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*chuckle* revisionism already? reimagining as some kinda benign limited invasion which would somehow be unreasonable to result in fear in the west? how on earth would the NOW seeming anticipated and predictable prospect russian tanks rolling into donbras be nothing for western markets and media to concern itself with... particular coming from somebody who opined this bruhaha would all evaporate on sunday, this sunday already past, after the scheduled wargames would end? ... again, "whatever." you folks is gonna rationalize and twist regardless o' reality. not worth further effort as you people has already exposed self... and we indulged in the terrible pun on purpose just to show how little we think o' such indefensible defense. HA! Good Fun!

so... are we still arguing whether western media and pundits engaged in dangerous fear mongering? were seeming moments ago the real danger weren't the scifi scenario o' a russian invasion but were rather the media and pundits as they did beat the drums o' war, yes? is fascinating to watch as more than a few have already seamless moved onto justification o' the previous not gonna happen invasion which were nothing but the fever dream o' biden supporters trying to distract from... inflation? *shrug* as to putin initiating a war o' liberation, is more difficult to name an invasion which weren't undertaken on the pretext o' liberation. is glaring ww2 examples which is no doubt gonna get widespread attention so is no need for us to illustrate and repeat. gauche. regardless am somehow doubtful most who do now hypocritical beat the drums o' war given their recent condemnation o' villainy in the west would similar support a US invasion o' kanada on behalf o' wexit or quebec independence. can you imagine if kanada had invaded the US in support o' the bundy standoff? tell us such examples is qualitative different is possible 'cause you believe it to be. yeah, if there genuine were genocide taking place in ukraine aimed at cultural russians, we would likely support a russian invasion in spite o' fact am knowing the bloody cost. let's have the skeptics step forward with their evidence o' such... without indulging in whataboutism comparing to how nato or some other nation or power did just as bad in the past. whatever. HA! Good Fun!

the siabre perhaps? on the wintersun map as part o' the miammir(sp?) the scholar quest? not positive which encounter you reference. siabre is a what as 'posed to a who. on the same wintersun map is another obscure kinda quest which offers a big xp payoff. is too late to worry, but blightmaw (act ii) in the drezen keep is easily missed and his demise results in a considerable xp reward. secret of secrets quest is gonna be too difficult to explain w/o a map... is end of act iii material, though is possible to complete in act iv if you miss it it in act iii. big xp. is a nice ring reward for spontaneous casters. global achievement stats says only 1.4% o' players has completed secret of secrets. is considerable missable content in acts iv and v. when you get to those acts we will spoil you if you wish. the most stoopid missable content is random lore/mobility/athletics checks which curious offer broken kinda rewards in a few spots. is the ravaged longhouse map in act iii which has a couple athletics checks and a mobility check which in the beta were worth something close to 3k a piece, but has since been reduced to nevertheless improbable amounts. HA! Good Fun!

gotta admit, when we first dispatched the dragon, we kept searching the lair for a hidden secret door or something which would show us where the big pile o' dragon gold were to be found so we could at least cover the cost o' paying greyboar. we were wondering why owlcat changed the name o' the act 3 dragon from pnp... Treasure: The caravan goods Scorizscar has taken lie in heaps in the easternmost wing of his cave. Most of these are ruined, but if the PCs root about the debris of the caravan, they can find salvage worth 18 points of Goods. The dragon’s actual treasure is mixed in with the Goods, and is worth much more. This hoard consists of 12,300 cp, 17,450 sp, 4,800 gp, 260 pp, five tourmaline gemstones worth 50 gp each, a platinum holy symbol of Iomedae in the form of a tiny longsword worth 500 gp, a wand of stoneskin with 22 charges, a suit of +4 mithral scale mail, a +3 cold iron evil-outsider-bane longsword, a belt of dwarvenkind, and a scroll tube trimmed in gold worth 250 gp that contains a scroll of restoration, a scroll of greater dispel magic, a scroll of heal, a scroll of spell resistance, and a bloodstained letter written in a hasty hand. is kinda reversed from how we see ember, as from our pov her hexes give her something useful to contribute when her spellcasting is not being utilized. even w/o abundant casting, an ember blaster is able to cast scorching bolts (low/mid levels) early in the game, and unlike other casters she ain't limited to cantrips and a crossbow to be useful when not casting spells. once she is having those abundant casting feats, ember may cast spells with relative impunity. even so, if you got a blaster you is happy with, then is unlikely you need a second, but ember does have advantages woljif and even nenio has difficulty replicating insofar as being a pure damage dealer. shadow shaman is an intriguing archetype 'cause it has so many options. got full divine spell casting, hexes, sneak attack damage and even potential an animal companion, albeit kinda late in the game. am always on the fence 'tween shadow shaman and spirit hunter for a potential main character shaman build 'cause while the spirit hunter lacks the sneak damage, they do have one o' the easiest routes to making just about any weapon elemental barrage viable, 'stead o' feeling like you is handicapping self by not choosing kukri. as for gold dragon, am gonna choose lich 'cause is possible to go complete polar opposites by playing dastardly evhul for +90% o' the game, and then sudden choose a gold dragon focused on mercy and redemption. appeals to our sense o' whimsy. not the ideal power build, but will be intriguing even so. HA! Good Fun!

the arcanist bit sounds similar to the known bug which were the feyspeaker not being able to acquire the angel spellbook once such were made available to druids. presumed cause o' the problem were charisma being the casting attribute for feyspeakers as 'posed to wisdom. sounds as if @Vaeliorin is suffering a similar situation with a spellcaster which does not utilize the base class casting attribute... though kinda inverted. nature mages is arcanists and maintain intelligence as their prime attribute, but they got the druid spellbook. we got limited experience with trickster, so am offering little more advice, but the problem you describe does sound like the aforementioned behavior o' the feyspeaker bug which were not related to mods. HA! Good Fun!

am actual feeling bad for the reporter. for sake of argument let's assume she knew what were being chanted. even if her reimagining o' the chant were wrong, were arguable not stoopid to pretend the chants were innocuous as 'posed to venomous. gd is no doubt aware, but most europeans and canadians won't realize, just how harsh fcc penalties can be if a network knowing allows profanity to be spread on airwaves. a repeated chant is not a spontaneous outburst. if nbc knowing continues broadcasting the chant, the fcc can come down on 'em with stoopid levels o' fines. aside: this curious bit o' american stoopid goes back to an old george carlin radio bit which resulted in american broadcasters complete changing their guidelines regarding profanity. what were undeniable stoopid were the american right taking a sportcaster's comment as somehow indicative o' lib media gaslighting. tired o' the complaints 'bout trump and alt-right gaslighting, the gomer pyle portion o' the country decides to use a nascar interview o' all things to channel their whataboutism? is one o' those absurdities we never woulda' predicted. regardless, to keep on -topic o' random-interesting-weird, am gonna offer a link to the george carlin history, assuming we can dig up a decent link 'cause is unlikely boardies wanna hear Gromnir rail 'bout fcc v. pacifica bit. "About a year and a half after the gig in Santa Monica, John Douglas was driving with his 15-year-old son back to New York from a college visit at Yale University. It was an early Tuesday afternoon in 1973, the day before Halloween. Douglas, a CBS executive and a member of a pornography watchdog group called Morality in Media, was flipping through the radio when he landed on 99.5 WBAI-FM. Paul Gorman, the host of WBAI's "Lunch Pail" afternoon program, warned listeners that he was about to play Carlin's "Filthy Words" bit, a modified version of "Seven Dirty Words" recorded on the Occupation: Foole album, and that some of the language could be deemed as offensive. Douglas kept the dial on WBAI. A month later, Douglas filed a complaint with the FCC, calling the monologue "garbage." "He was the funniest comedian of his generation," Douglas told the Chicago Sun-Sentinel in 2008, shortly after Carlin's death. "I didn't turn him in. I was turning in WBAI."" situation is so utter contrived. hardly a wee tyke is the fifteen-year-old. original complaint is filed by a leader o' the Morality in Media group who just happens to tune into the show during what would otherwise be school hours, a time when his son would typical be in school, so that we got a situation wherein an infant (anyone not yet reached their legal majority is legal an infant) is in a situation where they is s'posed caught unawares by a radio broadcast. nevertheless, the law ignores such transparent bs and the Court pretends as if the situation weren't a complete fabrication to trigger a planned legal action. *insert eye roll here* HA! Good Fun!

1) so why not make ember an arcane trickster? am pretty sure with a level o' vivisectionist you may manage arcane trickester by level seven. can add one level o' loremaster to give your self a cheaty trickster feat as well... if you do not mind full exploit mode. 2) an enchanter ember is quite effective. as odd as it sounds, lack o' grease is likely the only reason we don't go with an enchanter/conjurer and instead prefer enchanter/evocation. grease may be heightened and is gonna be effective from start o' game 'til the end and if ember is our primary arcane caster we feel handicapped by the absence o' one o' our favorite cc spells. is meta, but the game (secretly) throws enchantment boosting gear your direction. is a couple encounters many players do not ever see which result in two 100t drops accounting for +4 to enchantment dc. edit: is a whole lotta other enchantment dc boosting gear, but am suspecting the aforementioned is most easily missed. an enchanter focused ember is gonna potential have unfair boss level o' enchantment dc, though you is still gonna need sosiel to take the madness domain if you wanna do unfair bosses with ember casting mind effect spells. 3) hexes ... is no question the cackle exploit is, well, an exploit. however, even w/o extending protective luck and fortune for minutes o' duration for your entire party, many debuff hexes don't have saves, or if they do, is only to shorten duration-- makes hexes ideal for boss fights. as much as we loathe camellia, the option to acquire the metal curse likely makes her a better option for curses, but ember is not shabby. 4) the shaman spell books needs to be viewed in the context o' spirits with mythic feats you may add additional spirits to further expand the shaman spellbook. am s'posing no hellfire ray is a hurdle if you need hellfire. regardless, insofar as shaman, do not forget the metal curse we mentioned. the curse is gonna be a superior power upgrade compared to any single spell you might acquire. stone may not be great for spell casting, but metal curse is arguable one o' the better abilities in the game... up there with guarded hearth and madness domain power. we explained in an earlier post how lowering the ac o' a foe is not genuine different than increase party ab. the curse scales and a no-save -6 penalty to ac at level sixteen is still not enough reason for us to keep camellia in a party, but we do experience regrets. HA! Good Fun!

odd question. after you face the champion in the battlebliss, you may continue to fight in the arena. am curious if your opponents ever change or if it is a turtles all the way down situation... albeit not turtles but deathsnatchers. was wondering if anybody had tested to see if compulsive arena fighting led to something other than a torturously inefficient experience grind. HA! Good Fun!

deskari is the lord of locusts, so swarms were kinda a given. the original pnp adventure path were ugly with swarms. for wotr there is a ring (bane of spirit, relic) that allows you to transform all o' a target party member's damage to force damage, which is a nice way to give at least one of your combatants something to do when fighting swarms. also, the devouring lust metamagic rod is gonna be an effective tool for eliminating pesky swarms. demons is vulnerable to unholy damage, and the rod converts up to six o' your spells per rest to maximized unholy damage. demonic swarms is as vulnerable to unholy damage as is demons. a couple devouring lust altered controlled fireballs is the end o' most mid-level swarms. stormbolts is a superior swarm killer, and with a lich we assume you got stormbolts, but such may not be the case. the swarm cheese works to your advantage as well, though it does feel like it is exploitive if you have camellia or daeran spamming creeping doom backed by mark of justice to destroy bosses who cannot target your swarms. as to the dragon... our cavalier, who hasn't quite gained a cavalier level, is roll stomping through a hard run. we got zero desire to play an entire unfair playthrough for reasons already mentioned, but we do push the difficulty up for most boss battles. is no non-boss character who survives a charge attack from our polearm wielding almost cavalier. achievements is a non issue for us, but we were early in our new mounted combat run when we were managing the masterful charge achievement. the thing is, am getting one or two charges at most during a combat encounter, which makes us think the return on investment for charge is not great... although most battles start with us initiating a charge, so is perhaps worth the cost. regardless, am more focused on increasing our attacks and exploiting attacks of opportunity. sosiel always gives us the most trouble in tb mounted combat resulting in wasted charges or stalled mounted attacks. tb mounted combat remains a bit buggy. am suspecting our sosiel problem is 'cause his initiative is not great and he typical acts after there is already a mass o' other mounted characters in the same location-- the engine appears to have difficulty with our army o' critters. am considering respec'ng him out o' the animal domain. 'tween nenio and our merc we got plenty o' haste, so our oversized sosiel should be in the thick o' combat almost immediately. we did add a mercenary skald to our party, 'cause we serious want a skald and only seelah makes much sense for going skald, but is no way am sacrificing her mark of justice. 'tween the beast totem and animal fury rage powhaz, am getting three extra natural attacks and as such lann's celestial velociraptor has become even more o' an ambulatory buzz saw. perpetual smites + crusader's edge+ instrument of freedom+ claws of the sacred beast = dead everything. being able to cast personal buffs from scrolls is also kinda cheesy, so shield and divine favour at mid levels is no brainers. later is gonna be transformation and ice body. the skald's spell list is not expansive, but it includes most o' the buffs we would want. we took one level o' oracle for seelah to get a wolf and some early extra heals + remove fear, but we shoulda' gone with beast rider cavalier; woulda' kept her bab full. hopeful we get the patch update this week. for thematic reasons, we kinda want an aeon or former aeon/legend for the dlc. am current at mythic level 7 with our aeon and our anticipated legend is catching up quicker than we anticipated. HA! Good Fun!

U.C. Berkeley Says It May Have to Cut Student Admissions by Thousands Freezing enrollment at that level means the university, already one of the nation’s most selective, would have 3,050 fewer seats for incoming first-year students and transfer students than it had planned for the fall of 2022. Typically, U.C. Berkeley said, it offers admission to about 21,000 first-year and transfer students and about 9,500 of them enroll. ... the housing situation in berkeley is near as bad as the santa barbara problem mentioned on these boards. am understanding why townies is rebelling given the prospects o' an ever-increasing horde which the university had no desire to moderate given the need for the tuition revenue. even so, the numbers offered represent a huge cut and UC schools got a Constitutional mandate to take qualified californians, so is gonna require some o' that new math to keep out-of-state, foreign and underprivileged student ratios anywhere near same as recent years. HA! Good Fun!

with the dlc delayed, am s'posing we might try and level-up an order of ****atrice __________ cavalier to eventual go legend. were thinking o' doing a 50/50 split with skald. get 1 mythic ability and one mythic feat, so... ever ready and improved critical mythic? kinda wanna find a way to get abundant casting. hmmm. gendarme were initial our tentative choice for the cavalier but as am planning on going legend it might make sense to go with beast rider as am gonna have an abundance o' feats when all is said and done. might also be better to go sohei for second class so as to not need be concerned 'bout spell casting shortfalls. however, in that case am perhaps wondering if more than 11 levels o' sohei is worth the trouble. finish off with demonslayer? regardless, as is no patch yet and the dlc is a couple weeks away, we may start the cavalier in earnest. edit: well, so much for simple. our 50/50 legend build is now looking like a 5/11/8/16 demonslayer/sohei/gendarme/vivisectionist? gets us a dog and +4 v. demons with the ranger, plus the flurry with polearms and all the best mounted feats for the monk. gendarme does provide a few extra feats and the level 8 c0ckatrice feature involving attacks o' opportunity, which we want 'cause am gonna be using a reach weapon. 16 levels o' vivi provides grand mutagen, big sneak attack damage and a few other perks including limited but useful spell casting. was thinking o' making female and naming brie gruyère. HA! Good Fun!

quixotic and counter-intuitive, trump huge losses, losses borne for the most part by investors, is the basis o' a significant portion o' the success he has enjoyed. trump is able to carry forward business losses to offset his personal taxes. literal nobody has ever exploited losses the way trump has, which is why his taxes has been in perpetual audit forever and his historical refund is in seeming limbo. am knowing it don't make sense, but the fact trump lost so much money is how he survived being ~$1BILLION in debt... or possible more. ... but again, am not shocked by trump wild embellishing his assets. what is curious is his proffer o' a letter from his now former accountant which explains that decades worth o' financial disclosures from trump is at the least not conforming with GAAP but also raising serious concerns as to legitimacy. so why offer the letter? HA! Good Fun!

is no question threats to trump's financial manhood is likely to garner a response, a response involving his worst fabulist instincts. tim o'brien knows more 'bout trump taxes and trump's reflexive efforts to go comic bigly with narratives o' his personal monetary power than just 'bout anybody. even so, this kinda self-sabotage by trump is... irrational. shouldn't surprise us trump is incapable o' showing restraint even when is a matter o' self preservation, but the trump fortunes is not gonna improve 'cause he is providing his many outstanding creditors with literal cause to call in his outstanding loans. HA! Good Fun!

trump removes some o' the guesswork linked to unreliable reporting by self publishing evidence which undermines his defense. weren't investigative reporting which uncovered this letter, but trump sharing after the mazars withdrawal were announced. ... insanity defense is not an option, and the courts ain't subject to ordinary gaslighting, so am not sure what were the rationale behind offering up the letter. HA! Good Fun!

aside: we got no idea who is reporting accurate regarding russia-ukraine. am sure not trusting US reporters citing unnamed pentagon sources, 'cause am understanding more than a few reporters is trying to be the individual who breaks something new and important, and for all we know their pentagon source is some glorified office functionary with no real knowledge o' anything beyond what they see on cnn or fox. am sure not believing the russians and their state media. when a situation is so clear subject to uncertainty, is conflicting reports and the possibility o' simple mistake is high, we always advise caution, which is why you ain't gonna see us comment on the accuracy o' any reporting 'til the situation is less chaotic. even so, we got multiple nato nations (pretty much all but germany) clear concerned by the current situation as they is changing behaviours and not just dialogue. got past lessons o' crimea. got lots o' russian troops. gotta be at least a little concerned unless you is trying real hard not to be. am gonna take a wait-and-see approach. if russia invades and there is reputable reporting o' such, then... reminder: am not particular concerned 'bout the so-called beating o' the drums o' war. HA! Good Fun! ps can't believe this is a necessary clarification, but am seeing numerous persons conflate reporting o' war being imminent with pro-war/advocacy o' war. not the same thing. there may be reporting o' imminent invasion from a source most assured opposed to any sorta military action. converse, is possible to indeed be advocating war and suggest war is imminent. regardless, those who keep using terms interchangeable is either intentional or accidental misleading.

is amusing how the conspiracy theorists who so often see the evil imperial predations o' western powers as the cause o' every conflict, nevertheless look at putin and shrug off 2014 and the current mass build up o' russian troops along the ukranian border as nothing but some kinda convenient conjured nightmare feeding unreasonable western biases. is hardly just the US and US journalists who seemed to believe the russians were making aggressive moves, but the fog o' war makes many look foolish and is impossible to tell if s'posed pentagon sources were wrong or that putin has simply blinked... or if the s'posed russian draw down is even real. is precise why Gromnir hasn't commented 'cause the only thing which is certain is the uncertainty, and given uncertainty o' the situation and 100k russian troops as well as any number o' russian comments which cause greater concern as 'posed to dispelling fears, the reasonable response o' the genuine skeptic is to prepare for a worst case scenario. but skepticism is in curious short supply in the thread. 'course MAD makes acting on such reasonable fears a dangerous proposition considering that there were not enough time to discern reality before needing commit to terrible responses. HA! Good Fun! ps and again, us journalists citing, "pentagon sources say," is hardly pundits beating drums o' war. we can't recall any reputable US pundit suggesting that staring a war with russia would be good. report troop buildup and an imminent threat doesn't result in war being more likely. actual reports o' russian invasion woulda' been required to get folks on the side o' a military response, regardless o' notions o' reporter accuracy. tell us reporters knowing false reported an actual russian invasion or attack? then yeah, am seeing the point, but again, 2014, crimea and hundreds o' thousands o' russian troops on the border o' ukraine would make any reasonable person cautious and skeptical. power politics model makes doing nothing in such a situation naïve in the extreme. but am hardly blaming pundits for being nervous.

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for @Gorth in case he didn't read the link, and 'cause he expressed some confusion. More than two years later, in December 2018, Carlson began presenting Trump as the victim of extortion. Seeking to discredit former Trump attorney Michael Cohen's tale of hush payments — and alleged campaign finance law violations — Carlson first told viewers, "Remember the facts of the story. These are undisputed." But they aren't undisputed. They're not even facts. He then proceeded to say, "Two women approach Donald Trump and threaten to ruin his career and humiliate his family if he doesn't give them money. Now that sounds like a classic case of extortion." Pictures of former adult film star Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, and McDougal flashed on screen. Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 on behalf of Trump, who denies that either affair occurred. In reality, McDougal never approached Trump. She and her representative had spoken to ABC News and to the National Enquirer because, she said, she feared word of the affair would leak out during the campaign anyway and she preferred to be the one to tell the story. It wasn't publicly known that David Pecker, then the CEO of the tabloid's parent company, had promised Trump he would help keep stories about extramarital affairs from seeing the light of day. Carlson and Fox never corrected that significant error, as The Washington Post's Erik Wemple underscored. ... is why am suggesting actual malice need be reexamined. please note the linked article observes how rachel maddow and msnbc used a similar defense, so is not just a tucker problem. in the polarized landscape o' US 2021, finding a reasonable person is increasing difficult as tribal dogma has replaced critical thinking and skepticism. courts is needing ignore reality-- they pretend as if a significant number o' seeming normal people is not willing to choke down infotainer bile, believing they is instead drinking the nectar o' Truth simply cause such outlandish bs aligns with their own biases. is a problem. in the US, everybody has a right to say crazy things 'bout public figures and matters o' public interest. lies s'posed cross the line, but is becoming increasing difficult to identify the line. whatever folks think o' Gromnir, we have been kinda consistent in our defense o' First Amendment protections over the decades. however, the recent Courts has moved to weaponize the First Amendment in ways we woulda thought unthinkable a few years past. use free exercise o' religion clause as the basis for declaring unconstitutional size limits on indoor gatherings related to covid-19 mitigation efforts? what? really? in the past such woulda' been ok unless you plaintiffs could show there were a specific effort to limit religious practice. what changed? such change occurring by means o' a shadow docket decision means we don't know the why. is leaving this tired old First Amendment warrior a bit disappointed. HA! Good Fun!

is not unusual, but is again noteworthy such info is unavailable at owlcat's twitter or their official boards. 1.2.0 patch release - Pathfinder: WotR / Discussions - Owlcat Games can't recall the last time we saw meaningful developer contribution on the message boards. regardless, our personal most current wotr run were paused 'cause were going aeon and having hit mythic seven (mythic eight arrives kinda soon after mythic seven) we decided to wait for the patch to become not beta. am hopeful the reddit info holds and there is no new technical obstacles which would prevent a release sooner as 'posed to later. HA! Good Fun!

not sure what you have been watching. please give examples o' specific pundits (and not fringey examples) advocating war 'cause what we have been seeing is a whole lotta people worried that there could be a war in europe with no way to prevent it save prayer. btw, tell folks a real response to a russian invasion would be appropriate is not same as advocating war. tucker, meanwhile, were telling us that zelensky is a dictator and that there is no good reason to side with the ukranians. sure, there were pundits suggesting that the situation on the ground looked like a prelude to a russian invasion, and gosh, if the US had annexed baja california in 2014 (just look at the name o' baja, clear there is historical and cultural justification for such an annex) and then in 2021 sudden decided to hold 100k troop exercises along the rio grande, the absence o' concern from mexico woulda' been jaw dropping. two years has not changed tucker. if tucker is no longer transparent unreasonable, then that means his lies is actionable. tell us the clinton campaign were spying on the trump wh is not true, and but for fact tucker is nothing save an outlandish purveyor o' infotainment, his untruths would leave fox culpable. am thinking as such tucker and fox will argue his opinions is just as outrageous today as two years ago. HA! Good Fun!

same planet. You Literally Can't Believe The Facts Tucker Carlson Tells You. So Say Fox's Lawyers as a matter o' law, no reasonable person takes tucker serious. therefore, if you take tucker serious, you are by definition an unreasonable person 'ccording to judge vyskocil. same planet. not a trek mirror universe. if you mistake coke for pepsi, it ain't cause the world changed. HA! Good Fun!

appeal just became less likely to succeed, although there will be a push to get this to SCOTUS especial given the telegraphing by Alito and thomas. am kinda ambivalent. actual malice ("knowledge that statements are false or in reckless disregard of the truth-- is alleged and proved,") standard deserves a closer look, but am concerned how palin's lawyers were arguing. the most significant misconception am believing most people have regarding palin's case is they believe it is a freedom o' the press issue, and that ain't true. the defamation standard when is a matter o' public interest or involves public figures is not press specific. if you make social media posts regarding palin which is untrue, then actual malice is just as relevant to you as the ny times. the thing is, palin's lawyers is suggesting that if a plaintiff is able to convince a finder o' fact that the publisher o' an untruth exhibited a kinda skew or bias against a public figure, then actual malice shouldn't be the standard. consider what that means for some o' you posting nonsense on the arse end o' the internet. the recent bs reporting by fox and gop members regarding the recent durham filing is one reason am thinking the actual malice standard need be reexamined, 'cause unlike the ny times which immediate posted a correction in the palin situation, is no way folks like marco rubio and tucker carlson is unaware o' the web o' lies they is spinning. the wh s'posed being spied on in the relevant durham filing were the OBAMA wh, which is just the most obvious misrepresentation being made by many. read newsweek articles or listen to hannity and you are justifiable gonna come away thinking the clinton campaign did something illegal and spied on President trump. newsweek and hannity gotta know that they is misrepresenting by purposeful leaving out key facts. and is not as if msnbc and their pundits haven't done similar... though probable not to the extreme we has seen with the recent rash o' durham coverage which is kinda similar to the domnion nonsense which got fox and others in trouble not so long in the past. palin lost and her efforts to appeal took a double-hit 'cause judge were gonna dismiss regardless o' jury finding, but the jury also returned with a decision o' no defamation by the nyt... and fox breathes a sigh o' relief. HA! Good Fun!

The Conservative Case for Avoiding a Repeat of Jan. 6 worth a read. j. michael luttig was, for a couple decades, one o' the more influential "conservative" legal voices in the US. virtual all o' his clerks ended up also clerking for Scalia or Thomas. am not indulging hyperbole neither. judge luttig were also on the short list o SCOTUS nominees during the bush (younger) admin in spite o' fact he had written an opinion chastising the administration and luttig were pulling no punches in the effort. he also wrote a couple particular influential dissenting opinions which would form basis o' SCOTUS opinions overturning appeals decisions. in the past, if luttig spoke, folks such as ted cruz would listen... intently. all the more impressive were luttig cache as he were not having ivy league pedigree. am not expecting republicans to agree with luttig today, 'cause is only room for one voice in the gop: trump. even so, is gonna be a few influential conservatives who read the linked opinion piece and find it a compelling argument even if they may not public make such an admission. HA! Good Fun!

for an azata main character, hideous laughter + best joke is potential devastating 'cause you get bonuses through mythic spells to dc for mind affecting spells AND you got zippy magic which allows you to create two separate chains o' best joke. am not sure 'bout the feat cost for a single spell for nenio, but isn't heightened which is the issue. keep in mind that one o' the reasons glitterdust and grease is so good early and late is they ignores sr. is not the case for hideous laughter. there is gonna be a portion o' the game where with hideous laughter you is gonna have difficulty making it stick, 'cause nenio is gonna need go with enchantment in addition to illusion and until you get the sr boosting feats you are also gonna need cross your fingers. that said, enchantment is one o' the spell schools for which there is numerous items which allow you to boost dcs through the roof, and going the court poet route with seelah is also a way to boost dc further. might go with a level o' crossblood sorc to get the dc boost from that as well. however, personal, chances are we stick with illusion for nenio, but is no reason a best joke/enchanter build can't work, just don't expect it to be good 'til mid, mid-late. HA! Good Fun! ps is an act 4 individual who has bracers which boost the dc o' enchantment spells, but you need kill 'em to get the gear. am pretty sure the slaying counts as an evil act.

gotta keep track o' the number o' times the symbols appear in the enigma dungeon. 3 times means the symbol = 3. etc edit: first time we didn't immediate solve one o' the symbols=number puzzles, which were a pain in the arse 'cause the number values is based on how much o' the dungeon is accessible up to the point you could possible solve. grrrr. HA! Good Fun!