Gromnir

all fantasy is arguable a bit silly when viewed from a real world pov. that said, gawain is not a save the world plot and may be a bit less ridiculous than the typical fantasy stories made into movies. however, it is possible to view gawain as punishing with symbolism and mopey with introspection. HA! Good Fun! ps repeat word fail

... you did notice the list included stripper poles and boris mikhailov, yes? HA! Good Fun!

no doubt putin has many things on his mind. having individual doctors and covid patients fall from windows is gonna be kinda far down on his personal to do list. 1) navalny 2) have more stripper poles installed at the pleasure palace 3) navalny 4)boris mikhailov refused an invitation to my hockey event. "seventy six years old," is hardly a decent excuse. maybe he suffers an "icing" penalty from which he never recovers... 5) navalny 6) navalny etc. putin, whatever his flaws, ain't an idiot. HA! Good Fun!

well, that was quick. on the lighter side, from one o' the other despots attempting to undermine western democracies, HA! Good Fun!

am one o' those nut jobs who always has a gallon o' chicken stock in the freezer. however, IF am making a recipe which calls for a cup o' chicken stock, or something similar, we will use better then bullion, low sodium, w/o any guilt. better than bullion has a strong chicken flavour which we find appealing, but even the low sodium variety is a bit salty for us. 'course that just means you may reduce the salt you would typical add in the recipe, or dilute. HA! Good Fun! ps during the initial covid staple purchasing madness when items such as tp, beans and rice were nowhere to be found anywhere, we were unable to buy better than bullion 'less we wanted to pay comical high prices. this were what were at amazon, and am admitting it were kinda good, but even more salty than better than bullion.

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as soon as you mention putin or russia, a few o' the board conspiracy folks sudden go all skeptical. is... amusing. HA! Good Fun!

warning: sweary is gauche to quote self, but from our first post in the very first covid thread on these boards: "and Americans is just plain stoopid and obtuse at times. US is not china, so is hardly practical to be locking down whole cities and states if it is deemed necessary at some point. got more than a few folks who is gonna see any such government efforts as conspiracy laden fodder and the inevitable precursor to a full scale attack on their personal liberties-- next thing you know, they will be coming for your guns. " the alt-right and no-compromise gun folks aren't afraid of needles or masks. they is afraid of the government, but only the wrong government. the same folks angry at being forced to wear masks is perfect ok with the government stepping in and limiting the first amendment rights of big tech, or the voting rights o' predominant minority communities in pennsylvania or arizona. oh, and don't forget the muslim ban. the sweary guy in the twitter clip gots no problem wearing shoes and a shirt when he enters a soopermarket, but a mask, which contributes to saving the lives o' fellow human beings, is a bridge too far? middle-aged angry guy went on 'bout his Constitutional rights to be free of masks in soopermarkets, but you are gonna be a long time waiting if you expect him or any o' his gadsden flag brethren to identify where in the Constitution such a liberty is codified. hint: no such liberty exists. and even if you believe masks (or vaccines which has been tested for safety, vaccines which after millions o' administered doses we still ain't seen any vaccine related deaths) only provide a small benefit in limiting the spread o' the pandemic, why on earth would you need be told that such actions is compulsory? (btw, practical nobody in the US has been pushing for vaccines to be government requisite compulsory) as such, refusal to wear a mask is kinda an a-hole litmus test more than anything else, no? am nevertheless understanding if pregnant women is reluctant to get vaccinated. there shouldn't be any side effects for the kids o' moms who is vaccinated, but in the past, vaccines has resulted in unforeseen and long term effects on children. should be extreme unlikely, but if a mom decides she is gonna be ultra safe and hold up in her proverbial bunker until after she delivers, then am having a hard time finding any justification for criticism. is a few other folks with allergies and past horrible experiences with vaccines who regardless o' dr. advice may still choose to forgo getting vaccinated and am understanding such fears. however, if the reasons you is against wearing masks or getting vaccinated is some kinda liberty stance, then am disappointed. even so, this situation, from our pov, were complete predictable, and we got the receipts to prove just how predictable it were. HA! Good Fun!

putin accounted for eight goals. eight. HA! Good Fun!

compare to mir, which were more than a decade after skylab went into orbit, may not be fair. however, there is indeed truth in observing there were inherent safety concerns with skylab which were recognized but dismissed as fixable after launch. assume the shuttle would be able to fix skylab issues were the inexplicably compelling argument back in the early 70s. HA! Good Fun!

the original criticism were quality control o' chinese products, so a faulty O-ring is actual more appropriate than skylab if you are trying to make parallels. skylab were original launched in the early/mid 70s(?) and were a jerry-rigged conversion o' a saturn (?) rocket. @Guard Dog would know the details. plan were to eventual have the space shuttle boost skylab but with all the shuttle development delays... space shuttle were avoidable. skylab were a series o' unforeseen events culminating in a margin of error math fail, but isn't as if skylab tumbling down were 'cause o' bad design. HA! Good Fun! ps (edit) again, would be better to ask gd, but am thinking the first successful multistage rockets were tested in the late 40s. landing on the moon and successful deployment o' skylab happened in a relative eye blink, with the soviets making near all the milestone firsts until kennedy got elected on a platform o' chinese and soviet opposition.

we played blind side flanker... and prop. at Cal we added enough weight to play fullback (sorta) on the football team, and then we quit. were easier to quit the team than the extra 25-30lbs. that said, as a sometimes prop, we know what waddling looks like. HA! Good Fun!

*chuckle* HA! Good Fun! ps hoon, as we has noted multiple times in the past, does drive-by posts. nobody should take serious. nevertheless, he near always responds to china. others have their triggers and appear far more invested than hoon.

we were one o' the three most hated people on our track team. surprising were not 'cause we were an a-hole. however, we were a football guy who ran track, and curiously we were extreme susceptible to shin splints. tried special shoes. used arcane applications o' heat, cold and compression. built up our core to ridiculous degree. *shrug* track coach said we should lose weight, but we would need gain the pounds right back for summer football practice, so that were not gonna happen. we were fast enough in 50 indoor, 100 and 200 that we were granted privileges. coach let us be on the team and functional contribute only for the meets. 'course while everybody else were on long team runs, Gromnir were doing sprints or weight training and when the team made it back to campus drenched in sweat and exhausted, we could see the murderdeathkill in their eyes. nowadays, we do bike rides five or six days a week in the am, but we only run when chased. we can respect folks who do distance runs, but anything over 400m is kinda outta the question for us. HA! Good Fun!

hoon were gonna take the uyghur bait regardless. other folks you need only mention putin or whataboutism. predictable ain't necessarily a bad thing, but is ez to review the thread and see which fish were landed this time. HA! Good Fun!

hoon's deflection would still be wrong if china were putting british citizens in "reeducation" camps, and utilizing systematic sterilizing to decrease the brit population, but it might have a kinda misplaced justice appeal for some folks. couldn't even manage that, so somehow the uyghurs become the target o' china's suffering at the hands o' western devils, which makes no sense whatsoever. HA! Good Fun!

so, not just whataboutism, but 200 years removed whataboutism? what the british or americans or leprechauns did wrong two hundred years past does not some how diminish the evils being exacted upon the uyghurs of 2021. hoon wastes an opportunity. why not blame on the greeks and their slavery and misogynism? clearly western culture was bankrupt long before the british, no? is a desperation move to embrace the putin/trump playbook on deflection. HA! Good Fun!

ghost touch is more useful than in the previous build as shadow and spectre touch attacks were seeming disabled in the earlier beta. now you better kill 'em quick before they level or strength drain you to death. not a lotta such enemies, but is nice to have at least one dependable weapon usable by somebody other than camellia at lower levels. am replaying from level 3 after hearing skalds is likely still busted. we foolish gave seelah multiple skald levels after two paladin levels and we won't know whether keening were fixed until five levels o' skald. on core a few encounters include one or two extra foes. not a substantial change so far, but am wondering if a few o' the boss battles were altered. HA! Good Fun! ps not all cold iron weapons are working as intended to bypass demon dr. the talking weapon also, perhaps not complete surprising, does not confer cold iron quality to weapons such as clubs. however, we were much surprised that the cold iron masterwork dagger we bought for the woljif were not bypassing demon dr. am assuming this "bug" is an issue in rt as well as tb and at difficulties lower than core. atm, all characters appear to be getting 1 point o' slashing bonus damage, so at first we thought that were what were being reduced, by demon dr, but nope. pps more new bugs. if you respec a character with an animal companion, you will be prevented from choosing a subclass for your animal companion-- defaults to vanilla "animal companion" post respec. (edit) scrolls of restoration may be purchased at the defender's heart, but they are listed as "scrolls of," at a cost of 700 per. three total. ppps oracles still cannot choose a second mystery via the tier 1 mythic options, which makes our plans to add nature to daeran a non-starter. am beginning to think few class specific bugs were addressed for this build. as an aside, am uncertain how much more am gonna play until there is a new patch. 'cause at the moment we got a bug where we cannot access companions while in camp. no changes to inventory, level-up, spell books, etc. gotta make changes at the world map and then reenter camp if we want to rest or whatnot. for a compulsive micromanager, this is not an ideal situation.

keep in mind, trump's kraken lawyer tried to use the tucker carlson defense recent. You Literally Can't Believe The Facts Tucker Carlson Tells You. So Say Fox's Lawyers conclusion: reasonable people do not believe fox. the thing is, civil litigation ordinarily uses a reasonable person standard. criminal is different. for many crimes with a common law origin you need actual intent. however, there is a whole bunch o' statutory crimes where your intent is a non-factor. simple example: if your speedometer is busted and you didn't know you were traveling at excess speeds, you will still be given a speeding ticket and you won't be able to claim your busted speedometer as a defense. foxitis might seem like twinkie defense kinda stuff, but diminished mental capacity is not new and foxitis might not be as ludicrous an option as it first appears. won't be just foxitis or foxmania, but show that fox viewing exacerbated some kinda preexisting mental defect could be enough to reduce or even eliminate charges in a few situations. is still kinda a desperation defense, but is not hard to imagine that a few o' these clowns is, from a legal pov, defective. would be amusing if fox were compelled to add a warning to their broadcasts informing viewers the risks to susceptible viewers o' watching their programing. HA! Good Fun!

if you got $100k and wanna get into residential real estate, you can buy a cheap $100k property and rent it, or you can buy five rental properties with the $100k acting as down payment money, leaving you with multiple mortgages to nurse. 1 property and 1 rent v. 5 (or more) properties and 5 rents ordinarily is an ez choice. 'tween property taxes, mortgages and unavoidable upkeep and repair costs, rents is not gonna make you rich, but one assumes the equity is gonna be the payoff when you sell those multiple properties. can be a big risk, and if you get caught in a situation such as we had 2008, then you are screwed unless you can hold on for the years is gonna take for the market to recover, which it will do, inevitable and eventual. 'course there is a whole lotta landlords who is indeed living off their rents. the seventy year old we mentioned earlier is not an example we imagined outta the ether but is somebody we know. she is hardly a singular example. no sympathy for her and those like her. for Gromnir, rent is just kinda gravy, but am knowing how lucky we are. nevertheless, am tired o' the hassles and am gonna sell remaining properties sooner rather than later. had one lease just end april 31, but am letting the the tenant (a single mom) and her kids stay on month-to-month 'til at least next year as the current rental inventory in this area is near non-existent and am knowing she would have few options if she had to find a new place to live. if we lose a little money by not selling right now, is not a big deal to us in the long run, but our blasé attitude is not how you survive in residential real estate. twenty or fifteen years ago and we woulda' been a bit less huggable as we were on the proverbial razor's edge more than a few times. HA! Good Fun!

to some people, the landlord is always the bad guy. am lucky 'cause the only rental properties we still have are in a gated community and as long as our tenants pay utilities and don't trash the place, we won't suffer too much. but what about the +70 year old retiree who lost her husband a few years ago and moved into assisted living and the only income she has is social security and the rents from the home she and her spouse spent much o' their life paying monthly to finally cover the mortgage? of course is 'bout money for the landlord, but for many small-time landlords, they depend on the money from rents no less than does the short order cook depends on wages from his job. landlord doesn't equal rich, but try an explain that is a dead end to those folks who made up their mind 'bout the villain o' the story as soon as you said "landlord." HA! Good Fun! ps one o' our tenants is a butcher who had hard times with rent last year, so after we finally got in touch with him (the hardest part is getting ahold o' a tenant to discuss matters, 'cause nobody wants to talk to the landlord to discuss rent issues) we cut his rent in half (his suggestion as to what would make a difference) and told him we could go lower if need be, just as long as he let us know there were a problem before we had multiple missed payments and no returned phone calls and/or letters. Gromnir has the leisure to be flexible, but we sympathize for the innumerable small scale landlords who is financial dying at the moment and few people give a damn if they are losing their life's savings and going into debt from which they will never be able to recover. doesn't matter. the landlord is the villain.

am thinking the recent twitch should be informative to developers 'cause even their community manager were discombobulated during character creation resulting from fact she didn't know what were the right choices to make. keep in mind the community manager had played at least a couple dozen hours o' the previous beta build and she still felt as if she could be making game breaking bad choices at level 0. the terrible reality is she ain't wrong, but am suspecting play on normal or lower difficulty should make such mistakes a relative non-factor. developer observations: seemed confident all classes will eventual have at least six archetypes, not including the racial specific archetypes. might be too early to choose skald or other classes broken in the previous build. class specific bugs were a lower priority for this build. (will add more as we get deeper into the twitch, if we get deeper. am at 60 minutes.) HA! Good Fun! ps we were relived to see some wonky shadow effects in the twitch play 'cause that means it ain't some kinda hardware/software issue at our end.

from the hippies at the national review: Liz Cheney Is Not the Problem "Of course, at the end of the day, the problem isn’t that Cheney is making controversial statements; the problem is that Republicans consider her obviously true statements to be controversial." sadly the next offering is likely subject to a paywall... though is curious what wapo does and does not make access limited. Opinion: What Trump has to fear from Rudy Giuliani "Even before he peddled nutso election-fraud claims, Giuliani had firmly established himself as one of the world’s worst lawyers. He’s the bumbler who blurted out on national TV that his client, Individual-1, had reimbursed a $130,000 payment made to a porn star, a transaction that triggered a sprawling and ongoing New York grand jury investigation into Trump’s overall business affairs." ... "All this boggles the mind of anyone who has followed Giuliani’s lengthy career. It’s as though someone dropped him on his head. Still, as a former associate attorney general and former U.S. attorney, he surely understands that federal search warrants against lawyers don’t just fall off trees. The Justice Department doesn’t like them, out of respect for the attorney-client privilege. Prosecutors will use them if they have really strong evidence a lawyer is up to no good, and if very senior personnel in Washington agree. And, of course, only with the blessing of a federal court." HA! Good Fun!

@ShadySands thanks. is a curious implementation quirk which has a demonslayer barred from gaining the benefits of sacred huntsmaster outsider fe, but only when choosing demonslayer before sacred hunstmaster level 5. not a huge problem, but now we won't need wait to level 6 to realize whether or not this curious implementation were addressed. am playing around with quarterstaff master. level 5 would be nice but we might be able to manage with 4 levels. 12 (we misidentified as 11 earlier) is the point where diminishing returns is making further monk levels tough to bear. doubt we go past five for any multi. is mentioned in the patch notes, but it is kinda odd the animal companions need select a deity choice. at the defender's heart, we do not seem to be able to access party members character record tabs and accessing inventory is bass ackwards as we kinda gotta use one o' the merchants to get into party member inventory. akward. HA! Good Fun!

the most significant change observed while playing the newest beta build is doorways are no longer impenetrable barriers in tb mode. this were a serious issue in the previous build. if you didn't get your entire party through a doorway before combat started, you could be fubar. we just noticed the leopard may be the new win animal companion. take bully animal companion class and leopard gains access to fury's fall feat, which adds dex modifier to cmb. HA! Good Fun! ps lann being a follower o' iomedae makes narrative sense, but he is now a bit less ideal as a cleric multiclass. lann does kinda works as a sacred huntsmaster multi for those few who do not hate inquisitors. regardless, here is hoping some o' the oracle issues is fixed in this build; would make daeran more useful.