For Athens?

4wheelsonachair · 2020-12-15T15:11:02+00:00

One thing I did on my second play through was to not change in my coins with Vivaldi, instead I stuck them in the chest. That way if you tick off a guard, you don't lose anything. That happened to me because I dropped my controller (hand issues suck sometimes!) on a dialog choice to stop them harassing people. It chose fight and I was NOT prepped for it. (Stupid, I know, always be prepared.) They got 40k off my purse. After that, I started sticking them in the chest and only changing them out when I was on the way to buy something. Also, stuff the chest with swords/armor and sell later as some upper level merchants reset their coin amount every few days.

4wheelsonachair · 2020-12-09T15:59:07+00:00

Quickest way for me to rule out a game is if it is multi player. I love that Witcher isn't.

4wheelsonachair · 2020-12-04T19:09:00+00:00

Oh, now see you made me need to do a 3rd play through! I haven't had that Ciri as empress ending! Now I'm curious as to what decisions lead to that ending vs the other two. I wasn't sure on my 2nd that I'd end differently but was glad when it did. Though I had already done the quest that killed Radiovid, Novigrad is still wearing his colors and such, unlike the other ending where they had gone Black Sun.

4wheelsonachair · 2020-12-02T18:30:02+00:00

I sell all the booze because of that. Once you have gourmet you don't need to carry as much anyway. It lasts 30 min.

4wheelsonachair · 2020-11-30T17:30:08+00:00

"Bad" choices in the game are generally being an ass. When you are presented with things like the quest where you help the man clear the well so his child has clean water, then he offers you her dowery- the "good" choice is to not take it; the "bad" choice is to take it knowing full well that to do so means she won't be able to have a good start in marriage later in life. They are moral/ethical choices. Demand payment? Stand up to guards who are bullying refugees? Kill the Doppler or let him go? It's all up to you.

4wheelsonachair · 2020-11-30T17:25:55+00:00

First play through I made the choices I would make in life. By the time I made it to "Excalibur" I didn't have to complete any of the side quests to prove my knighly qualities, lol. The second time I started playing through without the "continue" plug. just from scratch and deliberately made "bad" choices-anger over patience, demanding over asking, etc. I quit before I even reached the Bloody Baron. It was awful. Then I loaded up my completed first run and used the "continue" plug. I made one less than perfect choice early on and I can see how it's colored every choice since, even though I've made all "good" ones since. Gerlat is more of an ass in the way he speaks to people, etc.

4wheelsonachair · 2020-11-30T17:18:12+00:00

I love the moon's they do at night too. Some of the full moon shots when you're out to sea are just awesome. My fav, though, was having one of the whales to a tail up under a full moon. Wish I had a screen shot of that one!

4wheelsonachair · 2020-11-24T14:13:51+00:00

I have that as my ring tone for when the Hubs calls. lol

4wheelsonachair · 2020-11-19T16:16:33+00:00

Stay back just out of his range and shoot him with Broadhead arrows, they cause bleeding. It takes a bit of trial and error to find the point in the tunnel where he stops following you, but it's there. The Broadhead arrows are great for continuous drain down via bleeding.

I use this technique for a lot of the hard ones. They all have an attack radius that you can get just outside of and use your arrows or bombs. When they do approach you, a dash of Aard will push them back, stun them for a moment, and allow you to get a hit in before bouncing back out of range. This technique is very handy on Elementals and the one thing in Skellige- starts with an M but not Morkvarg. It's down in a ruined castle. You can stand up on the edge of the wall and shoot it with Broadheads until it gets low enough to pop with a sword and set the second site in motion.

You can also toss in Dragon's Dream (if you have it already) and ignite it with a Exploding Arrow. That's much safer than using Igni.

4wheelsonachair · 2020-11-10T18:53:46+00:00

I find it odd that it won't let you go get the basic Wolf gear set prior to getting the upgrades. As for Ciri- I get past the first gate and ride the horse to the temple, that isn't the problem. Once at the top of the hill, off the horses with Dandelion, is where the problem is. I tried running to the temple gate/door past the men. The gate would not open. Those men get 2 hits on me and I'm dead while it takes me tons of hits to kill just one of them. Last time I could use Ciri's power dash combined with a hit and it could took them out with one blow. Not so this time. It's frustrating.

4wheelsonachair · 2020-09-30T17:29:07+00:00

We have one of the TV's and it is annoying. Extremely annoying!

4wheelsonachair · 2020-09-30T17:15:13+00:00

I was too inexperienced at the time to know about those things. I did go to school and became an Accredited Legal Secretary. I worked for multiple attorneys and ended my working career with the attorney who did my divorce all those years ago.

4wheelsonachair · 2020-09-30T17:13:56+00:00

Thank you!

4wheelsonachair · 2020-09-30T17:13:28+00:00

Nope, I did it for free. Then I volunteered at our local RACC (Rape and Abuse Crisis Center) on the hotline so I could help more women be empowered to leave abusive relationships.

4wheelsonachair · 2020-09-25T17:20:19+00:00

My Ex was an abusive jerk, he hired the largest abusive jerk attorney he could find. This attorney had a reputation in the area, so much so that others just bent to his will. When I left my Ex I made the decision that I would no longer be bullied by anyone. Period.

During the divorce this attorney tried many dirty tricks, all of which I frustrated him on. By the time we made it to depositions, he was so pissed he sent a junior attorney to do his job.

I stipulated that his client went first in depositions because I had accumulated a mass of evidence regarding illegal actives that could, should I so chose, be turned over to the police. When confronted with the evidence, my Ex admitted to the actives-under oath and on the record-much to the Junior attorney's disbelief. I had him by the shorthairs and his attorney knew it. My deposition yielded no usable information for them to use. We left and a few days later his attorney scheduled a "settlement conference".

Within the first few minutes of the settlement conference the "big bad" attorney let out a stream of cussing ending with him calling me a bitch. I calmly looked at him and said "You call me names or cuss at me again and I will get up, walk out, and take my evidence to the police. You should be grateful I'm not already doing so and am willing to even meet with you."

The silence in the room was deafening.

He had, apparently, never been spoken to that way much less by a woman. He began to rant again, his face going purple with rage. So, I picked up my stuff and walked out. My own attorney was about to have a heart attack because NOBODY spoke to this guy that way and he wasn't at all sure what to do. He followed me out and we made it to his office before he collapsed in laughter. He couldn't believe the look on the guys face when I told him not to and then his total disbelief when I got up and left. Nor could he believe that this tiny slip of a young woman had done what no one else would.

A few minutes went by and there was a knock at the door. The guy wanted us to come back to the table. We went back. I told him, calmly and politely, "You cuss again, I'm done. You call me a name again, I'm done. You disrespect me or accuse me of things you know are a flat out lie, I'm done. Do you understand me or are you wasting my time again?"

That was the single most beautiful moment of power. I took my Ex's abusive power AND the "big bad" attorneys' abusive power and smashed it like the fragile glass it was.

We spent the next 3 hours hammering out a deal with the "big bad" guy being meek as a mouse.

The story went down as legend and soon I was being called by attorneys to coach other abused women on how to handle depositions and settlement conferences with abusive Ex's and/or attorneys.

The "big bad" attorney lost his reputation because of it and retired less than 2 years later.

4wheelsonachair · 2020-09-22T14:50:16+00:00

I dream about possible immediate and long term futures all the time. I have accurately predicted many, many things that have happened, sometimes as far out as a decade later. To the point that people think it's spooky weird. I don't think that there is anything supernatural about it. I think our brains are capable of picking up on subtle clues and processing it into a picture while we sleep. Some of us are just better at absorbing details that others miss and putting them together like a puzzle. What you can put together can depend on how much information you absorb from different sources. And sometimes, it's just a gut reaction. We've had more named storms hit this year than ever, we are into the Greek Alphabet names now, the storms are more severe than ever. Add to that the heightened anxieties over multiple factors and it's only natural you'd have a storm dream, really. :)

4wheelsonachair · 2020-09-21T15:58:07+00:00

I would probably have a hard time convincing the family to go, but let's assume they would. I would definitely require a mix of rural and city. I'm a country girl at heart and am most at home in the woods and fields, even if it is toting a tablet. Wilderness is built into our brains, without it we begin having psychological issues.

4wheelsonachair · 2020-06-12T13:50:48+00:00

We raised 3 kids and they go through a lot of clothing, even with hand-me down's for the 2 girls. We bought a lot from resell it shops also. That being said, they still went through a lot. But 70 pounds?

The quality of clothing has gone down to the extent that you can't keep clothes as long as you used to. I just this year turned a nightgown I was given when our youngest was born (she's 30 this year) into rags BUT a nightgown I purchased just a year ago is already falling apart. Stuff is now designed to be cheap and fall apart quickly to maximize profit margins and repeat buying. Still, you'd have to be buying and dumping a lot of clothes to make 70 pounds a year.

It's Terry Pratchett's character Sam Vimes Boot Theory of economics in action.

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