Gromnir

is there a polish market in charlotte? e stopped gardening at the end o' the previous century, which is when we last had a dependable supply o' horseradish root. in nor cal it takes effort to get decent horseradish root and cherry leaves and whatnot. live in chicago and would be no problem. same for parts o' arizona. HA! Good Fun!

am finding enemies who occupy what would be a8 on a chessboard is almost never targetable in the ordinary sense, but we may nevertheless use archers to hit 'em. however, is one army encounter map with a plagued mastodon and a bunch o' other plagued beast units which is not subject to any interaction. is no background either as screen is black save units and the ui. took a few reloads, and a less than ideal resolution but we finally got past an ember quest bug. we wouldn't mind losing ember save fact we got seelah carrying court poet levels and the bonus she provides intelligence and charisma casters is kinda how we built this party. too many class mechanic bugs to mention. the ranger favoured enemy thing is particular annoying as it affects other similar features such as the bloodrager celestial bloodline, and o'course we went ahead and gave camellia and regill levels in bloodrager (celestial). multiple other companions got ranger levels-- arueshalae having outsider as a favoured enemy is swell if we happen to be attacked by elementals, but otherwise it is useless. whatever. HA! Good Fun!

did we mention we loathe kingdom management? got what appear to be icons informing us we are running outta time for... something(s). doesn't tell us which tasks is time sensitive and are within days (hours) o' expiring. clearing the map o' demon armies as we did in chapter two were clear a mistake as now we got a backlog o' projects, not to mention an event we literal cannot address. bugged? might go back to mechwarrior 5 as our blood pressure is rising. is also one crusade battle which is broken for us. involves a bunch o' plagued animals and a background which is black void with nothing targetable. HA! Good Fun!

oven. smoking is good, but out favorite ribs is actual coming outta the oven, 'cause we can braise 'em. we want the meat fall off the bone tender and the connective tissue fully gelatinized. cook the ribs 250 degrees in their own juices. pre-treat your ribs with a dry rub and let 'em sit in the fridge overnight. next day, tight wrap ribs in foil and a bit o' liquid to create a braising effect. your braising fluid is essential and you need a fair amount o' heavy-duty foil for the braising envelope for your ribs. may try and finish the braised ribs on the grill, but they is gonna be fall-off-the-bone tender, so chances are broil is easier to manage. so start to finish, am ordinarily using the oven. shady mentions pressure cooker and you may achieve same effect we mentioned in an instapot/pressure cooker much quicker and w/o the hassle o' getting the perfect foil envelope. regardless, to our way o' thinking, braise is an ideal method for cooking tough meat with much connective tissue. braise requires wet heat. HA! Good Fun!

sure. just as soon as you give up the following: your agreement handgun prohibitions make sense while simultaneous claim any firearm prohibition is a bridge too far creates an impasse. and again, there weren't a firearms ideology until recent. history tells us americans took a common sense approach to firearms. people noticed that gun violence happened more often in towns and so those americans passed laws restricting gun possession in towns. gd has it bass ackwards. were the gun rights folks who developed a kinda faith around gun ownership which made reasonable debate improbable... and they got to no compromise pre dig dug. no compromise, as the label suggests, is making difficult to find some kinda workable solution with the goal o' less people getting shot for stoopid reasons. HA! Good Fun!

wouldn't say stuff is spawning immediate adjacent to us. am getting a good amount o' use from long range weapons. however, with all the tanks, aircraft and light mechs attacking in waves, is gonna be difficult to stay at range. earlyish missions has us able to dispatch a few mechs before we need get close, but eventual a jenner(s), centurion or pheonix hawk is gonna be sharing closet space with us and am rare built for such. enemy ai is kinda aggro focused, so you may need actual do counter-intuitive and switch targets a bit during a few missions. maps haven't changed much. you are never fighting on the plains o' nebraska or kansas. is functional corridors, if quite robust in areas. HA! Good Fun!

gd suggests talking 'bout bans is a problem. okie dokie. the no compromise folks ignore history and indulge in a level o' hypocrisy regarding firearms they is unwilling to admit or surrender. am not gonna do the full history lesson again. there is a belief from the no compromise folks that the Constitution has been an absolute bar on government enforcement o' gun limits and prohibitions back to 1787 and perhaps even the bible. (not kidding on this. is a common refrain from the no compromise folks to quote bible verse in support o' the second amendment.) is fiction. much o' US history saw gun prohibitions as commonplace and many o' those prohibitions would be considered draconian by any gadsden flag waving honk o' 2021. any sorta limit on state and local gun prohibitions weren't a thing until post ww1 and very well may be direct linked to the nativism o' that time. regardless, history is not on the side o' the no compromise folks. the fiction o' the steady and unholy assault on gun rights by libs which has only been prevented by patriots and true americans is myth and fantasy. period. but again, have repeated the history a dozen or more times and some folks continue to ignore or reimagine. furthermore, the no compromise folks is almost never the absolute libertarians they claim to be. these folks want the government protection from their neighbors who is engaging in dangerous activities. doug is storing toxic chemicals on land adjacent to bob. how long before bob is demanding the government step in and end such nefarious activity? safe stored toxic chemicals is no danger to bob. is only unreasonable people who is not safe with their potential lethal chemicals who is a danger to bob, yes? is unfair to punish every person 'cause o' the irresponsibility o' a few folks, yes? no. is a whole list o' behaviors doug could engage which bob would protest. bob wanting to be free from the dangers o' doug is how we get laws; enforced courtesy and all that. democracy at work. if there is enough people who agree with bob, then we get a new law. nevertheless, for some inexplicable reason, the no compromise bobs feel different 'bout firearms. you can't make any law 'bout firearms 'cause then there will be another and another and another. bob isn't worried that laws against toxic waste dumping will lead to the eventual prohibitions 'gainst his ownership o' household bleach, but firearms is different, 'cause the libs or history or the bible or... pretend as if there is no solution ignores the obvious: take handguns out of the equation. is a common sense approach and like it or not the militia stuff in the Constitution were a revision added to an earlier draft which woulda' been a more expansive bar on government limits. this observation may upset a few o' the liberals, but the weapons most clear protected by the second amendment is stuff such as the ar-15 and hunting rifles, 'cause those is exact the kinda weapons one would expect members o' a militia to own and maintain. yeah, every time there is a mass shooting people howl and wail 'bout "assault rifles." *snort* the thing is, and we has posted these statistics as well so many times am no longer having the patience to do so, rifles and shot guns (even with the mass shooting events) represent a small fraction o' deaths caused by firearms each year. rifles and shotguns account for fewer american deaths per year than blunt force weapons such as baseball bats and human weapons like fists and feet. the no compromise folks have little defense 'gainst history, hypocrisy and handguns. HA! Good Fun!

yes. am gonna admit Gromnir is far more likely to destroy structures in the defense o' a base than members o' the lance. we will knock down a wall section if it means we won't need to go all the way around to an opening just so long as we got a big cushion on the % needed undamaged to achieve mission goals. however, it has happened that we hear the refrain, damage is coming out of your pay, which at times is only possible the lance mates is responsible as we is nowhere near structures. ai is not perfect but is far better than it were in the past. lance mates is also good (not great) at avoiding artillery strikes, which makes those beachhead missions doable if still a bit unnerving. HA! Good Fun!

mechwarrior 5. mechwarrior 2 were the first pc game we played obsessive, and we still got a soft spot for the battletech inspired games. put in more than a few long gaming sessions with the tabletop version in the late eighties. we saw the steam release and the new dlc, so we gave mechwarrior 5 a chance and am enjoying it. salvage feels like a bit o' a trap negotiation... appeals to gambler instincts. you max salvage and get 22 shares, but after the battle the decent mech available, which you purposeful killed with a headshot, is costing 23. nevertheless, we almost always max salvage. am spending considerable time with our mech loadouts and experimenting with weapon systems like rifles and chem lasers. so far is not feeling repetitive, but am also consistent punching above our weight class. haven't had any noteworthy bugs. HA! Good Fun!

we don't even do a particular good job pruning hedges, and that ain't requiring us to work bass ackwards with a mirror. am aware o' our limitations, thank you very much. had a professional cut our hair on the 25th, which were fifteen days following our second vaccine shot. were arguable the best money we has spent this year. HA! Good Fun!

in remembrance of all those men and women who have fallen in defense o' their nation and o' the Constitution. also, am henceforth official disliking the french 3% less.

of the tens of people in the US who heard 'bout such and cared, am suspecting half rolled their eyes at the news o' far-right l00ns objecting to lockdown efforts during a pandemic. am not certain what were the official government response under pompeo and trump. we didn't care enough. HA! Good Fun!

you keep repeating the same nonsense, so am not gonna repeat self other than to observe the repetition and to note you continue to create your own definition o' insurrection while also ignoring the actual events o' January 6. as to the need for a commission, if before january 6 we had told gd that a bunch of proud boyz and trump supporters (am knowing the identifiers is a bit repetitive at this point) would not only attack the Capitol but they would succeed in their efforts to interfere with the electoral process, driving the vice President and members of Congress fleeing to secure locations which were for a time anything but secure, he would suggest we were being over dramatic... and any normal person who is familiar with english definitions and/or law would recognize that if you had multiple people working together to achieve the goals we describe, it would be proper identified as an insurrection. the previously improbable happened at the US freaking Capitol. somebody should investigate to determine what went wrong. for chrissakes, if the Capitol were hit by a tornado, an actual unpredictable event beyond the control o' anybody in the federal government, and more than 140 police personnel were injured, there would nevertheless be some kinda commission to determine what could be done in the future to better prepare for tornadoes at the Capitol in the future. nevertheless, for some inexplicable reason, an avoidable and manmade calamity is something we all just need to put behind us, 'cause p00p happens, or some similar bit o' trite nonsense. will add meme worthy to keep gd entertained not actual meme worthy in retrospect... and we will note were unfair to say trump said people should inject bleach to prevent covid. trump said his science folks should look into the possibility o' injecting sunshine and bleach to cure covid... which doesn't make trump appear less ignorant or unhinged, but accuracy is important even in humor posts. HA! Good Fun!

there is a significant downside to the talking filibuster, which is why the rule were changed. a filibuster where minority senators need actual debate issues *gasp* stops all legislative business. we ended up with the silent filibuster 'cause the majority were tired o' a minority being able to hold up all legislative business. an obstructionist party may use filibuster to cripple Congress, which is kinda what mitch wants, yes? am in favor of bringing back debate and having folks like mitch mcconnell and ted cruz explain why, even though democrats agreed to all republican demands during negotiations for the proposed bipartisan january 6 investigation, republicans were nevertheless opposed to empowering a commission to look into causes o' the insurrection as well as considering preventative measures to avoid a future similar event. heck, way more than simple majority o' republicans polled believe january 6 were caused by antifa, blm and democrats. shouldn't they want an investigation to prove such malfeasance? 'course any sorta meaningful investigation is gonna make republicans look bad. is a reason kevin mccarthy has been dodging questions 'bout his phone call with the President on January 6. paul gosar, mo brooks and andy biggs were all instrumental in organizing the stop the steal rally on january 6 which preceded the insurrection, and am suspecting they do not want their dirty laundry aired and they sure as heck don't wanna be subpoenaed to explain a few o' their texts and emails. we warned folks following january 6 that get trump for incitement would be tough, but conspiracy to incite violence is another question entirely, and trump's failure in his duty to protect Congress also needs explanation. trump speech may be protected, but his actions still would normal have consequences. etc. mitch, as we noted earlier in the thread, is taking a rational and transactional approach. in anticipation o' the midterms, mitch needs to prevent democrats from being able to brag 'bout positives o' the biden administration, so he is gonna obstruct to an extreme degree. likewise, mitch wants to undercut and delay the truth 'bout how corrupt were the trump administration. a talky filibuster has the potential of working to mitch's advantage as he wants the senate handicapped. am in favor o' a talky filibuster. make senators speak in defense o' their actions at 3:00am is gonna lead to more than a few moments o' schadenfreude. gd likes memes. a talky filibuster is gonna be a meme goldmine. even so, am recognizing is not all good news for the majority to reinstate the talky filibuster. the fact a majority got rid o' the talky filibuster should give democrats pause before they embrace such a change. those who do not learn from history... HA! Good Fun!

the duration o' the album version is more than fifteen minutes. too short. HA! Good Fun!

saw this one back in april. at the time, our first thought were, now Gromnir knows what boc would sound like if axl rose were their lead singer. HA! Good Fun!

am losing patience. those is not equal. you make fundamental correlation v. causation fails and then demand absolute disprove of a negative to refute a conspiracy theory? what? the appeal o' conspiracy is such explanations provide simple and complete answers when there is a paucity o' evidence. you mistake the absence o' evidence as support for conspiracy rather than recognizing such lack o' evidence is crippling. circumstantial evidence is not compelling unless you are able to show a meaningful causal link AND your evidence (collective) is compelling enough that it exceeds some meaningful burden of proof, but you don't care 'bout such showings. you ignore causal and you somehow mistake absence o' evidence as the proof which makes conspiracy more likely until disproven. whatever data crunching you do for a living, you is doing in spite o' some basic misunderstandings 'bout evidence and proof... or you are an economist. A ‪‎physicist, an ‪‎engineer and an ‪‎economist are stranded in the desert. They are hungry. Suddenly, they find a can of corn. They want to open it, but how? The physicist says: “Let’s start a fire and place the can inside the flames. It will explode and then we will all be able to eat”. “Are you crazy?” says the engineer. “All the corn will burn and scatter, and we’ll have nothing. We should use a metal wire, attach it to a base, push it and crack the can open.” “Both of you are wrong!” states the economist. “Where the hell do we find a metal wire in the desert?! The solution is simple: ASSUME we have a can opener”… HA! Good Fun!

nope. is conspiracy. period. if you had evidence, then it wouldn't be conspiracy. btw, we work with facts and evidence, and we recognize when people is ignoring the need for such. HA! Good Fun!

is just another conspiracy theory from dp and zerohedge. the absence o' proof is what drives the narrative o' deflection. that said, bruce is correct that it don't matter. trump's response to the pandemic were all wrong 'ccording to a majority o' voters and the china stuff did nothing save solidify the nativism o' the trump base. inevitably somebody will roll the tape where trump were praising china transparency regarding the virus and such don't help trump with independents, educated white women and others who helped make 2020 a loss for trump. china is not a good topic for trump in general 'cause every time there is an uyghur story, some helpful reporter from ap or axios will include links to trump support o' xi and his indifference to the plight o' those persons in the reeducation camps. trump "kung flu" bs gets mentioned every time some rando korean american gets attacked by an idiot in florida or texas... retribution for the pandemic, a pandemic which were never a big deal 'ccording to trump and nobody would talk about the virus after the election anyhow, right? find proof that the virus did indeed escape from the wuhan facility? wouldn't shock us at all, but is also nothing more than conjecture the virus were lab created/enhanced, which is exact what makes the conspiracy theory appealing to folks like dp. as long as the conspiracy theory can't be disproved (HA!) it will be used by zerohedge and trump and the typical rogue's gallery o' nogoodnicks who thrive on deflection. but bruce is correct-- doesn't matter. still ~600k dead americans and is not hard to find science folks say the deaths beyond the first 100k is disproportionate the fault o' trump's incompetent response. make the trump base feel like their nativism were justified won't bring back independents and educated white women in enough numbers to make any kinda difference. heck, dp is kinda missing the point o' the conspiracy theory anyways. virus origin theories is not being promoted to change the narrative on china. the point is to undermine trust in medical experts and the media. HA! Good Fun!

am not a fan o' the eternals in comics. kirby brought his dc new gods to marvel and the resulting story just kinda died. we did read the gaiman update, which made the eternals mess coherent if not particular interesting or enjoyable. kinda weird as am a fan o' gaiman, but were never all that whelmed with john romita jr. however, for eternals we thought j romita jr did excellent work while it were the gaiman story which left us unimpressed. go figure. kinda vague and unspecific generalizations? *shrug* don't wanna spoil. is an ensemble cast o' demigods who is themselves little more than minor custodians for the celestials, which is fine if you are trying to make a comic version o' d'aulaires' book of greek myths or perhaps something like the prose edda, but am not envying the writers trying to do a movie-length story with the requisite compelling character stories while simultaneous needing deal with keyrock's fundamental questions as to who and what is the eternals and why he should give a damn 'bout them. alternative: make a forgotten one movie. introduce the forgotten one as a member o' the avengers in some other marvel movie or show. next, do a forgotten one movie, and if that works, then do eternals. HA! Good Fun!

ga, tx, fl, az, etc. is nothing surprising. red state republicans is embracing a rational transactional approach. covid resulted in more people voting as 'posed to fewer. states, recognizing the need for easing of voting restrictions during a pandemic, passed legislation to make voting easier. also, numerous states which pre-covid had instituted automatic voting registration laws, saw spikes in minority voting, though is worth noting the percentages o' minorities voting for biden were often worse than those who voted for clinton four years earlier. still, the overall numbers were a boon for democrats in the Presidential race. so, how does republicans react? tentpole party is not gonna be the approach as long as trump is the face o' the party. if you are selling grievance and fear, you are gonna have a difficult time expanding the base further than it is today. so, if you cannot increase your base, then the obvious approach is to handicap your opponent's efforts. is rational even if is kinda despicable. however, is easy to sell despicable to your constituents (again, you aren't trying to increase popularity with democrats or independents at this point) when virtual every poll shows that republicans has since november 2020 become more convinced the election were stolen/rigged. way more than 50% republicans believe the ga republicans is the heroes as 'posed to the villains. however, there is ~30% o' republicans who is, at the very least, tending to believe the election were fair, but keep in mind some % o' those folks is nevertheless convinced the democrats represent an existential crisis... a crisis which is protean in nature and shifts depending on what tucker carlson or others is current blathering on 'bout on fox. is republicans who know trump were lying 'bout the election and that republicans manufactured the hate which led to the storming o' the Capitol, but as 'tween the insurrectionists and the democrats, the hardcore republicans will remain true to their party no matter what. 30% o' republicans don't give a damn 'bout the republican party, but they follow trump. drop support o' the big lie alienates the folks who were attacking lindsey graham in an airport after he were critical o' trump following january 6. rational. lindsey response were cowardly and despicable, but rational. republicans cannot win w/o the 30% o' republicans who is diehard trump faithful. lindsey's constituents want the voting restrictions 'cause they either believe the lies 'bout election fraud, or they don't care 'bout fraud and are more convinced the democrats need to lose no matter what the price. again, none o' this is surprising. is rational and were predictable. more people than Gromnir were doing cassandra impressions as we made guesses 'bout how republicans would react to the november election. of course there were gonna be an effort to make voting more difficult. worse, we also predicted how disappointed people would be when they realized those heroic conservative judges and republican state officials who stood up to trump when they were asked to commit or support outright fraud in 2020 would nevertheless be part o' the effort before the next elections in 2022 and 2024 to limit voting rights. the trump campaign lost many cases and the standing issues which were so common part o' predictable auto-fails is gonna be obstacles to minority groups attempting to bring cases against the ga, tx, fla, az legislatures and republican secretaries o' state. HA! Good Fun!

on a more positive note... HA! Good Fun!

sheesh. clear am doing something wrong as we just completed act 2... again. is a few hurdles which cause us to go slow and many such obstacles is bugs. took us literal an hour o' save and reload attempts to exit drezen citadel after the boss fight-- multiple party members had geometry fails and were "falling" through the floor immediate before the exit area. btw, am using literal to mean literal 'stead o' how kids these days use as euphemism. an hour. we still got the party management bug wherein we cannot adjust inventory, spellbooks or character tabs unless we exit camp. took a week or two off from gaming hoping the newer build would address a few o' our bug issues. didn't happen. etc. am playing tb core, and we can be a bit pokey when doing tb. even so... have spent nearly 1/3 o' our time playing with level 9 builds using respec and/or merc hires. the oracle/thug/bloodrager/scaled fist/paladin build (f'ing d&d and pathfinder *sigh*) looks solid. colluding scoundrel/crossbow sohei/ranger looks good as angel or azata... as long as we get all monk levels (need 11 for second flurry) in before the inevitable alignment shift for azata. am annoyed that most o' our favorite builds is ranged, 'cause nenio, arueshalae, and lann is already having great archer potential. could add wenduag to the list of we kept her 'round. regardless, have spent much time playing with level 9 builds. even so... am also doing a bit of real life landscape maintenance, which means our efforts to advance in beta is a bit on the paltry side. am serious considering ripping out most o' our plants and replacing with rocks. don't need to water rocks. don't need to prune rocks. wood peckers don't destroy rocks as they did our birch trees. keep the redwoods and the roof-high photinias which is functional an extra 30 metres of fencing on the one side o' our house... and maybe a few gardenias. the rest? rocks. not kidding 'bout the birch trees neither. we had six mature birch trees and four is functional hollowed out by wood peckers. gonna replace the birches with rocks. even so... am admiring shady's verve in being able to complete the beta. HA! Good Fun!

so, release in a bit over three months. HA! Good Fun!

the internet says you might be indulging in a bit of hyperbole https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/What-Is-the-Average-Entry-Level-HVAC-Technician-Salary-by-State https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/HVAC-Technician-Salary-in-Memphis,TN but https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/High-School-English-Teacher-Salary-in-Memphis,TN am complete agreeing with most other observations, particular military service and community college. unless you are independent wealthy, or are going ivy league (or similar,) am not certain what is the reason for choosing other than the community college route, and this is coming from a true education snob. HA! Good Fun!