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Interesting take on why the old rapist president probably stepped down from the Greenland threats: https://www.logicofwar.com/why-trump-retreated-on-greenland/

Boom! Got it! Took me several approaches, but now I have tight, reliable control over the max number of self-procs Red Flag Flying can do. This is 10 max, time to do some testing at 100 and see what happens.

I'm glad to hear impeachment calls are starting to come out for Kristi Noem. I mean she is just throwing around the domestic terrorist label at every protester in the country, so maybe she isn't fit to be the director of Homeland Security. I'd imagine messing up her coffee order can get you on a watchlist.

Whew, won by the skin of their teeth. It's always a battle against the Rams.

I vote for the Black Company.

if this ain't legit, am gonna be extreme disappointed. mr. Page is a soft-spoken man of keen intellect and unquestioned integrity; my respect for him as a jurist and as a human being is profound and sincere. a recipient of the Presidential medal of freedom, the nflpa honors its members with an award named after the former judge and notre dame all-american. oh, and the dude is 80ish. edit: our original source. HA! Good Fun! ps am thinking somebody at the nflpa has a sense o' humor, 'cause previous to 2018, their community mvp award were named for byron "whizzer" white.

battletech extended (BEX) have been playing battletech advanced and rogutech since those mods were released, but never played BEX. am shocked by how much we enjoy bex. is more stable compared to bta and roguetech. the bex mech lab offers fewer options, and initiative and evasion is handled more like the base game than the other mods mentioned, but am near completing a full merc career and am just about to start fighting the clans; start year for our career is 3047. am likely gonna play until am able to field as many dire wolves and warhawks as we please, although am disappointed the bex omnimechs is nevertheless having hardpoints. one thing we especial miss from roguetech is the inability to be able to choose where am dropping on a map. bex frequent drops us in the middle o' multiple enemy lances with the back o' our out-of-cover stalkers typical pointed at least a half dozen mechs with better initiative. whatever. point is that am having more fun than expected. admission: other than fritz (chess,) is few computer games am having invested more hours into than battletech. sux that hairbrained weren't able to do a sequel. HA! Good Fun!

New Arc Line has some interesting ideas. But there isn't much content yet. And with the devs being Ukrainian, a part of the fanbase isn't certain they'll be able to complete the game. If/when the next update hits, I'll let you know how it is coming along.

Hi and welcome! Together with Ball and Chain, Sun and Moon is one of the best options if you don't want to crash the game frequently. If you have no problem with reloading a crashed game then Mohora Tanga (spear) is maybe even more exploitable. With Sun and Moon it's not only the two flail heads (which already increase the chance of crit chains drastically because every proc of Swift Flurry executes both flail head attacks again) but also because of Lunar/Solar Excellence. They add another 5% chance to repeat an attack roll because Sun and Moon's rolls are keyworded as burn and freeze attacks, too. Ball and Chain works great because it has three rolls: the normal flail attack roll, Crushing Yoke can proc Swift Flurry/HBD and then either Shackles or Subjugation. The latter is better for the chance because it procs on 100% of crits while Shackles only has a 50% chance. But with Shackles you can apply several different afflictions with one crit chain while the Knckdown effect of Subjugation doesn't stack or prolong. Mohora Tanga is crazy because the DoT "Red Flag Flying" which procs on crit can proc itself (when it crits). So with enough accuracy over fortitude (and/or an overall very high crit conversion chance) it will proc itself endlessly. The DoT doesn't stack with itself though, but that's not the crazy part. The crazy part is that it counts a proper melee weapon crit an thus triggers all sorts of stuff, including Swift Flurry and Heartbeat Drumming but also Boltcatcher Gloves, Gatecrashers, Hylea's Talons, Ring of Molded Flesh, Avenging Storm and so on. Obviously it's a lot easier for Swift Flurry to proc when every crit you do is repeated a dozen times in a loop. Unfortunately with high accuracy over fortitude you run into the issue of the game shutting down. At some point, when there's too many loop iterations, tha game cannot handle it anymore, some exception might not get catched properly and it just closes. It is a fantastic setup against high fortitude bosses (once one-shot Concelhaut with it) but your own death sentence (so to speak) if you use it against weak/low fort. enemies. Other weapons which have multiple melee attack rolls which can crit and proc Swift Flurry/Heartbeat Drumming: Saru Sichr (Morning Star) : the DoT "Poison Dipped" does a seperate hit roll vs. Fortitude and can proc Swift Flurry which in turn does two rolls again (normal + DoT) - basically like Sun & Moon. I made use of this in this build where I combined Swift Flurry/HBD with the Body Blow modal of Morning Stars, Brute Force and then weaken (Enervating Blows) and stagger (Spirit Frenzy) to bring down enemies' Fortitude a ton: Wicked Beast (Pike) : the enchantment "Hounding" works like a second melee attack roll, too. The good thing is that Hounding targets Reflex and has a +10 accuracy bonus which obviously makes it easier to crit. In addition to the higher chance of crit chains because you get two rolls instead of one the Hounding effects themselves can be very impactful, especially if you proc several of them in a crit chain. Especially the Knockdown effect is excellent. It is the only Knockdown effect in the game that lasts over 1 sec. In this case whole 5 seconds. The only drawback is the occasional self damage which also interupts. Luckily this is not tied to the attack rolls (this would kill you eventually) but only connected to the attack action itself. Meaning no matter how many crit chain procs you generate, the self damage will only occur once (if it occurs in the first place, tha chane is only 10%) while doing the striking motion. You can prevent the self-interrupt with Fractured Casque + minor injury. But it's not too bad because you won't interrupt yourself WHILE executing the attack but only right after - meaning you only get a hit animation and a little more recovery time. You won't lose any resources/spells etc. But you will lose a layer of Concentration if you have any. Sanguine Great Sword: Weeping Wounds on crit can crit itself and proc Swift Flurry/HBD. This is cool because it can heal you up nicely via "Blood Gift". Distraho (Great Sword) : "Menace" on crit. It procs Swift Flurry/HBD. However, the AoE upgrade does NOT(!). It targets Will - which is easy to debuff with a Club+modal and/or a Wizard (Miasma of Dull-Mindedness + Ryngrim's spells). Ball and Chain (Crushing Yokes on hit, Shackless and Subjugation on crit) Those are the melee multihit weapons afaik. Then there's other weapons which are also pretty cool with Swift FLurry/HBD because they can have crazy accuracy vs. defense effects or have other interesting mechanics that interact with Swift Flurry: Scordeo's Edge (Sabre) : Adaptive grants up to +20 accuracy for all your attacks. Since Swift FLurry/HBD only proc main hand attacks, putting the sabre in the offhand while having a multihit-weapon such as Sun & Moon or Ball and Chain in the main hand is a great combo. Concelhaut's Draining Touch: there's a trick which allows you to keep this crazy summoned weapon for the whole fight. Don't learn it but cast it from a grimoire, then switch to a grimoire which doesn't have the spell. This removes the part of code which governs the "vanishing" of the Draining Touch weapon once you hit with it. So you can keep it until the fight is over. Now... Draining Touch targets Will instead of deflection. And a Wizard with a club+modal in the offhand and a Miasma spell can bring down enemies' Will by -65 points with just one cast and one offhand strike. If you pick Kapana Taga and get +2 engagement from it and then also use Ryngrim's spells you will terrify enemies which lowers the Will defense even further (now -75) and also gives you disengagment attacks with the main hand against them (which have +5 accuracy). This all combined leads to a very high chance of crits and thus to more Swift Flurry/HBD procs. Whispers of the Endless Paths: Offensive Parry counts as melee attack which can proc Swift Flurry. This is great against multiple melee enemies because you an get lots of free attacks if enemies miss you in melee. Any of them can crit and then eventually produce a crit chain. Tuotilo's Palm: Outward Spikes can proc Swift Flurry - like a Riposte basically. Unlike Offensoive Parry (which is 100% proc chance on miss) it has only 20%. Still nice to have. Swift Flurry always does main hand attacks so it doesn't matter the the shield bash and the Outward Spike attack are weak. It's about the added chance of trigering Swift Flurry. Akola's Apex Ward: Hard Counter does the same as Outward Spikes but only with 15% chance, but Shark Teeth Counter brings it up to 25%. In combination with Blood Rage (+10 accuracy when under 50% health) and a human (also +10 accuracy ehen under 50% health) it doesn't matter much that large shields do -8 accuracy - if you allow yourself to get blooded a bit. Combining these (except Concelhaut's Draining Touch which needs a Wizard) with a Fighter's Disciplied Strikes + Cleaving Stance or a Berserker's Frenzy + Blood Thirst results in even more crits and thus more crit chains in a given time. Or using a Ranger for maximum accuracy gains (Marked Prey + Stalker's Link + Accuracy Wounding Shot for example) can also lead to nice outcomes. Whispers of the Endless Paths on a Monk/Trickster is cool because you can add the occasional Riposte to Offensive Parry, adding another potential free attack (like Cleaving Stance) with perfect action economy. I did a complete playthrough with the Berserker/Helwalker with Saru Sichr as I said/linked to before... but I also did also a Nalpasca(I believe)/Stalker with a single handed Mohora Tanga (who one-shot Concelhaut). I used Stalker's Patience against normal enemies though to prevent too many game crashes and only brought out Mohora Tanga against high fortitude enemies. The rest of the weapons I tested for some time with the help of the console (and surprisingly really liked Wicked Beast with Devil of Caroc Breastplate and Helm of the Falcon - not only powerful but also very stylish). I didn't do real playthoughs with them though. Sun and Moon + Tuotilo's Palm on a Monk/Soulblade shoud be really good in theory. The two flail heads mak it so that the first one dumps raw damage into the target when using Soul Annihilation and the second head already regains focus for the next Soul Annihilation while the shield bash doesn't get used (fortunately) because Soul Annihilation is a primary attack - yet you get the speed bonus of dual wielding and the enhanced chances for crit chains. Same class combo with Whispers of the Endless Paths: Offensive Parry generates Focus (the Swift Flurry procs don't though) and Soul Annihilation works great with the cone AoE. Whispers of the Endless Paths + Monk + Fighter with Clear Out and Cleaving Stance might also be crazy. The cone AoE + Clear Out does absolutely devastating AoE damage, especially with the +10 INT from the Monk's side. And Clear Out hits the initial target twice, making crit chains and kills more likely. Add the Offensive Parry for more potential crit chains out of the ordinary attack phases. Akola's Apex Ward + multihit weapon in the main hand may be very cool with a human Monk/Streefighter I reckon: lots of speed, higher Sneak Attack and crit dmg when flanked and blooded, Riposte and Shark Teeth Counter for many chances to proc Swift Flurry. Thematically Mohora Tanga would fit best. But I guess something like Ball and Chain or Sun & Moon would be safer.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/new_arc_line Not every steampunk game tries to be Arcanum, but it is THE Steampunk CRPG, so some developers seem to be trying. Granted, 9/10 times the UE5 tend to look and run poorly for me, thus, I am just watching the particular title.

So, 12th of March Greedfall leaves Early Access and Solasta enters Early Access. I;ll have to buy a second PC so I can play both at the same time...

good news: scary tibetan death mask bartimaeus is finally gone bad news: back on that louise brooks crap again tangent: i hate circle avatars, they're so much harder to get right compared to square avatars, LC's avatar accurately captures how I feel trying to make circle avatars