Gromnir

sadly we learned some time past that moderators cannot be ignored. is kinda contemptible to laugh at the weak and infirm, but we all too often indulge, and as there is no way to complete ignore the "attractive nuisance" situations, we do indulge our worst impulses from time-to-time. oh well. is our cross to bear. were not long ago (well, not long to old people and historian types) the nra were embracing reasonable firearm restrictions to promote safety and positive public outreach. the no compromise approach current embraced by the nra, somehow becoming linked with the bible no less, is a relative new thing. as recent as 30 years past, am having little doubt the majority o' nra folks woulda' found kyle rittenhouse actions deplorable even if they didn't believe he should be convicted o' murder. kyle were displaying anything but good judgement while carrying a firearm and would be nice if US gun culture were such that more nra members could admit such w/o being labeled as traitors to the cause, or somesuch nonsense. gun culture is increasingly linked to more extreme notions, which is unfortunate. teach your kid to hunt and observe responsible gun ownership has for centuries been part o' the way o' life in many parts o' the country, and is absolute nothing wrong with that reality. no compromise and cheering o' violence and stoopid is not how we were raised and we has watched with increasing disappointment how gun culture has steadily devolved... and is not just a grumpy old guy pov neither even though am needing to convince self o' that fact. HA! Good Fun!

probably less so than a couple years past. retirement took some edge off, but then again the trump years has been so unbelievable that is hard to pretend indifference, although gd does the ostrich bit with impressive verve. regardless, we decided we just don't have the need to do the sisyphus schtick. we got a few people on ignore and will likely add a few names. past due. easier. HA! Good Fun!

we don't get torqued by a bit o' political skew in an otherwise good film. dallas buyer's club, for example, may not have been wholly accurate, but jared leto, jennifer garner and matthew mcconaughey performances didn't become less good because o' creative liberties. HA! Good Fun!

we now got bruce on ignore, so only saw 'cause is quoted, but kinda found amusing to see wisconsin lumped in as liberal. milwaukee and the college towns is liberal, and biden got a narrow in in wisconsin, but the legislature is gop controlled and the wisconsin courts are almost cartoonish conservative. go to rural parts o' wisconsin (most o' the state from a geographic pov) and any true son o' the south is gonna feel right at home... save during the winter, when lake effect snow and bone chilling and pipe bursting cold is the norm. only reason we bring this up is 'cause am suspecting many folks not from the US thinks northern states is more liberal than southern, and while such is kinda true is becoming less and less true every year as tech companies movie south and bring their employees with 'em, shifting a few southern states purple. also am gonna note what gd's picture o' the doughnut/gun shop avoids showing you is the near guaranteed rack o' hats and t-shirts for sale emblazoned with the confederate flag. is one o' those reasons why red states is most assured not awesome. HA! Good Fun!

have literal watched nothing new in trek verse since we saw 1.3 episodes of discovery. couldn't help but feel like the showrunners musta' been subversive fight club fans. yeah, am aware the current trek creative folks is not genuine trying to destroy decades worth o' good will and a legacy o' tv quality (even the bad trek shows had great episodes) but it nevertheless feels like the current people directing the trek universe dislike trek and hate trek fans. HA! Good Fun!

big short were enjoyable and mostly accurate, but the movie writers bent over backwards trying to avoid throwing clinton under the bus. you would think that the guy who championed the bank deregulation which the characters in the movie is constant lamenting would be getting more prominent attention, but nope. were just one example o' curious narrative choices. even so, were worth the viewing. HA! Good Fun!

rare (though it does happen) have party immune, but we do sometimes have a few party members immune, which is curious. usual only happens party wide when we go through our entire prebuff ritual (not even always at that point,) and as often as not the insight bonus shows up regardless even if the combat log says a character were immune. am less concerned that arueshalae is immune to inspiring command if she nevertheless gets the +2 bonus from the ability. am suspecting there is a spell conflict, but we haven't bothered to check. on the other side of the balance, heroes never surrender is also refunding all non azata spells and abilities, including 9th level spells. will be curious to see how that functions with shady's mod. not positive on what is happening with joy of life as am thinking a recent patch changed the way that spell s implemented and we kinda stopped using. negative: favourable magic remains wonky as it does indeed provide the equivalent o' perpetual brilliant inspiration but it does not increase damage on a successful save, so your blaster ain't doing 75% damage on chain lighting when the foe saves. a few azata spells is most assuredly not designed for boosted caster level. voice of renewal, song of steel, moral support and the aforementioned heroes never surrender is the most obvious caster level/merged exploits we would anticipate. voice o' renewal will be spamable for a sorc and is low level, and with merged would be granting up to 30d6 aoe sonic damage and a party-wide 30d6 heal per cast. believe in yourself, the spell which boosts a single attribute score, would be serious broken as well, if it were working as described, but current it is linked to azata mythic level as 'posed to caster level, so max should remain a rather paltry +2 once you reach azata level 8, but who knows what kinda wacky happens with mods. if you have already played/beaten the game multiple times, why not play around with exploits and god mode kinda stuff? am personal avoiding mods but not based on some kinda moral or gaming purist stance but rather 'cause game is still in kinda a beta mode for all intents and purposes. am not certain if owlcat bothers to read bug reports or message board posts, if they ever did, but am trying to avoid mods until most o' the class feature bugs is expunged. however, am gonna repeat how shocked the current state o' the game has us, and we mean this in a good way. yeah, each new patch creates a new quest bug, but most o' the serious quest bugs has been addressed. if you had told us in late august that most quest bugs would be gone by christmas, we woulda' laughed at your optimism. is many spells and class abilities which is broken, and a few owlcat fixes is to simple declare broken is the new fixed by changing in-game descriptions to match broken. is doubtful all wotr spells and abilities is gonna be fixed, evar. is just too many things which need be fixed and at some point owlcat will decide the effort to fix is not worth the roi-- too busy working on next title or whatever. even so, the game, while still not fully cooked, is playable for for us personal and is in a far better state than we woulda' anticipated for a bit less than four months post release. HA! Good Fun! ps am kinda personal going in the opposite direction o' power enhancing mods as we increase the difficulty before the boss fights. the game is enough o' a slog such that we would consider seppuku if we needed do every fight on unfair, but for big fights am willing to crank up the difficulty a bit to give foes a fighting chance. am also probable gonna have our dual wielding aeon choose something like hand axes or some other less than ideal weapon type... though hand axes is an excellent choice very late game, when it don't genuine matter and you can stack just about any weapon with silly damage output.

the thing is, weird kinda kicks meteor swarm arse in a game like wotr. meteor swarms has a tendency to result in post cast regret as they do fire and bludgeon damage over a considerable area and the potential for friendly fire pain exceeds even that o' clashing rocks. weird, on the other hand, is free o' the friendly fire concerns and almost as much as owlcat placed gear in the game to take advantage o' fire, they did so same for phantasmal killer/weird. mephistopheles robe gives a debuff v. fear and robe o' determination reduces fort saves. is a magician's rings which adds +2 to illusion spell dcs. an azata blaster is capable o' achieving dcs for illusion spells in the low 50s. on unfair, deskari has something like +50ish will and fort saves, which is worse than playful darkness. with a few debuffs and the madness domain power, it is possible to reduce demon lord saves by +20 points, making it functional a guarantee to one-shot 'em with weird. is admitted kinda anti-climactic. 'course there is a bunch o' critters immune to fear effects, and for them you better be prepared with a character who is blaster capable, but most o' the bosses is subject to weird. am knowing it were not gonna be possible anytime soon, but the wacky mechanics o' wall o' lava is maybe the one direct damage spell we never expect to see implemented, but nevertheless would love to see in a pathfinder game. need a real z axis and flying creatures, which is a large % o' higher level critters, simple ignore the wall in a large enough space, but is nevertheless having whimsy appeal and like grease it ignores sr. aside, skalds are finally working as described, at least they are based on limited testing. being able to party share beast totem powers is making an animal companion heavy party practical demand a skald as you is adding a bunch o' natural attacks, stacking natural armour and damage bonuses, as well as adding pounce, so dogs and wolves (in particular) become sooper powered with a skald in the party. the capstone for skalds, other than court poet, is one o' the better powers in the game as it erases the negative impact o' rage on spell/ability use and grants perma haste while raging. seeing as there is a mythic feat called limitless rage, you is gonna be enjoying the party sharing benefits constant. only potential downside is the fact skalds (again, other than court poet) is almost demanding to be given 20 levels, so if you like multiclass shenanigans, skald might be a tough call. am also thinking it will be difficult to have lann as anything other than a divine hunter in our future parties. oh sure, we like the celestial velociraptor benefiting from smite, but more significant am also kinda addicted to a few o' the domain powers, and sosiel is the only joinable who benefits from domains unless you multiclass. am needing community domain. period. sosiel or another high wisdom character is gonna need add the community domain in any wotr run we attempt. guarded hearth is the single best buff in the game. am also kinda a fan o' animal companions, the nobility domain AND the madness domain. am s'posing you could have sosiel take impossible domain four times, but such would undercut his overall efficacy as a caster and healer. if you multiclass lann it makes sense to do so with inquisitor, hunter, cleric or druid. divine hunter may cast domain spells spontaneous, and he will have access to impossible domain, so divine hunter it is. is now a a whole bunch o' dinosaur bones in the game, but we kinda got in the habit o' having nenio craft legendary proportion scrolls to avoid the bone requirement. am not sure why we keep crafting'em but by the end o' our azata run we had more than two dozen dinosaur bones in inventory w/o ever purchasing 'em and we also had more than a dozen extra legendary proportion scrolls... 'cause? gonna need adjust our nenio scroll crafting scheme for our aeon run. regardless, weird is kinda silly powerful given the gear available in the game. 'course taking advantage o' weird is again requiring all kinda metagamey silliness, but wotr is a pathfinder game and a pathfider crpg from owlcat at that. from wotr we expected best spells and best weapons and best domains and best... HA! Good Fun!

the belt is arguable the best choice even if you aren't personal playing a blaster, 'cause then chances are you got either ember or nenio kitted as a blaster. and yeah, the developers appear to wanna convince you to use fire. the treacherous flame gloves are admitted an act v thing, but they kinda feel like overkill with all the other fire boosting gear available in previous acts. were potential even worse before the developers downgraded the mephistopheles gear. fire is our choice for a kinda "best blaster," particular for anybody with arcane trickster levels, although cold remains a serious contender if you is capable o' wielding a shield and can wear armour, but the overabundance o' fire stuff is kinda glaring. am extreme disappointed waterfall doesn't work as one would expect, 'cause 'tween cold versions o' chain lightning getting the benefit o' boosted cold dcs and mass icy prison now working as per the spell description, a cold blaster woulda' been a contender for the top spot, but such is perhaps being greedy as a cold focused arcane trickster/sorcerer is more than capable o' reducing even demon lords to frosty stains at hard level difficulty in two rounds, two rounds if you get bad rolls. we mentioned the sword 'cause it has a unique property which is easily missed. who woulda' thunk that seelah or your pc paladin could add +3d6 unholy damage to radiance by having the short sword in a weapon slot not current being utilized? HA! Good Fun! ps speaking o' items, perhaps atypical for our azata blaster we used the plague of madness staff almost exclusive once we acquired in act iii. the free max and empower on every 3rd cast o' same spell is particular advantageous to a blaster.

ok, following our azata run, we thought we would mention a few quirky items, particularly relics, which, were either easy to miss or their descriptions failed to proper describe effects. am suspecting many readers will know o' this stuff, but for those who do not we offer. warning: is kinda self evident all the following is spoilerish to some degree. HA! Good Fun!

Trump to Candace Owens: “People aren’t dying when they take the vaccine” it is 'course misleading to claim trump came up with the vaccines. the tech involved were original made possible by darpa and jasons initiatives and monies attempting to come up with a way to speed up time frames for successful vaccine creation specific as a means o' protecting US soldiers. the thing is, the tech existed pre trump and any number o' nations and private companies were moving to develop vaccines as soon as china finally released the genetic map for covid-19, which they admitted sat on longer than humane reasonable. that said, while the trump admin did undermine covid related social distancing and testing efforts, and were active promoting herd immunity in spite o' experts pointing out how such an approach were consigning many to unnecessary death, the admin did not impede the vaccine efforts which were already underway and the executive branch did indeed provide the funding required to realize the US vaccine development efforts. nevertheless, while am disappointed it has taken so long, we need applaud trump for correcting a frequent repeated bit o' nonsense uttered all too frequent by his base. good on trump for stating w/o equivocation that the vaccines work and save lives. whole lotta qualifiers in our grudging compliment o' trump? yeah. woulda' been better to make the admission in january and february o' 2021 as 'posed to december, but am nevertheless genuine grateful for an early christmas gift from 45. HA! Good Fun!

bad bruce, naughty boy. what you accused us o' was saying you had labeled blm extremist. "Yes you definitely said I thought BLM was an extremist movement". what we said were PUTIN were making the same arguments as trump and barr and that you defended the barr and trump actions while opposing putin's. "during the summer your were defending the same argument as putin made at his presser and you don't realize it or are purposeful ignoring. for putin, the denial o' basic freedoms and rights is okie dokie 'cause the people being prevented from running for office or who were detained during the recent widespread protests in russia were affiliated with dangerous extremist organizations. is exact same argument made by barr, trump (and bruce) during the summer when it were blm protesters who were being arrested w/o due process o' law. again, barr used sedition laws to claim he had authority to carry out his illegal suppression. blm and antifa, and anybody barr or trump claimed were affiliated with those undeserving o' basic rights o' every other American Citizen. "but again, the proverbial cherry on top is, given an opportunity to imagine a "worse case scenario" o' the government denying freedoms and rights 'cause a person or group embraces the wrong ideology, you latch onto blm... as the source o' oppression." for those curious as to the "cherry we speak o'" "What exactly does that mean and who decides what is "anti government ". Seriously, imagine some worse case scenarios around this like " you must bend the knee in reverence to BLM or you are deemed racist and this government doesnt tolerate racists " or " everyone in the South must admit being involved in the historical slave trade and pay reparations to government " ( what was that funny website you sometimes quote that made those jokes about a Muppet TV character ) " your example... which were yet another unprompted pivot to blm. you have a fixation and you are incapable o' self reflection regarding protests in general and blm specific. so, as we already stated, we didn't actual say you claimed blm were extremist. you inferred such. what we said were trump and barr labeled blm extremist and dangerous and that you defended their extra legal efforts and actions to suppress the protests... and were nevertheless offended when putin made same observations in suppressing his protesters and using january 6 in his transparent whataboutism campaign. bad bruce. ... am not concerned with why you were/are okie dokie with trump and barr violations of rule of law as they sought to make a show o' bringing order in the pacific north west and elsewhere when in fact what they were doing were actual inflaming resistance. after all, am knowing your reasons is mere rationalizations. however, you still haven't come to grips with fact you defended trump and barr efforts when at same time you derided putin for similar behavior. no self reflection and am suspecting you is quite aware that the post you quoted did not actual contain a claim by Gromnir accusing you o' calling blm extremist. your efforts is instead directed sole at vindicating your previous statement and your untenable position regarding the suppression o' protesters. no growth makes this pointless. more pointless? yet again pointless? also gonna observe once more how you still haven't addressed the issue which started all o' this silliness-- your refusal to accept a poster's defense o' ubi and uhc as real while quixotic refusing to concede that a person whom you believe is not being genuine is unworthy o' having their behavior labeled disingenuous. bruce no doubt realizes the described defense o' ubi from a person you believe is not genuine supportive o' ubi is pretty much gonna be the dictionary exemplar o' disingenuous, yes? and yet we got you once again raising your blm complaints... while simultaneous saying you didn't want to do so, as if you were forced into resurrecting the corpse o' a terrible argument you refuse to let die. HA! Good Fun!

it would be nice to know what are the triggers for the skeletal merchant. we met the undead vendor many times previous to act v. for our angel run, we got one act v encounter with mr. bones. for our azata we saw the skeletal merchant not at all in act v, and such were after considerable wasted overland map travel trying to trigger such an encounter. is not a big deal, but is disappointing even so. HA! Good Fun!

so, can't be bothered to find the extremist bit, but gonna stick to the accusation nevertheless? disappointing, unconvincing and no surprise whatsoever. shame. also, while we typically agree that "what others think" is less than compelling evidence o' mistake or error, the accusation we were making were 'bout lack o' self awareness, yes? sorry, but the basis for our criticism regarding communism earlier and your curious issues with blm is similar-- you clear do not recognize your own conflicted position. so while is hardly definitive evidence that you got a problem when other people tell you that you have a problem, is also requiring a certain degree o' stubborn indifference to fail to at least reflect on the possibility you could have a problem if multiple reasonable folks see something broken in your blm views. is indeed possible for bruce to be the only person right 'bout his curiously tangled and inconsistent blm views, but you might wanna consider fact you are not seeing things clear. and we already told you what we think. we noted how the mod told you flat out, multiple times, that you were wrong 'bout his seriousness insofar as ubi and uhc. you ignore him and Gromnir. also, is not as if we made a blanket appeal to popularity neither insofar as your curious blm fixation as we specific noted your insupportable simultaneous criticism o' portland protesters while lionizing the efforts o' moscow and hong kong protesters. furthermore we noted your defense o' extra-legal response to protesters in the US by the previous administration. remember? is facts which you is selective ignoring or already forgetting. the thing is, to admit you got a non analogous fixation regarding blm would require hard admissions and am understanding it is difficult for bruce to confront the truths which underlie such disparate views o' otherwise similar protesters. am not expecting change on the blm issue. then again, you also refuse to admit a person is disingenuous in spite o' fact you believe that person is not being genuine when they defend ubi and uhc, a position which is manifest improbable, but nevertheless, here we are, eh? 'course, as usual, bruce has driven us way past the point o' exhaustion. is our mistake for once again responding. HA! Good Fun!

... what? you agree with our observation, but disagree 'bout disingenuousness? does not compute. also, show where we claimed that you had described blm as extremist. will wait. ... can't find, eh? we noted how you vilified putin for his crackdown o' protesters while simultaneous defending the frighteningly similar extra legal actions taken by trump and barr to suppress summer protests. have observed how your perception o' hong kong protesters is similar skewed compared to the protests which took place in portland. we have commented 'pon your curious fixation on blm protesters, and am hardly the only obsidian poster to make that connection. you are all over the map with protests and blm, perhaps not wanting to be seen as intolerant, so am not sure if today you think blm is extremist or you is simple willing to say blm protesters deserves draconian treatments and extra legal government response... don't care neither as is rhetorical bs. that said, if you didn't wanna talk blm, one o' your favorite bugaboos, maybe you shouldn't have done the same kinda lack o' awareness schtick as we identified so recent regarding the mod whom you cannot seem to bring self to describe as disingenuous, a mod who has in no uncertain terms told you direct that you are wrong when you accuse him o' joking regarding support o' ubi and uhc. HA! Good Fun!

so, in spite o' fact the aforementioned poster has doubled-down on his ubi and uhc position many times, you are nevertheless unconvinced by his claims o' seriousness. is no hypocrisy or lack o' self awareness 'cause you believe he is disingenuous, yes? you are able to see the funny which he denies and think it is unfortunate Gromnir cannot see the funny the way you do... or somesuch. ... HA! Good Fun!

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esai morales is the obvious choice for Gromnir. we have a bit less grey hair, but otherwise is visually kinda close. *sigh* that said, am thinking patton oswalt is the more appropriate choice. HA! Good Fun!

congrats to you for not having seen dune or shang-chi. is at least prima facia evidence you is not paying disney or hbo for the privilege o' having your wallet plundered monthly. should be applauded for such. HA! Good Fun!

if were punch drunk love adam sandler, we might give it a shot. HA! Good Fun! ps we checked and jon brion did not score stranger than fiction. thought perhaps there might be some curious rule that when big name comedians tried their hand at dramatic roles, brion were called in to do the music, but alas...

first time we saw, we thought it were a parody trailer, and the thing is, the miniseries is indeed a parody, but is six +20-minute episodes o' parody. you kinda get the joke in the first ten minutes, so... ... the thing is, we did watch all six episodes and am typical not able to enjoy will ferrell in anything but small doses. HA! Good Fun!

then what were the purpose o' the following: Gromnir its normal and expected to anyone like you and me who were born during the Cold War to be opposed to Communism and old school Socialism. And when I say expected its because the "stinking Commie subversives " created an ideology that is a proven failure ....the Cold War was lost by USSR and Red China....as in lost.The West won And Im sorry that this historical fact doesnt suit the false narrative of our socialist forum friends like Majestic, Comrade and Pidesco but the lessons of history are immutable. Dont shoot the messenger and I know you know this So when people espouse these stimulus socialist initiatives like UBI, that has never been successfully implemented anywhere in the world except for limited pilot projects, we should be wary. And yes we were raised to be opposed to " bad commies " not because we bigots and right wingers but because these systems dont work and dont lead to sustainable governments and economic transformation ... you take a shot at the ubi defenders, by quoting where we pointed out the lack o' self awareness o' an individual simultaneous taking shots at communism/socialism and advocating ubi and uhc? was this your attempt at a bit o' a self dig? you were cartoonish defending the anti communism bit? no? then... uh... "So I dont see how pointing out the truth of what ideologies work and what doesnt work is somehow a lack of education...its not if its true" weird. now the guy with wet pants, he is funny. the thing is every time somebody calls out what is funny in his posts, he doubles down. is either the longest running bad joke on these boards (now that vol and his nazi schtick is gone) or he is genuine serious when he claims to be serious. on some level am embarrassed to admit, we do find the situation humorous. nevertheless, same time we feel kinda bad when we try and suppress laughter when wet pants kid pounds his chest declaring a win over those laughing at him. we shouldn't laugh at such a situation, 'cause is kinda horrible, but is difficult not to laugh, eh? mr. wet pants serious thinks he is making jokes at somebody else's expense. HA! Good Fun!

no problem. one suspects somebody at owlcat made the quest more difficult than it needed to be. is items which curious is not capable o' being sold to vendors, and would appear to be junk, but try and get rid o' that wooden fork. dare you. wooden plates and mugs, on the other hand, is tagged appropriate. no doubt there is a good reason why there were a need to differentiate bulk sale items from junk for purposes o' the quest in question, 'cause if you had been able to use mundane swords and armour to complete the quest, somebody's immersion woulda' been broken? alternative for owlcat were going through list o' all inventory items and tagging appropriate as junk... and predictable missing a few items in the process. our first time completing the quest were in the beta, before we got in the habit o' selling everything to only woljif (act iv) or wilcer garm (everywhere else). the problem for us were that just previous to having acquired the azata quest at issue, we sold almost all o' our accumulated junk to the skeletal merchant, and previously we had sold to woljif who had not yet been returned to our party. 'course we simultaneous had the issue where the skeletal merchant just stopped being available. fudge. worse, in the beta, the rate at which junk were turned into shiny doodads and edible thingies was much worse and you needed far more junk to complete the quest. *sigh* on our recent azata run we literal never got the skeletal merchant to show in act v. not once. whole lotta map travel attempting to trigger. no luck. maybe our stealth were too high? sure weren't a matter o' insufficient perception. dunno. HA! Good Fun!

did you bother to read any o' the posts you reference? you are gonna genuine defend one simultaneous "opposed to Communism and old school Socialism," and a comical proponent o' ubi and uhc? kinda tough to manage such a stance w/o coming off as utter lacking in self awareness, or just plain ignorant... maybe both. is nothing wrong with being ignorant btw. choosing to remain ignorant is kinda contemptable. so we got an individual running in circles, uttering self-refuting nonsense, and needing repeat the silliness which has not produced results from previous interactions numbering in the dozens... nevertheless claiming victory 'cause people point and laugh at his antics? is like some kid with urine soaked pants laughing self silly, yelling, "made you look," at those staring at him with pity and bruce curiously feels the need to defend the antics? for reals? *shrug* is just so weird what kinda silliness the internet breeds. HA! Good Fun! ps (edit) removed a repeat word

somebody really needs new material. qq or the equivalent? check. accusations o' being cyberstalked? check (such is a curiously qq complaint btw) retreat to some banal deflection effort after failing to address initial observation regarding lack o' self-awareness (bad commies & good ubi)? check. etc. education required. same exact pattern is being followed w/o any improvement or even change. am indeed troubled by lack o' education o' our fellow americans during these trying times. ah well, in before the warnings from the responsible adults. HA! Good Fun!