Gromnir

if mortismal mentioned one crusade bug, am gonna place good money on a bet there is more. am gonna mention the mortismal guy once more to observe his completion o' the game is likely an outlier. continue with the gambler theme, am willing to bet more than a few current available reviews o' a game which will boast more than 100 hours and were only accessed by reviewers starting last week is gonna effective be reviews o' the first couple chapters, so you is likely getting reviews mostly o' the stuff least busted even in the final beta. as an aside, the single review we read for the game were from screen rant, and we didn't even know screen rant did game reviews. the thing is, while they gave the game a decent score, they observed, "There is one major problem with Wrath of the Righteous that sours the experience, and it's the bugs. There were few moments in Screen Rant's playthrough that didn't have some kind of gameplay or visual bug. These ranged from minor graphical glitches to not being able to escape from situations without a hard reset, to moves and powers simply not functioning, and some near-game-breaking situations that required a lot of save-scumming to get past. The glitches are a constant menace and they sour the experience of what is otherwise a fantastic game." each beta release for wotr were more unstable than the previous iteration with the recognition previous released chapters had fewer quest ending bugs. the final release should have few new features compared to the final beta, so am not expecting an instability spike, but considering chapters five and six didn't even get beta review, the reasonable starting assumption would be that wotr stability at release will be less than ideal. HA! Good Fun!

have been playing the beta exclusive in tb mode at core difficulty. there have been a few tb specific bugs, but most such bugs has been overcome by a momentary switch to rt. overall we got few complaints regarding owlcat's tb implementation for wotr, and is not as if Gromnir is reluctant to criticize. is a whole lotta wotr trash mob combat, so play in tb will inflate gameplay hours. we were kinda in dedicated beta tester mode for the beta, so we stuck to tb with our usual perverse level o' single-mindedness, and is likely we will continue to do so 'cause am considering full release just another stage o' the beta. even so, if we were to recommend a play style based on an unlikely amount o' wotr gameplay hours, we would observe how given how much filler combat exists, rt is a good idea for most combats but any boss or sub-boss battle is worth switching to tb. regardless, am thinking owlcat deserves credit for the job they did implementing tb mode for wotr. HA! Good Fun!

we watched five minutes o' one o' his wotr videos and he pronounced rapier as ra (like the egyptian god) + peer multiple times. inexplicable drove us to distraction. am more than a little disappointed to hear the crusade stuff is still bugged. dead end quest bugs are always frustrating but am expecting a few o' those, particular in the final two chapters. am also suspecting the reviewer is unaware o' many o' the feature implementation bugs, 'cause unless you play a skald or demonslayer ranger, how are you gonna know if those two classes is busted? divine hunter, for example, worked in the beta ok for the first couple levels, but at level three, when your animal companion becomes otherworldly, advancement would lockup... but only if you chose celestial. choose fiendish for your critter and you wouldn't even notice there was a problem with divine hunter progression. is literal hundreds o' bugs like that and a surprising number is effective terminating any kinda character progression in a chosen class/archetype. ... am gonna be curious to see if there is crusade workarounds, 'cause the most recent beta crusade problems woulda' ended our attempt to play the game under any normal circumstances. HA! Good Fun!

it is painfully ez to build a character or party wrong, just objective wrong. is painful ez to build a character or party which performs great for the first 1/2or for 2/3 o' the game only to discover the bosses in the last 1/2 or 1/3 o' the game is functionable unbeatable for you. even if you know pathfinder backwards and forwards, you may still be in for pain 'cause rules related to mind affecting spells is applied different in pnp compared to wotr. and don't forget the bugs which will cause pain if you are unaware of them. the current worst ranger archetype you may choose is the demonslayer. doesn't look bad and sounds like a good option for a game in which you is fighting many demons, yes? unfortunate, the current state o' the demonslayer is such that you only get favoured enemy bonuses against outsiders which is not demons. etc. probable most painful is looking to the owlcat boards for insights. is not that the advice you will find is bad, but very quick is gonna seem like there is a small number o' correct spell options and feat options for a given class. if you multiclass a paladin, you are doomed. if you play a nature mystery oracle and don't go mounted, you are doomed. if you don't give greyboar shield bash feats, he is doomed. think we are exaggerating? think again. part o' the pain is that only most o' the board build advice is steeped in hyperbole. it is indeed true that you may build yourself into a hole. just as bad is if you follow the board advice you may get the impression that the options for avoiding the hole is limited. if we hadn't spent an embarrassing number of hours with the beta, we might be more concerned 'bout the possibility for reaching late game pain... and am nevertheless anticipating pain to come our way due to hubris. will be something(s) we didn't know 'bout how owlcat implemented different from paizo or different from earlier beta builds. am not thinking min-max is necessary, but such a conclusion is more o' a quibble regarding nomenclature. can build a less than ideal character which will nevertheless be mighty successful in wotr. the problem is the holes and the pain which accompanies falling into the many holes. not need to be min-maxed, but need to be aware o' the holes, and hopeful one is able to recognize which holes described on the owlcat boards ain't actual holes. very confusing. HA! Good Fun!

complete aside, the last couple days has seen frequent owlcat message board "crashes." if owlcat bandwidth cannot handle the recent increased pre launch traffic, am wondering how things go on september 2. do not expect a smooth release in any way, shape or form. less likely to be disappointed. am recommending you wear your seatbelts. HA! Good Fun!

the fire is changing winds in our area. typical winds where we live is westerly (west-to-east.) with a predictable daily shift being a change 'tween south westerly to north westerly. current, when it gets cooler in the eve, the smoke from the fire is actual being sucked down into the foothills where we live to the west o' tahoe. am getting genuine easterly winds for 'bout 1/3 of the day. HA! Good Fun!

IF you play oracle or cleric + angel, then concerns 'bout difficulty should be diminished. is not a min/max thing. as we noted, what made our earlier cheese build powerful were less the min/max stuff than it were simple going angel + oracle. is no reason to avoid playing angel + anything. angel is possible the most appropriate archetype choice given you is leading a crusader army against the forces o' the abyss. actual kinda sucks am gonna avoid because o' the difficulty reduction aspect; Smite Heretics is having personal appeal for at least one run. am not suggesting you should play angel and have an easier run. however, am letting you know that if you play cleric or oracle and then take angel, gameplay post drezen is gonna become relative easier. HA! Good Fun!

play an oracle or cleric with angel as your mythic path also effective slides the difficulty in the direction o' ez. am not suggesting the combo is a you win button kinda approach, but a few o' the angel aoe and direct damage spells, which you will get relative early due to spell book merging, ignore sr and thanks to your increased caster level will result in jaw dropping kinda pain for evildoers, particular for demons. at some point, perhaps early, am gonna play a caster oracle, but am purposeful going azata (or something else) as 'posed to angel. one reason am going not angel is 'cause when we did so in the beta with an admitted cheesy qstaff wielding sacred fist(1)/paladin(2)/thug(2)/oracle playing core difficulty in tb mode it were ridiculous and not 'cause o' the ac and saving throw boosts. the thing that made the game so much easier a bit past drezen were the angel spells, and that were with five less oracle spell casting levels. HA! Good Fun!

didn't say it was. however, there is considerable numbers o' people in the US buying the stuff from feed stores and they obvious ain't in the icu when they get their john deere hat from a rack and a tube o' horse jelly. is not hard to find links on line where people is asking what is the proper dosage for their 165lb "horse." people is self administering way before the stage they would otherwise be getting dexamethasone. far too many people rejecting any mask or vaccine efforts is nevertheless quite obvious afraid o' covid. horse jelly, for their peer group, is a social acceptable alternative. HA! Good Fun!

as an aside, am realizing is impossible to genuine convey how death and death by covid-19 is not same thing. bob were unvaccinated and on saturday when he went to starbucks he were infected with covid-19 by phil. no surprise to anybody, phil were asymptomatic and not wearing a mask. thirty seconds later, when bob walked stepped out onto the sidewalk, BAM, he keeled over dead from the lethal respiratory disease. ... is not the way it works. show video o somebody intubated or do interviews with survivors just ain't cutting it insofar as communicating the suffering and fear. am not certain how to make death by respiratory failure more real and intimate. spend time with people dying slowish o' covid-19, see nurses who themselves look hollowed out holding phones near the patient's ear so family unable to visit the icu may say goodbye, and then quibble 'bout percentages regarding efficacy o' masks or death rates? is still gonna be such folks, but number is gonna shrink considerable.

yeah, reason is a dead ends on this. if you are buying horse dewormer from a feed store you is quite obvious afraid of covid-19. as between the horse jelly and a vaccine which has now been functional tested on many millions o' people with an extreme low incidence o' side effects, why would a reasonable person choose the horse jelly? is not reasonable. however, such choices may actual be described as logical and/or rational even if not reasonable. recognize that the chance o' death is known and acceptable when compared with the more likely negative impact o' being seen by your community as a traitor or weak. knowing choose possible death to avoid social stigma may be rational even if is unreasonable. similar, the politicians who is active discouraging mitigation efforts and is willing to see corpses stacked like cordwood in temporary refrigerator truck morgues as the obvious and immediate cost o' such choices is being rational. if the votes they anticipated lose is greater from embracing sensible mitigation efforts than is the votes lost by embracing the death cult mantra, then the corpses is a rational choice if one accepts that retaining political power is the actual goal as 'posed to the interests o' the electorate in staying alive and/or healthy. am thinking one o' the obstacles faced by those who is trying to combat hesitancy regarding vaccines and mitigation efforts is the belief that those resisting is irrational. how do you convince an irrational person to change their behaviour? wrong approach. these folks ain't actual irrational. if you understand what is genuine important to the people objecting to wearing masks and getting vaccinated, then solutions is no easier to reach, but is at least a start. assume fear of death or serious illness to self and loved ones should be a primary consideration is a mistake. the chance o' death is statistic not high and is far less certain than the stigma which will accompany being a traitor to peer group beliefs. the choice being made by many o' these folks is, as hard as it may be to believe, rational. there is a failure to recognize just how powerful is current level o' polarization and the peer group pressure being exerted. fear o' possible death v. certainty o' shame. course recognizing that these folks is not actual irrational hasn't provided Gromnir with any meaningful solutions, so... regardless, as americans, am suspecting history is not gonna look kindly 'pon us and how we faced the greatest health threat o' the last century. HA! Good Fun! ps recall socrates willing chose death instead o' exile and the philosopher's choice were not political.

don't. what sort o' insanity has you or anybody else trying to disprove a conspiracy theory? prove aliens weren't behind the assassination o' jfk. go ahead, we dare you. is the one point o' the report which had consensus and confidence. meanwhile, gd is embracing conspiracy theory logic to breathe life into an otherwise unsupportable position. don't be like @Darkpriest. disprove the conspiracy theory should not be a thing you even consider as relevant. if covid-19 were indeed lab created in any meaningful sense, it would be a legit concern, but the reputable science doesn't support such a conclusion and it ain't just a we can't prove it was lab created with absolute certainty kinda conclusion. HA! Good Fun!

am thinking the mod in question is once again shooting past irony. the custody issue were most assured not an example o' "make stuff up" and imposing on people. best interest of the child is the guide for the judge in custody/visitation/whatever. show a judge were unreasonable in concluding an unvaccinated parent poses an increased health risk for a child? is gonna be tough to prove such with enough certainty to overturn the decision and ignoring legal aspects, is tough to argue such a position is common sense unwarranted. judge not have to be irrefutable correct but cannot be obvious wrong. to criticize hurl given the mod's own mischaracterization is... amusing. converse, a judge forcing a doctor to violate ethical demands o' the profession is rare. do no harm is a thing. doesn't matter that the patient is dying. ordinary, the law won't compel a doctor to provide medical care which is likely to cause harm even if the patient is dying. 'course in end o' life situations there has been conflicts 'tween judges and doctors. the judge is clear wrong on the law in this situation, but from a practical pov, it don't matter. is likely a doctor may be found who will administer the dewormer and will be up to the hospital and another judge to block administering o' the treatment. trump were booed at a recent rally when he advocated getting vaccinated. republicans no longer have control o' this. six years ago antivaxx were embraced almost exclusive by hippie moms, minority communities and a few ultra religious groups, but thanks to trump pushing fake news narrative, promoting distrust o' science and the equal curious injection o' faux libertarian (no compromise on guns and masks and anything they imagine is a Liberty Right) into the national republican platform o' grievance and fear, republicans now face the choice o' holding on tight and riding the tiger or getting mauled by the beast they created. HA! Good Fun!

again, not one report. one intelligence element which contributed to the report reached a conclusion differing from every other contributor to the report. a single intelligence element reached a conclusion, with moderate confidence, that the most likely explanation for initial human exposure were lab escape. such an opinion were clear a minority opinion. being a minority opinion don't make the minority wrong, but you keep skipping over that rather important detail, much as you purposeful chose not to mention the consensus regarding the rejection o' lab creation. so again, is most assuredly not the case that the report established with moderate confidence that lab release were most likely. report is not a huge leap from what were being circulated last year. you were misreading articles last year and you are doing same today. HA! Good Fun!

only clerics and oracles. druids and shamans were not invited to the party. obvious question: why is the spellbook merge feature of the angel mythic path limited to oracle and cleric? never seen an explanation from owlcat. lich spellbook merging works similar to angel but is the arcane caster version and is only benefitting sorcerer and wizard. HA! Good Fun!

again, the intelligence community were having a high degree o' confidence on at least one point: the virus was not created in a lab. consensus conclusion. as such, it kinda depends on what you mean by "where it came from." no, we won't know with any certainty who were patient zero and where and when the virus first took hold in the human population. nevertheless, there does seem to be enough evidence to conclude with a high level o' confidence the virus were not "manmade" or whatever term you wanna use to indicate conscious human intervention. is kinda a big deal if you are able to eliminate the possibility o' intentional human buggery, no? as such, "where it came from," has already been narrowed a bit albeit w/o absolute certainty. what we know o' as covid-19 mighta' been transported to a lab where it then escaped, but the US intelligence community appears to have concluded that covid-19 were natural as 'posed to crafted. there is no The Scientific Community which could release some kinda similar report, but thus far the weight o' experts willing to weigh in on the issue appear to have confidence covid-19 were not lab created. as such, am thinking at worst one could state that the most likely origin for covid-19 based on what is known today is that nature is where it came from, yes? HA! Good Fun!

that is so not what the report says. consensus is the virus were not created in a lab, a dp hobgoblin paraded 'bout these boards with some frequency. is odd you do not share this revelation, eh? however, as for the possibility the virus escaped from a lab, while the intelligence agencies agreed it would be impossible to reach any kinda definitive conclusion, four intelligence "elements" and the National Intelligence Council concluded with low confidence that the most likely origin were natural animal to human contact. one intelligence element said with moderate confidence that the most likely origin were a lab leak. as has been stated previous, we would not be at all shocked if the virus did indeed escape from a lab. would not be the first time a pathogen escaped from a chinese lab. however, such is considerable different than lab created and your portrayal o' the report revelations is either intentional misleading or based on ignorance from having misread a single source which at first glance appeared to confirm your bias. honest, why do you keep posting this stuff, especial if you all you do is turn yourself into a punching bag opportunity for anybody who bothers to examine your sources? HA! Good Fun!

bard doesn't do much for us personal, but skald is intriguing both for single and multiclass options. unfortunately, skald has been one o' the more busted classes all during the beta. with a cegorach inspired main, is unlikely you got seelah and ember in your party, but a court poet skald provides a nice powerup for not only self but for those two companions as well as for nenio, daeran and to a lesser degree, sosiel. am also curious 'bout battle singer as well but have not tested at all. ... give seelah eight court poet levels has gameplay upside but am having some difficulty explaining from a roleplay pov. HA! Good Fun!

education has been around much longer than 1639, but a separate field o' study for education is relative new and real world application is limited almost entire to teaching of children. seven thousand years ago if you were learning to be a farmer or hunter you would be taught by a farmer or hunter. is no different today... at the university level. is highly unlikely your professor o' physics at princeton or berkeley has a background in education. you wanna learn to be a physicist and are willing to pay to be educated? your teachers is gonna be people who has studied the subject in which you wish to gain knowledge and/or proficiency. unlike university courses or truck driving or cooking (or pretty much anything else) if you wanna teach kids in the US, you is expected to have some bear minimum knowledge in the subject matter you teach, but you need have substantial hours o' classwork completed in education specific. education as a distinct field o' study is newish. knowledge and proficiency in education as a pre req to teach kids is having even less tradition. HA! Good Fun!

only just saw this, so apologies for the kinda necro aspect. could probable smoke a couple packs o' virginia death sticks and such would be no more unhealthy than consuming a typical batch o' baked beans, and am ok with that. traditional baked bean recipe includes 1:1 ratio o' dried beans to bacon plus a substantial 'mount o' sugar. if am using a pound o' beans, then am personal adding 'bout a 1/2 cup o' sugars... even split brown sugar and molasses. cook for at least six hours. ... am s'posing you could make healthier baked beans, but what would be the point? HA! Good Fun!

'cause am certain somebody was eventually gonna link. HA! Good Fun!

well, he has pretty much written the same book a few dozen times, changing little more than the cover and title page, nevertheless he keeps getting paid, so he is clear doing something right. HA! Good Fun!

if you retire at 65 and want to make $35k per year based on extreme safe interest only investments, you would need more than $1 million saved to last into your 80s. if you are 25 today, to save $1 million dollars by 65 you better start by saving $600 per month and increasing steadily. more than 50% o' the adult US population has more debt than assets. is a whole lotta the adult population making just enough to cover rent and bus fare and little more; their retirement plan is lotto scratchers. comrade wouldn't recognize the american psyche if it jumped up and smacked him across the face with a rotting trout. HA! Good Fun!

well, from the beta it were not quite tdkr joker homicidal or something wicked this way comes g.m. dark level o' sinister. there were a killer klowns from outer space kinda mayhem aspect to the trickster. am not sure what we expected. am s'posing is difficult to achieve an ideal and universal appreciated level o' mischievous, but mostly am thinking somebody at owlcat forgot the rules and the mogwai were fed after midnight. HA! Good Fun!

Memoirs of My Services in the World War 1917-1918-- George C. Marshall marshall usual gets recognition for being the architect o' the marshall plan, which won him the nobel peace prize, but that were a peace time effort and he were secretary o' state at the time. marshal were made made chief of staff o' the US army on the day poland were invaded by germany, and at that time the US had an army on par with bulgaria. marshall admitted that the US were not even a third rate military power at the start o' ww2. as such, marshal were an essential figure in transforming the US army from a 4th rate institution into a dominant military superpower. is no memoir o' ww2 from marshall although he were offered more than a million dollars by Time Life for the rights to publish. marshall claimed that if he wrote a memoir o' ww2 it would ruin too many reputations. in the book marshall shares his views on what is necessary for a good American general, and for that alone the book is worth reading particular as his opinions on command officers were controlling during ww2, and endures to some degree even today, but marshall's belief that ineffectual officers need be weeded out aggressive and immediate were abandoned. am having a hard cover edition, but am recollecting it is available online for free. HA! Good Fun!