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this is a misinterpretation. there is no such thing as educational speech in the US. the fact that the gop is targeting teachers and education don't result a new category o' speech. state and local school districts has always been able to choose how they tailor curriculum and which books they is gonna buy for libraries and use in lesson plans. laws which says idaho ain't gonna teach crt is not prohibitions on speech per se, so please don't get confused. choose not to teach farwell to manzanar or a swiftly tilting planet is also not censorship. if a teacher in idaho talks 'bout crt in class they cannot be criminalized even if crt is not part o' the curriculum. the only categories o' speech which don't get US protection is fighting words (which ain't likely what you think it means and is a non factor 'cause no SCOTUS case has been upheld on the basis o' fighting words since the category were recognized,) obscenity (which is extreme difficult to identify and is little case law supporting,) and child pr0n... and child pr0n is banned not 'cause it is revolting or offensive but 'cause o' the inherent threat to underaged participants in crafting the media... which shocks people when they realize animated pr0n or cg which involves technical adult actors to appear younger don't trigger child pr0n prohibitions. (edit: to clarify, when am mentioning categories unprotected speech in the US am referencing those limited categories where the government don't need meet any standard to prohibit. child pr0n is verboten. period.) however, if you are genuine interested, am suggesting reading tinker v. des moines, fcc v. pacifica and the infamous bong hits for jesus case. much like child pr0n, the perceived potential victimization o' kids results in admitted fuzzy exceptions to ordinary free speech protections and those exceptions is akin to lightning strikes 'cause is no way to predict when the Court will decide young bairns need special protection. however, keep in mind that something like crt and alternative lifestyle choices is gonna skew far more readily with tinker than bethel v. fraser. is not educational speech, but there is an admitted grey area when kids is imagined to be potential victims o' harmful or disruptive utterances while involved in school activities. and you didn't read the link 'bout german limits o' press we included in the previous post, eh? Germany has some of the world’s toughest laws on defamation, incitement to commit crimes and threats of violence, with prison sentences for Holocaust denial or inciting hatred against minorities. Maas said social networks needed to stick to the law like everyone else, adding: “Those who care about protecting freedom of opinion can’t just look on as criminal incitement and threats inhibit the open exchange of views.” don't just read the euro press 'bout their fantabulous free press. recently the US freedom o' press has been rated by reporters without borders and amnesty international as less protective in part 'cause o' trump (and obama) making threats to jail reporters who leaked info... or trumps general toxic language regarding enemy o' the state. as it so happens, obama jailed more journalists than any US President since lincoln. jail, btw, is not prison. virtual all those journalists won their cases on first amendment grounds which is understandably overlooked. being jailed for reporting truth is bad even if you win freedom. 'course the main reason US ranks lower than germany and sweden and so many others is NOT 'cause o' legal protections 'gainst censorship but rather 'cause o' the very real threat o' violence american journalists face from ordinary citizens. trump speaks o' the press as a whole being an "enemy o' the people" and we even have posters on this board expressing indifference at the murder o' reporters. there is a real and embarrassing toxic anti-journalist culture here in the US and is fair to mention such insofar as penumbral freedom o' press, but such is not specific relevant to legal and Constitutional protections o' reporters and press. however, the only legal relevant aspect where the US suffers on those curious lists from reporters without borders and the like is the assange and handler issues dealing with national security. as we noted, obama and eric holder lost near all the cases involving journalists-- by definition their actions were illegal. have mentioned previous how is pretty much no legal Constitutional scholar who supports the way the 1917 espionage act has been used to attack reporters, but from a practical pov you are talking extreme rare instances. again, assange and handler is the folks who got all the attention. am knowing you still ain't getting what am talking 'bout with the strict scrutiny standard used in the US v. germany, sweden or elsewhere and so you focus instead on lists or rando examples or the text o' the constitutions. "Legally Germany has constitution that offers some of best protections for people's rights as it forbids changing those rights, but does not prevent courts interpreting those rights as limited." limiting those rights is exact why offensive and hateful speech by citizens and reporters in germany may be censored while such is not possible in the US. that said, am gonna admit strict scrutiny, while a far more restrictive bar on US government limits o' speech than near any euro equivalent has a flaw which refuses to die. world war 1 era case law remains which tells us the the ambiguous and vague national security interests related to potential espionage qualifies as a compelling government interest we mentioned is a foundational strict scrutiny query. sure, ordinary german censorship o' hate and offensive speech is gonna impact far more reporters than does national security cases just as would be true in the US. how many reporters in the US need be concerned with the espionage act? serious. even so, the espionage act stuff is gross and repugnant and not all is rearview mirror fodder akin to eugene debs. (edit: am not sure why we insist on spelling "debbs" wrong.) or schenck. HA! Good Fun!

we would have thought the chinese coulda' conjured up a storm or even a few clouds with their weather controlling balloon to protect it from destruction. one positive from all this is that donald trump jr. finally stopped spelling as "baloon," though am not sure if he and mtg understand why 60,000' up is gonna be outta range o' the ordinary second amendment honk to say nothing o' the obvious secondary problems created by uncounted hillbillies and rednecks failing to heed tyrone davis wisdom. perhaps there is enough time before the next balloon to explain the physics to trump and mtg? HA! Good Fun!

am thinking the executives get a bad rap. like it or not, aaa hollywood movies is extreme expensive to make and distribute. directors and actors is able to wax rhapsodic 'bout vision and storytelling, but there is a whole lotta people counting on the success o' the next dc movie and it is reasonable if possible self-defeating to go with safe v. auteur when folks like gunn is committing hundred o' millions o' dollars o' studio money to multiple projects. superhero movies has hit an awkward stage as fans expect all the big budget trappings from the next film or project, but they is clear getting tired o' seeing slight variations o' similar content being repackaged. to get audiences excited 'bout superheroes, gunn and others gotta do something different, but different is inherent risky. am giving warner brothers credit for brining in gunn 'cause the executives appear to recognize they cannot keep playing it safe with same old formulas. at the same time, as far as am able to tell, is not as if warner has decided to slash budgets for these films, so they has hardly avoided the spectre o' their films being too big to be allowed to fail. so, how many coin tosses does gunn get? the executives is the folks who is paid to be the voice o' reason while fans and directors may succumb to the gambler's fallacy. at what point is a "few" movies losing money untenable? the gambler fallacy is even less acceptable for aaa hollywood movies then vegas addicts 'cause movie fails is the results o' choices and not randomness. the best predictor o' future fail is past fail and holding out hope that the stars will align for the next DC film in spite o' past film performance is stoopid. going all in on james gunn, giving him free reign to fail over and over, is not gonna happen, period. like it or not, movie making is a biz. making DC or Marvel movies in 2023 is challenging 'cause the films need be spectacles but fans is tired o' the formulas which has been safe and effective for better than a decade. the executives is underappreciated for making the hard choices fans and artists is likely to abhor. we want gunn to succeed, but am not sure the current model allows for multiple fails. HA! Good Fun!

is doubtful anybody would watch the whole episode, so ff to 38:39. a young scottish physicist/chemist builds a cloud chamber after working as an unpaid observer at the ben nevis meteorological observatory, which lead to... if you watch to the conclusion, and you don't already know too much 'bout charles wilson, the end result o' the cloud chamber is surprising. wilson eventual won the nobel prize for physics most for his cloud chamber experiments though the bulk o' his scholarly work work meteorological focused. HA! Good Fun!

we lived in chicago and thought winter driving were bad, and it is, but chicago is also preternatural flat. build on a swamp and you are gonna get flat. at this point in our life is no way we would ever move to pittsburgh or cincinnati. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/steepest-streets-america_n_4871559 two o' those streets is in pittsburgh and during the winter they is covered in ice. serious, what sorta deathwish must you have to drive in pittsburgh during the winter? population is something north o' 300k, so must be more than a few. downtown winter driving in pittsburgh is not terrible, but anything beyond is gonna unman us. HA! Good Fun!

lord only knows what lexx has a right to feel insulted 'bout. 'cause we asked him to identify the posters who confirm his belief that the US education system is utter garbage? ... well, maybe you don't feel comfortable naming names. fair enough. offer us a percentage or a fraction and then compare to european posters. what percentage o' US posters hereabouts exemplify the utter garbage educational system @Hurlshotis doling out daily? 90% less or more? how much less or more? if the percentage or fraction o' doltish (again, your word) US posters frequenting these boards is smallish, then don't you recognize a disconnect with you utter garbage observation? is not as if this board is invite-only mensa or rand. is fans o' a crpg developer, so am thinking we hardly represent some kinda intellectual elite. can't answer the question? why? if few US posters here is doltish, then shouldn't that cause a reevaluation o' your utter garbage observation? if not, then why not? is something special about obsidan which insulates against endemic american doltishness? if the observed doltishness for US folks is similar to that o' euro, asian, south american and australian posters, why wouldn't such make lexx at least question the utter garbage schtick? lord knows it can't be the improbably funny or bad laws passed by the democratic majority o' florida which makes you conclude the US education system is utter garbage, 'cause we already pointed out the German abortion laws which would make even a texan shudder and is not difficult to identify other equal misguided laws. how many decades elapsed 'fore germany final got around to ending the criminalization o' doctors giving patients factual accurate abortion info? germans would "never" do such myopic, stoopid and unjust? again, you brought up the german comparison. and even if you three wise monkey your way outta considering bad german laws, such still don't explain the oasis which is the obsidian boards, eh? if the US education system is such utter garbage, then where is the anticipated higher % o' utter garbage educated US posters? as for the psychological damage and emotional stress... *eye-roll* the florida law is a stoopid and is gonna fail for any number o' reasons but in part 'cause o' what we see with the empty shelves--nobody knows exact what books is resulting in criminal liability. even so, the law were passed legit by the state legislature so is gonna need go through the Courts to be struck down as unconstitutional. is highly improbable anybody loses liberty (ie. receives jail or prison time) as a result o' this law, but rule o' law has us going through the stoopid and tedious process. 'course by the time the woke book law is killed, desantis will have moved on to something just as vile, 'cause fearmongering is almost the entirety o' the current gop playbook. meaningful change is gonna require education but more immediate the economic well-being o' the mullet heads and gator humpers down in florida, texas and all too much o' the south and midwest needs to improve. like or not, those folks in florida vote and for the past couple decades they has become increasing afraid 'bout their economic future. that legitimate economic fears o' the lower and lower middle-class translates into susceptibility to the stoopid being peddled by the current gop. somebody who has a good job and has enough money to pay a mortgage and send their kids to college is more or less likely to buy into nonsense 'bout how immigrants is the root o' all evils? btw, crt, if it were being taught, would help folks understand that systemic racism is only changing when economic realities change. 'ccording to crt, racism is not a white or black or red flaw but is a natural if despicable societal certainty. particular when the dominant cultural and economic group is afraid o' losing its grip on power, racist animus tends to increase and such inequalities is not fixed with grandiose speeches so much as changing economic realities. we do wish crt were being taught everywhere as the gop fears. HA! Good Fun!

we need do this again, eh? didn't we discuss this a few years ago? example: we specific brought up speech, and speech is protected in the German Constitution (Article 5) but not the way an American would recognize such protections... 'cause land of the free and all that. we just offered an example how german doctors were criminalized if they offered abortion advice previous to 2022, yes? keep in mind that on paper both the russian and chinesse have constitutions protecting far more freedoms than does the US Constitution. Article 35 Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration. Article 31. Citizens of the Russian Federation shall have the right to gather peacefully, without weapons, and to hold meetings, rallies, demonstrations, marches and pickets. the difference is the US Constitution does in fact protect offensive speech, hate speech, nazi marches and cartoons o' mohmmad. even if is incidental regulation, we got a strict scrutiny standard which does not exist in germany much less in russia or china. in the US, the government (fed/state/local) may only limit speech if it has a compelling state interest and the means o' enforcement must needs be the least restrictive possible. we can go through examples and case law (again) but this should all be well trod. US standard for Constitutional protections creates a greater limit on government action than exists for speech, free exercise o' religion and a host o' other liberties. copy and paste the words is not meaningful in and of itself. HA! Good Fun!

... am thinking that would be bigger news than it being a spy balloon. aside @Lexx have mentioned this previous, but bears repeating that in our experience, too many europeans and kanadians, many o' whom has visited the US on holiday (maybe,) has rather specific notions o' americans and american fails. we spent many hours sitting across tables in pubs and classrooms from university students in barcelona, london and elsewhere listening to 'em discuss US politics and lamenting the scourges o' terrible US education and obesity. were almost surreal. fast forward a couple decades and this board produces same conversations. still surreal. Gromnir excepted 'course, does lexx experience on this board suggest americans in general is poor educated? yes or no? it is obvious and no surprise there is more people from the US posting here than any other single nationality, but am not seeing some kinda clear educational or insight drop-off whenever a person with US citizenship posts. anybody think that without lexx the educational and intellectual depth o' the obsidian pool would go from 3 meters to 1? is lexx just speaking o' those other americans when he complains o' the US education system? am knowing you think little o' us personal *snort* but given the numerous US posters hereabouts, does this place fail to match your expectations? do the US folks hereabouts really seem bass ackwards and uneducated? really? this is a game message board o' ordinary people and not some kinda rand or mensa invite-only gathering space. am having a hard time seeing how the europeans or kanadians who frequent this message board could have such a low opinion o' the product o' US education. HA! Good Fun!

so instead insightful brevity as 'posed to a wall o' text, your response is to engage in a trite and vacuous post sans any real support for your position save that which amounts to the equivalent o' an eight-year old blowing a raspberry or uttering "nuh-uh." way to show your education and enlightenment, eh? kinda proving one o' our points with this bit. in the US we got Constitutional limits which is non existent in germany. is euros who depend on the fickle whims o' democracy when it comes to basic freedoms. even so, yeah, am suggesting that once bad laws is passed, as is inevitable in any representative or real democracy, then we need depend on the rule o' law or subsequent votes to fix. would have thought we were explaining basic social contract stuff but maybe the german education system were lacking in this regard? crazy and bad laws that would never happen in germany? we can talk 'bout german abortion laws if you wish. you find the books in florida schools bizarre but until 2022 german doctors were subject to criminal penalties if they offered patients factual information about abortion. what? germany sounds a bit like texas in point o' fact. yeah, germany looks to be headed in a positive direction, but tell us what would never happen while ignoring what has been happening for decades is either based on ignorance or the willful obtuse. so, which is it, ignorance or obtuse? btw, am personal critical o' many aspects o' education in the various United States, which is another point you either missed or is purposeful misreading. the thing is there ain't a single identifiable US school system. ask @Hurlshort if you don't believe us but there is often incredible differences 'tween neighboring school systems w/i individual states much less 'tween and twixt states. is also a whole lotta private education which is often overlooked. even so am agreeing there is problems with US education which is why we suggested you misidentified the dolts. duh. is the ordinary and numerous dolts in florida who voted for desantis as 'posed to desantis being the dolt as your previous post suggested. desantis went to both yale for undergrad and harvard law and while is possible to be dim and graduate from those institutions, am thinking few persons with firing neurons would suggest desantis is slow witted or uneducated. sadly, desantis knows exact what he is doing, which makes worse... or maybe not. regardless, preach to the choir: too many school districts in florida and elsewhere do indeed fail at education. the dolts is most often the ordinary americans which is why we identified education as the long-term solution. again, duh... but also opposite o' your initial post. we will also observe how whatever shortcomings exist in primary and secondary education in the US, presumed european advantages (such as they are) don't translate to the university level the way many expect. when we were undergrad, we had multiple job offers in europe and asia and it weren't as if we were special. graduate better than 3.0 with a stem degree from Cal, stanford or the like and in the late 80s were a license to print money in europe but particular asia. is our understanding not much has changed. is a whole lotta top universities lists out there, and most o' them ain't worth the paper they is written on, but having taught in europe for over a year at the university level, am having a difficult time seeing a marked superiority o' european post secondary students... or faculty. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/universities-producing-the-most-nobel-prize-winners.html raise your hand if you got a degree from more than one o' those universities? HA! Good Fun!

am unfamiliar with near all tech journal citations or medical, but ap style and harvard bluebook both follow such an ordering, though even those two is different for appropriateness o' month abbreviation as well as setting off the year with commas. it may be difficult to imagine, but you could be deemed to have missed a filing deadline 'cause you failed to put those date commas in the right place. oh, and the california style manual needed be different from harvard until relative recent, so for years it were a pain in the arse having to rewrite functional same documents so as to conform to either state or fed style requirements. such grammar minutiae is all so unnecessarily arcane. HA! Good Fun!

am admitted kinda at a loss as to how am gonna use ulbrig in a future party. shifters is max bab progression and the griffon shape means the new companion is unlikely a ranged character. feels like a dedicated melee combatant, no? am making a few assumptions, but there is not an obvious replacement companion based on our usual party configurations. is improbable ulbrig fills any meaningful caster role and unless we finally decide to play a paladin, am not seeing ulbrig as filling in for any o' our typical seelah variations, 'cause am gonna be feeling emasculated w/o access to mark of justice. if ulbrig is available at level one, chances are am able to turn him into a skald or something similar, but such don't seem likely. if am playing a paladin, then seelah may multiclass as a skald with ulbrig as kinda an extra melee combatant? ulbrig would be a near seamless replacement for geybor or regill, neither o' whom we use save for their companion quests, though am admitting a sacred huntsmaster regill with high dex and every initiative and wisdom boosting item we can muster rare loses initiative to any enemy. even demon lord bosses need stand and take a smack in the mouth from regill and his velociraptor thanks to the gnome's fantastic initiative numbers. we should use regill more often. we don't use regill and am suspecting ulbrig cannot muster regill kinda initiative. HA! Good Fun!

~2/3 world population drives on right side. for practical reasons, the french switched to the right side o' the road in the late 1700s, which likely doomed any chance the brits would follow suit. most world holdouts is former brit colonies. heck, numerous us states were holdouts until the second world war. am recalling sweden is kinda a funny example 'cause a referendum were held and the people o' sweden overwhelming (90% or something near) were against switching to the right side, but the government went ahead and made the change anyways. early 1960s? oversimplification, but am suspecting 'cause o' napoleon and other english issues with the french, brit colonies are stuck enduring an anachronism. petty contrarians. HA! Good Fun!

the obvious reason americans don't change to dd/mm/yyyy or something else is money. am recalling our brief time as a prosecutor. criminal database programs were all monochrome and did not conform to any kinda modern sensibility or convenience. were more than a little frustrating at times to need navigate computer interfaces developed in the early 80s. the problem were that any attempt to update the system were gonna be herculean as these inelegant and inefficient resources had been expanded multiple times with solutions which only made sense in these antiquated programs making it even more difficult to import/export data from other systems... and each year that elapsed only made the task more difficult as the old systems became more unwieldy. situation were made worse 'cause a fed system had to be compatible with all the local law enforcement and local likely didn't have money to do all but the most limited upgrades. counter-intuitive, as the systems became more unreasonable and difficult to maintain, the motivation to change decreased as costs for change increased-- were always cheaper to maintain an old and inefficient system as 'posed to starting new. is same reason in the US we is stuck with imperial system o' units for measures. sure, metric makes so much more sense and every public school kind in the US since the 70s has been learning metric... and any stem is obvious gonna be all metric, but the cost to change keeps getting bigger every year so while is less reasonable to keep imperial, the motivation to change actual decreases 'cause o' costs. even US drug dealers learned metric 'cause if you is running a biz based on weights and measures, metric is far more practical. nevertheless, is auto parts industry and tools to fix autos and and construction capital all based on imperial, so... is another issue where US fed system is bad for implementing nationwide change. is a whole lotta things the fed cannot do or is impractical to manage. HA! Good Fun!

your quote represents a fundamental misunderstanding. not just a german or lexx issue though as we had to explain this issue ad nauseum to @Guard Dog who didn't seem to recognize that democracy and liberty is fundamental at odds. gd loved democracy, but only when "those dolts" were protecting what he deemed important somehow forgetting that democracy was by necessity the arbiter o' what were important. in germany and much o' europe, you freedom lovers routine limit speech (the empty bookshelves pictured is a speech issue, so don't get distracted) o' private citizens if the speech is deemed offensive. nazi or anti-muslim speech is verboten in may enlightened euro nations... and germany. why? 'cause you voted for dolts who says it's ok to limit speech. the majority decided which speech were too intolerable to be trusted issuing from the mouths o' citizens. why is woke speech better and deserving more protection than is cartoons o' mohmmad? 'cause democracy says so. is no guarantee that tomorrow or next year euros may decide much different speech need be protected and there isn't the same kinda limits on democracy as exist in the US. florida's embrace o' anti-woke stoopid, while is mind-numbing and almost certain unConstitutional, is not placing limits on private citizens but rather on government utterances. any teacher in florida, once she leaves school grounds, may says whatever she damn well pleases with extreme limited exceptions and there is nothing desantis or any other elected dolt may do 'bout it... 'cause land o' the free and all that. the elected dolts, even the worst o' em, know better than to try and limit speech o' citizenry, so instead the focus on government speakers: public school teachers. one o' these days am not gonna need repeat how democracy is fundamental a limit on freedom. sure, is better than authoritarianism, but democracy is quite adept at injustice and stoopid. the majority makes rules which restricts the behaviors o' all citizens and the majority isn't fundamental more wise or enlightened and is not difficult to find examples o' jackarse misguided euro o' US laws from decades past or today which should dispel the notion that democracy is somehow a guarantor o' liberty, but we nevertheless need have this same discussion every few months 'cause your childhood indoctrinations, which you likely learned in school, is powerful and difficult to escape. where the land o' the free is different than europeans is the distrust o' democracy and government which is foundational. is numerous freedoms guaranteed to US citizens which the founders decided were off-limits to the democratic process. ultimately it don't matter which dolts is elected when we are speaking o' Constitutional protected speech. keep in mind that desantis anti-woke efforts keep getting killed by the Courts and florida house bill 1467 is likely to suffer the same fate. unfortunate the Courts is miserable slow at times and the current SCOTUS only fast-tracks such issues as abortion prohibitions and the freedom to not wear masks in church during a pandemic. here in the US, many high school kids read Fahrenheit 451. ironic, is one o' those books which has numerous times been "banned" in public schools. unfortunately far too many o' those kids forgot what they shoulda' learned. if you have not read, we highly recommend. "Now let's take up the minorities in our civilization, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that! All the minor minor minorities with their navels to be kept clean. Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters. They did. Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca. Books, so the damned snobbish critics said, were dishwater. No wonder books stopped selling, the critics said. But the public, knowing what it wanted, spinning happily, let the comicbooks survive. And the three-dimensional sex-magazines, of course. There you have it, Montag. It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time, you are allowed to read comics, the good old confessions, or trade journals." in the "land o' the free" we still have some protection from the dolts voted in by the majority, 'cause if you ain't learned by now, the whims o' the majority in europe, australia and everywhere else is fickle and dangerous. even so, mr. bradbury would weep. edit: the dolts in florida elected desantis precise 'cause he is selling fear. nowadays the gop doesn't need be any reasonable fear 'cause is ez to manufacture horrors: immigrants, socialists, drag queens not named george santos and transgender athletes. the inability o' the dolts living in florida and much o' the rest o' the country to recognize how the current republican party has abandoned fiscal responsibility and the liberal worldview (not democrat = liberal btw) in favour o' manufacturing terrors which they then claim to be combating is the problem. am thinking desantis, unlike trump, ain't a dolt. the problem is desantis is appealing to the dolts. education is always the best eventual solution, but it takes so long to see results. worse, the current gop is far more invested in education at the local level than is democrats, and is all too often overlooked that local is where real education change happens in this country. 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in our opinion, sosiel has access to domains which makes him more valuable to a party than daeran regardless o' almost any build am able to imagine for the a$$imar oracle (misspell intentional). it is possible to turn daeran into a decent mounted dual-wielding combatant, and with the nature mystery added via a mythic powha, you will be able to select a mount plus the friend to animals revelation will serious boost the saves o' all party animal companions-- daeran is a useful companion. even so, sosiel is having access to a few o' the most significant abilities in the game via domains and the mythic impossible domain ability makes it possible for sosiel to choose two or three additional domains. favorite domains: animal, community, madness, nobility. have literal not played wotr since release sans a high wisdom character who has access to the community domain. the animal domain provides sosiel a mount. give sosiel the lunge feat and with his reach weapon, stick him on a legendary proportion dog or boar, then cast frightful aspect, divine power and eagle soul and as long as you got the outflank feat you will be wreaking the battlefield. alternatively, add one level o' crossblood sorc to the priest o' shelyn and sosiel potential is one o' your best damage dealing companion casters. late in the game you likely need healing less and there is multiple ways to achieve healing w/o a dedicated healer, so the issue eventually becomes almost moot. aivu is good enough to do party heals for act v if you are going azata. the treasure o' the midnight isles vendor sells 199 scrolls o' most healing spells which functional turns any character with decent umd skill into a healer, but especial nenio with her scroll mastery. speaking o' nenio, you may add mass heal to the spell repertoire o' nenio and ember via loremaster. *shrug* if you do not want sosiel or daeran, ember makes a more than adequate heal replacement particular if you are going azata or angel, so feel free to choose a dedicated front-liner if the priest and oracle fail to meet your needs... but again, sosiel is a brute in combat when proper buffed and mounted plus his domain powhaz make him arguable the most useful companion in the game, though seelah and camellia deserve consideration for a most effective wotr companion award. however, no companion is essential, even if you choose to avoid hiring mercs. HA! Good Fun!

the more people complain, the more owlcat digs in. after the initial post release complaints 'bout enigma, loot drops were altered so you needed complete enigma to finish another quest-- enigma were made more integral following the deluge o' complaints. and no, the enigma puzzles ain't sooper difficult, but they is unnecessarily obtuse. the memory games is fine for Gromnir, but we got a kinda built-in cheat for those. however, the logic puzzles invariably have multiple correct potential responses which results in a few trial-and-error solutions which is not fun. and how likely is the player who has never done enigma knowing to keep track o' wall symbols, symbols which is possible to miss in any event depending on the route you took, so chances are once you realize you need wall symbols to complete a puzzle you need backtrack through much o' enigma. *groan* solutions is not clever. tedious. enigma is rinse and repeat combat plus considerable unnecessary backtracking to complete puzzles and face a boss which is all too familiar once you do the storyteller quest. but yeah, the most curious aspect is owlcat response to the complaints. the more that fans complain, the more owlcat jokes 'bout fan complaints. edit: also mentioned previous, but is worth repeating how the developers designed enigma to be one o' the more golem and undead saturated portions o' wotr, and as a companion quest, such were not the result o' paizo content. sans mods, nenio is an illusionist and chances are most players who challenge enigma on their first attempt is gonna tackle the content with a nenio who is gonna have a better than fair chance o' being built to take advantage o' illusion spells. duh. at the very least, first time nenio quest victims is gonna have the kitsune memorizing a considerable number o' less than useful spells. sure, with one rest you may swap out the useless spells, but adding the undead and golems were owlcat's choice. is just another example o' owlcat being owlcat? HA! Good Fun!

if you ever win some kinda national award, we expect you to mention Gromnir as am about to blow your mind with a time-saver video recipe. compared to the effort pressing tomato goo through a fine mesh strainer alternating with a flexible spatula and a rigid tablespoon (perhaps 2x,) the mayo is diabolical simple. as mentioned, the drawback for homemade mayo is it is not reasonable to try and make less than one egg's worth o' mayo, which means you end up with a fair amount o' mayo and that maybe lasts five-to-seven days in the fridge. HA! Good Fun!

ketchup (tomato) and mayo is so ubiquitous they create an expectation issue. we have made ketchup a few times and the problem is we would never make our version the only ketchup offering for somebody who wanted ketchup with their french fries, 'cause in the US, heinz = ketchup. when an american wants ketchup with whatever, chances are what they actual want is heinz ketchup. our version involves a couple pints worth o' cherry tomatoes puree which were pressed through a fine mesh strainer to which we add some kinda vinegar, worcestershire sauce, brown sugar, salt and pepper, which we then simmer and reduce by' bout 1/2. our homemade involves a fair amount o' effort... and is guaranteed to disappoint most people who want ketchup. mayo is having a similar issue. if you grew up with duke's or hellman's, then those is what you think o' as mayo and chances are any replacement is gonna taste weird. mayonnaise is a french mother sauces and it is endlessly adaptable. is also far easier to make mayo at home than is ketchup and it can be delicious, but as a sandwich spread, if somebody is expecting dukes and they get Gromnir's version, they is gonna wonder at the "funny" taste. HA! Good Fun!

not a dirty harry fan? HA! Good Fun!

am from the dakotas, so am having witnessed first hand the scandinavian peculiarity o' using ketchup on pasta... as functional a replacement for marinara and/or italian gravy. mashed potatoes? nope. only kids. as we say, "exotic" doesn't travel. ... our father picked up a strange habit when he were in the military: he used ketchup on his scrambled eggs. this culinary heresy didn't bother us as we took such as strong evidence we were secret adopted as 'posed to genetic related to our father. HA! Good Fun!

this is so not helping. edit: at our table, you may add whatever you want to a food and we won't sneer or judge. individuals have individual tastes and am not gonna make somebody feel bad 'bout their choices. 'course the internet allows us to be all judgy with folks we will likely never meet. regardless, returns us to the original observation from way back where we observed how defined exotic is gonna change quite a bit given regional tastes and preferences. HA! Good Fun!

as is paywall, am not gonna cheat, but we will post ingredients: 24 sage leaves 3 large skin-on chicken breasts 6 garlic cloves, smashed and peeled Fine sea salt and freshly ground black pepper 3 tablespoons olive oil 3 tablespoons cold butter ¼ cup gin ¾ cup chicken stock, preferably homemade 1 to 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice, plus wedges for serving ... see, this is where you folks lose us. @majestic shows pictures o' a steak being served with ketchup and you apparent prefer meatballs with ketchup... and am assuming you are older than eight. HA! Good Fun!

well that makes more sense. is general a superior method to be cooking your meatballs in an oven as 'posed to a skillet over the stove-- retain shape better, cook more even and cook on a rack means you have ain't cooking bottom o' the balls in grease. however, the reason for cooking meatballs in the skillet is precise 'cause o' the sauce you aren't making, but Gromnir and others is anticipating. am generating fond by cooking the meatballs in a skillet or dutch oven. am needing the fond for a fantastic sauce. unrelated: ny times recipe that's a whole lotta sage. sage, garlic, lemon and gin to be flavoring chicken sounds delicious so am gonna need try at least once. am s'posing we got a bit o' gin somewhere. is an extreme small number o' juniper berry recipes in our arsenal, so we usual have a bit o' gin too. HA! Good Fun!