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I think I am done with Skyrim. The usual Bethesda flaws are becoming too many to allow the game to be fun. I have now resigned myself to just open the console and type kill whenever yet another dragon attacks because of fast traveling. Which means I also do that to most tedious boss fights. Loot is irrelevant and only exists to burden the player in the excessively restrictive encumbrance system, to force you to run back and forth (without fast traveling so as not to spawn a lot of dragons who's bones weigh too much as well). In the end the only loot worth anything is the ridiculous amount of iron ingots you need for house construction, which you get by traveling from vendor to vendor to purchase as they restock (without fast traveling to avoid dragons? ). That is not a gameplay loop. It is simply wasting players' time hoping they don't realise they aren't playing a game. So console it is and player.additem. If I didn't have the kids, I would have uninstalled already, but as is, I have a responsibility as a parent, so I need to finish purchasing all the houses and building all the houses. Then finish this silly dragon main story, take care of the vampire attacks, and put an end to the war. Because what kind of mum would I be if I left Skyrim like this.

john mccain would be proud. a couple months ago a military commission/judge had ruled it is ok to use evidence acquired via torture in pretrial proceedings under certain circumstances but the biden administration is refusing to use the tainted evidence. we had difficulty finding fault with judge acosta's decision, but we kinda felt sickened by it even so. the ruling were o' interest to only a handful o' people not intimate involved in military jurisprudence and when judge acosta delivered his opinion on 18 may 2021, we saw virtual zero coverage from mainstream media. as such there were no heat on the biden administration to do anything other than accept the judge's ruling. thought the story were over. am relived we were wrong. the biden administration did the right thing. good on them. HA! Good Fun!

'course the obvious solution is to find somebody named subaru to run for President. HA! Good Fun! ps edit due to dyslexia... to is v. is to

If you say so Gfted1 vas Obsidian (I'm sure someone somewhere get the reference)

Encourage people to play cRPGS. No issues with sex then.

Absolutely, you are clearly at that " Bethesda fatigue " moment that is inevitable for their games like with Ubisoft games I loved my recent sojourn with Morrowind but I definitely started feeling I was ready to complete the main quest after 130 hours and move on. Thats also why I never played the expansions despite your suggestions (and I have played them the first time around ) Thats the secret to enjoying Elder Scroll games....dont spend too much time playing them

Ugh...that article...ugh. Not saying the film isn't worth watching as I enjoyed it (even took my parents to see it, the last film they saw in theaters), but I take issue with the article anyway. I wouldn't consider the film a satire. Not that it isn't funny, but to me the funniness is built on character and situation in the film (for example the Brooks Brothers dialogue between Cranston and Khan). "It’s written as what a child’s perception of a tough guy would be, a clever interpretation of a character originally created as a “darker” take on a costumed character that was still aimed at children." This line is almost nonsensical, but if I parse what its saying correctly, its wrong. The character wasn't originally created as 'a darker take on a costumed character that was still aimed at children', he was created because Street & Smith wanted a radio show to advertise their Detective Stories Magazine and the narrator they created proved to be popular (people showing up at the newsstand asking for that 'shadow' magazine). Note that the Shadow predates what we think of costumed superheroes (5 years before THE PHANTOM in comic strips, 7 years before SUPERMAN in comic books) and would only have literary and film antecedents of people with disguised personas (Scarlett Pimpernel, Zorro) and a few literary proto-superheroes (Hugo Danner from Wylie's GLADIATOR), with possibly the most direct antecedent being from French cinema (Judex; however I'm not sure how strong that connection really is). We can argue all day long about who the pulps were aimed at, but I wouldn't say the were particularly aimed at children; Detective Stories Magazine almost certainly wasn't; a hero pulp like The Shadow most likely was aimed at teens and young men, not kids specifically (even if kids ended up reading them). Many pulps were probably too lurid in subject matter for kids to read with their parent's knowledge. "Margo Lane ... easily sees through Baldwin’s outwards personna (sic) and uncover (sic) his secret." Because she's latently telepathic. Not saying the character isn't good or anything, but the sentence implies a savviness the character didn't have, particularly given that she's confused about what is going on for much of the film. That said Baldwin and Miller sell the connection and generally speaking the cast is great (Tim Curry, Ian McKellen, and John Lone are mentioned in the article, but Peter Boyle and Jonathan Winters (plus a number of good actors in smaller parts). "With Highlander the precision of the sword fights made sense given the film’s focus on ancient warriors, and in The Shadow it is effective given the more primitive early television stunt work the film is emulating." - Wut? Where did television ever enter into this? At worst it could be seen as emulating the work of earlier film serials (there were 4 Shadow serials) and maybe 30s Crime Drama films (2 Shadow films were made in the 30s). Not really sure where the television comes in at (early television didn't have the kind of stunt work you might see in the mid-to-late 50s and most of that is because of the studio serial production units becoming tv production units). "...the credits song “Original Sin” from Taylor Dunne surprisingly fit within the nostalgic soundtrack." It's Taylor DAYNE. Also points off to Universal for allowing the Original Sin music video to show the end of the film. But the soundtrack is good (just don't know why anyone would okay the end of the film footage for the official music video).

The joys of language..

I am late to the party but with the right choices a MuT focused Brute is outstanding. You can cobble +3 PL on a Nature Godlike with Tactical Barrage and Hot Razor Skewers, giving you Mythic-like Fists by endgame. With all the Brute active/passive abilities you can punch very very fast with incredible DMG and PEN. With or without Tuotilo's Palm in the offhand, and of course with Devil of Caroc breastplate. And you can still use e.g. Battle Axe as backup Devoted weapon with Bleeding Cuts. Really fun and powerful, I did a fair bit of solo with one such character. @Kaylon also mentioned sometime ago a very powerful Brute template with Lord Darryn's Voulge, I can't find the page. Very powerful/fun too. In any case on a Berserker/Devoted I would max MIG, PER, INT and leave the other stats neutral-ish.

Youtube did it to me, I swear! I recently googled something about oldest company in Denmark and today youtube came up with this little gem under suggested videos. It's the oldest company in each European country that is *still* operating (i.e. there may be many even older companies, but for whatever reason they have gone out of business by now). I'm looking forward to see when he gets to Asia, as I suspect there may be some very old Chinese and Japanese businesses around.

Exactly If you analyse the value above, you'll find that it is a bit less effective at providing benefits from healing than +3% healing received per point. But it applies also to the initial pool of hp (which is huge, with High CON). I don't think it's bad that CON has an edge for providing benefits early in the battle as long as it still has meaningful effects later on. When self healing is concerned, the choice is CON Vs MIG. MIG has an edge for long term healing while CON will retain early effectiveness (and greater pool of hp for convenience). Having less reliance on healing earlier can be interesting tactically. All that being said, if I had to do the design from scratch, I would probably have gone for CON +3% hp and healing received, CON afflictions doing something else and probably cut healing done from attributes entirely. It's not like MIG would have been useless.

kinda implied, which must suck if you are a cincinnati red's fan or similar... though am suspecting if you are a bloods gang member, the confusion is less likely. even so, nowadays you see somebody in a red hat and even if it don't explicit say trump or "make america great again," people will jump to conclusion you are a maga supporter. similar, we got a jack lambert and a roberto clemente jersey. both is black and gold. now given our complexion, is unlikely people assume we is a proud boy 'cause am sporting black and gold, but... HA! Good Fun!

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I get double doubles animal style and then I take the pickles off and throw them as hard as I possibly can. I can't do pickles on burgers for reasons of taste, fashion, and sanity but I also find it hard to just ask for no pickles. I'm complicated. I'm also not very big on fries.

link HA! Good Fun!

If that wanted it to work then they shouldn't have named it Ford

In-N-Out opened a location a few minutes from my house so I'm having that. It actually opened a week ago but I'm not waiting in line forever for a burger that I've already had eleventy times before.

The answer is "yes".

Iirc, the helmet was ~$250. If I had to show my vax card to get into work or shopping then I would, but it may be a little different here in the US. We dont have any digital records or app for our phone, so I would have to bust out this silly looking thing: As you will notice, its a simple piece of paper that the pharmacist simply handwrites you name, birth date, dose type and shot date. I could literally make this right now on my printer. So basically, I dont have any faith that a person cant fake one easily.

Manly chests only have 5 AC vs viruses. -3 for majestic chesthair rugs like they had in the 70s. You need to get that AC at least to 0 (lower for demonic strains).

Too much exposed skin around the sternoclavicle joint. I tell you, you have to go full on Quarian to get it to work right.

Do you have one of these: If we outfitted everyone with this bad boy we could stomp out diseases and usher in a new era of prosperity.

You can even skip Tactical Barrage (or one of the two other PL buffs) and get two Stones of Power. If you stack them in the stash after the fight you can use the Power Surge (+1 PL, stacks with every other PL bonus) in every fight. It's very convenient because it has no duration (lasts till the end of the fight). Lord Darryn's Voulge is indeed nice on any Barb-combo. The Brute also gives you Clear Out which is cool with any AoE effect (like Static Thunder). Amra with Riven Gore is nice on a Brute, too. Dual Carnage on crit and even more importantly Clear Out pushes the initial enemy into the two Carnages it procs which means it not only gets the two attack rolls from Clear Out but 4 Carnage rolls on top. Riven Gore triggers quite often and then it's Blood Thirst + Cleaving Stance time. By the way: a Brute whom I also liked (but who was a bit specialized) was Fury/Unbroken with Disengagement goodies. Fear Ward terrifies your enemies and should they disengage they eat massive disengagement attacks (nice in combination with Brute Force and Mob Stance - Barbaric Shout already gives you +3 engagement so you can go with Mob Stance instead).

A mum like me. To be fair I played Skyrim before buying all the DLC*. I reckon I sunk maybe 100 hours into it, I'd estimate I got halfway through the main plot, and never resolved the civil war. Just one day I decided I couldn't be bothered launching the game anymore and that was that. 100 hours though means it's my most played Bethesda game by some distance so I'm content with that. And yes I did enable the infinite carry weight console command within the first few hours, after I decided that RPing in this environment was pointless (as compared to say, New Vegas where I'm a stickler for staying within the extremely low carrying capacity of Josh's mod). * Frustratingly I initially passed up on Dawnguard when Amazon had it for $2.50 way back when, and picked up Dragonborn for the same price and Hearthfire for $1.25. I still have no interest in the actual content of Dawnguard but boy was I full of regret when it turned out key roleplaying mods like Frostfall and Live Another Life depended on owning all DLC. Ugh. ______________ Anyway, I've had enough of my latest XCOM Long War campaign. I used it to learn a bit about modding and how to remove mechanics I didn't like, got the campaign to a state where I could trivially embark on the last mission should I want to do it, and I just stopped playing. Yeah that's just what I do - I've done it before and I wouldn't feel any better for ticking off that check box a second time, so I just leave it. And as of tonight, I've also just finished a pseudo co-op playthrough of Fire and Ice, a puzzle game I'd never heard of but which had been added to the NES Classic subscription service on the Switch. By co-op I mean trading off control every few levels with my sister, while the spectator provides suggestions, reminders and general mockery. It's a great little puzzle game, though I admit using save states to reduce the time sink of repeat attempts at each level. I would say as a game it's very comparable to the excellent Adventures of Lolo games and I'd love to see more of this style of game. P.S. Looked it up afterwards and apparently it's a prequel to Solomon's Key, a game I played before but didn't like at all. Firing it up again afterwards and my opinion hasn't changed - time limits on puzzle games are stupid.

It is I guess because it's not giving inspirations but direct attribute buffs. Only the upgrade does this. The basic invocation gives the fitting inspirations. I guess it's an oversight.

I work from home with 90 % of my work When we not going through a wave I have been to one or 2 customers onsite but basically since our lockdown started last year March none of the large listed companies that are primarily my customers have been open like they use to so everyone works remotely....with the exception of helpdesks and some isolated meetings This is part of the problem with our economic recovery, we not selling new business because that requires onsite visits which wont happen in SA until most of us have been vaccinated So the objective of getting vaccines is not just about socializing for me but being able to work as we use to. I am basically a consultant and you cant consult sitting at home

The pandemic has been beneficial for me due to my mostly working from home. And what with a terrifying new COVID variant around every corner, Im hoping to never go back to the office full time. I wonder what will happen when we run out of letters of the alphabet? Maybe just switch to numbering the variants and that way we can keep going to infinity.

We should make this happen as it provides nothing but benefits: 1) We will never catch any disease or virus 2) It will remove the "burdens" on the health care systems 3) dear old gamgam wont have to worry about a potentially asymptomatic ruffian standing inside 6 feet. The money saved that we normally waste on healthcare could now be used to give every single adult in the country UBI, UHC and UFE. They should make me President.

Sounds very similar to how I felt the first and only time I've played it. I also got through buying/building all the houses, but quit ahead of ending any of the major threats. The tedium was just too overwhelming.

have made these same points with gd in the past. he doesn't listen and doesn't care. his notions o' personal responsibility is all inverted and backwards. somehow, the maskless idiot you cannot always avoid is your responsibility to avoid. what recourse does the bus driver have in avoiding the maskless idiot who nevertheless wants to use public transportation... or any o' the other passengers who sudden look up from their phones and realize maskless idiot is in their midst in a confined area? gd doesn't care, 'cause presumptive, government action is excessive or somesuch. they are always out to get you and here you are inviting them into your place of business to haul away americans doing naught wrong save possible spreading a highly infectious disease. have pointed out how 'cause o' the degrees o' separation problem, personal responsibility is impossible to divine. the maskless idiot in the store might infect a woman who nevertheless remains complete asymptomatic, and in spite o' the woman being to all outward appearances healthy and hale and responsible with social distancing, she infects a family member who also is asymptomatic... and so on and so forth. contact tracing for covid is a nightmare and if maskless idiot ends up sending somebody's grandma (with the new delta variant, all too often much younger individuals is needing medical aid to survive) to the hospital six steps removed from his store venture, is likely we will never make the connection and maskless idiot can never be held personal responsible for the damage he caused. masks is hardly perfect and is nowhere near as effective as is genuine social distancing. masks is also an extreme minor inconvenience and the same folks who reflexive understand they gotta put on a shirt and shoes before entering most stores somehow have their liberty reflex trigger 'cause o' a mask during a pandemic. the wacky part is gd is ok with the guidelines and thinks they is reasonable, but any government enforcement o' such reasonable guidelines is abhorrent? if the maskless idiot refuses to leave a store or place o' business, we may all just abandon the venue and stay away from him until he finally decides to leave. 'cause, personal responsibility. don't try and make sense o' it. is an ideologue thing. HA! Good Fun!

If the science is correct, the mask's protection is to lower how far out moisture in your lungs is expelled as an aerosol when you breath with some limiting effect for bigger amounts of liquid not passing the mask. You wearing a mask doesn't really help you as technically the infected moisture could get around the mask (most likely through the eyes). Therefore if Person A wears a mask and Person B does not, Person B has some limiting barrier to catching COVID from Person A, but Person A does not have the same from Person B. This is why the "if you're vaccinated you can not wear a mask" stuff is so weird, as the mask wasn't protecting you effectively, but protecting others from you and the vaccines are only ~90% effective meaning a vaccinated person could easily still be a vector for the virus. My understanding with your follow-up question, is it depends on the method of transmission of the virus or bacteria. I believe there are some that can bypass the natural barrier of your skin through the pores. Not sure if any have an ear vector or not. Theoretically if we all wore hazmat suits with independent breathing apparatus with appropriate air filtration you could theoretically I suppose eliminate most transmissible diseases from humanity; eliminating them from animal populations would be a different story, and as diseases can jump species unless humanity plans to live in their suits Quarian style...

"The Weed of Crime bears Bitter Fruit!" I love the pulp heroes (Shadow, Doc Savage, The Avenger, and The Spider particularly, but I've read a few others). That said I'm not really all that surprised about the lack of knowledge of the characters. Their original runs all ended in the late 1940s or earlier (73+years ago), the lass mass market reprints ended in the late 1980s or 90s (25+ years ago) and while there have been comic adaptions, they've been lost in the glut of superhero comics in the specialty shops (it doesn't help that - at least IMO - most of these weren't very good, either). The fact that the last attempt for movies for The Shadow and Doc Savage seem to have both went to development hell means that there really hasn't been a lot of ways younger folk can find the characters. Character need to constantly have something come before the public eyes to continue being a part of the public pop culture.

Fun story : in the Gamedata files, she is actually called Fessina. Maybe it was the initial intended name. Maybe some correction occured after the translation. But from now on, we might call her this way. { "$type": "Game.GameData.CharacterStatsGameData, Assembly-CSharp", "DebugName": "Companion_Fessina", "ID": "7828ab9f-eaa9-4ccc-9623-f6fc56b72b70", "Components": [

I've been on a bit of a bumpf on my classic pulp call back films. So even when there are glitches or I disagree with some comments made, I do like to re-post and share links to folks who are showing the love for them. It's one of my geek things that I'm always surprised by how few people are aware of The Shadow and that early genre. Orson Welles chuckle...

And those who can't avoid the idiot? Like cashiers or bus drivers? Or even you when the person in question is walking up behind you or coming around a corner or other area where you can't see them to avoid them? And if they refuse to leave, instead pulling out a binder of internet research about their "rights" to enter a private business without a mask...what are the employee's going to do? Call the cops. And the cops with guns will come and take the maskless person away. Which you say is bad. I'm sure your response is that "well at that point they're trespassing when they refuse to leave and that's okay" but they're only trespassing because they aren't following the mask mandate, which seems to be a rather fine distinction to make between okay/not okay to me...

Wouldn't be surprised, Utena's anime writer was part of the NGE team at Gainax after all. Currently still only at episode 17. Nanami focused episodes seem to take place in a different universe all together. Except for the one where she challenges Utena to a duel, that one is part of the regular narrative, but the others? Not so much. Moooo. Moooooooooooo. Mooooooooooooooo! Nozomi is the one doing the assaulting, Nico (whose name is actually Nicocchi) was the one who was assaulted. And no, nobody comments on that. It seems to be somewhat uncomfortable for them, but it's passed off as fun. Or something. It's meant as playful teasing or something like that, but it's totally... dunno. It's the worst thing in the show, by far, because she could just give others noogies or whatever else would not have a sexual assault connotation, really. That is really just there to have Nozomi fondle boobs because girls fondling breasts is hot. Or dunno. Really. The other fanservice I can deal with, but that thing regularily takes enjoyment out of the anime. Not that it would be great otherwise, but without that in particular it would be a fun experience. Most of the episodes are thankfully free of that.

Why aren't there more Maori metal bands flooding the scene? Not only their language is naturally metal, so is culture!

@majesticUtena sure is starting to feel a lot more Evangelion-influenced than anything Sailor Moon.

oh yeah, that forum link is still mostly true (i skimmed it to double-check), but a easier-to-digest format i put here (with tables)

dah! i'm so unused to caring about confusion as an affliction that it doesn't occur to me how easily it is to deal with it. This makes me remember that Wild Mare always has a supply of Wael's Wind in stock, too, which grants mind affliction resistance. now i'm curious about combining berserker with fury... still worried about the raw damage though late game.

Kind of, later in the season one of the guys gets in trouble in a bathroom and says "bathroom disasters are Polnareff's thing". The pig gag was the funniest.

Do the other characters ever even like yell at Nico to cut that crap out? I'm not really sure one would realistically want to keep being friends with someone that goes around assaulting other women... Just finished watching up 'til then. My request for no more brothers and sisters (either literal or in spirit in the case of Juri and that other girl whose name I already forgot) has so far been completely and utterly ignored, and instead we have just gotten more and more. At least there was the hilarious Nanami episode where she turned into a literal cow to cheer us all up...although Nanami episodes almost feel like they take place in a different show from all the non-Nanami episodes. The crazy shadowplay girls getting wackier all of the time while Utena actually talks to them is indeed a bit much for the senses, .

But...the masks weren't to stop the wearer from getting sick, it was to prevent the wearer from making everyone else sick. So not wearing a mask in public had a much bigger responsibility on the individual beyond their mask wearer's own health. Do you think the individuals right to not wear a mask trumps the rights of those who come involuntarily into that person's presence to not get sick?

desantis is popular 'cause he is resisting the authoritarianism of police state democrats. fauci is a wolf in sheep's clothing and just the most visible tool o' the lock down/shut down tribe o' liberals who want to squeeze southerners to financial death in the name o' keeping people safe from an overstated pandemic which is really just old people dying o' pneumonia and heart failure while the cdc cooks the numbers. etc. sweary warning: the no compromise americans and trump turned a pandemic into a freaking political issue where americans who see the linked video is almost equal divided 'bout who is the bad guy. HA! Good Fun!

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/classified-challenger-tank-specs-leaked-online-for-videogame/ "A gamer identifying as Challenger 2 commander has posted a classified document online in order to improve the accuracy of the design of the tank in the game ‘War Thunder’."

That Black Geyser thing looks so much like the IE games that I almost feel like checking if they stole art assets.