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@Guard Dogwe always assumed our client's were idiots, not 'cause we thought they actual were idiots, but some few (too many) would do something idiotic to self-sabotage their legal efforts during the course o' our representation. as such it were in our best interest to make things as simple as possible and to cover our own arse by stating verbal and in writing the dos and don'ts they need observe. polite. we were always polite, but many clients nevertheless were annoyed by what were obvious patronizing. the clients most annoyed by our KISS approach were preternatural in danger o' self immolation. were always tough 'cause you need clients to understand and follow instructions but if the clients believe they is being disrespected, some number will literal go out o' their way to do opposite o' recommendations, which is so strange. if genuine annoyed, then why not just fire us and get a new attorney? the client is paying considerable money for our advice and then to seeming purposeful or reckless ignore advice were kinda nonsensical from our pov, but as such happened more than once, we tried to balance KISS with the necessary ego strokes to get clients to actual follow the advice they were paying to receive. eventual, most jobs is actual sales even if you is only selling self to your boss. we were ok with not selling self to bosses, but nevertheless found self channeling our inner joe isuzu with clients. HA! Good Fun!

Sarah Palin returns to NYC restaurant two days after testing positive for Covid am not exactly surprised by the story given how often we has seen similar behavior since covid became a thing. reading boardies minimize covid and excuse why they don't follow common sense pandemic behaviors no longer even evokes an eye-roll. 'course maybe that is the point. eventual you get kinda numb to selfish and/or stoopid. HA! Good Fun!

kinda relevant if you are able to read a calendar. review the fp article we once again quoted... again. "The Soviet 16th Army — 100,000 strong — launched an invasion of the southern half of Sakhalin Island. Their orders were to mop up Japanese resistance there, and then — within 10 to 14 days — be prepared to invade Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s home islands. The Japanese force tasked with defending Hokkaido, the 5th Area Army, was under strength at two divisions and two brigades, and was in fortified positions on the east side of the island. The Soviet plan of attack called for an invasion of Hokkaido from the west." so not only do you got established historians stating as fact that the soviets were gonna attack hokkaido, but the soviet plan to attack hokkaido were established as a follow-up to their sakhalin island attack, an attack which occurred when? will let low-effort zor look that one up but the soviet attacked sakhalin pre declaration o' surrender. as an aside, 'cause this is zor bait he finds impossible to resist and we need only link to past posts to get a chance to smite again... It took a second Imperial Conference and second intervention of the emperor on August 14 to accept the Byrnes Note. On August 15, 1945, the Emperor broadcast by radio his decision to the Japanese people and the world (Butow 1954 , pp. 207–208, 248; Frank 1999 , pp. 314–315, 320; Hasegawa 2005 , pp. 238–240). But the war had not ended. Soviet combat operations continued in Manchuria. Moreover, the Soviets unleashed an amphibious assault on the Kuril Islands – which thanks to other new revelations we now know was in preparation for a landing by Soviet forces on Hokkaido, the northernmost home island. Only fierce Japanese resistance on Sakhalin Island and President Truman ’ s insistence on meticulous adherence to prior agreements saved Hokkaido from Soviet invasion and probable occupation. Had this happened, almost certainly the Soviets would have obtained some occupation zone in a divided Japan (Frank 1999 , pp. 322–324; Glantz 2003 , pp. 280–307; Hasegawa 2005 , pp. 271–285). and Alongside with these military plans, however, Imperial General Headquarters harbored wishful thinking that there was unlikely to be a Soviet attack. The Kwantung Army had little confidence in its ability to hold the last defense line. As for the Fifth Area Army, it expected that in the event of the anticipated American invasion of the homeland, Hokkaido would be left to defend itself against a possible combined attack by the United States and the Soviet Union. The problem with Hokkaido’s defense was its size, which was as big as the whole of Tohoku and Niigata prefectures combined. The Fifth Area Army had to disperse 114,000 troops to three possible points of attack: one division in the Shiribetsu-Nemuro area in the east, one division at Cape Soya in the north, and one brigade in the Tomakomai area in the west. The fortification of the Shibetsu area had not been completed, and the defense of the Nemuro area was considered hopeless because of the flat terrain. The defense of the north was concentrated at Cape Soya, but nothing was prepared for Rumoi, where the Soviet forces intended to land.[65] The inadequacies of these operational plans, both in the Kwantung Army and the Fifth Area Army, were exposed when the actual Soviet attack came. The military planners had no confidence in the army’s ability to repulse a Soviet invasion of Korea and Hokkaido. As Frank writes, “the Soviet Navy’s amphibious shipping resources were limited but sufficient to transport the three assault divisions in several echelon . The Red Army intended to seize the northern half of Hokkaido. If resistance proved strong, reinforcements would be deployed to aid the capture the rest of Hokkaido. Given the size of Hokkaido, the Japanese would have been hard pressed to move units for a concerted confrontation of the Soviet invasion. The chances of Soviet success appeared to be very good.”[66] Soviet occupation of Hokkaido was thus within the realm of possibility. and In the wee hours of Aug. 24, 1945, Soviet long-range bombers would take off from their air base not far from the Far Eastern port of Vladivostok and fly east, across the Sea of Japan, dropping lethal payloads on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. At 5 a.m. that morning, two Soviet regiments would storm their way onshore, followed, in two hours, by a larger force. Within days, two infantry divisions would sweep across northern Hokkaido, cutting the island in half. That was the rough battle plan drawn up by the commander of the Soviet Pacific Fleet, Adm. Ivan Yumashev, at the end of World War II for occupying Hokkaido. Troops were on standby. Submarines were ordered to the Hokkaido coast for reconnaissance in preparation for land invasion, and had even started sinking Japanese ships (tragically, just refugee boats fleeing Soviet operations on nearby Sakhalin Island). The Soviets had by then occupied southern Sakhalin and were mopping up the remnants of the Japanese along the Kuril island chain that stretched from Hokkaido to the Kamchatka Peninsula, in Russia’s far northeast. Although the Red Army was not as experienced as the Americans with landing operations, this Soviet “D-Day” in Hokkaido would’ve been a walkover — the Japanese army was in shambles, and Emperor Hirohito had recently proclaimed defeat. so on the one side we got zor's military expertise OR noteworthy historians who agree the soviets genuine were planning to invade hokkaido, and that the japanese were not only aware o' such plans but were very much concerned by the possibility. is not a contentious issue as to whether or not the soviet were planning an invasion o' hokkaido and it doesn't actual matter if the hokkaido invasion by the soviets would succeed. is kinda irrelevant as to when exact stalin finally decided an invasion o' hokkaido were viable. the important point is whether the japanese believed a soviet invasion were possible and that such an attack could succeed. it were the soviet invasion o' manchuria on august 8, after the first bomb were dropped by the US, which were the event changing the calculus for the japanese. what were previous seen as improbable (soviet invasion) became likely. and yeah, should be obvious to anybody by now that the soviets were indeed planning an invasion o' hokkaido. 'course this is all spam... again. am gonna once again suggest zor watch the hasegawa video, particular from 20:00-30:00ish... maybe... has been more than three years since we initial linked and even we don't recall exact times span which is relevant. yeah, we don't have access to the russian archives, so one needs intelligent speculation and use historical reasoning to guess what is the end goal o' soviets sending large numbers o' troops east, the yalta promises, the russian letting the japanese would know the neutrality pact would not be extended but would continue to be honored through april 1946, and on and on and on. etc. you are embracing and repeated offering your self as a target by defending a belief based on 1970s thinking and history. is well established at this point that the soviet declaration o' war was a pivotal aspect in the japanese surrender calculus. in early 1945 the japanese understood the soviets were wanting what they were promised at yalta and that hokkaido were in danger. japan thought they had until at least 1946 to worry 'bout stalin and the soviets, but with the declaration o' war january 8 and the invasion o' manchuria, all japanese hope to be fighting only the americans evaporated. 'ccording to japanese high command debate on the issue, the concern were that there were no longer a chance to create enough carnage with a US invasion to be resulting in better terms o' surrender, 'cause in a matter o' weeks the soviets would be attacking and the japanese were curiously not prepared for such. soviets most certainly were not a future problem, as should be obvious from linked historians who have real resumes and reputation and is speaking the current mainline historical pov. japanese were still debating fighting the americans after hiroshima, but the soviet declaration and invasions changed the situation. "Hasegawa fails to sustain his main arguments with the necessary evidence. At best, he leaves the revisionist case as he found it, in ruins. Indeed, he makes the rubble bounce by convincingly demonstrating that the Soviet Union very much was racing to get into the Pacific War in order to facilitate its expansionist policies in the Far East. Those who seek the definitive analysis on the end of the Pacific War will have to look elsewhere. A good place to begin is Frank’s Downfall." --prof. michael kort frank is one o' the folks quoted earlier, one o' the most frequent quoted individuals in point o' fact on these issues, and he is most assured one o' those historians believing the soviet declaration o' war were pivotal in the japanese surrender decision. am not sure why you continue to wanna bullseye your self on this. HA! Good Fun! ps am not sure why we got strikethru for half the post

HA! Good Fun! ps lotta fixes in this one. no doubt it breaks a few things as well, but if most o' the fixes take, it will represent a noticeable improvement for more than a few build choices. o' particular note, as we were mentioning angel 'bove, the heavenly host ability for the sword of heaven has been broken since day and 'ccording to the patch notes it is fixed. however, as is a beta, am thinking we sit this one out for the nonce. am in act iv with our aeon and don't wanna break it more than is broken already. pps "Marksmen's damage has been moderately decreased;" well, that could hurt considering our building scheme is pretty much based on maximizing marksman and general powha.

am gonna guess the underground chemist levels is likely unnecessary but four levels is the traditional pnp route for adding sneak attack to a grenadier. at level 4 o' chemist, sneak attack damage is applied to splash weapons. ordinarily you don't apply sneak damage to bombs, but owlcat mechanics is wonky and weird with near anything resulting in sneak attack opportunities. have honest not looked to see how trickster interacts with bombs. regardless, a grenadier with holy bombs, the trickster crit range, plus potential sneak damage sounds like decent synergy and IF we were ever gonna consider a trickster run we might pick such a build. 'course we mentioned early in the thread the class which really had our curiosity were skalds. yeah, court poets got the nerfed in a big way with their skald stances being removed entire, but vanilla skalds is current working sans keening and the class offers bonkers buffing potential for a party. am suspecting skald will be our next main character choice 'cause at the moment the companions is not ideal for skald... unless your main is a paladin. play w/o seelah and her mark o' justice ability for mid/late game bosses is not something we would voluntarily consider unless we had another paladin, and possible act vi paladin companions is not a meaningful substitute. HA! Good Fun! ps according to a couple owlcat forum posts we read, bolt of justice/storm of justice is not working for at least a number o' players since the most recent patch. we went with a zen archer/sacred huntsmaster angel for our initial run, mostly 'cause we knew angel were less buggy than the other mythic paths at release... which weren't saying much. however, if you want angel for the ultrafantasticdivinepowha, now might not be the ideal time to indulge, though is clear angel ain't a first choice for you anyways. that said, from a rp pov, unless you are playing a lg paladin, is easy to go generic good in wotr w/o needing indulge the "behold my shiny halo" shtick. owlcat writing is not great, but for whatever faults may exist in the angel mythic path, and there is many, the angel writing is inclusive and kinda generic good as 'posed how you might be imagining. angels and paladins come to your aid at pivotal plot points but they ain't particular judgey o' your actions as long as you are at least more good than not. however, am not sure how seelah could ever maintain paladin status in the owlcat wotr universe. if you want to maintain lg alignment, then constant choosing the good option will see you fall from grace and the lawful dialogue choices appear purpose designed to be merciless. in our opinion, seelah is not capable o' maintaining owlcat lg. that said, azata does indeed have a whole lotta whimsy aspects.

dear lord. not this again. you got a serious weird russia thing. the existence o' a russian plan to invade hokkaido is hardly controversial, and the idea it were spun outta whole cloth with planned invasion to happen almost contemporaneous with the planning is amusing, 'cause that is exact how major amphibious assaults happen? sure, a memo detailing the plan is from four days following the japanese surrender, but the idea the plan were created on the nineteenth with an actual invasion date o' five days afterwards is your usual brand o' wacky we must need endure yet again. the only question which has ever been at issue is to what degree japanese capitulation were due to the dropping o' nuclear bombs or threat o' soviet invasion or both. from the fp article imbedded "The impact of the Soviet declaration of war and invasion of Manchuria and Sakhalin Island was quite different, however. Once the Soviet Union had declared war, Stalin could no longer act as a mediator — he was now a belligerent. So the diplomatic option was wiped out by the Soviet move. The effect on the military situation was equally dramatic. Most of Japan’s best troops had been shifted to the southern part of the home islands. Japan’s military had correctly guessed that the likely first target of an American invasion would be the southernmost island of Kyushu. The once proud Kwangtung army in Manchuria, for example, was a shell of its former self because its best units had been shifted away to defend Japan itself. When the Russians invaded Manchuria, they sliced through what had once been an elite army and many Russian units only stopped when they ran out of gas. The Soviet 16th Army — 100,000 strong — launched an invasion of the southern half of Sakhalin Island. Their orders were to mop up Japanese resistance there, and then — within 10 to 14 days — be prepared to invade Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s home islands. The Japanese force tasked with defending Hokkaido, the 5th Area Army, was under strength at two divisions and two brigades, and was in fortified positions on the east side of the island. The Soviet plan of attack called for an invasion of Hokkaido from the west. "It didn’t take a military genius to see that, while it might be possible to fight a decisive battle against one great power invading from one direction, it would not be possible to fight off two great powers attacking from two different directions. The Soviet invasion invalidated the military’s decisive battle strategy, just as it invalidated the diplomatic strategy. At a single stroke, all of Japan’s options evaporated. The Soviet invasion was strategically decisive — it foreclosed both of Japan’s options — while the bombing of Hiroshima (which foreclosed neither) was not. "The Soviet declaration of war also changed the calculation of how much time was left for maneuver. Japanese intelligence was predicting that U.S. forces might not invade for months. Soviet forces, on the other hand, could be in Japan proper in as little as 10 days. The Soviet invasion made a decision on ending the war extremely time sensitive." renowned experts such as frank and hasegawa make repeated mentions o' the russian invasion plans o' hokkaido. "Hasegawa fails to sustain his main arguments with the necessary evidence. At best, he leaves the revisionist case as he found it, in ruins. Indeed, he makes the rubble bounce by convincingly demonstrating that the Soviet Union very much was racing to get into the Pacific War in order to facilitate its expansionist policies in the Far East. Those who seek the definitive analysis on the end of the Pacific War will have to look elsewhere. A good place to begin is Frank’s Downfall." --prof. michael kort your tenacious hold on the fringe is indeed amusing. HA! Good Fun! ps the reason the soviets didn't believe they needed a huge invasion force is explained in linked material. japanese defensive buildup were near entire directed at repelling a planned US invasion o' the main island and they would have months to prepare for the assault. converse, the soviets could be in hokkaido with a a couple weeks. the august 19 memo seems to suggest the Japanese fears regarding the soviet timeline were correct. pps unrelated to zor silliness, one thing we found most intriguing 'bout the hasegawa video were how the professor admitted to being perplexed by truman's seeming ignorance o' the significance o' the bomb, until after they were dropped. hasegawa referenced quotes from truman contemporaneous notes and documents regarding the bomb test capabilities as described in vivid detail. nevertheless, truman clear didn't see the atomic bombs as anything more than a noteworthy increase in magnitude o' conventional weapons. after the bombs were dropped, and no nation save japan complained 'bout the use o' atomic weapons at the time, truman had a kinda epiphany and there were a complete change o' tone regarding atomic weapons. it were truman who demanded the use o' nukes be taken out o' the ordinary military chain o' command decision making, but that only happened after the use o' the weapons.

hmmm. we woulda thought a grenadier + trickster would be kinda ideal. chuck holy bombs with ridiculous high crit chance and sneak attack damage? take four levels o' underground chemist? have personal avoided trickster 'cause along with merged spellbook angel is kinda the cheese route, but am thinking you should be able to do trickster and bomber. @Agiel did the full trickster run so perhaps he has thoughts. HA! Good Fun!

am knowing is a meme, but the rule is not to invade russia in winter. the japanese did ok for themselves in the early 1900s with a war started in winter... the japanese declared war during first half o' february 1904. (edit: originally wrote "1905" but it looked wrong so we checked and sure enough we were mistaken 'bout the year. sheet.) the lasting national embarrassment from that war is one reason the soviets were so hot and bothered to invade hokkaido at the end o' ww2. HA! Good Fun! ps am knowing bill cosby is verboten nowadays, but we were reminded o' an old cosby bit pps the first record we were ever gifted were crime of the century by supertramp. second were bill cosby is a very funny fellow...right! our grandfather thought the cosby coin toss were the funniest thing evar.

kruger, wright and jackson are all more than qualified. wright is likely too old. kruger will require more time to have her background full investigated, and time may be o' the essence, but the cal supreme court judge is the best writer o' the three we mention. intellectually, our first choice is kruger, but am admitting jackson may be the best choice as kruger ideological and personality wise is similar to kagan. is no need for another kagan... unless she were clear a superior kagan. based on feedback from a few o' our colleagues who know judge jackson, she would shake things up considerable on the Court. if jackson becomes a Justice, the clerks is instant forming a pool and guessing which arrogant (they are all arrogant) senior Justice gets the hulk treatment from jackson. as for russia and ukraine, am waiting for the contrived excuse which has russia invade. russian state media is presenting the situation as one o' nato aggression, so 'course there will be an "incident" which affirms the narrative being concocted. won't be funny save to watch the putin apologists and defenders twist themselves into knots as they embrace the theatre. HA! Good Fun!

biden gaffes, while kinda anticipated and unfortunate if utter banal, has represented a welcome relief, which shows just how chaotic were the previous few years. am able to go days w/o looking at the news and am nevertheless confident biden will not have attempted a coup or tried to force a government agency or official to do something illegal. would prefer not to have gaffes from the President o' the US, but the fact such is the most significant news regarding POTUS is a welcome respite. that said, the ukraine blunder were indeed newsworthy. shoulda' been complete unnecessary to walk that one back, but this most recent biden hot mic click bait don't even rise to staring at an eclipse w/o eye protection kinda stoopid. HA! Good Fun!

am believing you don't realize the corner into which you painted yourself. the reason you were willing to believe the crt notions you repeated earlier is 'cause you read such from trusted news sources. were not cringey alt-right sources... though again, you included the nypost. you s'posed don't know and don't care 'bout crt *snort*, but you did voice opinion that IF crt is being taught as described in your trusted news sources, then is a bad thing. well, the thing is, the only source we bothered to check, 'cause is the only one we could speak to as being reputable, were brookings, and the first article we found on crt from brookings described crt in language opposite o' how you described. so, given your observation 'bout trusted sources, and recognizing you claimed brookings as such a source, then it would lead us to believe that you should have a much different pov regarding crt. at best you got a conflict 'tween brookings and perhaps the ny post, yes? am not seeing how such is a quandary, but perhaps the differing opinions leave you ambivalent? the thing is, ambivalent was not the hurdle you were facing in previous posts regarding crt. IF crt were being taught as follows: "I do not think that history should be over dramatized and I definitely do NOT think anyone alive today owes anyone else an apology for deeds done by people long dead. Nor do I think it's healthy to tell people they are victims and it's all stacked against them." and recognizing your info were gleaned from trusted sources... but again, your syllogism fails 'cause one o' your own trusted sources describes crt opposite o' your claims o' information gleaned from trusted sources. am not sure how many times we need do this dance. you read or hear something somewhere and it aligns with your they are all bad madness or general notions o' government badness. is where your investigation and introspection ends. fine. is your thing and am doubting is any chance to change you. unfortunate, you then try and add credibility into your beliefs by citing sources which don't actual align with your opinions or referencing quotes which fail to support your conclusions. observe this same situation repeats itself a few times and one would expect a change in behavior even from a skinner box rodent but not gd. additional, lord knows why you would be against grad students being taught crt even if you believe crt is wrong. is kinda impossible to effective discuss and criticize crt w/o at least a working knowledge o' the theory. consider how many fringe theories do you personal embrace? imagine if they were all verboten in university. furthermore, seeing as how they is trying to keep you from learning crt, gd should be almost reflexive MadDog in favour o' teaching crt if he were being intellectual consistent with his lunacy. any effort by they or them to proscribe topics o' learning is most assured not libertarian. HA! Good Fun!

... our sewing kit is held w/i a royal dansk cookie tin, although likely as old as Gromnir and is red. HA! Good Fun!

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no. the kobold gave you advice pre drezen and is our guess you are supposed to intuit the importance of returning to him. no invitation. am recollecting his decree requires 21 days to complete, so is a significant amount of time invested and am believing it may be a leadership advancement prerequisite. even if not a prereq per se, am guessing is near impossible to achieve leadership five w/o completing the decree. no doubt most folks who completed the beta return to the kobold w/o a second thought, but for a person playing wotr for the first time, is an easily overlooked task. HA! Good Fun!

no. ... wait, you wanted more? https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Drow the dark fate stuff is the big reveal o' the fifth installment o' the third pathfinder 1e adventure path, and the process o' transformation is a bit more complex than owlcat's wotr implies. is a whole lotta sh!tty elves and they got little chance o' becoming drow. w/o unique circumstances and/or direct demon lord intervention, an elf becoming drow doesn't happen even if the elf is the most hedonistic and sinister a$$bag who having suffered terrible betrayal wishes to punish all elves, but it could happen and the winter council doesn't want such info known. HA! Good Fun! ps look at us nerding out. *groan* thanks for ruining our day... not that we blame shady. am now gonna need play rugby w/o a mouth piece, bench press past our limit or something equal stoopid and jocklike.

ps @xzar_monty am apologizing for forgetting to mention, but am believing the kobold letters decree also need be researched to advance leadership ranks, and if were your first run o' wotr, is extreme ez to overlook this obscure detail. is quite possible you never even went back to talk to the kobold near leper's smile. HA! Good Fun!

is always amusing when you try and get the folks who blame biden to explain what specific policies "sleepy joe" implemented which resulted in the problems real and imagined being lamented today. can't exact blame biden for powell and the fed or for the economic fallout from trump's gross mishandling o' the pandemic? no doubt it were the school lunch program which broke everything. Presidents get far too much credit and too much blame for the economy, and the fact o' the matter is that when a President does royal screw the p00ch, is typical the next President who gets the blame. biden's 1.9 trillion american rescue plan, which continued the trump spending spree, is indeed gonna result in increased inflation, and such numbers will be apparent maybe six months from yesterday. maybe. am not a pro biden guy, and like it or not the President and his party is gonna take responsibility for problems which happen during his administration. doesn't need be fair. voters will hold biden responsible. sans the maxwell lord mind control o' 45, biden is gonna judged by both democrats and republicans based on the oversimplified "are you better off today than you were four years ago," bit which worked so well for regan. 'course for Congressmen seeking reelection in 22, they will be asked to explain why we ain't back to prepandemic like canada and europe. ... what, you says the US is not the anchor on the global economy? "Last week, new data revealed that the European Union was seeing a record-high inflation rate of 5% in December, the highest in its twenty-year history. Canada is seeing the highest rate of inflation in two decades. Ditto South Korea. Turkey. The United Kingdom. Countries, big and small, conservative-led and progressive-led, are grappling with surging consumer prices as global demand outstrips supply. It's one big global inflation-fest, and no single leader seems to have the power to stop it. "All these countries have one thing in common: they're all struggling to recover from a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic that continues to disrupt the supply side of the economy, hampering the ability of businesses, workers, and the global supply chain to operate at full capacity and satisfy boomeranging consumer demand. Rather than putting a Biden "I did that" sticker on products with skyrocketing prices, it's probably more accurate to say "COVID did that."" there were a freaking pandemic, and more than 1/3 o' the country has been trying to sabotage efforts to mitigate the damage. is gonna be blamed on joe. even before vaccines, we had a blueprint for what is the correct response. the situation weren't near as novel or as unexpected as some suggest. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-19/coronavirus-lessons-from-great-1918-spanish-flu-pandemic nevertheless, 'cause o' politics and stoopid, we f'd up our pandemic response in spite o' being one o' the few major nations which had spent billions, developed a plan and innovated tools for such an eventuality. HA! Good Fun!

fast healing for your main character during act 3, w/o some special other ability, is the result of the proximity to the sword of valor. in the abyss you shouldn't be fast healing unless you took the marvelous endurance sooperpower. HA! Good Fun!

which would make more sense if the folks who rail against crt would just says they is using crt as a placeholder... could then claim that once again the libs is nitpicking at nomenclature and naming conventions. however, as we noted with a few fox articles earlier in this thread, the crt crusaders is indeed trying to prove that crt specific is being taught in public schools to little kids. recognizing how the claim crt being taught in public schools to kids is only slight more believable than the suggestion the sound from windmills causes cancer, it would make sense to deflect or pivot... make it a democrat or lib flaw to be overinvested in the name w/o recognizing the Big Problem. however, that ain't how crt is being addressed by those who is offended by its existence. what we see instead is a genuine and hard fought defense o' stoopid, which may be ok with the current gop as part o' the point is to undermine american's resistance to gaslighting. HA! Good Fun!

and again, crt is graduate level coursework not being taught to middle school, high school or kindergarteners, and that should make a difference. we want university students exposed to unfamiliar ideas and theories. we want graduate students to be challenged by ideas and theories which they disagree or find unconvincing. from what we understand, teaching crt to little crumbsnatchers is s'posed bad 'cause is potential a kinda indoctrination o' impressionable youth, but at some point we expect kids is mature enough to be able to study mao, the unab0mber manifesto and reganomics with enough self-discipline to decide for themselves what is dangerous and/or unconvincing. see the thing is, even if you disagree with mao, the unab0mber and reganomics, you might learn something by studying 'em. if you wanna explain what is wrong with a theory, you gotta at least have some basic knowledge o' it, yes? even if you think crt is the worst theory ever posited, and am gonna note the literal first brookings article on the subject the intraweb led us to is pretty much a refutation o' everything gd claims he learned 'bout crt from brookings, there is nevertheless potential value in having graduate level students parse and study the darn theory. if crt is terribad and stoopid, then should be a simple matter for graduate students to identify the stoopid. don't you want educated people to be able to intelligent respond to proponents o' crt? kinda hamstringing s'posed educated people to challenge crt if the only source material they got is local newspaper articles and the post concluding crt is bad. am gonna also suggest a gibbering conspiracy theorist such as @Guard Dog should, if he is being consistent, be more inclined to believe there is value in crt, 'cause why would they be working so hard to keep crt from you unless it were dangerous to them. HA! Good Fun!

and yet here we are... again. lord only knows why you would mention the nypost as some kinda source for credible and true news reporting. you gotta be joking. having a little joke to see if Gromnir paid attention to your laundry list? however, we would be curious to see an actual brookings article which convinced you crt is guilty o' the following: "I do not think that history should be over dramatized and I definitely do NOT think anyone alive today owes anyone else an apology for deeds done by people long dead. Nor do I think it's healthy to tell people they are victims and it's all stacked against them." keep in mind the considerable number o' times we has heard you claim a source said something which it most certainly did not, leading us to correct you. so you throwing out names o' publications sans links or quotes is less than convincing given your track record for suspect recollections. no doubt you will come back and tell us you misremembered or thought it were brookings instead o'... whatever. am also having no idea what a local tennessee print sources is telling you, or whether they got a noteworthy skew. perhaps forgot to mention the info were gleaned via an opinion piece or somesuch? nypost? serious? HA! Good Fun! ps: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/07/02/why-are-states-banning-critical-race-theory/ CRT does not attribute racism to white people as individuals or even to entire groups of people. Simply put, critical race theory states that U.S. social institutions (e.g., the criminal justice system, education system, labor market, housing market, and healthcare system) are laced with racism embedded in laws, regulations, rules, and procedures that lead to differential outcomes by race. ... Scholars and activists who discuss CRT are not arguing that white people living now are to blame for what people did in the past. They are saying that white people living now have a moral responsibility to do something about how racism still impacts all of our lives today. ... The approach of some Republican-led state legislatures is a method for continuing to roll back racial progress regarding everything from voting rights to police reform. This is a horrible idea and does an injustice to our kids. Laws forbidding any teacher or lesson from mentioning race/racism, and even gender/sexism, would put a chilling effect on what educators are willing to discuss in the classroom and provide cover for those who are not comfortable hearing or telling the truth about the history and state of race relations in the United States. Ironically, “making laws outlawing critical race theory confirms the point that racism is embedded in the law,” as sociologist Victor Ray noted. ... dude.

transmissibility were described by one doctor on cnn (so take for what it is worth) as equivalent to the measles, which if accurate means if you live with somebody who has omicron and you are not the rare individual with natural immunity, then is hard to imagine you will not become infected, though you could be infected and asymptomatic and/or have an extreme mild case. get vaccinated. get the booster. social distance if you are immunocompromised or have health issues which make you vulnerable. etc. HA! Good Fun!

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there you go. now even gd can see where his problem on this is, yes? indulge a trumpist "some people say" kinda response? ... regardless, crt is not being taught to middle or high school kids anywhere, so is weird gd just kinda accepts and parrots the criticisms level'd at crt in spite o' fact they is coming from same sources telling him crt is being taught to cindy lou who at sebastian j. mcgrinch middle school in nakipoo, tennessee. not 'bout apologies. is definite not overdramatizing. is not 'bout victimization, though am s'posing some could read that way if they read into it what they wanna... which is kinda reflexive natural anytime race is an issue. crt is an all-inclusive theory which posits racism is normal and becomes codified in laws. racism natural is extreme well entrenched in societies and w/o serious and real pressures, typical economic forces, racism continues in part 'cause is utter pervasive and self perpetuating... but do not repeat this gross oversimplification back to us 'cause again, is comical simplified. our criticism o' crt is that a bunch o' lawyers came up with a theory focused on the laws o' nations as evidence and explanation for racism, the universe and everything. if somebody tells you they cracked the code on economics or political systems, chances are you laugh at them for their arrogance, then spend effort reading their argument, then laugh at them again 'cause they proved you correct for laughing at them the first time. crt is deserving to be taught to harvard lawyers, which were the original use o' the theory, in small part to get 'em to consider racism as something pervasive but normal which could be analyzed a bit more dispassionate. crt doesn't need be true to be useful from an education standpoint if it manages to promote critical thinking o' a complex issue all too often drowned in rhetoric. the effort to take the moral and emotional outta racism is maybe ironic given how much o' a kerfuffle crt has created, though again, is race, so 'course people is gonna lose their water at the mere mention. HA! Good Fun!

lann as a zen archer/hunter (divine hunter) makes the celestial velociraptor a thing. best build for lann is probable 1/19 zen archer/divine hunter, but what you gain late you lose earlier, when the game may actual be tougher, particularly on harder difficulty levels. legendary proportions, now that there is dinosaur bones aplenty, is endgame win, but is a whole lotta levels you go through to get to that point. one o' the nice things 'bout zen archer with three levels is you use wisdom instead o' dex for your accuracy, so you are gonna get considerable early and mid game use from enlarge person coupled with your hurricane bow. three levels o' zen also provides you for free most o' the costly archer feats you want and allows you to ignore many shot and rapid shot in favor o' other feats. boosting wisdom as a primary attribute also allows you to be a bit more creative with your domain selection as most domain powhaz is dependent on either class level or wisdom modifier. however, for the velociraptor itself, no matter what, add one point o' intelligence at level four, and then go all strength. for the sub-class, pick aggressor with the bleed quality and the slight ab boost it offers. aggressor also provides free power attack. a downside to raptor is early it does kinda weak damage and power attack mitigates this shortcoming. do NOT take weapon finesse as recommended, 'cause relative quick your dino's str is gonna be better than its dex. weapon focus (other natural, 'cause talons is other), blind fight and combat reflexes is likely your first three feats. am always choosing blind fight early for animal companions 'cause in battles with foes who have annoying gaze attacks, your velociraptor will be unaffected, and you are not gonna be having partywide death ward for a considerable period of time. outflank is a must and so too is seize the moment. is likely a good idea to go with shake it off, but is other ways to boost saves, so is not essential. your celestial animal companion will eventually have sr 25, which in pnp would be nice but given the wotr stat bloat is kinda worthless. save bonuses is thus kinda important, though if you go aeon or angel you is gonna have abilities or spells to grant all kinda partywide immunities. at this point all the feat essentials is fulfilled. congrats... though you likely wanna take improved critical, but remember talon is "other" and not claw. if you got a skald in your party, some o' this may change, 'cause skalds are able to add natural weapon attacks to your entire party, including your dino, which makes the critter even more insane. with a skald going full beast totem you will have more than 10 attacks per round and seven/eight o' them will be full ab... full ab with the benefit o' smite which adds character level to damage and ignores dr. the only downside to the celestial velociraptor with smite is the alignment o' the critter remains neutral, so you will not be able to use paladin's bestow grace to boost saves, but as we noted earlier in the thread, with item/spell boosted charisma not only will your smite provide a decent attack bonus, but you should put skill points into umd so your dino will be able to use spells from scrolls. doesn't take much imagination to think how best to use scrolls to sooper power your animal companion. HA! Good Fun! ps if you make a main character hunter and really want the velociraptor, perhaps you could try a dual wielding, hasty halfling so you may mount your raptor and ride into battle, though am honest not sure how mounted combat would work with the current free smite for the raptor. being able to smite an unlimited number o' times is serious overkill, but am not having considered how to trigger smite with a mounted character so as not to interfere with the rider's actions.