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there is an extreme late game romance option: the game romances and achievements matter little to us, so am not sure what are the requirements, but we did include a link to a possible alternative to crazycakes. HA! Good Fun!

*chuckle* the downside being there is far too many objective bad class and race choices. converse is more good options than the hardcore 1337 pathfinder/wotr sages will readily admit. HA! Good Fun!

owlcat keeps managing to add new bugs to wotr mounted combat while not removing old ones. we cannot use dazzling display and a few other full-round actions while mounted in tb. is an old bug which recent returned. will need check to see if ranged weapons is working proper in tb mounted combat 'cause is a bug which were addressed at same time the dazzling display problem were fixed and while am not seeing how they could be related, is a number o' old bugs which has reappeared with the recent patch, although none is genuine game breaking for us. quasi-related, animal companions still cannot take the tandem trip teamwork feat w/o the feat disappearing to be replaced by the dreaded question mark on the character tab. as have observed previous, am kinda annoyed by owlcat's notions o' aeon dedication to cosmic law. the whole mirror universe bit o' the aeon enforcing the laws o' the abyss necessarily has the aeon ignore the hypocrisy o' his/her own actions as one smites and smotes agents o' chaos in alushinyrra. how exact does that work? whatever. regardless, from a gameplay pov, the aeon has been kinda surprising for us in that we saw so many on the owlcat boards and elsewhere describe it as underpowered path. those observations is kinda legit as the aeon starts off uninspired compared to other mythics, albeit more than good enough to handle game challenges at any difficulty. however, late game the aeon has been devastating, particular 'gainst the toughest adversaries. pathetic quasit is a good example 'cause what makes it particular tough as an opponent, other then the cheap resurrection mechanic, is all o' its spell buffs, and a melee aeon is gonna erase all such buffs w/i moments. the runemaster? *snort* make sure your aeon has high initiative, and chances are endgame battles, even on higher difficulties, become a bit underwhelming. ... curious, deskari had relative few dispellable buffs. 'course the lord o' locusts still went down like a punk in part 'cause the aeon has a mythic spell which makes an entire party immune to physical damage for multiple rounds, and w/o his scythe doing insta-kill kinda damage on unfair, deskari is less than scary. HA! Good Fun!

your economic observation brought back nightmare recollections (possibly literal... will know tomorrow,) from our time playing football at Cal. ever seen videos o' those walter payton and jerry rice hill workouts? *groan* our high school coaches (football and track) didn't make us run 'cause we would get shin splints so ez. college coaches didn't care. worse, the university coaches wanted us to add +20lbs. think the added muscle made our shin splint situation better or worse? we hated those hills. HA! Good Fun!

had a weird 80s nostalgia moment. *shrug* also, am gonna add spoiler 'cause some folks, particular american southerners, might be triggered by the following: HA! Good Fun!

am an outsider sans kids, but having witnessed the mortification o' more than a few parents due to all too predictable ordinary kid behaviour, am wondering if hurl is being sarcastic or serious. no doubt kids extricate hurl from a few uncomfortable situations, but am suspecting the lifetime ledger does not work in favour o' parents when calculating embarrassing/unpleasant/expensive situations as 'posed to those who has not continued their familial line. that said, am aware is perfect ordinary for parents to have a blind spot regarding their kids. as a teacher, hurl has no doubt been on the other side o' the desk from misguided parents who reflexive defend the indefensible actions o' their kids. such parental unreasonableness is normal. am not expecting any individual parent to be objective 'bout their own kids and am suspecting we would end up with a whole bunch more maladjusted psychopaths if all parents treated their kids with vulcan dispassion. HA! Good Fun!

'cause o' another thread, was recalling the last show we saw at the 55 bar in nyc. almost the same venue size. HA! Good Fun!

roberta's is also brooklyn, if a smidge further from where you are staying. from russ & daughter's, keep going down flushing, then take a left on... am not sure. is not the direction from which we get there, so as good as is our memory, am not 100% certain. regardless is a few blocks north o' flushing ave and east o' bushwick ave. HA! Good Fun! ps roberta's actual were a thing considerable after we original left ny, but they did a fantastic job making great food even if the business model later had problems. is not one o' those +100 year old ny establishments, but we always hit up the bushwick location for pizza when am in ny in spite o' our aversion to trendy &/or hipster.

our ny list is almost entire food and music related. truth to tell our ideal "nyc" trip would likely be to grab a bagel from russ & daughters in the am or early afternoon, then pizza from roberta's in the eve, after which we hit the 55 bar for an evening show. aforementioned itinerary would likely result in us being satiated with a full nyc trip and have us not need return for at least another decade. ignored by a cabbie after dark and verbal abused by a cabbie during broad daylight were achieved w/i first few days o' arriving in nyc our firstest time as an adult... in fact, we acquired the insulting cabbie cheevo across the street from msg as we were trying to get from the penta hotel (no longer exists) to the un for a free speech... speech. after getting in the cab and asking to go to un, the driver began swearing at us. to this day am not certain what set him off, but we decided it would be best to exit the cab. HA! Good Fun!

as somebody who unabashed abuses shakespeare quotes, we got no justification for criticism, but following star trek vi, is impossible for us to have any star trek show or movie quote the bard w/o the over-the-top christopher plummer portrayal o' chang intruding 'pon our recollection. distracting. am s'posing the episode title could be a reference to ibsen's peer gynt, but it doesn't really work as such. would need a harry mudd episode or something similar. HA! Good Fun!

we do have a personal chest bug. we never sell books and we hoard unique items, so our chest is filled with stuff we will never use but we nevertheless refuse to sell. the thing is, the personal chest is not showing all our stuff. everything is still there, but past the first three dozen or so items, the chest inventory is blank and truncated. if we wanna go through our entire personal chest inventory we need transfer to party inventory to actual view. minor annoyance at this point but annoying nevertheless. also, elemental barrage acts peculiar with bonus damage sources such as aeon and inquisitor bane-- peculiar in the sense we is receiving such bonus damages tacked onto the barrage... but not always. am sometimes receiving mythic finesse damage on an elemental barrage "hit"... but not always. not sure what is all the triggers. we got treacherous flame gloves, the dragon familiar and resounding blows working so we are benefitting from considerable additional elemental barrage damage, but am not always understanding the triggers. went hand axes with our dual wielding dex build 'cause we didn't wanna be yet another guy who went with kukris. a strength build is ultimate superior, but we wanted to try dex. for most o' the game we were using greybor's crushing cold as well as the grave singer relic hand axe-- not optimal but more than good enough for unfair battles. in fact. 'cause we wanted to keep the ascension option available for this aeon run, we had to replay the deskari battle in iz three times 'cause in tb mode we were killing the demon lord before our archer (lann) ever got a shot at using a midnight bolt. optimal ain't necessary to roll-stomp, but all too often am admitted confused by the game's math. HA! Good Fun!

the dogs expect to be fed at 5:30. we got a moaner in the pack and he will vocalize his desire to be fed with increasing volume the longer we ignore. this means we wake up at 5:30. this also means a week or so following the end o' daylight saving is a real pain in the arse 'cause the dogs has never learned to read a clock. have tried multiple times to explain little hand and big hand values, but the dogs pretend as if they have no idea what am telling 'em. so, 5:30 it is. HA! Good Fun!

those same pillars of life work against playful darkness, and eight o' 'em will knock playful down to 'bout half hp. pillars offer no saves and no sr. can stack pillars on top of each other, and as the tunnel area ain't particular wide, chances are you are gonna hit playful with all your pillars in one go as soon as he moves to attack your party. is a good chance we lose one animal companion or a summons when fighting playful, but am seeming to recollect we mentioned something 'bout the disproportionate value o' intimidation on higher difficulty levels? on unfair is only slight more difficult to fear lock playful darkness with a companion who took a level o' thug than is to do so core or unfair. arm your heaviest hitter with finnean (ideally as a reach weapon so you may position behind a summons or animal companion... jic) while taking advantage o' mark of justice and guarded hearth and chances are you ain't gonna need rely on crits to hit playful even on unfair. sosiel is your best intimidation option, but is others who is good enough to get the job done. the 96 ac drops precipitous when you bypass armour with finnean and rob playful of it's dexterity modifier. got a bunch o' dogs in your party and chances are one 'o 'em renders playful prone. an azata mc or nenio with enchantment focus (or others) should also have dc kinda high by this point. when coupled with madness domain + fear working to reduce will saves, you have a better than fair shot o' landing a heightened hideous laughter or something similar on playful. am never using the creeping doom approach. is not 'cause is cheese (it is, but unfair kinda demands some level o' exploit/cheese) but we refuse to have camellia in a party after act 1 and we rare have daeran 'round to summon the swarms needed, so we had to find other options... and am not a fan o' the cave fangs exploit. heck, am quite willing to use ember to cackle protective luck and fortune for unfair boss battles, so am obvious not moral opposed to exploits and cheese. HA! Good Fun! ps am in full agreement regarding the lack o' fun o' unfair. we do the boss battles on unfair, just 'cause, but you couldn't pay us to slog through wotr on unfair... well, you would need pay us a whole helluva a bunch o' money. is a handful o' uber abilities and exploits you need indulge to get through unfair battles. doesn't require clever use o' tactics to do unfair. sometimes the rng gods is displeased and you will need reload, but unfair success is 'bout understanding the margin gameplay made possible by pathfinder and wotr loopholes and such necessary sh!te is the kinda thing no real dm/gm would ever allow in pnp. am current playing on hard. core would probable be our difficulty option but for the fact our last couple parties were a bit too strong and prebuffing 'fore battles (again, we don't use mods) were taking more o' our gameplay time than just 'bout anything else.

tolkien were the foremost expert on beowulf and is not difficult to see how beowulf inspired tolkien as he wrote lotr. the titular hero o' beowulf dies at the end o' the poem, but more significant, the champion who is facing certain doom can't beat the Ultimate Bag Guy and is most certainly gonna fail in his final quest, but in the end beowulf's loyal companion and shieldman, wiglaf, saves the day. beowulf dies victorious 'cause o' wiglaf. obviously frodo and sam is not beowulf and wiglaf. unlike the heroic figures o' the poem, frodo and sam is the ordinary everyday englishmen who in tolkien's "fundamentally religious and catholic work," must daily fight 'gainst evil in all its forms. frodo don't defeat sea monsters or grendel, but he does have a similar heroic progression as beowulf, and in the end, the fight 'gainst evil is not achieved personal but with the help o' others. sam is not s'posed to be the real hero o' the story, but tolkien clear wanted his wiglaf to get due recognition. kinda sympathize with tolkien; by making sam more important, many saw frodo as a failure. HA! Good Fun!

after years o' meatloaf experimentation we have recommendations: 1) do not bake in a loaf pan you want the grease to drain away from your loaf, so use a broiler pan or something similar. also, by cooking on a broiler pan, you may slather your ketchup coat on all sides o' the loaf save for the bottom. our personal choice o' meatloaf topping is 1/3c ketchup, 1T yellow mustard, 2t brown sugar. if you are using something like heinz ketchup you may likely skip the brown sugar as is already on the sweet side. if you need to do in a loaf pan 'cause is how mom did, or somesuch, then consider buying the disposable aluminum loaf pans available in most soopermarkets and punching holes in the bottom o' the pans. obvious you are gonna need place a baking sheet or pan on a lower rack o' your oven to catch the drippings if you do the holey pan approach. 2) panko is ideal oats and or soggy bread is swell and all, and if you are trying to save a buck those will work. gonna suggest you transform your bread into bread crumbs as an initial step if you need to do white bread. again, no greasy bread chunks in your loaf with panko or bread crumbs and the panko is gonna get a more even distribution o' filler material. 3) grate your onion sounds odd, but your grated onion will, like panko, more evenly distribute. additional and more important, grated onion is perfect for keeping your meat moist. now that you is using a broiler pan and the loaf is not saturated with grease, keeping moist becomes an issue. the grated onion approach is particular useful if you is going healthy/lean with your meatloaf. choose extra lean ground beef and ground turkey for a healthy meatloaf? (isn't as ghastly as it sounds and for anybody who wants, we got a recipe) chances are such a loaf would be on the dry side, but you avoid dry with grated onion. aside: IF you are fanatical 'bout healthy, then two egg whites will work near as well as one egg when mixing your loaf ingredients. 4) do not over mix ingredients this one is kinda obvious to anybody who cooks frequent, but indulging your personal level o' ocd trying to get perfect even distribution o' ingredients will likely result in overworked meat, which may become gummy. extra: am finding that for 1.5lbs o' meat (typical we use traditional three different meats... though almost am never using veal nowadays), 1/2c o' chopped italian parsley is a worthy additional non traditional ingredient. also consider reducing onion by half and replacing with fennel in equal amount. HA! Good Fun!

dunno. overall our performance has improved with the patch, albeit in limited ways. example: scrolling through party members via the ui were often laborious as there were unfortunate delays. got a party with a whole bunch o' animal companions and the slow scrolling issue could be a drag. thus far the patch has improved our ui scrolling issue. there were also a few hiccups we had which in our complete uneducated opinion felt like memory leak issues. most o' those problems is no longer noteworthy... so far. we do have a few graphic issues with the game avatars not updating after changes is made vial the paper doll-- switch helmets, cloaks, boots or whatnot on the paper doll requires a reload to make the visuals respect the changes. am recognizing how every computer config presents different performance issues, so am just happy that for once we ain't one o' the unlucky folks who is suffering worse performance following a major update. you got our sympathy, but we got no advice neither. HA! Good Fun!

am having no problems, but we got no mods. is our understanding toybox all by its lonesome is causing all manner o' bugs and performance issues. if you got mods, we would uninstall 'em for a bit... at least until the most popular mods is updated a few times post patch release. HA! Good Fun!

the rooftops accessible via dimension door in act iv is annoying. nenio should be able to handle your mass dimension door needs. alternatively, you will be so rich early in act iv that creating a merc who has dimension door is an option as well. last acts o' the game you literal won't have anything to buy with all your l00t if you is even a moderate completionist, so hire a merc skald, bard or whatever is not as crazy as it sounds. also, be aware that at the extreme end o' act iv there is an easily overlooked dimension door optional battle location. after you fight the big bad o' act iv, there will be one area where you l00t a dimension door scroll, which is a less than clear clue there is a dimension door opportunity nearby. the enemy in question is worth +90k xp and he has a stat boost book on his corpse. if at end o' act iv you can't find the dimension door location we reference, let us know and we will be more specific with the location. HA! Good Fun! ps we assume most people is aware, but is ez to overlook how the herald will heal you at nexus as often as you desire, and when he heals your party, all spells and abilities is refunded. is not as if you need keep resting to have nenio rememorize dimension door. return to nexus after doing a couple rooftop jaunts and then talk to the herald. rinse and repeat.

did you remember to opt out o' the beta? as we noted previous, your earlier identified doorway issue were beta specific. am knowing the new patch is available, but is a shocking number o' folks who forget they need to revert to base game to enjoy the benefits o' the patch. am having personal not suffered impassible doorway problems for months and have only seen official board complaints o' such as relating to the beta, unless you simple are identifying you got your party bunched in doorways as 'posed to the bug you previous identified. killing gresilla is our standard approach so you should suffer no noticeable ill effects. in fact is arguably necessary to dispatch gresilla if one wants to have an enchantment caster. have not started the inevitable excess material as we had our aeon and anticipated legend builds both paused at the conclusion o' the colyphyr mines, waiting for the patch as well as having to deal with rl responsibilities. aeon did indeed get a boost in power, which am s'posing will make it a more attractive option. there is a comical crusade power for aeon which makes any act v crusade battle v. demon armies a non factor, particular if your general has high power. is gonna take us some time to slog through all the act v material. we do have a whole bunch o' mostly minor post patch bugs. for example, our crusade ui is disabled on the world map, but by accessing character or inventory and returning to world map, the ui returns. animal companion leveling has changed a bit and is... odd. didn't notice the change 'til we had to respec our aeon to take advantages o' earlier mythic level gazes being added and sudden our animal companion were missing a few anticipated levels, inspite o' the benefits o' boon companion. am thinking we also may have figured out the problem with azata and our inability to get use from waterfall. mythics, other than merged spell books, don't use a casting attribute to generate spell casting dc. one o' the recent patch fixes gave a serious upgrade to an azata spell which now provides a considerable attribute boost with a major duration. we noticed how in spite o' the big boost to charisma, our waterfall dc didn't change even if all the spell dcs in our sorcerer spell book did improve. azata s'posed uses charisma as its casting attribute, but whether you got a charisma o' 8 or 38, the dc for azata spells remains same. this works out great for players who dumps charisma but nevertheless wanna play azata or aeon, 'cause to cast level 7 aeon or azata spells, you do not need a 17 charisma. unfortunate, attributes being a non factor for spell dcs o' non merged spell books is an insurmountable hurdle when trying to boost mythic spell dcs. amusing aside, we noted earlier how the dragon familiar, the one available via a quest in act v, is counting as an extra character attack-- 1d4 random elemental. procs elemental barrage, but for our aeon who has all the bane boosts, plus crusader's edge and seelah's holy sword spell, the little guy is accounting for ~21d6 per round, in addition to 9d6 damage for the barrage, which curious is also benefiting from the aforementioned aeon bane boosts, crusader's edge, holy sword and whatnot. as a practical matter, having the dragon familiar equipped results in an additional +51d6 damage per round... as well as the 1d4 elemental damage. HA! Good Fun!

am gone for a bit over a week and this happens? no, and no. worse, am suspecting is no way you would be making this argument if it were just about any western colonial power which wanted to revisit the issue o' granted sovereignty. by definition, the recognition o' sovereignty and self-determination is irreversible as is a surrender o' authority by the previous sovereign, which necessarily includes some kinda imagined legit power to revoke. sure, the power politics model means force invariably makes right, but that clear ain't your justification. am s'posing there may be arguments as to why ukraine ain't a real country and why crimea somehow were a legit target for russian annexation, but you aren't making a good argument. sorry, but no. as for the rest o' the thread, and not directed @Gorth in particular, am gonna let you all have at it. is a whole lotta silliness from folks who made a bunch o' posts which has not aged well given the reality o' the invasion by russia. folks who were most wrong appear to be the most vocal. lack o' self awareness/reflecyion is expected and unfortunate. HA! Good Fun!

am literal only having five minutes to post. that said, saw this (belated) and am gonna observe the bug you describe with doorways appears to be common in the beta. had been all but complete exorcised for months. in fact, is quite a few curious legacy bugs in the beta. example: the inability o' a few classes and archetypes to choose the relevant caster spellbook for loremaster has returned with the beta. playing the beta is an at-your-own-risk proposition-- there is a considerable chance o' suffering a build or save killing bug if you play beta. based on a bit o' the official board feedback regarding bugs and the beta, we would not be shocked if the dlc (and the patch changes) were again delayed. HA! Good Fun!

am personal gonna be unavailable from noonish our time 'til march 4, so is unlikely either of us revisits soon. no sweat. will no doubt come up organic again at some point in the future. always does. HA! Good Fun!

ps our work at juvenile hall also irrevocable colored our pov. one o' the great dangers in the hall, and any american correctional or predisposition facility (jails and prisons) for that matter, is dealing with gangs. if you genuine want details we will provide, but the well-intentioned schemes for combating group identity were rare effective, and while the not-so-benign schemes were arguable effective in a limited way, overall am dubious as to the positive impact. am also betting @Gorth would be most unhappy to hear what were the effective approaches used to combat gang identity 'mongst minors at a predisposition facility where kids ain't yet had their cases adjudicated, so innocent until proven guilty and all that. HA! Good Fun!

would like to agree with you. ... have you ever as an adult had to deal with a large group o' kids: sports team, classroom, camp, whatever? takes no time at all for kids to begin developing us v. them politics. is not the teacher or coaches fault kids is capable o' spiteful, hateful and petty, with such instincts magnified in a group. we worked at a juvenile hall for a time and were a football coach and we saw same same cycle repeated. one goal as a football coach, to minimize the infighting and to make possible a dynamic whereby diverse people who would otherwise never interact positive with each other if left to their own devices, were to promote a shared team identity as Bears, Eagles, Cowboys, or whatever were the team moniker. almost every coach attempts to create traditions and esprit de corps and whatnot to establish a team identity as an effort to in part negate those horrible clique dynamics which undermine group efforts. such schemes don't come about 'cause football coaches is trying to create future mindless soldiers willing to die for imaginary national identity. is a reaction to the (in)human nature o' teens and young adults. we do change fundamental once our brain final develops in teens but as late as early 20s, but same approaches is used with adult sport teams... and nations. am agreeing they should not be underestimated, but in a room full o' judges, generals, diplomats and others, is all too often the serving staff and the odd third grade teacher is gonna be foolish dismissed. am not stating what should be. am recognizing what is an all too familiar failing o' the s'posed educated. HA! Good Fun! ps so is clear, am not suggesting the real problem is agriculture, technological innovation, human nature, or... etc. am saying the problems linked to nationalism is complex and is unlikely gonna be solved with a simple if improbable solution. get rid o' religion. get rid o' nationalism. from our pov, such solutions is impractical and far too big to address meaningful particularly as it appears is working backwards by trying to fix symptoms as 'posed to causes. start small. get rid o' oversized foam fingers at US sporting events. manage that and call it a win.