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not politics, but... am suspicious o' articles which read as if they should be onion fare but with musk improbable faceplant situations is the norm. HA! Good Fun!

am realizing the tounge-in-cheek, but snoopy in a sopwith camel is unlikely to be able to reach anywhere near the 60k feet the chinese balloons were encountered. would be shocked if the camel could exceed 20k feet. more important, your post gives us an excuse to link the following: edit: tangential related, on our personal top ten most underrated pc games is crimson skies. HA! Good Fun!

the train derailment were big news... on fox and friends. somehow the accident and the cleanup efforts were all the fault o' pete buttigieg. other than fox, the accident were covered national and were a top story at cnn and npr when we checked yesterday. can't speak for other sources as we didn't check save for the washington post with didn't give it much attention. the lack of fatalities (unless you count fish) reduced the impact of the story in a 24/7 news cycle. there was a mass shooting at msu yesterday and following the chinese balloon incident, people are inordinate interested in ufo sightings, particular when the US military is shooting at such objects over kanada . the indefinite long-term consequences o' the train crash also make it difficult to report useful and lurid info which titillates as the dangers, particular after evacuations, is less immediate life-threatening and more you might die of cancer at some point in the future, maybe. HA! Good Fun!

*checks the calendar* nope, it ain't the 1920s. gerty? gertrude is gonna be shortened to trudy or even true nowadays, yes? our recollection is alice toklas' nickname(s) for gertrude were surprising banal... cuddle-wuddle and the like. HA! Good Fun!

as noted, field of dreams had already been mentioned. ... yeah, the maudlin label gets applied to any sentimental film a person didn't like, but you are gonna need defend costner's other baseball film from such accusations and you may find it to be no easy task. our opinion 'bout field of dreams is even two measley scenes with burt lancaster is worth at least one viewing, but save yourself 100 minutes and instead listen to cat stevens. (edit) and HA! Good Fun!

we got a family member named amelia. obvious is shortened to amy, yes? no. meal. meal? explain to us how that sticks. not just meal for elementary school or summer camp, but meal for decades? not just childhood bullies but friends and relatives to this day call her meal and nobody acts as if such is weird. @Azdeus of course the crumbsnatchers pick up signals from adults. kids ain't born knowing the rules o' bigotry. is learned behaviour. the thing is, children is very observant and they see far more than we ordinary give 'em credit. also, most adult bigotry tends to be transmitted with whispers, sneers and anonymous internet posts 'cause is social unacceptable to overt bully others. kids don't restrain in the same way as does adults 'cause they don't understand what is social unacceptable w/o specific parental, teacher or legal consequences. kids, particular in groups, is vicious not 'cause they is broken or 'cause they were raised wrong but 'cause they is kids. w/o parental intervention, lord of the flies is not just metaphor. absent immediate parental monitoring, children are intimately aware o' the punishment being doled out by their peers, and is therefore perfect rational for them to be cruel to the weak and different. https://www.simplypsychology.org/kohlberg.html#:~:text=Kohlberg is not easy to think o' innocent kids as being vicious. particular for parents is gonna be a natural reluctance to see their children as capable o' monstrous (but normal) childhood behaviour. don't forget it is possible to be simultaneous innocent and cruel. HA! Good Fun! ps am recalling one kid we coached for football. he had asperger's and were social awkward to a comical degree. he also had a curious speech pattern. the kid were constant ridiculed and we were kinda shocked other coaches and teachers mostly ignored the way this kid were being treated by fellow students. am suspecting the educators also found the asperger's kid to be annoying but is only a guess. is not the parents o' the other kids who taught them 'bout asperger's 'cause is doubtful more than a couple parents had any inkling o' autism spectrums. the kids saw this dude were different and they punished him for his awkwardness. converse, for mock trial coaching am recalling one o' the worst bullies we ever encountered were a girl who identified as masculine; am having no idea what were her sexual preference as such never came up in conversation. the thing is, in the particular california neighborhood where we were invited to help with a mock trial team, the girl were not ostracized 'cause she dressed like one o' the guys and adopted stereotypical mannerisms. in fact she were popular and she were horrible unpleasant to a few o' those who were less popular, but only when she thought the teachers wouldn't notice. curious, we were able to put a stop to the asperger's bullying as were a football esprit de corps philosophy which the head coach subscribed. brotherhood o' the locker-room and all that. unfortunate there was little we could do 'bout the mean girl other than quit 'cause the a$$bag teacher who we were s'posed helping let us know the girl's classroom behaviour were not our business. am thinking we chose wrong by not quitting, but given time and availability concerns, the school were not gonna get another volunteer such as Gromnir if we abandoned the project. we would have been punishing all the other kids to make a point?

gothel? no? doesn't matter. good luck regardless. and to get you started... https://www.collegeinvest.org/ first $100 is a gift from the state o' colorado. ez peasy. HA! Good Fun!

unnecessary serious response: the baby don't care 'bout our gender notions, but if he/she is lucky they will be stuck with the moniker for decades. name your daughter "phillip" to announce to the world how enlightened you is maybe grand and perhaps makes parents feel proud, but am thinking everybody forgets just how cruel other kids can be. am needing repeat this 'cause is forgotten, but kid brains is different than an adult's and not just 'cause they is smaller. you don't have a full developed brain until late teens or early twenties and before that your sense o' right v. wrong is... different. sure, once phillip attends college, most o' the mockery will have ended, but am not sure why anybody would put their child through unnecessary pain and anguish. step one: make the world a better place so that daughters named phillip won't be the object o' scorn and ridicule. the world is not yet a better place. HA! Good Fun!

did we miss the part where @ShadySandsidentified the gender o' the next member o' the sands family? ... the wisdom o' taking advice 'bout baby names from those frequenting a computer gaming message board is likely too obvious to need be stated, but just in case. thankful, am suspecting mrs. shady would put the kibosh on suggestions such as ozymandias or melissan. HA! Good Fun!

tin cup and bull durham? is two we ain't seen mentioned and am admitting is both decent movies which were better 'cause o' costner. a perfect world is likely our favorite costner; is not as if we dislike costner as an actor. am not sure how he became a punchline 'cause is more than a couple decent costner films. hardly our favorite actor, but we don't avoid a movie when we see him included as part o' the cast. costner also narrates a video for our favorite national park. HA! Good Fun!

we did mock the previous patch assertion that tb combat freezes had been addressed. the thing is since then we have been seeing a resurrection o' an old tb bug which has sosiel becoming stuck in tb combat. the old bug were related to a two-handed weapon haver crossing paths with another party member in tb combat, so sosiel were likely gonna present the glitch as he wields a glaive and has relative bad initiative. regardless, am back to a situation where in tb combat sosiel all too frequent loses an attack and tb combat hangs 'for 'bout twenty seconds while sosiel and his mount jitter ineffectual. HA! Good Fun!

treasure of the midnight isles extra level(s) and l00t, not to mention a considerable amount o' time elapsed making so there is all sorta guides and suggestions for companion and party builds, has no doubt made a difference in the perceived difficulty. the midnight isles vendor alone means your entire party is gonna be outfitted with +6 stat boosting belts and headbands which was not the case when we first encountered the quasit. am recalling our first time we were caught off guard by the wail o' the banshee thing which insta killed nenio and 'cause o' unfortunate rng, did serious hurt to others. 'course sosiel were one level shy o' having mass heal. the necromancy blast which near crippled our effort presented us with a noteworthy wtf moment. for a few party configurations, quasit presents particular challenges, and on unfair those succubus archers dish out murder. HA! Good Fun!

am understanding there were controversy related to the super bowl and the music selections. *eye roll* am thinking until the current stoopid which is the gop war on crt, immigrants and woke ends with a symbolic viking funeral, the nba, nfl, nhl and mlb should all agree to pause the performance o' the US national anthem and instead do homage to a prince anthem would be worth it just to hear how ted cruz would respond. 'course us military advertising dollars is an obvious obstacle. HA! Good Fun! ps prince remains our undisputed best ever artist for super bowl performances.

there is an undeserved and discouraging smugness which oozes from those it's so easy observations, no? is nothing particular clever or applause worthy 'cause some joker read online guides or has played wotr so many times they is aware o' every possible game exploit. those wotr sages feign surprise that not everybody is doing the protective luck and fortune hex exploits before boss battles, and 'course you all know the bane of spirit ring may convert your entire party's spell and weapon damage to irresistible force damage, yes? is our frequent complaint the game is tuned for difficulty bass ackwards. unfair difficulty encounters is appropriate for those players who know every loophole and is aware o' the less than obvious exploits, but core doesn't change unfair encounters save reducing the stats o' foes. what that means is players on core maybe don't need use every exploit but chances are they do need a few, or a guide, or help from a board community where they risk being mocked for not realizing how very easy __________ was. wotr is a role-play game which allows you to build characters and parties howsoever you wish, but if you build wrong or make poor crusade choices or, decide to do different than optimal, then you risk facing considerable gaming frustration. punishing the casual player is an odd design choice from our pov, but the wotr fanbase isn't exact rebelling or even complaining. HA! Good Fun!

our current favorite russian girl... woman. if you got time, her tiny desk performance is worth a view. and a fiona apple tune HA! Good Fun!

for the treasure dlc we did the optional battle where you fight the battle is kinda pre end and is not particular hidden. we did both on hard and unfair. is sorta a secret end? based on the list o' achievements, there looks to be another secret end and am assuming is standalone dlc related, but am not certain. HA! Good Fun!

fyi, geosynchronous is a misunderstood term. geosynchronous involves an orbit period o' one day and is necessarily at 42 thousand kilometers from the earth center, or almost 35 thousand km above the earth. geosynchronous is not necessarily gonna remain at a fixed point above the earth unless the satellite is located above the equator which results in geostationary. example picture o' a geosynchronous orbit path. am suspecting the bigger hurdle for a geosynchronous spy satellite meant to provide useful image data is the +22 thousand miles distant from the surface o' the earth the satellite needs be. twenty-two thousand miles is a serious distance with all kinda atmospheric interference 'tween the satellite and the target. again, am talking w/o any real knowledge whatsoever 'bout spy satellites, but am understanding a bit o' the physics and thinking distances for geosynchronous is way beyond the range o' useful images which could be collected. hundreds o' miles? yeah, sure, but 22k miles? HA! Good Fun!

am not knowing but am suspecting near all chinese satellites is known quantities and US and allies is aware to the second when they will be passing over ___________ or ___________. the chinese balloons obvious move slower, but is also gonna be more difficult to predict days, weeks and months ahead when and exact where such is gonna be in part 'cause weather baffles even the best soopercomputer models. in any event, am not a spy, and am talking out our kiester on this, but am thinking is unfortunate the balloons 'caused such a public stir 'cause if it were Gromnir in charge, we would much rather use the opportunity presented by balloons to transmit disinformation as is no doubt the case with satellites, electronic communications and human intelligence. find a mole in your organization and does the sooper spies immediate remove or do they consider ways to use the mole against whoever planted the mole? dunno. again, am not a spy, but knowing 'bout an intelligence gathering resource o' the bad guys seems like an opportunity. as long as the chinese thought they were getting one over on the US with balloons, the US could manipulate the intel the balloons were collecting, yes? HA! Good Fun!

did once. extreme meta. at launch and for sometime afterwards there were a few issues with the hand o' iomedae which am believing were bugs capable o' busting your secret end effort. you also need advance the calendar by a significant amount which has the potential to wreck your crusade morale and stats if you didn't plan ahead or resort to advancing the calendar at threshold via ad nauseum resting. etc. it is a "secret ending" so am s'posing is difficult to complain if it is ultra sensitive and easily broken. the secret ending final battle changes, so is maybe worth the effort if you have already played the game at least once and are looking for something different. if you have already done everything wotr then do secret ending is likely a way to get a bit more mileage outta the game. there is a secret ending for the treasure o' the midnight isles as well, but am believing you need do the dlc separate from the main game; could be wrong on that point as we never bothered to check. that said, is possible we give the dlc secret ending a looksee at some point... but not today, or tomorrow. HA! Good Fun!

before lent am making a few carnivore meals. is a localish store where am able to purchase quality tasso and excellent andouille, but we gotta make our own pickled pork if am wanting to have good red beans and rice. takes three days to pickle the pork shoulder. three days. if any southern folk or yanks who like red beans and rice got a great recipe or alternative for the pickled pork, am interested to hear, 'cause for us the pork is always the most time consuming part o' the dish and am never feeling as if we got it right for all the effort. am also observing how for the past six months it has been difficult to find quality bay leaves. HA! Good Fun!

the frightening thing being am not particular challenged by playful darkness anymore, even on unfair. is proof we have played wotr way too much 'cause am recalling how difficult the battle were when we first encountered playful darkness. pd is technical more difficult today than at release 'cause you need strip greater heroism to make fear attacks work and finnean is no longer brilliant energy in act iii and... is just so many wotr exploits which make a mid or late game battle you may prepare for relative ez... if you know exact how the battle unfolds, all the enemy weaknesses as well as the innumerable pathfinder and owlcat cheese options. shield maze bosses is tougher than midnight fane on unfair. example: if you don't have a leopard, you are forced to kite and pray v. the water elemental. is just so few right options at low levels. if am able to prebuff, put down a guarded hearth, utilize the fortune and protective luck cheese, plus a dozen other options, then unfair pd is not so tough... save for when the rng choose to step in and smite us. inevitable darkness were much easier than our first encounter with pd and is not 'cause inevitable were less challenging. the thing is, after having played wotr multiple times, and with the benefit o' a level twenty party able to prebuff to the max, is our party which were genuine inevitable, regardless o' the foe. 'course we did purposeful build our inevitable excess party with a merged book angel main and a party designed to make the dlc combat a relative cake walk. more cheese. HA! Good Fun!

the greatest strength o' our ketchup is also its most obvious weakness. am suspecting you are gonna wanna add something to punch it up a bit. alternative, find a store brand which has the absolute fewest ingredients, making sure all those ingredients is stuff you recognize and like, then pour into a sauce pan and add jalapenos, lime juice and cayenne if you like american-spicy, or add indian spices if you like indian or... whatever. btw, we use cherry tomatoes (canned is fine)'cause they have more sweetness than other varieties o' tomato and as you are always adding some kinda sugar to ketchup, you might as well use cherry tomatoes so you are able to decrease your need for brown sugar, molasses, etc. aside, cherry tomatoes is also the one variety o' the berry which is natural shelf stable and has not been over engineered withstand travel resulting in less tomato taste. cherry is literal the only variety o' tomato we will buy at a supermarket. HA! Good Fun!

is a slight spoiler, but you will be able to return to the midnight fane, so is possible to confront him after you level a bit. many suggestions for beating playful is gonna revolve around multiple castings of creeping doom + mark of justice. the thing is, am recalling you kicked camellia to the curb, so to make such a strategy work you need daeran with nature or you has to have had the foresight to add creeping doom to ember, nenio or some other caster by means o' loremaster. tell us what is your party config and am able to offer suggestions. IF you got sosiel, keep in mind the pillar of life spells both heals you and does damage to playful as well as undead types. no save. no spell resistance. no to-hit. the spell may be cast before combat and you may literal stack eight or more on top of each other. is a few bugs involved with meta feats and spells cast outside o' combat. am not sure if the devouring lust rod current works with pillars. the goggles of pure sight maybe were purchased from the jewelry vendor in drezen? playful has a whole lotta buffs which may be dispelled. give your best dispeller the goggles and you auto roll a 20 at least once on a greater dispel cast. guarded hearth and mark of justice is gonna be beneficial regardless o' your party... if you have access to such. HA! Good Fun!

was the ketchup for the crepes, pizza or both? is a little vague and your recent posts indicate we should not make assumptions. HA! Good Fun!

made lentils. got out our spices, measured and set 'em aside in a small bowl. we fine diced (almost a restaurant fine on the dice) six large onions and three large carrots. decided to resharpen our chef's knife after onion two. we got 'bout a half dozen chef's knives (is kinda a sickness the way we collect kitchen cutlery) and we coulda' used the damascus mac, but our workhorse knife were gonna need be sharpened anyways and we find the exercise o' working a whetstone to be curiously relaxing. no biggie. with an impeccable sharp knife we finished the onion and carrot then transferred diced veggies to a big bowl. last night we had removed six quarts o' our good stock to be defrosted and we checked to make sure it were at least most unfrozen. check. crushed up a couple pounds o' tomatoes by hand in a glass bowl; need non reactive for the tomatoes. we were just about to chop up a bunch o' italian parsley but instead we decided to pick through and rinse our lentils. ... thought to our self, "y'know, that container o' lentils looks a bit... light." already certain we were gonna be short, we decided to get out the kitchen scale and weigh the legumes. yeah, am more than just a tad light on lentils. *sigh* so, is looking like am making a trip to the store. ordinary we would go to corti brothers, 'cause they gots the best stuff, but is a 35-40 minute drive. so local supermarket it will be. current got rainfall but not particular hard. yet another logistics fail. HA! Good Fun!