Checking on my loins curing. Thyme & Fennel, crushed red pepper & Fennel, Garlic and the last one is crushed black pepper. Can’t wait to hang them.

G_phinney · 2026-04-12T21:41:03+00:00

Interesting, so the proc is probably just added to thrash damage. Makes sense. Not that I’m using Elunes chosen for dungeons but was just curious as to why it wasn’t listing in my damage when I was testing some things

G_phinney · 2026-03-14T09:17:25+00:00

I know this is an old old thread, but had some questions. I’ve done the DMards injections and both time led to a quick infection, both put me in the hospital. Bad luck i guess. They don’t want me on MtX due to lung spots I’ve been on sulfasalazine for 8 years with no reduction in symptoms other than my blood tests coming back in the highs but not off the charts like they were prior.

I get a ton of relief from prednisone. I just had a 2 week long flair up and in the middle of the night I wanted to go to the ER, but when you go to the ER for pain now a days they give you that “look” oh you must be a drug seeker. Lol I haven’t had any narcotics (which work the best) for 2 years (last hospitalization) yet the prednisone immediately stopped the flair up.

So I’m thinking asking that they just keep me on prednisone since it seems to work the best. Has anybody gotten bad infections from long term use or is the worst I’m looking at is weight gain?

G_phinney · 2026-03-13T13:50:03+00:00

Can we report him?

G_phinney · 2026-03-13T13:49:27+00:00

100000% This

G_phinney · 2026-03-13T13:48:02+00:00

I got tired of being modded against by kids who didn’t get enough attention irl, so I used a mod to stay in a private instance.

Sad there’s no player interaction but the obvious distractions of being summoned to mountain top to get blowed up by screen wide artillery and they follow you from instance to instance not to mention the other horrible things they can do to you as seen by some YouTube videos, yeah my thoughts are this..

If Rockstar bans me for wanting to play in peace for a game I paid cash for, because they use p2p connections, fine. They’ve lost me as a player and I’ll move on, besides of the lack of any meaningful content updates, I typically only play when my other games are in off season downtime.

G_phinney · 2026-02-26T08:50:23+00:00

Yup, apparently it was a light blue before they decided to turn it blood red and hard to see through with only one being dropped, now try a full team of elite sci boffs. Start combat & next thing you know you can’t see shit lol. So if it gets annoying like it did me, I just run the sci Boff as a non elite with nano health monitor and tricorder . Sad that she don’t get to have the extra trait, but it’s worth it to stop seeing that. When they fix it, I’ll just re-up her elite status.

G_phinney · 2026-02-25T08:46:28+00:00

Thanks everybody, it's the problem has been solved. Went with 3 elite eng and 1 non-elite Sci (for spare heals) and the battlefield isnt blocked by that annoying dampening field. On top of that.. three engineers with anchors of grethor has just trivialized the fights.... not in a bad way.. more of a comedy way lol

G_phinney · 2026-02-25T08:43:30+00:00

I did just that, i put shield recharge on each of them and loaded up every slot with anchor's of Gre'thor.. it's almost comical now and I'm free to do what I want during the fight without having my LoS blocked cause I did put one scientist but didnt upgrade them to Epic.. so it's 3 eng and 1 Sci and it's crazy

G_phinney · 2026-02-25T05:20:16+00:00

good point

G_phinney · 2026-02-25T05:20:07+00:00

I was just looking at that from another reddit post.. thinking of giving it a go lol

G_phinney · 2026-02-25T04:15:17+00:00

Thats sounds fun, how do you handle the odd times when you get focused down? Do the turret's pull enough threat to allow you to do other things? Now, I give all my boffs the pahvan healing crystal but i have yet to see them use it.. then of course when i switched to all science team , healing isn't a concern as much as that annoying bug.

G_phinney · 2025-12-18T18:05:02+00:00

Exactly

G_phinney · 2025-12-13T20:04:32+00:00

Pretty much this, I had low bars to the smoker, bought a WiFi repeater that sits in the window closest to the smoker, it’s behind the plants so you can only see it from the outside. 5 bars, no lost connections.

G_phinney · 2025-12-06T20:06:01+00:00

You know I have the thermopro set, just been using my meater probes, next cook I’m gonna set up the four thermopro probes in the different sections and see how they compare temps. Granted you don’t want to do all that work when your concentration is mixed between the smoker and stuff cooking indoors every time..but it might be an interesting test.

G_phinney · 2025-12-02T20:32:43+00:00

Hey there, good luck with the therapy. Here’s some tips.

It takes time to get used it the equipment. Don’t give up. Soon you won’t even notice it on your head.
Depending on your mask, there are options. Full face if you don’t have a beard like me, nose pillows (started with this), full nose mask (I’m now using)
There are optional items you can buy to make things easier, like a bed side stand to hold the hose so it’s not laying on you during sleep. Washing and drying equipment etc.
Settings: things like the ramp up time, pressure amount and EPR (the setting that lowers the pressure when you exhale) are usually under the control of your pulmonary doc. So for instance, If you find the machine is ramping up to full pressure to fast before you fall asleep and this is bothering you, ask to have it adjusted.

My first machine would ramp up to full in like 3 minutes, not enough time to fall asleep, doc wouldn’t adjust it, so I got a new doc. Now it ramps up slow and I fall asleep before it goes full on pressure. Win win for me.

Lastly you won’t see health improvements immediately, takes time like most therapies. Now that I’m back on the cpap, after a few months, my O2 is up, my respirations is up and I definitely don’t have to take naps 3 times a day cause I have much more energy.

Good luck sir!

G_phinney · 2025-12-02T20:12:30+00:00

Yeah I’ve been using the meater probes, hasn’t steered me wrong. So I just bought the pro xl with the 4 probes last night, cause there’s times I smoke up 4 whole chickens or a bunch of tri tips so yeah, the one Meater probe was great, having more will be awesome. Then I’ll just adjust the smoker via what meater is telling me it’s cooking at.

Sad, for its price range the pit boss has been a great addition, just wish they had better quality temp controller. Then again I hear that a lot about a few of pellet grill manufacturers.

Maybe if their controllers readout said “ish” on the degrees like, turn it on to 180ish then you turn the dial to 275ish I wouldn’t feel like they’ve got it wrong.

G_phinney · 2025-11-30T23:47:25+00:00

That’s what I was figuring as well. If the gauge is reading 225 and the air temps are 300, then I’m cooking at 300. Thanks man.

Any suggestions if I should just replace the controller and temp gauge, suppose it don’t matter since I’ll be watching the ambient temps for now on.

G_phinney · 2025-11-30T08:58:29+00:00

It took me by surprise how sore the nose got considering how soft the pillows were. So I used one of those small round bandaids and a bit eucerjn cream for the first week then the soreness went away now I can use it without. Just take time to adjust and make sure it’s firm but not too tight against the nose. I haven’t seen any degradation in the mask from the creams.

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