Gromnir

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!

if you do the final enigma puzzle in reverse, so-to-speak, you will be rewarded with dc boosting goggles which make your mind-affecting spells more powerful. we knew this 'cause somebody didn't add a spoiler tag to an enigma post. am not certain how we were s'posed to know to do bass ackwards to score the goggles. is a few situations like that. many o' the puzzles is logic stuff but with multiple right answers so you nevertheless need trial and error through permutations to get correct, or memory puzzles, which after the second or third one get kinda stale. too much repetition and too much reliance on trial and error. and for enigma they added a whole bunch o' rinse-and-repeat combat, plus those exhaustion columns as well. but am serious not sure why the storyteller and nenio puzzle quests were so similar. @Agiel mentioned enigma were backer content, so perhaps that explains to some degree, but am nevertheless wondering why the developers didn't make more effort to differentiate the content. HA! Good Fun! ps we didn't add a spoiler tag regarding the goggles, 'cause as far as am aware, am not actual spoiling as there is no way to know via gameplay.

got examples o' "most mooks" which has higher than the bosses in same areas? regardless, that means that more than half o' the unfair mooks in the mines have superior stats to those two? is not the way we recall, but if you can support we would be curious to see. am assuming you aren't comparing endgame "most mooks" to mid or early, 'cause that would be silly. HA! Good Fun!

am personal avoiding any mods until the game is a bit more stable, 'cause am routine sending bug reports in spite o' fact am unsure those reports is at all meaningful. is not as if we got some kinda weird moral objection to mods. quite the contrary as mods is able to make the game playable for many players who has run into game breaking bugs. also, as the cackle bit is already a clear exploit, to quibble over the use o' a mod would be hypocritical in the extreme. nevertheless, we started playing wotr in beta and am kinda feeling as if the game is still in late stage beta, albeit in a far better state than we woulda' predicted for five months post release. HA! Good Fun! ps we were always perplexed by the people who would literal reroll ie game stats for hours to get their perfect character. same players would nevertheless suggest the reason they wouldn't use a mod to give themselves the scores they wanted, saving themselves considerable time, were 'cause such felt like that woulda' been cheating. such observations left us dumbfounded, but am recognizing the pathology is real 'mongst gamers.

haven't gone past mythic 8 with lich so don't know. sorry. is hard to imagine your question hasn't been discussed somewhere... reddit perhaps. yeah, we mentioned we has done the boss battles on unfair w/o much trouble, but that we got no urge to do a full unfair run as it would be for us a soul-numbing slog. sounds like your experience meshes with what we anticipated; too much pre-buffing and cheese... as well as a couple ambush encounters such as the cemetery you identify which removes the possible o' prebuff. no thanks. HA! Good Fun!

good to hear things went reasonably well. your vaccine reluctance were well earned. personal, we had a terrible time with our initial shingles vaccine side effects, but we didn't end up in the icu. our adverse reaction to the shingles vaccine did not keep us from getting the follow-up shot, but we were dreading having to roll up our sleeve for number two. can't imagine what our reluctance would been like if were the result o' a hospitalization instead o' just the worst night we can't recall. heck, we ate bad artichoke heart dip +30 years ago and we literal become nauseated by the smell o' artichokes even now. serious, it's been decades. the discovery roasted artichokes prevents cancer would have us holding out on partaking longer than otherwise reasonable. HA! Good Fun!

Trump Organization's accounting firm says 10 years of financial statements are unreliable "Monday, Mazars said it would no longer act as Trump's accountant, citing a "non-waivable conflict of interest."" *chuckle* translation: we got caught in lies regarding those ten years of financial statements, so we are now cooperating fully with the da, because they do send accountants to prison over this kind of... misunderstanding. so sorry, but we can't simultaneously represent trump and be a cooperating witness for the da. HA! Good Fun! ps this exact why these investigations take so long as law enforcement ponderously works its way through the corporate food chain in an effort to see who will break faith with their fellow nogoodniks (alleged). trump tried to insulate himself by keeping as much of trump org activities in the family, but he nevertheless needed complicit lawyers, accountants and a handful of other individuals.

could understand if there were bugs and stability issues holding up the dlc release, but balance? owlcat being concerned 'bout balance? now? ... am s'posing is possible. after all the developers did recognize after the fact how blackwater were representing a disproportionate challenge, but as much o' the balance issues is the result o' owlcat's bloat, the fix is not particular complex. converse, if there is a few new mythic feats and abilities added to the game which is clear broken, am personal understanding why a developer other than owlcat would wanna balance, but is hard to consider a few o' the trickster and demon abilities, or angel spells, and imagine what exact would make owlcat pause. HA! Good Fun!