in a statewide election won't benefit democrats 'cause when republicans win they get a multitude o' all those low population rural voting districts. there is some good news, well good news beyond the obvious that riggs keep winning. The Many Lawyers of Hannah Dugan more than a handful o' conservative legal superstars is stepping up to represent clients dealing with the trump administration. paul clement am realizing mr. clement is not a household name, but he is arguable the best in his field, and he is as conservative as they come, so it means something when he steps forward to represent judge hanna dugan as well as law firms facing trump executive orders. not all republicans is being cowards. HA! Good Fun!

What happens when punk does reggae. Jimmy Cliff does a pretty good take on this song.

My idea is to turn it into Trumps... uh.. summer home for the rest of his life.

our first thought were similar, that he had seen The Rock and thought it were kewl, but am suspecting the truth were more like disinfectant and sunlight for covid. probable some staffer or fox personality popped off about how the US needed a true terror prison 'cause regardless o' effectiveness, the point is to frighten people, and alcatraz is somehow both scary and kewl? trump hears or sees something, then has an epiphany and 'cause his uncle was an mit professor, all o' trumps ideas is necessarily genius, yes? the reason why Alcatraz were closed, the main reason, were 'cause it were something like 3x more expensive to run than any other fed prison. @Hurlshortmaybe took the tour within the last few decades, dunno. am suspecting he were told details 'bout alzatraz closing. so, the doge guy who cuts money for the pepfar program and for va cancer treatment trials 'cause is all 'bout cutting down on waste, now wants to reopen a money sink prison. brilliant. stoopid. the thing is, am predicting you are gonna now see a multitude o' maga pundits defending trump's impulse control. 'course our sundowning President didn't limit his sunday dumb to alcatraz. Trump threatens a 100% tariff on foreign-made films, saying the movie industry in the US is dying ... anything which takes the focus off of trump's recent court losses, his "deportation" blunders, and the serious diminished port activity in places such as los angeles, effectively work in his favour even if am suspecting he doesn't plan his bouts o' bad idea diarrhea as an actual ploy to distract; he is just that stoopid. HA! Good Fun!

Microsoft announces a Gears of War remaster – and it’s coming to PlayStation, too | The Verge

Hi Chaospread. Just saw your reply post, which I think you posted just before I posted my update. Thanks for feedback on the BW. I did start run with BW and KW paladins, but re-started my POTD run without the BW (in the end went with Eder, Aloth, Durance, Kana, KW paladin and cipher), and after a rough start in the Temple of Eothas its now going well. Just got to defiance bay and I'm on the second level of the endless path. Thanks for the tips for the druid. I might add a druid back into the mix at higher level (I started with a druid hirling but ended up benching them).

That is terrifying. Azdeus the sundrinker, watching a cool evening while sat in a pleasant cup of coffee.

Soulframe (pre-alpha: Prelude 9) Lots of animal saving

A new Planet 9 candidate has been found: Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart Hopefully the new survey telescopes coming online soon will sort it all out.

Pfft, those screens are ok, but if you want sooper graphix, this game can't be beat! Look at those trees, that distant vista! And behold my beautiful druglord character! ( Schedule I )

So we doing this again

rats are yuuuuugggge lol

Found this gem (might be in a wrong order, but each screenshot should be self-contained; it is a single-player game):

Made him Helwalker (35 MIG at strike), added Fjord pet (3% freezing lash) and Precognition amulet (+25% crit damage for the 2 first crits in combat): Over 1000 dmg. Trollolol

Allllllll the goooold!

Tl;dr; 20 years is a life time I still think back to those days in 1983, when fighting my mum over access to the TV. I swear, she never cared watching TV before, until I got that Commodore 64 and didn't have my own screen (yet) It was the fight of the titans, seeing who was the most stubborn In the end, I made enough money to buy a 12" black and white TV to put up in my own room. Peace settled over the land and everyone could back to worry about total nuclear war (the real thing, not the later video game) But it's been a long journey, technologies come and go, concepts come and go, target audiences come and go. VHS won out over Beta MAX, but nobody today knows what the heck either of them are. Tapes were the original medium video games were sold on for home computers, whether they be Acorn BBC model B or Sinclair ZX Spectrums. Floppy disks followed and less floppy, floppy (3.5") followed and eventually cd roms. Even those eventually died out and everyone gets their fix from the internet. Scratching my head and wondering what replaces the current internet some day? All of that in 2x20 years.

Takedown Combo +100%

Island prisons are more expensive to run. Here in Washington we closed the McNeil Island penitentiary for that reason. There's no significant benefit to re-opening Alcatraz, when the money can be better spent elsewhere.

https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/258aa538o412ok/grand-theft-auto-vi-is-now-coming-may-26-2026 GTA 6 next year.