Gromnir

is it possible a post from the star trek mirror universe slipped over to this side? then again, this don't seem out of character for 2023 trump, many o' his maga adherents, and a few obsidian board posters. near as bad, many people will read and just shrug off the fact that the former US President, likely gop nominee for the Presidency and possible future President just suggested he should be able to do crimes while in office with no possible future repercussions. trump also has a curious notion 'bout cop legal responsibility. gerald ford took considerable heat for pardoning nixon. sucker. as an aside, the original post from trump were time stamped at 2:00 am. HA! Good Fun!

first time we played wotr, we kept camellia in our party through her entire story arc. our certainty we were watching a trainwreck occur in slow motion were not enough to overcome our completionism. our dogmatic playthrough o' rogue trader is an almost unique exception to the manner in which we typical play crpgs with joinable companions, but we just couldn't bring our self to suffer xenos or those who has already succumb to warp madness. purifying fire is our solution when confronting the enemies o' humanity and agents o' the archenemy. HA! Good Fun!

our jae was dual wield deadly... until the most recent patch. we were having her use overcharging plasma pistols which were great as long as party members stayed a square distant. gunslinger jae were almost as effective as our argenta sniper for dps. 'course now jae is as likely to self immolate as kill heretics and xenos. *sad face* am gonna have difficulty doing anything but sniper for argenta in future runs as she makes early game encounters a breeze, and early game is, as is typical for crpgs, the most challenging content. quit on our officer and started over with a dogmatic, fortress world, ministorum priest leaning hard into flame weapons. is kinda over-the-top fun, but am definite doing iconoclast next so am able to keep a few more party members alive past the early portions o' the game. HA! Good Fun!

am not having confirmed the source, but if true this is intriguing, however... on january 7, 2021 am betting few would guess another battleground nailbiter 'tween trump and biden were gonna be how one would describe the 2024 Presidential race, but here we are. a percentage point or two in georgia, pennsylvania, michigan, arizona, wisconsin and a couple other states is gonna decide the Presidency, so is gonna be a tendency to read too much into the poll du jour. is far too early to make grand predictions based on curious data points, and am having no idea what were the actual question asked in the des moines poll, but we were nevertheless surprised by the info. take for what little the linked tweet is worth. did we add enough qualifiers? HA! Good Fun!

so is an open-face gyro on pizza dough instead o' pita bread? sure. why not? ... chances are we would do chicago tavern style 'stead o' typical pizza dough, 'cause if am gonna have a gyro then why not just use a pita? am doubtful anybody is curious, but tavern style is easy to make at home 'cause the curing o' the dough is pretty much fool proof and you cook at 500 fahrenheit, so no need for a special oven. for the tavern crust, you is for all intents and purposes making failed bread, and is nothing more simple then failure. once you get a little practice at making the tavern-style dough (which admitted does involve at least an overnight step, but am finding that letting the dough over ferment/rest three days in the fridge is ideal,) you may use the resulting crust for pretty much any topping you can imagine... much like pizza, but far more simple. btw, tavern style is a guarantee win with guests who will think you did something complicated and special when in reality you chose a path o' least resistance. HA! Good Fun!

... we had same reaction to the patch as bruce campbell's character did to peter parker's diamond in spider-man 3.. what genuine shocked us were an owl cat person reacting to queries in the steam thread for the patch. is nice to see that imperial world characters, including companions, not getting the benefit o' common talent attribute improvements were addressed, but am thinking am gonna wait a bit before we go beyond chapter two. am gonna take two dogmatic and one iconoclast characters to near end o' chapter two and then wait for a couple more patches. HA! Good Fun!

will check it out... but isn't a french person reaching for a bottle of wine to solve a problem kinda cliché ? just sayin'. HA! Good Fun!

highly recommend the following: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC122061BDC373B4B not all in the playlist is win, but is fantastic production at work and the pop song covers which typical leave us flaccid is intriguing to us precise 'cause o' masterful contributions o' artists whose instruments and voices go largely unheard by Gromnir in his everyday music selections.... and 'cause is so many cameo contributions from giants o' music. HA! Good Fun!

yeah, that aligns with our earlier observation, though am most definite not a pro cook or chef. the reason why am disappointed when family or friends ask us to cook well-done is cause doing so makes cut/grade choice and skill o' the preparer largely irrelevant. those prime cut ribeyes is wasted on cousin bobby (much like from goodfellas, all our east coast male relatives has names which end in a hard "e" sound--paulie, bobby tommy, etc.) who asks for well done. coulda' given him a select grade chuck steak and grill it to death and it would taste same as our careful prepared ribeye. in fact, chuck on the grill might taste better well done than our pan sear and infrared broiler efforts. at least the grill might add a smokey flavour to the meat. HA! Good Fun!

actually, is multiple becauses. yeah, we mentioned the sauce in your pictured steak appeared to be ketchup, but perhaps a year latter when we shared an atk video, you brought up the ketchup on steak guy all by your lonesome. have personal shared the dirty harry clip regarding ketchup on hot dogs a couple times. the curious fascination o' scandanavains with ketchup has occurred multiple times on this board, usual with @Azdeustaking a few well earned shots regarding what foods is so not improved by ketchup and resulting in numerous tangential ketchup observations-- we did share our personal and labor-intensive ketchup recipe. collectively we can be a bit predictable at times. HA! Good Fun!

our personal feels is good steak don't need to be dressed up with anything other than salt and mayhap a bit o' pepper, but the problem with seasoning with pepper before cooking is that scorched/burned pepper can be slight funky. am s'posing am not averse to a smallish quantity o' herb butter on a steak and we always got a few variations on hand in the freezer. for steak sandwiches am making a sauce from the pan drippings-- add a fair amount o' butter, worcestershire sauce and perhaps pepper to the pan we cooked the steak. we would never personal add ketchup to a decent steak, but our guests may do no wrong at our table, so if they wanna over salt or add ketchup am ok with it. however, if Gromnir cooks, than am less likely to indulge requests which we see as sacrilegious. put ketchup on your steak or burger? sure, go ahead, but please don't ask us to cook 'em well-done. yeah, chances are we will go ahead and burn away all the flavour from their meat if they so request it, but we will grumble 'bout it. we spend all the effort to hand grind short rib and chuck to get perfect hamburger, or purchase prime grade ribeyes and then we get a well-done request which makes quality o' the meat and the skill of preparation irrelevant? is unfair to ask us to do well-done... but is tough to say no to guests. HA! Good Fun!

gonna trigger @majestic with the ketchup redux. kinda groundhog day material. in the US, almost all ketchup is a variation o' heinz tomato ketchup. when folks not in the US talk about ketchup, they may be referencing something which is a fair bit different than what an american would expect. regardless, we personal embrace the chicagoan/dirty harry dogma regarding ketchup and hot dogs-- is no less verboten than ketchup on steak. as for dipping... cheese is always win. @Gorth has his remoulade, and if am doing cajun/creole am likely gonna think remoulade is appropriate. real mayonnaise, which is different than any shelf stable brand available in the US, is kinda tasty and quite customizable. we do like carolina gold, but am almost never making it... which is kinda weird. am not a fan o' over sweet, but for asian dishes we like peanut sauces and a honey sriracha which is maybe less sweet and a bit heavier on the ginger than is traditional. is all knida gravy variations-- poutine got a mention in this thread not long past. is a whole lotta pan sauces which is technical gravy. maybe a cheap response, but best is gonna depend on what am dipping. fries? ketchup, cheese, gravy-- 's all good. ask us on a tuesday as 'posed to a friday and maybe you get a different answer as to what we most want with our fries. HA! Good Fun!

we mentioned earlier how broken builds is an owlcat thing and they clear indulge the powergamer impulses o' their fanbase with the 40k title. pathfinder, particular with all the splat book material, allows for broken, but human dm/gm near always prevents such behaviour in rl-- makes campaigns and gaming sessions boring when one or more players is able to destroy every encounter without any effort. owlcat took potential busted pathfinder and then added their own take on mythic content which leads to stoopid busted builds, particular when combined with stoopid busted gear. curious, owlcat fans like busted and defend it. is nothing wrong with liking busted, but am personal thinking such diminishes the value o' having many character development and gear options when there is clear a handful o' best/right options. even so, is no shock busted builds is a thing for rogue trader 'cause that is exact what many owlcat fans want/expect. am also having observed how the challenge o' owlcat encounters would appear to be premised on players embracing broken content. normal difficulties in owlcat games is frustrating challenging unless you embrace broken. not all encounters will be frustrating difficult for a more casual or role-play oriented player, but there will be enough such obstacle battles as to discourage players less focused on exploitive gameplay. we chose to play an officer for our first rogue trader run. we chose officer not 'cause it is our favorite build concept but 'cause we expected there to be threshold encounters in the game which would make the game decided unfun if we didn't have a powerful character/party. the owlcat approach is kinda odd from our pov. crpgs rely on maths which invariably lead to exploits being discovered by gamers no matter how hard a developer trys to balance a title. am s'posing the difference is that in a more balanced game there will be a handful o' exploits whereas owlcat offers players more choice... maybe? regardless, owlcat's rogue trader exploit or fail approach comes as little surprise to us. as for bugs... there is a reason why we rare play a title until six months has passed following release. particular for complex crpgs, there is always gonna be broken content both obvious and subtle. am thinking owlcat has actually improved insofar as the stability and quest integrity o' their titles at release, so credit where credit is due. however, we expected later game quests (content not available in the beta) would be problematic and am suspecting it will be a couple years before the vast majority o' minor and major mechanics bugs in rogue trader is fixed. am not making excuses for owlcat, but their design approach which promotes broken builds and the bugginess o' rogue trader is predictable and were expected based on previous owlcat releases. not exact caveat emptor, but... and again, our personal rogue trader experience is more stable than we expected. yeah, the mechanics bugs is legion, but am genuine pleasant surprised by how few broken quests we has suffered given the fact the game is an owlcat title. 'course we only just finished chapter 2. regardless am thinking is fair to say, based on our admitted limited rogue trader experience, that each owlcat release has improved quest integrity and stability issues at release. progress? HA! Good Fun!

just double-checked argenta's camaraderie bonus. curious, if she is surrounded by companions but then moves, she retains a camaraderie bonus as if she were still adjacent to a single ally. couple days past we did the cassia companion quest event on dargonus and checked numbers. surrounded by four allies (heinrix were too far away at the start o' battle,) a buffed argenta were getting a camaraderie benefit o' 84%. had to move her to get a shot at the boss who annoying ignores the first crit shot and 'course argenta is 100% crit. argenta were only receiving a 21% boost by her lonesome. the percentages offered above is numbers following her second heroic action, which am near always able to implement before any enemy gets a chance to attack. cassia and our main character is officers, and we made cassia a grand strategist. when combat starts, our grand strategist pasqal goes first, followed by cassia. cassia's first action is to give argenta a bring it down-- surrounded by four allies and complete unbuffed, argenta only receives 48% from camaraderie-- (5+ballistic skill modifier)x number of adjacent allies. in our game, camaraderie is working mostly as intended save that those acting solo appear to retain the benefits o' a single adjacent ally. aside, we can't get where the shadows are deepest of all to advance, which is moderate annoying. supposed finishing kiava gama is the trigger, but for us it is stuck. oh well. HA! Good Fun!

we got an oven which cost as much as a nice car, but we use our air fryer(s) all the time and especial during the warmest summer months when oven cooking is an almost criminal endeavor. have become an air fryer convert. however, "air fryer" is such a fundamental misleading term. so doesn't replace oil frying. air fry feature is convection cooking. nobody should think you could make fried chicken in your convection oven, but 'cause o' wacky nomenclature people keep trying to make fried chicken and the like in an air fryer. the naming nomenclature leads to unfair expectations. non breaded chicken wings is ideal for air fryer. (aside: am highly recommending having your uncooked wings dry overnight in the refrigerator... sprinkle with baking soda will promote crispy/browning. water is the enemy o' crispy wings, so drying is gonna improve your finished dish.) a variety o' roasted veggies is also fantastic. nowadays we only cook our baked potatoes in the air fryer. falafel and salmon are great in an air fryer... but we don't cook salmon in the air fryer in spite o' the ease 'cause whatever we cook immediate after the salmon in the air fryer absorbs the fishy smell... and 'cause pan seared is also just so damned ez and good. is a bunch o' other stuff, including a variety o' french fries recipes which work great in the air fryer, 'cause those recipes also work in a convection oven. however, am not gonna try and make deep fried cat fish with an air fryer, 'cause that would be stoopid. air fryer is not a replacement for deep fry but is a (better) replacement for convection cooking in a standard oven. aside, your insta pot pressure cooking feature is also great for carnitas, butter chicken, oatmeal and a whole bunch o' bean recipes for which am able to skip the overnight soak step. admitted, nowadays am typical making oatmeal in our rice cooker 'cause our cheepy rice cooker is so ez to clean. regardless, am thinking the air fryer name is misleading and results in some folks being disappointed. can we make breaded chicken tenders in the air fryer instead o' deep frying? sure, but that is no surprise 'cause we can make breaded chicken tenders in a convection oven. air fryer is so not a replacement for genuine deep oil fry, but it is an alternative for a convection oven... the air fryer is often a better alternative simple 'cause the size o' the air fryer is smaller so is easier to circulate air and also 'cause an air fryer is gonna get up to temp much faster than a large oven would. also, the air fryer is more cost efficient to run than your oven and it won't add a large volume o' super heated air to your home during hot summer months just by opening and removing cooked victuals. edit: home fries is also a frequent addition to Gromnir menus, particular for breakfast, and we use the air fryer and the microwave to get perfect crispy potatoes. we do not par boil potatoes, 'cause is time consuming and unnecessary when a few minutes in the microwave will achieve the same result. is another recipe we use baking soda btw. after fake parboiling in the microwave, we let the taters dry on a rack for just a couple minutes... and we sprinkle the drying cubes/planks/whatever with a little baking soda to promote crispy. pop the dryish and seasoned potatoes in the air fryer and then cook at 390 or 400 for howsoever long it takes your air fryer to get 'em crispy. sooper ez... though am admitting we typical simultaneous cook bacon and a few veggies (onion and jalapeno is common) in a pan on the stove, so is not as if am complete avoiding mess. if am feeling particular decadent, am gonna grate a bit o' cheddar and top the combined ingredients. yeah, pan fry the potatoes in duck fat in a cast iron skillet is ideal, but the air fryer is much easier, less messy and involves us needing no additional oil. HA! Good Fun! ps am not a tofu guy, but the air fryer makes so ez to get crispy tofu cubes that am finding ways to include the stuff in recipes as an alternative protein source.

am aware o' the guy who offers respec and merc acquisition, but am also having played multiple owlcat games. respec after a patch is always risky and we typical wait a bit before doing so. truth to tell, we ordinary wait six months before playing a new release, but games we crowdfunded and played beta is exceptions seeing as how we already indulged the title when it were even less stable. that said, chapter one and two thus far has been comparative stable compared to even wotr, albeit the maths is far more obscure in rogue trader and our knowledge o' the mechanics is less complete for their newest title, so am suspecting is a whole lotta busted stuff am simple not recognizing. ignorance is bliss. HA! Good Fun!

keep in mind am not being hyperbolic about finishing most combats in one turn. the first battle in footfall is a good example. counterintuitive, we want to start battle with argenta in the open where she can reach out and touch as many enemies as possible with the longlas without moving. is no need for argenta to actual move save for a few o' the fights with extreme large numbers of opponents, many o' whom is behind buildings and around corners. equipping argenta with the longlas instead o' bolter means she is able to hit foes at extreme distance. and am figuring if our argenta scheme starts to be less effective it won't much matter as cassia is increasing becoming a world beater with her navigator powhaz. am agreeing that many owlcat rogue trader features do not appear to be working as described, which results in a bit o' trial and error and is more than a bit frustrating at times particular as am avoiding using mods for the moment. on the upside, since level-ups happen a bit more frequent in rogue trader than in most o' the crpgs we ordinary play, reload to the most recent level-up save as a solution to predictable busted mechanics is nevertheless incredible annoying but still less arduous than in other similar titles. 'course too often am not sure what is broken, so fixing is problematic. HA! Good Fun!

am only having played chapter 1 material during the beta. similar, with the release o' the second largeish patch, we decided to start playing the game a few days past, so am only having just finished chapter one on daring... and the end boss o' chapter one were a bit o' a surprise as the difficulty were increased substantial from the beta. our feedback is therefore limited to act 1 and starting encounters in chapter 2. the thing is, our argenta is regular doing +50 damage. now admitted such is with crits, but our crit chance is 100% almost immediate. am knowing is lore appropriate to have argenta using her bolter, but we have her specd' primarily as a sniper and she is death personified with the longlas and two officers in the party. cassia and our main provide extra turns at the start o' battle near guaranteeing argenta will achieve momentum for a heroic. more important than cover is maximizing the benefits o' argenta's camaraderie. the extra turns has the side benefit o' buffing cassia's willpower btw, so is win-win. in turn 1 o' combat, our argenta typical gets 2x bring it down, her own turn, as well as a near guaranteed finest hour... and if is a whole bunch o' mobs, then 2x finest hours is possible. with the talent which is refunding an ap per kill, argenta ordinarily clears the field after a finest hour. obvious we ain't been using zones from grand strategist, save for two battles in footfall, but given our strategy am only anticipating using frontline and rear as party defense is a non issue if you kill everything before the baddies can hurt you. ... honest, am thinking o' starting over with a fortress world, ministorum priest, soldier who uses flame weapons, 'cause multiple officers providing an argenta sniper with extra turns is kinda busted op. aside, the dialogue is kinda cringey over-the-top, but am thinking it works for 40k. the games workshop created setting is grimdark stacked on grim dark and owlcat is leaning into that abyss with obvious verve. for folks who think kafka is too sunny, owlcat's rogue trader will no doubt be a welcome crucible o' despair. gameplay is a bit monotonous thus far, but again, we found an exploitive approach, so is no shock combat is repetitive... the only saving grace being that 'cause our argenta sniper ends combats so quick, we don't need go through the same routine o' buff and debuff for many turns. am suspecting there will be a fair amount o' hypocrisy heard/seen from fans o' this game who nevertheless derided obsidian's lack o' prebuffing in pillars. the pillars system was considerable more dynamic and better balanced than what we see in rogue trader. whatever. other folks is more hardcore fans o' 40k than is Gromnir, so we cannot speak to all the lore minutiae the way @Azdeus could, but am thinking owlcat got right the feel o' 40k. looks like 40k. sounds like 40k. is over-the-top grimdark like you expect from 40k. also, wotr made obvious to us that much o' the appeal o' their games is linked to their providing options we would personal describe as broken. is an old complaint o' ours, so am not gonna rehash in detail, but am thinking owlcat fans like rogue trader precise because it provides busted powerful and busted weak builds, weapons and abilities. makes the game hardcore or something? dunno, but owlcat knows their audience. is also obvious that psykers get increasing powerful relative to other classes as levels increase, so if you enjoy/expect that old rpg trope, then rogue trader is gonna feel right. regardless o' our criticisms, and recognizing how owlcat is unlikely to fix even obvious broken content, am suspecting we will play the game at least a couple times... as well as any and all dlc. we like the camp level o' 40k grim and grime. rogue trader is the first and only crpg set in 40k and owlcat got the admitted subjective feels right. HA! Good Fun!

yeah, many o' the comments is so genuine and absurd that it is tough not to laugh. ... am recalling many/most europeans cannot see the comments section o' fox news stories-- simultaneous curse and blessing. we do regular force ourself to read fox stories related to major issues o' the day not so much for the content which includes predictable spin but rather for the comments from fox's online audience. taken individual, the anger and ignorance o' a respondent's comment to a fox authored january 6, immigration or culture war story is amusing. the problem is those comments at fox come in the hundreds and thousands, and is good/terrible to recall that fox remains the most popular news source in the US. is easy to dismiss the lone nutter or doofus as exceptional. fox news reminds us the crackpots and wingnuts is legion. and again, willful ignorance and outrage is not limited to those who wear maga hats. is numerous issues which bring out the fear and loathing o' the lib crowd, but am admitting fox has successful galvanized their audience and calcified its worst tendencies beyond what we thought were possible even fifteen years past. HA! Good Fun!

Haley seeks to clarify Civil War comments as backlash mounts “I mean, I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run. The freedoms and what people could and couldn’t do,” Haley had said Wednesday in a visit to Berlin — the first of five events in the Granite State as she attempts to close the gap with Republican front-runner Donald Trump ahead of next month’s primary. The former South Carolina governor then asked the voter who had asked her about the Civil War what he thought the cause was, to which the voter responded, “I’m not running for president.” “I think it always comes down to the role of government and what the rights of the people are,” Haley added. “I will always stand by the fact that I think government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people. It was never meant to be all things to all people,” she added. The voter criticized her for not mentioning slavery in her answer. “In the year 2023, it’s astonishing to me that you answer that question without mentioning the word slavery,” the voter said. “What do you want me to say about slavery?” Haley asked. ... now this may come as some surprise to non-americans, but each US state teaches history different in their schools, and each school district has a fair amount o' leeway to implement state standards with individual teachers obvious getting additional input. in many southern states, the way the civil war gets taught is fundamental affected by the daughters of the confederacy's efforts at revisionism-- southern children frequent learn that the war between the states was ultimately about state's rights and slavery was a tangential concern. worth a read additional link "the revisionist campaign of Confederate sympathizers gained traction. By 1940, the “Lost Cause” narrative dominated textbooks nationwide; as Matt Ford observed this August in an article for The Atlantic, textbooks used when today’s American leaders were in school “downplayed the role of slavery” in the Civil War. "In 1946, the NAACP embarked on its own nationwide textbook campaign, which began in New York to fight against historical inaccuracies and for the inclusion of black history in the school curriculum. It wasn’t until the 1970s that the textbook industry began making significant changes, but the myth of the Lost Cause nevertheless continues to hold sway, as the Roper Center of Public Opinion demonstrated in 2011, on the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. At that point, a significant portion of Americans — more than half, according to some polls — believed that the main cause of the war was states’ rights." haley said something stoopid, but as a former southern governor, it ain't surprising she promotes a pernicious view o' history. aside, the following is a somewhat amusing, but well-researched video on the state's rights as the cause o' the civil war stoopid which persists to this day. HA! Good Fun!

now all you need is to find four more people who haven't seen the atf in the news for a long time at which you will be able to say that all the evidence supports your kill all the witnesses theory o' atf procedure. as to tamales, we got a friend who makes the best tamales-- combines pork and ground turkey. am not sure what we do wrong, but am never able to get pork and turkey quite right, so we ordinarily stick with just pork. unfortunate, many o' our guests have pork prejudices, so we gotta make a few tamales with chicken tamales. this year am not making much o' anything which cannot be prepared via a microwave. we did teach a couple o' our younger cousins how to make fudge, but they took all the fruits o' their labor with them when they left casa de Gromnir... thank goodness. HA! Good Fun!

we got a rotation o' ten or so christmas movies including the following: lion in winter, kiss kiss, bang bang, godfather, french connection, nightmare before christmas, rocky, white christmas, the hudsucker proxy, stalag 17, and the recent added green knight. nightmare before christmas and stalag 17 is guaranteed, but the others movies change. this year, christmas food is whatever we got in the fridge. am kinda convalescing at the moment. our neighbors mean well, but they are not good cooks. recent had the driest banana bread evar and am not gonna try and figure out what went into some beef stew we received. the christmas cookies has been a travesty. on the upside, one o' our neighbors who doesn't cook bought and prepared one o' those enormous stouffer's lasagnas, so we got christmas food for days. HA! Good Fun!

gotta admit we weren't expecting to go down a poppy seed rabbit hole. that said, the everything bagel with lox schmear we had this morning did taste better than usual in spite o' the US military's propaganda machinery attempting to discourage us from consuming poppyseeds... for reasons which as yet remain a smidge foggy. HA! Good Fun!

forgive us for going slight necro, but we recent watched our favorite spaghetti western and it reminded us o' this post. not sergio leone, but we enjoy pretty much everything about the great silence. we always watch this film in december for the silliest o' reasons: the snow. HAA! Good Fun!

90% o' the time am guessing the new poster limitations is unnecessary, but particular nowadays, if a new game is released by a developer, there is gonna be a predictable influx o' bots and vandals whose existence is predicated on maximizing harm. most new posters arriving at the obsidian boards simultaneous with a new game release will be legit contributors with real concerns even if those concerns do not paint obsidian in a favorable light. am also suspecting the new poster limits become a real headache for the mods when a fresh title is published as their workload increases exponential... am just guessing. regardless, these boards exist to promote the obsidian brand, so is hardly shocking that obsidian would want to exorcise vandals and bots before they can cause damage to the brand. no doubt the new poster limits is a source of frustration for the applicant and possible for the mods if they are needing deal with a new game deluge. am convinced that if the developer could think of a better and less labor intensive protocol for weeding out malicious (subtle different than malcontent) posters, they would implement such a process. got suggestions? if we had a better method in mind for separating wheat from chaff, we would share such... well, we would share if we had a better notion and we didn't take perverse pleasure at the thought o' the mods needing deal with the hassle o' reviewing every new poster during those admitted rare times when a new game is released. HA! Good Fun!