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am also gonna observe how after your first job following graduation, chances are the ranking o' your university means little, and the importance o' school rank decreases with each passing year. go to stanford or san jose state is o' far less consequence to potential employers than is a decade o' experience. there is a few majors we wouldn't recommend the community college route, and if you have the grades and are able to afford four years at an ivy or near ivy then why the heck not? however, am o' the opinion school rankings is given disproportionate importance by too many... and this observation comes from an admitted education snob. HA! Good Fun!

disagree... complete. the cop-out is not giving meaning to the player choices, 'cause is harder to do so in a crpg. chose race or class or weapon should not result in polar better or worse results, but should result in different experience. if the only meaningful difference in gameplay experience is numeric effectiveness o' combat numbers, then developer failed and blame on the vagaries o' role-play choice is the cop-out. meaningful role-play requires different consequences. the problem is the lazy and bad game developers/dms/gms is willing to allow significant better and worse consequences for basic character development options. is much harder to come up with different experiences which is all viable and fun, even if in a math based system there will always be a best or worst. similar, side with the merchants over the church as part o' a critical path quest resolution should have consequences. make the consequences meaningful. however, if the merchant and church quest happens at level fifteen and 'cause you made wrong character development choices at level one thru three you is precluded from making an objective good or better choice, that is lazy and stoopid and limiting... is anti-roleplay as it effective railroads the knowledgeable player into finding the handful o' best ways to play a game, rather than making more role-play approaches viable. as we noted in an earlier post, in a pnp campaign, the dm/gm gets to tailor. even if the game system is sh!te, a decent dm/gm will be able to make sure that a player with a perfectly reasonable character build that 'cause o' poor crafted rules is less effective, nevertheless feels like they is contributing. and of course if the rules system forces weapon specializations to be effective, then the dm is gonna make certain a player with weapon specialization in ___________ is able to find, purchase or craft useful weapons. no matter how much o' an rp purist one claims to be, one guy forced to sit impotent through game session after game session 'cause o' bad level one choices he had no way o' knowing were bad at the time is gonna be fun for who exact? dm/gm will fix in pnp in ways impossible in a crpg. gotta recognize character character generation and development choices should result in different gameplay experiences as 'posed to qualitative superiors or inferiors. gotta recognize crpgs is not like pnp. is ironic, but game developers rare admit that more options frequent makes a game worse as 'posed to better. more choice makes increasing likely there will be busted good or bad combinations o' weapons, class abilities and spells... or whatever is the features o' a particular system. you win choices is obvious a mistake. you lose choices is just as bad. the more options and more complex the system gets, the more difficult it is for the developer to anticipate the win and lose options-- too many possible combinations. nevertheless, the cop out is for the developer to provide more options and then ignore the consequences while blaming the disparate results on some kinda fuzzy notion o' role-play purity. HA! Good Fun!

as a matter o' principle, am against kneeling save as part o' a religious observance. no earthly king or nation would get a bent knee from Gromnir. am not exact ancient greek or republican roman serious, but close. have also observed, much like rbg btw, that the kaepernick inspired protests (keep in mind he originally sat, and sat unnoticed by most) during national anthem observances were misguided-- the federal government cannot fix the problems the movement were trying to raise awareness regarding. however, we have been part o' organized sports teams and if we couldn't work out a compromise our teammates were comfortable with, we might bend knee as a show o' support for our teammates as 'posed to support for anything else. would make sure that distinction were made very clear. at this point those folks who want Gromnir services, and is likely getting gratis or near that, would be unlikely to care 'bout such stuff. am the eccentric guy who retired at fifty after all. HA! Good Fun!

is that from the times list? not a fan. apples and oranges anyways. stanford is private and there are many public alternatives. best public universities in the US show up on the times list by the dozens before one ever reaches 118. however, tuitions does range from ~$7k-$18k for the US public schools, with the exception o' the military academies. military academies, particular looking at long-term earning potential, is arguable the ultimate bargain. https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public am not adding 'cause the specific rankings is worthwhile, but is easy to see relevant tuition data and rankings. you go to any o' the schools making top 24 and chances are they is 'bove 118 on the times list. so, is a whole lotta quality public options in the US and is ways to cheapen further. UC (university of california) schools, by law, is s'posed to be free, but it hasn't been that way since early 1900s, and some kinda genuine in-state tuition has been assumed necessary since prop 13 (1978). however, two years of community college is a smarty alternative for the frugal minded future college grad. many community colleges is dirt-cheap in CA... relative speaking. Cal is #7 on the times world ranking list? two years at $14k sounds like a freaking bargain when you put it that way, no? up 'til relative recent, germans had mandatory public service, so free university made a whole lotta sense. am seeming to recall germany put a hold on mandatory service in the 2010s, but we honest didn't care, so we didn't pay attention. "conscription" is still law in germany as am recalling, but they simple ain't actual conscripting? that said, we do approve o' the sanders and warren efforts to make higher education free, but am not always onboard with their specific plans. detail, but important details. the thing is, we got extreme levels o' college dropout here in the US and the dropout rates is less a financial thing than one would s'pose. here in the US we functional demand for ill-prepared kids to go to universities they is almost certain doomed to fail, and then we make such kids pay for their failure for decades. am thinking we need fix this serious issue before we make everything free, 'cause make free just shifts the inevitable financial burden o' predictable failure to taxpayers. edit: am s'posing make serious efforts to deal with college dropout rates simultaneous to making education free would also be an option and doing so would be less likely to trigger hippie liberals and their namby-pamby handholding instincts. we kid... sorta. HA! Good Fun! ps it looks like most o' the top 32 or so public unis from usnews and world reports make the times list pre 118. pps the qs world list is our current least fave as they went all political a few years past and changed their methodology-- made ratio of international students and international faculty serious measures.

am thinking the zucchini is s'posed to work the way well rinsed sauerkraut does in chocolate cake, or the aforementioned sour cream in corn bread. is less a nutrition thing as it is an old skool way to keep some kinda batter moist while cooking. or at least such were likely the original reason. you are probably right 'bout folks who make zucchini bread today. HA! Good Fun!

am getting the concept behind banana bread. bananas are naturally sweet, so add to cake-like batter is reasonable. if you got a couple bananas which are not necessarily bad but definite in the overripe stage, banana bread is a way to salvage ingredients before they is becoming garbage. banana bread makes sense. zucchini, on the other hand, is not natural sweet. aren't too many other zucchini desert items. pumpkin is at least a squash with some noteworthy desert utility. why add zucchini to a sweetened batter? if you got zucchini which has become overripe, throw it away. is not as if you save borderline viable zucchini by turning it into a cake. is nothing wrong with zucchini bread, but it is odd. 'course we don't get rhubarb pie neither. theory behind rhubarb pie is if you add enough sugar to even the most bitter and unpleasant o' ingredients, you may end up with something arguable edible. fine. point is proved. is a curious waste o' sugar to prove. zucchini bread is perfectly ok, but it is a bit weird. perhaps try a nice ratatouille instead? HA! Good Fun! ps so is clear am not targeting keyrock on this, and in sprit o' full disclosure, one o' our favorite soups is czernina, if is done well. is another one o' those weird prune recipes (though we ordinary use apple and maybe pear too) we learned many years past... prunes add depth and take the edge off the vinegar and other more curious ingredients.

the implication is there were a time when the toothpaste were in the tube. am staining to identify such a time. HA! Good Fun!

it is, of course, a matter of taste. however, add a tablespoon (or more) of sour cream to your recipe. fiddle with sour cream amounts to get desired moistness. shouldn't noticeable affect flavour. HA! Good Fun!

Florida Family Indicted for Selling Toxic Bleach as Fake “Miracle” Cure for Covid-19 and Other Serious Diseases, and for Violating Court Orders Friday, April 23, 2021 ... According to the indictment, the Grenons, all of Bradenton, Florida, manufactured, promoted, and sold a product they named Miracle Mineral Solution (“MMS”). MMS is a chemical solution containing sodium chlorite and water which, when ingested orally, became chlorine dioxide, a powerful bleach typically used for industrial water treatment or bleaching textiles, pulp, and paper. The Grenons claimed that ingesting MMS could treat, prevent, and cure COVID-19, according to the charges. The FDA, however, had not approved MMS for treatment of COVID-19, or for any other use. Rather, in prior official warning statements, the FDA had strongly urged consumers not to purchase or use MMS for any reason, explaining that drinking MMS was the same as drinking bleach and could cause dangerous side effects, including severe vomiting, diarrhea, and life-threatening low blood pressure. See https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/danger-dont-drink-miracle-mineral-solution-or-similar-products. In fact, FDA received reports of people requiring hospitalizations, developing life-threatening conditions, and even dying after drinking MMS. HA! Good Fun! ps we were brief employed at the usao in pierre, sd. may come as a shock, were not exact night at the improv levels o' comedy. is stretching credulity to believe the presser we link were coincidental on the one-year anniversary o' trump's disinfectant and sunshine epiphanies. for the southern district of florida office to do this is more than a little surprising.

were a young woman we spent some time with when we were in spain and she asked us to make her real american food. still don't know what real american food is, but we did make a decent bowl of red for her. were not easy finding the chilies we thought were essential. made what we thought were an excellent texas red, all things considered. expected wonder and applause. reaction: meh. however, while struggling to get our chilies, we also came across corn meal, so we made cornbread too. kinda an afterthought. is a few things europeans call corn bread, but they use corn flour and not corn meal. try and explain corn meal is not corn flour to a spanish grocer in the late 80s/early 90s is more difficult than you might imagine. as 'posed to the chili, the cornbread were a serious hit. HA! Good Fun!

well, that explains why we insta thought o' robot chicken. HA! Good Fun!

so, kinda like a robot chicken skit, but turned into a full series wherein a whole lotta money is spent to make the stop-action aspects look like something from a tim burton film instead o' an adult swim show? am seeing they finally gave the nathan fillion as wonderman rumors life, and am conceding we have a hard time not laughing at patton oswalt performances, so am gonna give it a fair viewing at some point. am just wondering how seth green and matt senreich is reacting. HA! Good Fun!

skarp_one is looking for your (not yours apparently) outrage. keep in mind he has a little tantrum every time some white supremacist has their free speech right "suppressed," so there is kinda obvious hypocrisy here. don't feed seymour. is theatre and will never be an end. HA! Good Fun!

ps am gonna admit many in the media did not help with their coverage o' trump lies and misstatements of fact. admission: am not certain what were the right way to cover trump lies. every new lie revealed created a numbing effect. for past Presidents, lies were frontpage fodder. journalists had a duty to report trump lies, 'cause such had always been news and when media covered for Presidents in the past, media were soundly and appropriate criticized for doing so. but from day 2 o' the trump Presidency, lies were constant, and followed a combative double-down progression which somehow made each subsequent lie less meaningful. many in the media took a glee-filled approach to describing the newest lie dujour for trump. would be hypocritical to blame lefty opinion personalities for doing same as the right leaners, but am not denying the fact many media personalities provided support to the conservative narrative o' idiotic tds bs. tds were the rejoinder every time trump said something legit deranged, and then trump would improbable double-down. am still not certain how the media shoulda' covered trump lies. cold and dispassionate were never gonna happen in 2016. fox news were kicking the competition's collective arse by being in sync with rush limbaugh while still being able to claim they were providing news and facts. rags like breitbart were gaining in popularity, and even fringe blogs original appealing to business folks were going full hardcore conspiracy with no attempt to disguise their pro-putin/pro-tehran agendas. with facebook magnifying the problem o' people getting news stories they wanted to hear rather than exposed to balanced reporting, we spiraled back into the bad old days o' yellow journalism but with the news coming 1000x faster and responsive. education is the obvious solution, but education is difficult and takes a long time to show results. am willing to admit the mainstream media handled trump lies and ignorance poorly. am also willing to admit we can't think o' effective and practical ways to have responded to a Faith driven Presidency. HA! Good Fun!

you got it reversed. trump were let off the hook. his impact on his base, and republicans in general, while implausible, unreasonable and at times genuine unbelievable, were nevertheless real. Most Republicans Don't Trust Fauci or CDC's COVID Advice—but Nearly 70% Believe Trump: Poll trump were aware o' the Faith o' his parishioners. trump knew disinfectant poisonings increased after his observations just as he knew many people demanded hydroxy therapies even when reputable doctors said there were no reason to believe such a treatment could be effective. trump were more responsible then you suggest. just consider the antivax folks in this country. has been two groups driving antivax for decades: minorities; granola moms. is understandable a few minority groups has a hard time forgetting the us military using minority soldiers as guinea pigs. even so, as we pointed out in the covid thread, recent polls show minorities is getting vaccinated at rates similar to population at large. am pleasant surprised. the current holdouts for the vaccine is republican males. huh? pre trump it were hippie moms who were responsible for those stoopid measles outbreaks in +90% white counties and school districts in so cal and oregon. trump singlehanded complete flipped the identity o' the antivax movement in a matter o' months after years o' enduring stoopid. more responsible. HA! Good Fun!

one year ago on more than one occasion trump claimed the rest o' the world were laughing at the US. a faceplant which will take decades to be forgotten were a bold move to guarantee he were correct 'bout the laughter bit. HA! Good Fun!

don't need to add more stars. in 2021 and beyond, claim new stars has been added is better. sure, somebody is gonna be a smartypants and count 50 stars and show scientific there is only 50 stars, 'cause let's be honest, is tough to make 50 actual be 53 even with quantum silliness. so what? prove is still only 50 is just "alternative facts." ... russia hoax, perfect call, stolen election, manafort and stone were treated unfair and the doj intervened independent o' trump, sharpiegate, etc. half the country has been convincing themselves o' equal improbable alternative facts for better than four years. so go ahead and pretend you is picard if you want, but in 2021, there is as many stars as there needs be, regardless o' whether the stars is representing votes in georgia or map decorations. HA! Good Fun!

funny sai and kama should get mention. we were considering a not str based monkish multiclass build which would take advantage o' flurry, but since were multiclass, depend on unarmed attacks would be doomed. there is feats for adding dex modifier to piercing and/or slashing weapons so monk levels for flurry coupled with monk weapons is a natural synergy. sai and kama make sense. can buy a decent sai (expensive) before drezen. can find a decent kama in the drezen stronghold. the selling point o' owlcat's games is breadth as 'posed to depth. am understanding the appeal o' getting as many pnp features into wotr as is possible. am not necessarily agreeing with such goals, but am understanding. one o' poe2's more common pre-release derided changes made that game better than the preceding poe title: no weapon specialization options. find a battleaxe late in poe2. well fudge, am only good with longswords, and none o' our companions specialized in battleaxes, so the soopergrooveykeen battleaxe is a sell item next item we make it back to town? nope. in poe2, unless am a dedicated 2h weapon wielder, is a good chances we will be able to make use o' the fantasmagoric axe... and if am a 2h wielder, then that means the late game quarterstaff is useful in spite o' fact we were using lord darryn's voulge for the past few dozen hours of gameplay. in a pnp campaign, a living dm looks at party composition and makes certain the guy who wants to wield a spiked chain is not complete f'd for 20 levels. in a crpg, one needs either make certain there is every weapon option possible for every possible build (unlikely) or accept that the lack o' such weapons in a system such as pathfinder 1e means more than few builds will be dogs, and other builds will be particular strong for no reason save for how the player lucked out or meta'd the perfect dress-up barbie minigame options; best in slot nonsense. were many poe2 complaints, and many such complaints were deserved. what were curious to us were how vocal the lack o' weapon specialization complaints were from people before they played poe2, but those complaints were hard to find from people who played more than a few hours. unfortunate, weapon specializations and focuses for crit range and such is part o' pathfinder, so, owlcat is stuck with a whole lotta not great options to satisfy players who want more options. more options from the developer insofar as weapons is concerned makes increasing likely more people will be disappointed with the options provided, and not provided. HA! Good Fun! ps am gonna take a moment to just vent how much we loathe the nelson muntz approach pathfinder takes to game design, which owlcat actual magnified. am betting +90% o' wotr players will have camellia continue improving her rapier feats, which makes her somewhere twixt dead weight and considerable less effective when fighting foes who is piercing weapon resistant or even immune. ... sure, is a number o' pathfinder critters who is immune to compulsions n' similar effects, but owlcat in kingmaker and wotr just sorta lumps a whole spectrum o' mind-affecting and kinda/similar effects together, so your owlcat enchanter, particular late game, is getting the nelson muntz far worse than pnp. not a fan.

is actual surprising common. one o' the more dramatic examples, but hardly unique, is georgia. look online for boundaries of georgia from colonial, to articles o' confederation to 1783, to... hmm 1826 is when georgia kinda final looked like it does today, but as recent as 2008ish there were a push to change borders with tennessee, and the core issue were water. HA! Good Fun! ps virginia may win the prize for most dramatic border changes post statehood. ceded land to fed and other states and all kinda extreme alterations which make sense only if you is a serious historian.

comes up every couple o' years but maybe gets a 1:30 story on a few local news broadcasts and perhaps an article in sacbee and la times... then most people go back to their daily lives realizing they has heard the same story get repeated for literal decades. is less a democrat v. republican thing anyways. is water. farmers, who ordinary vote republican, is most interested in the issue, but there is many powerful so cal farmers who would gut you in an alley if you threatened their water and they thought they would get away with the deed. much o' socal would be indistinguishable from arakis w/o water from elsewhere. water is serious business and is getting more serious each year. HA! Good Fun!

were hopeful you were joking... first time. second? *shrug* regardless, am genuine at a loss to come up with a good argument to deny statehood. Federal Judge Orders Los Angeles To Offer Shelter To Skid Row Residents judge concern for the endemic la homelessness problem: good am nevertheless at a loss to identify the legal basis for demanding compliance with such orders... and how is such orders enforced? ... (add another shrug here) HA! Good Fun!

you are being serious? am increasing convinced you are. new states may be admitted by the Congress into this union, but no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state, nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress. (am not placing in quotes 'cause may have slight misremembered punctuations or a word and am admitted too embarrassed to look up 'cause am realizing we need to look up... which am prefect aware makes no sense.) we got some familiarity with the constitution, and am at a loss to identify the state secretary of agriculture requirement. there were the enabling acts, and some pre Constitution stuff which might be suggestive but not dispositive? anything you hear regarding supposed requirements o' statehood ain't actual a requirements and numerous states has been admitted w/o a Constitution, which is the document wherein necessary state offices would likely be described. even if dc state secretary o' agriculture were a requirement, which it isn't, would it be enough to convince you that hundreds o' thousands o' americans, many o' whom is veterans, do not deserve federal representation? and let's be grownups 'bout this yes? even if there were some kinda requirement that a landlocked territory have a secretary of the navy or some such silliness, all that would happen from a practical matter is that a government official would have an extra and meaningless job title. is not difficult to envision that the woman who is deputy secretary of state for dc gets additional and meaningless job title: dc state secretary of agriculture. no additional pay or responsibilities. *gasp* this is NOT a real thing to be concerned 'bout. and if you claim to be joking, am gonna note you has now made this observation multiple times, which undercuts the i was keeding bit. HA! Good Fun!

1) dc statehood clearly benefits democrats 2) dc statehood is the right thing to do is not as if 1 being true precludes possibility o' 2 being true. in 1889, north dakota and south dakota were added to the US as 2 states and only reason the dakota territory were split in twain is 'cause doing so would give republicans 4 senators instead of two. of course statehood is a political issue, but annexation is an obvious instafail 'cause neither dc nor any adjacent state want such... is no room for the fed to arbitrate a compromise when there is already a consensus. is political and benefits one side, and is still right that dc citizens should get fed representation. HA! Good Fun! ps we see no way to get around filibuster. is no obvious exception. is not gonna happen. however, the issue will be pushed hard to force republicans to make increasing bad arguments to deny statehood to a geographical area where +46% o' the population is black. democrats know they won't win, but is no good legal or practical reason they should lose, which is gonna force the gop to be the bad guys once again, solidifying democrat base before midterms. is all politics.

am not certain how that display fools anybody and gets passed on to the next generation o' critters. HA! Good Fun!

well, you would get vaccinated sooner, but other than that am not able to think o' too many selling points. HA! Good Fun!