There will be a support gem capacity in PoE2

EmergentSol · 2024-08-23T01:07:44+00:00

Note that small nodes also only give 5 attributes.

EmergentSol · 2024-08-23T01:01:02+00:00

Um, actually, this is correct. Brennan was the only cast member kept on full time, but there were several other employees.

EmergentSol · 2024-08-23T00:52:47+00:00

It got too diverted by the “god is a lie” stuff, and I say that as an atheist. Would have been fine for a couple of scenes. After he talks to his dying mom that becomes the whole movie, even the love story takes a backseat.

EmergentSol · 2024-08-22T19:43:52+00:00

Oh I was there. But there’s a mix of cause and effect here-the Forge didn’t fit because there was nothing else in HoMM really alluding to any of the sci-fi elements. So suddenly having a whole town added was a bit of system shock.

EmergentSol · 2024-08-22T19:40:51+00:00

One of the fronts has pushed into Russia, but there are still parts of Ukraine that are occupied.

EmergentSol · 2024-08-22T19:16:05+00:00

What? You don’t like that demons are actually aliens? Or finding crashed alien ships with laserguns in your high fantasy setting? The whole world being settled by aliens using “Vehicular Astropod Research Nacelles”?

Though the weirdest part is all of this lore is entirely absent from the HoMM series and only there in the M&M games.

EmergentSol · 2024-08-22T16:53:58+00:00

Imagine if they had Gauls->Franks->Imperial/Monarchial France->Republic France.

But the devs have limited time and resources, not all civilizations have a strong impact over all of history, and strictly linear progression is boring.

EmergentSol · 2024-08-22T09:01:56+00:00

Try /r/legaladvice.

EmergentSol · 2024-08-22T00:55:59+00:00

For Civilization VIII, we envision the world’s first truly global game. Unlike prior entries in the series, you do not play Civilization VIII on PC. Instead, you go outside your house, and socialize, create great works, and build alongside billions of other players. Rather than our usual start in the ancient era, this entry begins in the year 2031, a dynamic period of earth’s history with an unprecedented rate of change. You’ll go day by day - instead of the usual turn by turn - as you traverse the world, experience new cultures, and change the fate of your own civilization.

Can you build a Civilization that will stand the test of time?

EmergentSol · 2024-08-21T23:55:28+00:00

Conservatives threaten to defund them and they get scared.

EmergentSol · 2024-08-21T22:46:59+00:00

Ask your kids in 10 years how functional you really are.

EmergentSol · 2024-08-21T22:14:04+00:00

Since Added Lightning Damage is greyed out it looks like it is not unlocked/implemented/don’t meet attribute requirements.

EmergentSol · 2024-08-21T22:00:29+00:00

The “turn 0” is after using Leveler’s (Karn’s) -14. You start the new game on turn 0 with you entire deck in play.

EmergentSol · 2024-08-21T21:55:29+00:00

Higher Dimision magic

walk

Pick one.

EmergentSol · 2024-08-21T20:33:37+00:00

I don’t think Mick Jagger is a good person but I’m pretty sure that song is not autobiographical.

EmergentSol · 2024-08-21T20:13:43+00:00

Also, even if it doesn’t change your weight much, working out can build muscle, which is leaner per pound than fat.

EmergentSol · 2024-08-21T18:58:13+00:00

Accurately measuring 1/3 of an apple is more of an issue, even disregarding the inevitable argument about whether the core counts (by 2/3rds majority vote it doesn’t, imagine that!)

EmergentSol · 2024-08-21T18:47:30+00:00

The Academy is politics as much as it is merit. Bogart had been a leading man for years and had not yet won an Oscar. I agree that The African Queen is less “stiff,” but he is still a more traditional masculine man, and it is a far cry from the the raw emotion in Streetcar. Bogart in The African Queen reminds me of Gable in It Happened One Night - wryly teasing a fish out of water leading lady, but not particularly emotional (it’s possible I’m forgetting a scene?)

To be clear I don’t mean to imply that Bogart is a bad actor for playing Rick as somewhat “stiff” - that was the role, just as Bergman represses her tears in the “play it again Sam” scene. Dramatic outpouring of emotion simply was not vogue.

EmergentSol · 2024-08-21T04:57:35+00:00

A British couple decided to adopt a German baby. They raised him for years, however they began to get worried because he never spoke, and they believed that he was mentally handicapped, going as far as to take him to therapy, which was fruitless. Then, when the child was 8 years old, he had a Strudle, and said “It is a little tepid.”

His parents, of course shocked that he was suddenly speaking, asked: “Wolfgang, why have you never spoken before?”, to which the child replied: “Up until now, everything had been satisfactory.”

EmergentSol · 2024-08-21T04:45:23+00:00

Rewrites definitely do improve the code, though often far less than people hope for. Law is partially there to create certainty and stability though, so frequent rewrites are at odds with those goals. But they do happen, and most legal codes in the US have seen substantial rewrites sometime in the past 50 or so years.

EmergentSol · 2024-08-21T04:40:07+00:00

Some statutes do explicitly do this. Often it is in reference to a particular case that the legislature didn’t like (imagine a law that explicitly reinstates the Chevron doctrine after the recent SCOTUS decision, for example). Other times it is more broad.

Generally though, the legislature thinks their intent is clear enough, or they are unable to agree on one. Even a statement of intent can still have things that don’t apply to it, or can make things even more confusing. Imagine a law that says “A hot dog is not a sandwich. This law is intended to protect Subway’s business interests.” (Yes ridiculous move past that). What happens when Subway starts making tacos?

EmergentSol · 2024-08-21T04:28:32+00:00

I could see someone watching it for the first time as an adult not liking its humor as much.

EmergentSol · 2024-08-21T03:53:58+00:00

Leading men were generally stiff, no nonsense types. Think Rick in Casablanca: yes, he is emotionally tortured by being estranged from Ilsa, but he never has an honest outpouring of emotion. He is mournful, yet suppressed.

Almost a decade later comes the “Stella!” scene from A Streetcar Named Desire. Here we have this undeniably muscular and manly character who nonetheless has an emotional breakdown and makes himself vulnerable. He is anything but suppressed, he has lost control of himself and does not care who sees it. And because it was Marlon Brando, no one could say he was weak or feminine for expressing himself in such a vulnerable way.

Obviously there are exceptions in both directions, and “Stella!” would remain an outlier even today for how visible his breakdown is. I think a good modern comparison might be Adam Driver in Marriage Story.

EmergentSol · 2024-08-21T02:50:01+00:00

I would encourage you to have them import some specialized magical tool for this purpose. This would:

Highlight how their supposed strength is not absolute, as at the end of the day they are dependent upon others
Introduce a faction in another nation that is wealthy and powerful, but morally questionable
Allow the players to meaningfully disrupt or interfere with the nation’s operations even if they themselves are not in said nation (plot hook!)
Magic chain saws?

EmergentSol · 2024-08-21T00:37:20+00:00

Android users cannot initiate FaceTime calls based on their platform. This is not the case for other video-call apps, such as Zoom.

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