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NBC's new streaming service is free, they have AP Bio on there, it's a damn good show, I highly recommend it.
Otherwise I haven't noticed anything else I'd want to watch on it.
And installed...
And installed...
wow. Thats....wow.
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Wait... You can return games on Steam?!
(I think that most purchases I make include a "relinquish the right of return for immediate payment processing allowing it to install it right now". It might or might not be linked to paying with PayPal, not sure about it)
Oh, weird. Maybe it's a Poland/U.S. thing. But in the U.S. (and admittedly paying by bank card) Steam's return policy is so ludicrous you wonder how they make any money. You can return any game up to 30 14 days after buying it. There are whole websites dedicated to which games you can buy and complete within the 30-day window to return them.
I'm happy the kids don't subscribe to that; they buy the game, then either play it for a bit and decide it was worth their money or return it within a couple of days. For me, I give the game a week. If it stinks, I return it.
Steam hasn't complained to any of us about it yet.
EDIT: Ah, there you go: You have to have less than two hours of total play time. I knew there was something funky like that. But when I hate a game, that's a low bar.
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Sometimes, it's good being the son of an immunologist. After the fridge disaster, we had two pounds of ground beef that defrosted, but didn't get to room temperature. It passed the smell test, but... ground beef.
So, I happen to know that pretty much all of the pathogens that could have grown in it are harmless when dead, so cooking the meat to an internal temperature of 212°F for 10 minutes will render it safe no matter what grew in there. (Botulism is the one exception, but it requires a pretty strong anaerobic environment, which this wasn't.)
Spaghetti and meatballs it is!
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Jim Butcher's "paladin" is so awesome!!!
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What I learned from Far Cry 5.
1) There is a big difference between proximity explosives and remote explosives.
2) While there are a lot of things proximity explosives will do, blowing open a safe is not one of them.
3) Don't stand too close to the safe wondering how you're going to open it after throwing all of your proximity explosives at it. Which I must reiterate, are not the same as remote explosives.
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4) Just because you throw a Molotov cocktail a their hood doesn't mean they'll not run you over.
And installed...wow. Thats....wow.
Nope. It is Far Cry New Dawn, not WoW.
I suspect that WoW is much bigger than 19 GB these days.
I like the game play...
Though 5-7 fps makes it extremely tedious...
It has it's idiocies.
NobodysHome gifted me with the game on Steam...
It installed via Steam...
When I run it...
It opened my Uplay client (which I don't keep open unless I am playing a game on Uplay, which included Far Cry 3, Far Cry 4, and Assassin's Creed 2).
Then it got even more stupid...
When I closed the steam, opened Uplay, and started it from Uplay...
It opened Steam client...
-.-
Jim Butcher's "paladin" is so awesome!!!
bluh. Paladins.
I use Spotify My main complaint with them is their advertising. They say no ads for 30 minutes it plays one song then plays another ad. They be lieing to me!
I feel ya. I keep hoping we will close down, but it doesn't look that way. Even though our states rates keep climbing.
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I do like the BBC's take on the U.S.'s re-opening. (Hint: It's not complimentary.)
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I do like the BBC's take on the U.S.'s re-opening. (Hint: It's not complimentary.)
very good article.
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I wish I could go with him, but I do not speak the language.Nephew is gone for a few days to help his mom clear the house.
I hope he will be allright.I wish I could smuggle him to NobodysHome. So he will finally be far enough away and he'll be in a loving family who will look after him and care for him.
(Me and MrT would offer him this but its too easy for his mother to reach him here)
LOL. You're not listening to the kids tell their "one word stories" while playing ping-pong in the back yard, nor admiring Impus Major's new yellow, pink, and black room.
We may be loving, but we're odd.
He'll fit right in. Also, the Impii are good kids and will recognise when nephew needs distance because there is too much noice in his head. And they will involve him, not shun him because he's different.
(also, I bet the impii will play super smahs bros with him and do weird character voices with him while playing)
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I really hope the Paizo folks are staying safe; I wouldn't be surprised if some of them lived in or near Portland and are having to deal with the nonsense going on there right now. Ditto anyone here who happens to live in the Portland area. Keep us posted on your safety, sanity, and well-being. We care about you.
The roads are deathtraps in Far Cry 5, although now that I've gotten the hang of the driving simulatoresque driving I've gotten really good at running down cultists.
Unfortunately this leads to a bit more civilian casualties then the game is comfortable with.
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Jim Butcher's "paladin" is so awesome!!!bluh. Paladins.
Oh, don't get me started on paladins!!
As the misadventures of my package continue, you get to see just how much security, baggage checks, and passengers do to slow down air travel. (If I ever run an airline the very first rule will be, "No carry on! Period! If it's not in a standard day pack that a kid would wear to school, it's too much."
And it's not that it takes up oh-so-much space; it's that passengers spend a ludicrous amount of time trying to stow said carry-on until the plane is consistently 10-20 minutes late, just because passengers can't manage their own carry-ons.)
Anyhoo, the package left Louisville at 4:38 pm and arrived in Oakland at 5:47 pm, a total flight time of 4 hours and 9 minutes. I was trying to do a comparison, but any flight from Louisville to Oakland takes at least 10 hours with multiple stops, and even trying for San Francisco or San Jose involves at least one stop.
"You can't get there from here," if you're a human being, but if you're a bag you're in the lap of luxury...
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FedEx Express, formerly Federal Express, is a cargo airline based in Memphis, Tennessee,
FedEx Express operates the world's largest cargo air fleet with more than 650 aircraft, and is the largest operator of the Airbus A300, ATR 42, Cessna 208, McDonnell Douglas DC-10/MD-10, and the McDonnell Douglas MD-11.
Fleet size: 386 (main fleet) 284 (contract fleet)
As is often the case, if you don't have to deal with pesky human customers, you can get your job done efficiently.
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The roads are deathtraps in Far Cry 5, although now that I've gotten the hang of the driving simulatoresque driving I've gotten really good at running down cultists.
Unfortunately this leads to a bit more civilian casualties then the game is comfortable with.
I captured an ethanol tanker in FarCry New Dawn. I was returning to the nearby outpost I captured earlier... Last few hundred meters, straight line, so far, so good, I turn autodrive and quickly go to kitchen (or maybe bathroom, either way, the same distance of less than ten steps). I hear strange sound - when I come back, the truck is submerged in water.
I got out, went up and looked what went wrong.
Ah, apparently there was a bridge. Well... My fault for trusting autodrive, right?
Then it hits me that the truck is directly UNDER the bridge. I went up and looked at the wide bridge and there was no way for the truck to fall into water in the position it was.
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I wanted to write something witty and cruel about User Interface design but I am still too sleepy to do it right without simply insulting their intelligence in bland and uncreative ways.
Process of selecting weapon in New Dawn is tedious. You have the list of all weapons - both those who you made and those you haven't crafted yet and scroll through them in a vertical line... All of them.
Far Cry 4 had a much more functional weapon selection screen than that, with weapons divided into a few categories, and kept in grid. It would work fine with the crafting system - so of course some bright designer had to choose to scrap it and replace it with the crap we got.
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Also, I rescued a dog from one of the Highwaymen camps and now it goes with me for hunting.
Today we are hunting Highwaymen.
I need to go get some groceries.
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As the misadventures of my package continue, you get to see just how much security, baggage checks, and passengers do to slow down air travel. (If I ever run an airline the very first rule will be, "No carry on! Period! If it's not in a standard day pack that a kid would wear to school, it's too much."
And it's not that it takes up oh-so-much space; it's that passengers spend a ludicrous amount of time trying to stow said carry-on until the plane is consistently 10-20 minutes late, just because passengers can't manage their own carry-ons.)Anyhoo, the package left Louisville at 4:38 pm and arrived in Oakland at 5:47 pm, a total flight time of 4 hours and 9 minutes. I was trying to do a comparison, but any flight from Louisville to Oakland takes at least 10 hours with multiple stops, and even trying for San Francisco or San Jose involves at least one stop.
"You can't get there from here," if you're a human being, but if you're a bag you're in the lap of luxury...
In fairness part of why fedex builds hubs in places like louisville or greensboro is that they are not hubs for other airlines and they can get priorities to get the fedex planes off the ground so it is not really an apples to apples comparison
One more thing about weapon selection.
The process is "helped" by a set of buttons that move you at the beginning of tier. There are four tiers of weapons, I, II, III, and Legendary.
It isn't much of a help if you don't know/remember what exactly weapons you have. Only after a lot of scrolling I have discovered that I have some free Tier 2 weapons that are part of the bundle Nobody got me. They are garishly colored, but include a sniper, a shotgun, a rocket launcher, and a LMG. Muhahahahaha!
Sadly, I need to run around with much worse weapons a bit, because the game rewards you with skill points for completing challenges, and they include things like kill 5-10 Highwaymen with tier 1 handgun, tier 1 shortgun, tier 1 bow, tier 1 rocket launcher, and so on, which are separate from kill 5-10 Highwaymen with tier 1 handgun, tier 1 shotgun, etc.
Perk tree feels a bit on bland side. I just get the perk points and pick whatever the perk I want, with only two or there chains. For example takedown chain is 4 perks in order, with final order having story restriction, I know because I bought the three previous already while the fourth is the one I would like the most (killing elites, which I haven't met yet plus the vital for quick outpost clearing chain takedown, when you keep killing enemies as long as they are close and you hit the right direction button).
I wanted to write something witty and cruel about User Interface design but I am still too sleepy to do it right without simply insulting their intelligence in bland and uncreative ways.
Process of selecting weapon in New Dawn is tedious. You have the list of all weapons - both those who you made and those you haven't crafted yet and scroll through them in a vertical line... All of them.
Far Cry 4 had a much more functional weapon selection screen than that, with weapons divided into a few categories, and kept in grid. It would work fine with the crafting system - so of course some bright designer had to choose to scrap it and replace it with the crap we got.
...play Fallout 76 for a couple of hours.
You'll never complain about Far Cry's UI again.
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FedEx Express, formerly Federal Express, is a cargo airline based in Memphis, Tennessee,
FedEx Express operates the world's largest cargo air fleet with more than 650 aircraft, and is the largest operator of the Airbus A300, ATR 42, Cessna 208, McDonnell Douglas DC-10/MD-10, and the McDonnell Douglas MD-11.
Fleet size: 386 (main fleet) 284 (contract fleet)As is often the case, if you don't have to deal with pesky human customers, you can get your job done efficiently.
I often say we should ban users for a week, then we can get some good work done.
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Jim Butcher's "paladin" is so awesome!!!bluh. Paladins.
Ain't nobody dope like us, we're just so Lawful Good (so Lawful! So Good!)
I wanted to write something witty and cruel about User Interface design but I am still too sleepy to do it right without simply insulting their intelligence in bland and uncreative ways.
Process of selecting weapon in New Dawn is tedious. You have the list of all weapons - both those who you made and those you haven't crafted yet and scroll through them in a vertical line... All of them.
Far Cry 4 had a much more functional weapon selection screen than that, with weapons divided into a few categories, and kept in grid. It would work fine with the crafting system - so of course some bright designer had to choose to scrap it and replace it with the crap we got.
...play Fallout 76 for a couple of hours.
You'll never complain about Far Cry's UI again.
I haven't even touched Fallout 3, 4, and what else they made.
And I consider Fallout 2 one of the best crpgs ever.
I really hope the Paizo folks are staying safe; I wouldn't be surprised if some of them lived in or near Portland and are having to deal with the nonsense going on there right now. Ditto anyone here who happens to live in the Portland area. Keep us posted on your safety, sanity, and well-being. We care about you.
Portland has been a hotbed of political activity for a while. I am sure the Paizo staff knows what they are doing and can navigate well. Still extra well wishes ain't gonna hurt.
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Another non-violent intervention for the win
A friend of mine is a trainer with the Meta Peace Team, a non-violent intervention group that is sometimes asked to travel to hot spots like Palestine.
It was meant to be both personally humiliating, and religiously inflammatory.
After a few minutes, one of the Peace Team members walked over to the Palestinian man, neatly folded the man's clothing, then stripped and neatly folded his own. One by one, the rest of the male members of the team did the same.
The Israeli soldiers couldn't figure out what to do, so they eventually walked away, stymied by nakedness.
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Prepping SS, and this is one of my favorites because I roleplay it ruthlessly: According to the AP, two creatures are "hidden and lying in wait" for the PCs. Their Stealth bonuses are -9 each.
It's kind of like in Rise of the Runelords when there was a troll waiting to ambush the party and his total Stealth was 3. I simply told the party they saw him standing there, holding a branch over his face, obviously under the impression that he was completely invisible to the party.
The group ate it up.
So yeah, if you're planning on a clever ambush of the party, maybe have the creatures performing the ambush have some method of stealth whatsoever...
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If anyone ever wanted to poison me, the surest way to mask the flavor and be certain I'd ingest it would be in a bag of dollar store spiced gumdrops.
Why the f**k this is my kryptonite, I have no idea.
Prepping SS, and this is one of my favorites because I roleplay it ruthlessly: According to the AP, two creatures are "hidden and lying in wait" for the PCs. Their Stealth bonuses are -9 each.
It's kind of like in Rise of the Runelords when there was a troll waiting to ambush the party and his total Stealth was 3. I simply told the party they saw him standing there, holding a branch over his face, obviously under the impression that he was completely invisible to the party.
The group ate it up.
So yeah, if you're planning on a clever ambush of the party, maybe have the creatures performing the ambush have some method of stealth whatsoever...
Once my big burly ronin sword-wielding shugenja was waiting hidden for a group of cultist... I managed to roll a grand total of 2 or 3 when an easy difficulty is TN 5, 10-15 are considered moderate, TN 20 is challenging for an absolutely average person because while they roll between two to five ten sided dice, they only get to pick two of them. Well, in my defense - I wasn't skilled in Stealth and got penalized for my Large advantage.
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Timber is an officially the goodest boi.
While trying to solve a puzzle leading to a stash of goodies, a cougar come to stalk me... Though it's hissing was a sort of warning. I proceeded to fire a few meters of LMG ammo at it, only to be heavily mauled.
And then, instead of dying I got an option to cling to life. After some nervous mashing of CTRL, Timber came to me, licked my wounds and helped me get up from being incapacitated. I promptly hid inside the hut where the cougar couldn't follow me and proceeded to fire another belt of ammo from my LMG... Only for the bastard kitten from hell to flee!
I could not let such slight go unavenged (think of the sunk cost of the ammo itself, never mind ammo is plentiful) and rushed after the fleeing beast. The cougar managed to regenerate fully before I caught with it (scandalous! oh, wait, my health regenerates too, never mind).
And then Timber apparently understood I wasn't simply playing with the kitty and proceeded to mop the forest floor with the cougar...
Which earned me my first cougar pelt and Timber earned a solid dose of ear-scratching.
I wanted to write something witty and cruel about User Interface design but I am still too sleepy to do it right without simply insulting their intelligence in bland and uncreative ways.
Process of selecting weapon in New Dawn is tedious. You have the list of all weapons - both those who you made and those you haven't crafted yet and scroll through them in a vertical line... All of them.
Far Cry 4 had a much more functional weapon selection screen than that, with weapons divided into a few categories, and kept in grid. It would work fine with the crafting system - so of course some bright designer had to choose to scrap it and replace it with the crap we got.
...play Fallout 76 for a couple of hours.
You'll never complain about Far Cry's UI again.
I haven't even touched Fallout 3, 4, and what else they made.
And I consider Fallout 2 one of the best crpgs ever.
Fallout New Vegas is my favorite video game of all time.
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Once my big burly ronin sword-wielding shugenja was waiting hidden for a group of cultist... I managed to roll a grand total of 2 or 3 when an easy difficulty is TN 5, 10-15 are considered moderate, TN 20 is challenging for an absolutely average person because while they roll between two to five ten sided dice, they only get to pick two of them. Well, in my defense - I wasn't skilled in Stealth and got penalized for my LargePrepping SS, and this is one of my favorites because I roleplay it ruthlessly: According to the AP, two creatures are "hidden and lying in wait" for the PCs. Their Stealth bonuses are -9 each.
It's kind of like in Rise of the Runelords when there was a troll waiting to ambush the party and his total Stealth was 3. I simply told the party they saw him standing there, holding a branch over his face, obviously under the impression that he was completely invisible to the party.
The group ate it up.
So yeah, if you're planning on a clever ambush of the party, maybe have the creatures performing the ambush have some method of stealth whatsoever...
advantage.
My best moment was in Champions where my samurai-based character rolled a natural 3 (on 3d6) for his Stealth check... and we were performing an undercover investigation in modern-day San Francisco and he was providing backup in case anything went wrong.
Bad Guy: Is... is that a samurai standing under that street lamp over there?
GothBard's PC: Yessss... yes, I think it is!
BG: But what's he doing?
GBPC: It looks like he's trying to hide. He's probably crazy. We should ignore him. Don't look at him!
BG: You're right! Good idea! Let's get back to business!
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One of my favourite bands about at the moment is Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band
Which might also be Vany's sort of thing. IDK.
Another non-violent intervention for the win
A friend of mine is a trainer with the Meta Peace Team, a non-violent intervention group that is sometimes asked to travel to hot spots like Palestine.
** spoiler omitted **
Freehold can only support naked athena, even though I thought it was another athena
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One of my favourite bands about at the moment is Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band
Which might also be Vany's sort of thing. IDK.
It's like they if they mixed Dune with Harry Potter and drugs all in one.
Or at least that's my impression after a minute.
Hmm, it's definitely a different tone after the first minute, more Harry Potter, drugs, and.. Fraggle Rock?.. Yup, that's it! Drugs, Harry Potter and Fraggle Rock.
One of my favourite bands about at the moment is Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band
Which might also be Vany's sort of thing. IDK.
Yes. Yes it is.
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It is too hot.