Gromnir

are you playing the beta or 1.1.7f? not being able to get through doors were a frequent bug in pre and early post-release builds. those complaints has made a recent comeback, but am not sure if is mod related, 'cause again, is something which had largely disappeared from the owlcat forums until recent. am not using mods, and we haven't had the doorway bug in many months, but anecdotal and singular experience is not meaningful. HA! Good Fun!

just seems like you got cause and effect reversed. as means o' war and advances in agriculture made large and more lethal armies possible... *shrug* from our pov, is not nations or national identity which were the cause. @MedicineDan would happily share how the nation-state identities o' the greeks didn't make their politics and warfare more huggable than 21st century examples. scale were smaller. perhaps blame invention o' the plow which started the chain o' events which led to the first nations way before the 17th century? for europeans, is arguable it were the introduction o' the bean (and later the potatoes) to diets which led to fundamental alterations in western national identify, 'cause were the explosion in the populations which brought 'bout the need for the kinda great nations which had previous only existed along the great river deltas o' the world: egypt, china, babylon. etc. am not claiming to have right answers on this, but is hard for us to point to national identity as the root cause when is so many other possibilities, not least o' which is the aforementioned human nature conundrum. HA! Good Fun! ps am not being dismissive o' other great ancient nations, but roman expansion, for example, relied on the grain from egypt. the mongols ironic needed china agriculture expand. etc. other nations in asia and the americas developed in part 'cause o' advances in bean and maize cultivation... and am happily willing to again link some o' the agricultural and irrigation advances o' the aztecs and incas respective.

am personal believing perceived politician evil is the result o' a desire to ignore widespread human flaw. is coincidental why we find @Gorth anarchist leaning to be naïve. not trying to offend, but am incapable o' squaring history and personal experience with gorth anarchy. get rid o' national boundaries and identities solves nothing 'cause is humanity which is the core problem. wave a magic wand and do away with borders, national identities and armies. how long before some person(s) get the bright idea to collective pool their strength, perhaps initial to protect themselves from genuine bad individuals. is easy to see how things evolve from there, no? if am misrepresenting, please clarify 'cause am honest not trying to be flippant or dismissive. am just not seeing how national identities is the problem when for us such is mere symptomatic o' fundamental human nature and condition. HA! Good Fun!

blix. why you would wanna yet again bullseye yourself with japan is bordering on insane given the numbers o' historians we has shared comments from who disagree with zor, and zor offering no such authorities to refute. 'course zor indulges in same misrepresentation we blew up mere weeks past. even so, is improbable zor forgets his own post from mere a page removed and seeming suffers some kinda weird transient amnesiac event. note, blix is one o' the guys who believed there weren't lies from the bush administration-- said so on the not-so mythical video. looking for a person in existence who believes as does Gromnir that the administration were honest mistaken but negligent in their efforts to confirm wmd existence? blix, your injected authority, is one o' those existing people. as to coercion, blix also said he didn't feel coercion in the "mythical video," so more gaslighting. blix didn't need to share anecdote where he were brought in to see bush, with powell, cheney and others present, and bush made clear and in no uncertain terms that blix had his confidence and support. bush wanted inspections and so blix felt he had bush administration backing, even if a bit later the administration would foolish ignore his pleas for more time to inspect. btw, clear neither Gromnir nor blix suggested bush administration efforts were well researched (more zor misrepresenting) 'cause is a whole bunch o' posts now easy to review which describe how the key failure o' bush insofar o' iraqi wmd's as a justification for invasion were the insufficiency o' their efforts to find evidence o' wmds in 2002 and early 2003. repeating self but is necessary with zor. am also the guy who has said over and over again that the administration lied 'bout iraq to the american people, but the lie were 'bout the necessary cost to maintain peace post invasion. am offering now 'cause is a frequent zor misrepresentation, "that the US Government Did Nothing Wrong in the lead up to Iraq." has never been our position... evar. gotta knock down these strawmen before zor creates 'em. and again, lets not forget how blix were brought up by zor. so, as a response to a claim bush didn't lie regarding wmds, you offer second-hand description o' an incident o' coercion which ignores first hand recollections o' the victim himself that not only did he feel no coercion but that bush went out o' his way to show support for the victim? serious? gonna serious bring up logic fallacies with that nonsense? zor's blix observation comes in response to Gromnir pointing out the bad example o' using the wmd lies bit to attack bush (bush specific) as a Presidential liar... for years now, just as a mere page past, zor frequent resurrects, misrepresenting Gromnir position and ignoring the fact that his own interjected authority undermines his "only person in existence" fantasies 'bout wmd lies and the bush administration... which is same as his fever dreams 'bout how russia were not planning an invasion o' hokkaido before the collapse o' japanese forces in manchuria. ... real insanity is we need waste so much time on zor who is impervious to reality... he cannot help but gaslight and then every few months does he dredge up his past blunders and somehow reimagines. is so... weird. but yeah, blix is clear one o' those fantastimagorical people in existence who believe the bush administration were not lying 'bout wmds. thanks for framing such so we will be able to use the next time you inevitable and reflexive bring up this ridiculous claim. HA! Good Fun!

moving on (unlikely, eh?)... Clarence Thomas refuses the clear and obvious path forward Judges are supposed to evaluate cases impartially. Given his wife's involvement, there is no way for the public to trust that Thomas will impartially judge the cases she's tied to. And Thomas himself has defied a whole series of ethical guidelines that apply to every other judge in the country, appearing at events for right-wing organizations and causes, and, according to the Times report, being in contact with at least one conservative politician, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, at the same time he was facing battles in federal court (DeSantis did not respond to the Times' request for comment). ... our opinion o' j. thomas has soured the past couple years as he has become transparent political. however, am actual disagreeing with the position o' the opinion piece, even if we wanna agree. other than Justice Kagan, am believing every other SCOTUS Justice has a spouse. if you think any o' those spouses remain mute on political and legal issues o' the day, you is nuts. we met Justice Kennedy's wife, mary, on literal dozens o' occasions over the years, and in spite 'o the fact she were a third grade school teacher for many years, underestimating her would be a grave mistake. is rare when she were not the smartest person in a room, and considering the crowd Justice Kennedy attracted, that is an admitted bold statement. if you think for a second mary kennedy were any less influential regarding her husband's legal opinions than ginny is regarding clarence, then you are not giving mary the credit she is due. am not believing ginni is altering j. thomas' opinions. might be more accurate to say ginny activities is symptomatic o' the thomas couples' beliefs. is rare the partner o' a SCOTUS Justice is so transparent regarding their political leanings, but that don't mean other partners is any less opinionated and influential insofar as the legal opinions o' their respective spouses. perhaps unfortunate, is also a fact the ethic standards for SCOTUS is different for Justices than judges. should standards be changed? is it even possible to change such standards in a meaningful way w/o a Constitutional Amendment? am thinking is wasted breath to argue, 'cause spouses is typical gonna be the most influential factor in Justice opinions, whether any o' us realizes or admits to such. HA! Good Fun!

heads up: the covenant o' the inheritor relic fragment is also in the burning house. aside: with valmallos all but confirmed as the inevitable in the dlc art for "the inevitable excess," we would not be surprised if narriseminek, the protean lord o' ascendence, also makes an appearance. HA! Good Fun!

har har. again, zor is the guy who were bleating 'bout blix, but he made the mistake o' doing so with Gromnir in metaphorical earshot, 'cause we were in the freaking audience for the linked "mythical video" and we knew zor were talking out his arse on yet another issue. so 'course we weren't gonna let go o' zor's blix blunder as zor kept digging himself ever deeper each time he insisted on his silly and self destructive complaint 'bout Gromnir's wmd lies position... which, again, is just so typical zor. 'course zor don't wanna talk 'bout blix who explicit rejects his position in spite o' zor being the guy to use blix as an authority. is tough to gaslight the video, but he sure has tried. y'know, the genuine crazy part is six months from now when zor self embarrasses himself regarding some new issue he talks outta his arse regarding, he will be unable to resist bringing up Gromnir's take on wmd lies, and we will once again bleat (HA!) 'bout how his authority, hans blix, refuted another untenable zor position. weird. isn't any easier for a few folks to gaslight regarding their past bad week o' russian humping, but they will give it the old college try. on some level you gotta admire the tenacity and verve in spite o' the utter folly. edit: 'cause trump couldn't read the room and once again did his putin stooge routine, am recollecting a story from 2016 which @Guard Dog & @Gorthwould no doubt enjoy 'cause it does kinda make one wanna just get rid o' politicians. House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump doesn't look to be paywall blocked. if you don't wanna read story, just watch the brief video to get the gist. is timely to reflect on epic gaslighting efforts original revealed in 2016. our boardies is rank amateurs by comparison. HA! Good Fun!

we brought up blix after zor misrepresented... and comical zor is once again exposing self. of course rumsfield believed there were wmds present in iraq; that was the point blix were making. weren't lies. the US had intelligence going back years which had convinced americans and other nations that there were wmds in iraq. 'course zor is gonna spin regardless... as this last week clear shows and his own unsupportable reimagining o' blix clarifies... again. got blix explicit saying bush stepped in and defended his inspection efforts. got blix saying weren't lies but were indeed dogged defense o' a belief unsupported by actual facts. got blix admitting even he thought saddam hussein had wmds in late 2002. a whole lotta wrong from zor... again. once more, to accept zor fantasies, what you see and read is not what you is seeing and reading. 'course it should be made clear there was deceit, which we has most assured criticized over and over again. just weren't deceit as many need to believe were present regarding the wmd issue. too many focus on the wmd issue and ignore how the costs o' peacekeeping efforts in iraq were known before 2003. the wh did most assured mislead americans regarding the costs o' iraq. is no way americans would support a foreign war followed by a necessary occupation if the real costs were presented to the american people. we only ever had a fraction o' the required manpower to maintain peace in iraq, and the wh knew the costs but spun fairytales o' how the iraqis were gonna police selves post invasion. HA! Good Fun!

am thinking there is some misconceptions about spellcasting. the angel and lich spellbooks are indeed powerful, and caster level does make a big difference in a few situations, but for a blaster, being level 30 as 'posed to 20 don't make much difference. your ability to hit touch ac is not gonna improve with 10 extra caster levels, and is so much gear for beating touch ac and sr that those hurdles is a non factor in any event. is a few blaster spells where dc's is important, but dc is also not based on caster level. caster attribute score and spell level is important for the would-be blaster. the gold dragon, now that is working, gives a charisma caster a big boost, transforms damage type to unresistible holy damage and ups the hd from what is typical d6 or d8 to d10, which am knowing don't seem like a huge factor until you do the math. is why those stacking 1-point-per die boosts from crossblood bloodlines or a few gear pieces is so devastating when added to hellfire rays and stormbolts n' such... though particular hellfire rays as you are talking endgame 45 hd worth o' damage. as noted, am gonna eventual go lich/gold dragon. yeah, is tough to compete with a few o' the mindlessly spammable lich and angel spells, but am not thinking we handicap self too bad by going with the gd route. HA! Good Fun! ps our blaster main were a sorc azata. am not gonna suggest azata is best for blasters, but is more than good enough to be managing screen wiping displays o' pyrotechnics. we went cold, which were a mistake 'cause o' what we assume is a bug regarding dc boosting feats and gear not applying correct to the azata spellbook, but even as a human instead o' half-elf, and recognizing we didn't take best archetype for a blaster, we were screen clearing opposition with impunity. zippy magic is a big boost for a blaster. we went arcane trickster and were satisfied with the results. but again, lich and angel is having many advantages o' blasters w/o needing work out the details o' a build or come up with a plan to take advantage o' capabilities. an angel oracle spamming storm of justice is not requiring schemes or plans or exploits. with storm of justice, enemies die... fast. entire screen o' enemies. will be curious to see how builds perform with the dlc. inevitables and proteans is gonna be foes 'stead o' demons. holy damage shouldn't be effective against non evil, but holy and unholy damage doesn't behave as one would expect in wotr. pps we mention proteans 'cause when we recent checked to see how many steam players had managed the secret of secrets quest, we saw the thumbnails for the new dlc achievements, and the "glimpse of truth" achievement sure has the semblance o' a pathfinder protean.

"Blix accused U.S. President George W. Bush and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair of acting not in bad faith, but with a severe lack of "critical thinking."" "Blix has written a new book, "Disarming Iraq," about the events leading up to the war. During that period he was lambasted by both doves and hawks: by the former for failing to state unequivocally that Iraq had no WMDs, and by the latter for failing to find them. As he explained Wednesday night, part of the problem was that he himself had believed the weapons probably existed. "I'm not here to have gut feelings," he said. "But yes, in December 2002 I thought Saddam had weapons of mass destruction." Still, "the objective was to inspect effectively and to report objectively."" even low effort folks may find. the criticism from blix (zor's example... who said the opposite o' zor claims) is not that bush admin lied, but rather that they acted w/o the requisite knowledge to make an informed decision. cheney and others were convinced that the wmds were in iraq, based in part o' interrogations o' iraqi scientists who turned out to be purposeful lying. absence o' intel were never gonna change their belief. 'course zor misrepresentations o' this and other issues is kinda par for the course when zor gets exposed by his self w/o seeming to have self awareness to realize. same bat time. same bat channel. edit: we were in the audience at the time, which is why we knew zor using blix were another example o' somebody talking out their kiester w/o actual knowing... which is what has happened the past week or so. HA! Good Fun!

balance is a feature o' pathfinder and wotr magnifies. am playing with difficulty set to hard with boss fights upped to unfair, but this is only 'cause we have so many hours invested in the game and we know a whole lotta cheese which makes the game a bit too easy unless we increase difficulty. wotr balance is terrible, and the game becomes much easier if you got community and madness domain powers along with a mark of justice paladin as well as a skald (melee party) or court poet (casters). can do the cackle exploit for fortune and protective luck. we know how to upgrade relics. we know which spell schools have the most dc boosting gear and where such gear may be found. there is good weapon choices and bad. is good animal companion options and poor. is a whole lotta wotr options which individual make only small differences, but when added together skew difficulty such that death to the player on unfair happens 'cause o' impossibility to prepare and/or a series o' improbable bad rolls and not 'cause o' challenge. as to the stability o' wotr, many bugs remain, but few is game or quest killers. "enemies would walk a straight line literally off the maps," is a thing, but it literal only happens to us... is dozens o' spells, abilities, feats and gear which do not work as described, although we have been happily exploiting the hunter's celestial velociraptor's unlimited smite while perpetual forgetting to make a bug report related to the issue. is all kinda things broken in wotr, but the game is no longer unplayable from our pov, and given how the game were in august/september, am actual pleasant surprised by the current state o' the game. based on our experience with kingmaker, am feeling some confidence in proclaiming our belief that wotr is never gonna be complete fixed. however, am satisfied with the progress regarding wotr stability, and keep in mind this is from a guy who were extreme critical o' kingmaker... and am not a fan o' munchkiny wotr aspects. is a whole lotta reasons we should be dumping on wotr, but am surprised in a good way by wotr stability. however, to repeat, is no fixing wotr balance. pathfinder is busted and wotr magnifies pathfinder balance issues by including their unique and busted spin on mythic. is pnp options in wotr no real dm/gm would ever allow collective. owlcat fans has consistent made clear they don't want player abilities nerfed even when broken, so the reasonable solution is to buff enemies? is a predictable spiral o' stoopid regarding balance as each new power upgrade for players leads to additional bloat to enemies, which further annoys casual players. HA! Good Fun!

the crimson dust encounter? is an ecorche model, so we didn't think o' as a ghost. am not thinking it were incorporeal as it dropped an amulet of natural armour as 100t. is what you reference? that said, the ecorche did spawn outta seeming nowhere and provided good xp. HA! Good Fun! ps don't quote us, but am thinking the name o' the ambusher is sinful sinew. our memory is excellent but our dyslexia is terrible, so we frequent get names wrong and reorder numbers in comical ways. pps we did a limited experiment with the battlebliss and then our patience ran dry. maybe a dozen fights? am mentioning 'cause is the worst potential unlimited xp exploit in the game and 'cause o' one o' the possible foes. we fought battlebliss after completing all battlebliss quests and we got mostly deathsnatchers, but near equal frequency o' the recent mentioned ecorche. we did fight a balor as well. always a solo antagonist. no 100t drops and the experience rewards is trivial by act iv standards but we didn't see a limit. takes literal seconds to defeat each foe and the fights may be repeated ad nauseum.

sorry, but her error, when viewed in the context o' the moment, were at best a minor thing and is doubtful anybody at the time coulda' predicted a sportscaster running interference for nascar fan stoopid, akin to a parent trying to cover for a child who blurted out something profane in front o' guests, would lead to a national rallying cry from the not-so-alt-right-anymore crowd. everybody in her profession knows who she is, and if she is to cover a major sporting event in the future, this is gonna follow her forever. second guess what were at worst a minor mistake? am not sure what we woulda' done in the moment. probably ignore, but we also got no idea what producers were telling her in the moment and am suspecting the situation were a bit more tense for her than it is for us contemplating the event at home. her job is to cover sports, and is doubtful she ever had a class or previous experience with a large crowd repeated chanting political profanity. HA! Good Fun! ps am nevertheless fully conceding that sitting at home and able to reflect in a complete zero-pressure situation, we woulda' ignored chants until a producer told us to do otherwise. "let's go brandon," would not have been our solution, but am suspecting is as much 'cause o' our lack o' creativity as anything.

*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!