Gromnir

played some nina simone for a friend o' ours recent. she weren't impressed. "that guy can't sing." ... have mentioned previous in this thread how much we appreciate the talents o' nina simone http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/80512-music-must-go-on/?p=1810614 doesn't happen often, but the aforementioned criticism o' one o' favorite female vocalists rendered us speechless... and mortified. HA! Good Fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgP0aUKlmNw oh, and the ref, kiss kiss bang bang and edward scissorhands is all movies we will stop and watch if am seeing 'em on tv. HA! Good Fun!

https://americanliterature.com/author/hans-christian-andersen/short-story/the-little-match-girl cont.

ps http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/85343-post-30-paladins/?p=1789337 highly recommend the linked thread if you are gonna play a post 3.0 paladin. 'bout three pages into the thread you start seeing suggested builds along with detailed explanations as to why such builds work. HA! Good Fun!

virtual every Gromnir main character, regardless of class, has similar attribute spreads... with two-to-three points of variation. m 10 d 10 c 10 p 16 i 16 r 16 for paladins we typical drop dex, con and/or per by 1 and add the points to intelligence to try and get an 18-19, but that is unnecessary. the above attribute spread will result in a highly effective potd character for any class, because the poe attributes, unlike in other crpgs, is not determinative of success. sure, attributes matter and have value in poe, but talents and abilities is just as (more) important as attributes, particularly as you level and get further away from level 1. if you know the dialogue thresholds for npcs, you can use food and resting bonuses to bolster anemic attributes, but the above attribute spread is gonna be extreme forgiving and will have you largely avoiding the need to run to a guide to figure out best spreads or similar such nonsense. again, do not sweat the attributes if your concern is combat efficacy. talents, abilities and smarty gameplay will be far more determinative o' combat success than your initial attribute spread. however, we highly recommend the above attribute spread for those wishing to have access to most o' the cerebral dialogue options w/o needing to game the game-- no running to guides or fora to figure out npc dialog check numbers. HA! Good Fun! ps regardless of changes made to the game via patches, you can see our advice has remained the same since the game were released. http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/84838-optimal-starting-stats-and-late-game-signifficance-for-wizard/?p=1782213 and from just after release http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/72352-might-universal-required-stat/?p=1603924 do not listen too close to those folks telling you what attributes you need to be an effective _________ in poe. they are wrong. chose attributes for rp or dialogue reasons and you will be fine.

Q&A with colin mccomb https://www.facebook.com/Torment.inXile/ HA! Good Fun!

But Michelle Yeoh is the captain so should she be the lead? being the captain hardly necessitates being the lead. ... the real question is why there needs be an announced lead at all. tell stories from different character pov each week is actual common for star trek. wanna get a bit more removed from the captain's chair for the new star trek is doable, but the notion o' a primary protagonist for a star trek show one assumes will last multiple seasons strikes us as unnecessary. HA! Good Fun!

having played effective melee priests o' eothas, wael, and skaen, am gonna heartily disagree with the suggestion o' diminishing utility o' the weapon-focus aspect o' the deity specific talents. if you wanna be a priest who gets his hair mussed a bit by entering combat with a weapon, you can do so... but the only way you are gonna be genuine effective is with the benefit o' the deity specific talent. converse, the minor spell casting perk many o' the deity specific talents provide do not scale well with the game. a priest can do big and consistent damage with weapons late in the game, but the time it takes to cast the watered down deity specific spells is rare worth the effort to do so, particularly as one levels. HA! Good Fun!

we don't know much 'bout her, but it helps keep things in perspective as one recollects patrick stewarts' resume before tng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efd9zcjn5JM yeah, avery brooks were already one o' the baddest men on tv when he took command at deep space 9, but star trek (tv) hasn't had to rely on big name stars to make big impact. HA! Good Fun! ps kinda the opposite from ss on the casting choices as we recognize all save chieffo and obi. had to google those two actors... and we still got no idea who they are.

well, that is something. our personal experience with ea/bio customer service has had us borderline postal a couple times. felt as if we had a bot responding to our queries as responses were frequent, well, non-responsive. were as if we were getting pre-generated responses based on keywords in our ticket. is not as if we do the Gromnir bit when writing a swtor ticket neither. just for funsies, am command rank 36 and still no set bonus piece. am s'posing it don't much matter as am only doing solo content at the moment anyway and will likely not do much group until we hit tier 2. in a ironic twist, harbinger, which were near constant ls dominant for the entirety o' the galactic command nonsense, has sudden seen a balancing with ds victories. happened contemporaneous with the life day event. life day brought out the dark side in the server. HA! Good Fun!

condolences. so often the people who are most in need of help are the individuals least likely to ask for it. it is so pointless to find out afterwards just how bad a person was hurting.

Might be a bit upsetting for the kid, no ? The kid was 19, I believe. Maybe a bit traumatic, but I'm sure the kid realizes his dad died doing something he loved. not to be too grim, but alan didn't die playing hockey. he died o' a heart attack. weren't as if he were skating and sudden dropped dead with a smile on his face. likely fell to ice clutching chest or arm. unable to breathe. confused and in pain. bystanders feel most helpless as the heart attack victim grimaces and moans and desperate grasps for help which will not come in time. if we were to die o' a heart attack, we wouldn't want family or friends 'round who would likely second guess themselves for not recognizing signs or failing to get help. have watched the final moments o' a heart attack victim... twice. violent. desperate. fearful. am s'posing there is folks who can die o' a massive heart attack like in movies where they just kinda slump to the ground and exhale one final painless breathe. such gentle passings ain't in our experience. now the linda mccartney death sounds a bit more peaceful. she rides horse with family and then s'posed dies... of cancer. got somebody with stage iv cancer who is nevertheless able to enjoy a horse ride is unlikely to die from cancer on the same day. maybe had some assistance getting past the ultimate threshold? even so, sounds relative nice even if a bit contrived. HA! Good Fun!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-numenera/posts/1763675?ref=backer_project_update HA! Good Fun!

am not sure why one would use children's cartoons to highlight ridiculous story. stories used in kids cartoons is frequent better than adult fare, particular in fantasy and scifi context. write for kids means you can't use anime inspired wacky plot nonsense to compensate for poor developed characters. can't trick a kid with fake depth or kewl concept. we will gladly hold up the hobbit, spirited away, the last unicorn, song of the sea and the phantom tollbooth (and a host o' other kids fare) 'gainst storytelling in so-called adult offerings. heck, virtual the entire chuck jones catalog is pretty much a slap in the face to those who would discount kid's cartoons. HA! Good Fun!

so is it ernest borgnine viking or vladimir kulich viking? HA! Good Fun!

has actual been a couple, though call such stuff "scandal" is always debatable. nevertheless, to prevent it from being forgotten, we will once again reference the misadventure regarding josh's wotc criticism. a failed attempt to adopt the monte cook ranger for iwd2 had josh in full vitriol ie message board posting mode. funny stuff. josh were mighty upset with wotc hypocrisy and irrationality. unfortunate, the josh posts were quickly erased. after the board were sanitized, we had folks higher up the ie food chain actual trying to tell us that no such posts ever existed, which were mighty amusing for those o' us who actual read 'em before the board edit. luckily (for josh) the monte cook ranger meltdown happened 'fore the advent o' social media. HA! Good Fun!

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congrats. what does one eat to celebrate us citizenship? barbecue? cheeseburgers, fried chicken and blueberry pie? had a russian friend o' ours from the gym we frequent pass his uscis civics test last year. he bet us $100 we couldn't pass one o' his practice exams. have known the guy for a couple years, but we never mentioned our real job. didn't take his money as it felt like we were conning him. HA! Good Fun! ps in the spirit o' full disclosure, Gromnir typical tells folks we is in "waste management" when asked what we do for a living.

hope you feel better. as an aside... http://www.healthtalk.umn.edu/2013/01/24/stomach-flu-myth/ HA! Good Fun!

no, which is why bt is better than esseles, but our three main on harbinger is pub. got a jugg, powertech and sniper we will eventually get to, but at the moment am kinda locked in on our guardian... and to a lesser degree, our vanguard and sage. still, we feel as if we is leaving +100 cxp and a refined isotope on the ground every time we pass the bonus boss, a boss which we cannot access without a second player simultaneous triggering a console. oh well. HA! Good Fun!

we got quibbles with the story o' kotet, and vaylin in particular, but we enjoyed the story from this most recent expansion more than perhaps any insular tor story thus far. also, while we do not believe bioware necessarily succeeded with all the pilot-a-walker and infiltrate-the-party alternatives to the usual tor gameplay, we gotta give'em credit for doing reasonable well with the new approaches to content. as for bt and esseles companion influence runs, am not surprised 'bout vette or the dashade, but am admitting we were mighty disappointed when we realized our knight, our first kotfe character, couldn't take kotfe t-7 through esseles for influence gains. found out the hard way regarding the limitation o' bt/esseles influence farming-- only works on the starting class companion, and has gotta be done previous to starting kotfe chap 1. still haven't taken an inquisitor, smuggler or bounty hunter through kotfe precise 'cause we spent so much effort getting starting companions to influence 50. HA! Good Fun! ps am also not a fan o' how our light-side guardian finished things with scorpio. gonna need run through with a ds character and see if things end a bit different. 'course all our tor efforts is focused on our guardian's command ranks at the moment... though we got a neck-deep stack o' games we has been meaning to get to, and with the battletech beta just 'round the corner, and possible the torment release not too remote, am plagued by difficult choices.

rank 25 and still not set bonus. on the positive side, we got a couple 230 schematics and they is proving to be extreme lucrative. after all the esseles runs, we get loads o' the refined isotope stabilizer. with right crafting choices, Gromnir is receiving 'bout 1 million per isotope stabilizer. HA! Good Fun!

standing on fleet also kinda spoils it as you can't turn around w/o bumping into a clay-faced arcann. the companion-who-will-not-be-named has a war cry o' "ready to fight." to which we reflexive respond: "boom boom. out go the lights." is mildly annoying. HA! Good Fun!

the only counter argument we would offer to plausibility o' plot is a rogue russian military operation woulda' seemed less far-fetched to a movie audience in 1995. there were more than one movie which played on widespread fears o' chaos in russia and the former soviet union during the early-to-mid 90s. at least one o' the bond movies had some kinda failure of russian military command and control, yes? oh, and just 'cause HA! Good Fun! ps added a second video.

mirror is smart? so it tells her she most certainly does not look fat in those jeans and that yes, her favorite dress from college still looks Fabulous on her? perhaps give it a harvey fierstein accent? HA! Good Fun!