He's only flat-footed against reach or ranged attacks.
We seem to have a rather significant stall out
I can't exactly do much against the guy. His AC is too high, unless I roll a natural 20.
I could attempt range attacks, but those attacks have a lower to hit then my with my scimitar and dagger.
i'm super far away and only have a few shots left on my laser. but i am working on getting there, though what i will do when i get there remains to be seen.
Dris, I'll see what I can do to boost your attack bonus.
Inubrix, I'm not sure if I can help you get here faster. I'll see what I can do.
Oh shoot! Forgot to check in on this because no new stuff (and another super busy week, but now I'm done with my massive work stuff, honest this time). Anybody else want to act this round, or should I just bot anyone who hasn't?
I think bottimg is in order.
Somehow I missed that the round had rolled over. Sorry, I've been sitting here thinking that we were still waiting on the last round to resolve and that I'd already acted.
Today's pretty busy for me. I'll try to get my posts up, but it might not be able to happen until tomorrow.
Sorry for the delay. I didn't realize I was up.
Hum. They changed scrolls from circumventing long casting times. I play so few casters I just now noticed.
Yeah. Now potions are the only way to do that.
I'm not going to get posts in tonight.
This election feels like the prologue to a dystopian future novel, and I have some angry drinking to do.
yeah, neither major candidate had my vote, and my state was a foregone conclusion. I just chipped my vote in in the hopes that third parties would get a little more funding.
I'm not going to get posts in tonight.
This election feels like the prologue to a dystopian future novel, and I have some angry drinking to do.
Either the sheer volume of racists has been grossly under counted or something is seriously up with the voting machine.
It's the former. Right-wing nationalism is on the rise all over the world. The US should have seen Brexit as a litmus test.
Greece. Austerity policies. A flood of refugees fleeing the middle east. The rise of the Alt-Right.
That is where we are now. Rural areas all over the world have lost their way of life. People are angry, confused and broke. They were looking for a brick to throw through the government's window. That's Trump.
What they don't realize is that the last time Conservatives had control of both houses of congress and the presidency, the policies they enacted syphoned money out of the lower and middle classes so fast that it turned an economic downturn into the Great Depression. The people most impacted by that were the rural communities.
They're going to be even more angry when they end up reaping what they've just sown.
My only hope is that when the pendulum swings the other way we get another FDR/New Deal. We need it.
I guess if you have money now is the time to invest before the upswing.
Er... yeah, sorry. Ditto on the "not in a good place to write long posts" right now.
My bigger concern is that, if Trump actually goes ahead and implements the 2012 Paul Ryan budget (although based on promises he made during the primaries, he'd prefer much deeper cuts, amounting to about 50% of all discretionary government spending, which if it's across the board as proposed would literally cut in half the number of basic science jobs in this country), my career just straight up won't exist in 2-3 years. Which means that there's a very real chance I'll have to leave the country after I finish grad school, at least for a few years. And the prospect that we currently have an entire government that no longer believes in the existence or importance of science, supported by an electorate that voted the same way in hundreds of races, is absolutely terrifying right now.
I'm atheist, but this situation makes even me hope for a miracle.
More than the repeal of the ACA. More than stacking the supreme court so that we lose Marriage Equality and other hard-fought rights. More than the possibility of mass incarceration and deportation of illegal immigrants and muslims. More than the rising tide of racism and sexism. All those things can be fought with protests and social media campaigns.
I'm afraid of a full blown global economic collapse.
People don't fight economic problems well because they don't understand economics. Its confusing. Even experts in the field often end up getting things wrong. Economic stances has become more about bizarre personal dogmas than any actual statistics or evidence.
The last time the Republican party controlled both houses of congress and the presidency, we got the Great Depression.
Trump's Tax Plan is exactly the kind of thing that caused Greece's economy to collapse. They slowly and painfully recovered because they aren't intrinsic to the world economy, and they are part of the EU so they have a network of supporting countries holding them up while they get back on their feet.
If that happens here, we are taking the whole world's economy with us.
Well, the courts are problematic because they're also our best chance of changing the tune on things like gerrymandering and Citizens United, which have effectively removed democracy from this decade's politics.
But Trump just promised a total hiring freeze for all federal employees, in perpetuity... which includes the majority of basic science jobs in this country. And so I'm also worried about my own self-interests, because if he gets that through Congress, my career plans as they've sat for the last five years will no longer be an option, and that's a scary place to be in.
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What's really fascinating is that most of America's billionaires—and some large portion of its millionaires—are actually dead-set against Trump's tax plan, because they know enough economic experts to understand that cutting their own taxes by that much could ruin the world economy.
pretty good points all above.
being in the military, there is a lot of trump support but i couldn't vote for him even in my best interests. i'd rather get a new job.
that said, having worked in the intelligence community (and military), i likewise could not vote for her.
so i voted 3rd party. I live in California so the state was already hers. I just voted in the hopes of giving the 3rd parties some funding in the future.
And I live in Indiana, my vote was similarly pointless, I looked at the lines and went "Nope."
Ah, in my area we have mail-in ballots to reduce congestion. i could have just mailed mine in, but i dont trust the postal system, so i filled out the ballot at home, rode my bike down the road and turned my ballot in at the voting location. very convenient.
That's smart! I waited literally an hour; there were so many california props that everyone had to stop and read them. Never seen lines like this before.
I wish. My workplace's parking lot was pretty much worthless for the entire week leading up to the election because we're next door to an early polling place.
The military this is fascinating to me because Gary Johnson polled far better with servicepeople than with any other demographic. But that's just sort of an academic aside.
yeah honestly, regarding all the props: i wouldn't have voted on any of them if i had to stand there and read them with people behind me in line, i'd feel like a d~!+%ead. i spent a few hours researching each one. the for arguments, against arguments, financial impacts, etc. i'm much more likely to both MAKE a decision and make an INFORMED decision in the comfort of my own home.
since i have been drinking and am now slightly more loquacious:
regarding ol' Gary: yeah he did poll better, but the military is such a tiny slice of the populace. the red states tend to give up more bodies, and the military is largely not considered a thinktank of any description, so the conservative support tends to be there. we do have our blue people and independents. a lot of military folks chafed under obama for no real reason. he didn't do anything truly bad to us. he just also didn't do anything good to us, and i think as much as red folks like to deride blue folks, they really (in the military) look at it like "what has he done for me?" we expect bad things to happen to us, so we brush that off and really want a president that will do good things for us. historically, it has been red presidents that give us the largest pay increases. since a lot of servicemembers are very poor at money management, you could literally probably eat a child on national TV and enjoy support as a red candidate because by golly we want our 2% raise instead of 1% so we can afford more booze, dip, and strippers.
Gary had a lot of support from people who want to look at things objectively. the risk/reward of red presidents is the increased chance of war with the increased pay. blue candidates tend to do less war and less pay for us. Gary was not making large pay promises, but was also promising to keep us from policing the globe. this struck a chord with people who have fought in foreign conflicts (many more than usual since the obama presidency did little to lessen our footprint in the ME). however, the combat deployments are fewer and farther between these days, and the "young-bloods" want to go get their war ribbons so they can impress the more senior folks who were in during the early iraq/afghan campaigns. so they tend to vote trump because they dont know how s!&@ty war is, and they want to feel good about themselves because they've wrapped up their personal identity into the preconceived notion of military machismo, when in reality we are about the same, demographically, as the American populace (albeit colored by different shared experiences).
keep in mind this is all just my opinion, limited by my only 11 yrs in the military.
Well, at least we can thank the election for breathing some life into our discussion board. :P
Sorry! >_< I'll try to be up and running again soon.
Really I am finally through my huge backlog of work... just, y'know, new reasons to be demotivated.
@Tenro: 11 years in the military is nothing to scoff at. Hell, that's two years longer than I've been in college.
i didnt realize people could spend that long in college, unless they were pursuing multiple doctorates or something.
and yeah it is nothing to scoff at, but i realize my view is but one of many, and my position hardly secure. i'm just hoping to get to retirement at 20yrs but they make it harder each passing year.
My best friend, when she graduates next year, will have spent literally half her life in college.
Science is hard. And very underappreciated this year.
P.S. Anybody else thinking of moving to Switzerland? This isn't an "oh gosh I'm scared" thing, it's just that 2 years from now it might be legitimately easier to find science jobs in Europe, and the Swiss specialize in funding cool bioinfomatics.
I've always dreamed of moving to Europe. Not as a response to anything in the US, and likely not forever, but there are just so many cool things i'd want to see there.
I'd love to have a cool science job but i'm not good enough at math, because i don't enjoy math enough to have gone past algebra/geometry.
Hmm. I met a *lot* of army guys in Italy. Maybe it's just the luck of the posting. Europe also hires some of our programmers, though, if you're into that.
(I actually spent a summer teaching English and working on farms in Italy. The teaching thing is no longer an option though because they got shut down for hiring too many illegal migrant workers like me)
I'm shaking off my election funk. I wanted to thank you folks for the discussion and support. I'm not usually a doom prophet.
I'll have this round's posts up tonight once I get to work and have some time to write.
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I'm shaking off my election funk. I wanted to thank you folks for the discussion and support. I'm not usually a doom prophet.
I'll have this round's posts up tonight once I get to work and have some time to write.
Coming from somebody named Doomed Hero, I don't think I believe you...
It's funny—there's a lot of criticisms of both sides in this election that are legitimate, and ones that aren't. But it's disappointing to see the specific things I've warned and worried about since January—the economic impact of Trump tax cuts, hard hits to the national labs, the biggest environmental deregulation in world history—are the ones coming true.
Hmm.. Given a Lyre of Building, do you think I could make a character at level ten who knocks his foes unconscious and then builds giant death game show mazes around them to kill them in amusing and humorous ways?
Hmm.. Given a Lyre of Building, do you think I could make a character at level ten who knocks his foes unconscious and then builds giant death game show mazes around them to kill them in amusing and humorous ways?
Like Mouse Trap with swords?
Perhaps.
Nope. Lyre of Building only duplicates unskilled labor; death trap mazes need Craft (mechanical).
What if I made the traps terrain type rather than whirly blades type? Like, monkey bars over a pit of zombies?
You'd be better off just making your death traps the old fashion way
With Shrink Object, you could pre-make mazes in modular pieces. They'd be about the size of cinder blocks.
You could probably also make some modifications to an Instant Fortress.
Coming from somebody named Doomed Hero, I don't think I believe you...I'm shaking off my election funk. I wanted to thank you folks for the discussion and support. I'm not usually a doom prophet.
I'll have this round's posts up tonight once I get to work and have some time to write.
Just because I figure I'm probably doomed doesn't mean I want other people to be. That's kinda the point of heroes, right?
Yess... Yess.. Mwhahahaha!
Hey, Anaxian, both those have to hit his AC right? Flatfooted/Touch AC might still be high if he has enough Deflection/Insight/Whatnot.
Ranged touch attack.
Right. Hold on.
Looks like I didn't make the edit window, so I put the attack rolls in my 2nd post.