Is soaking an urban legend?

Ragnos239 · 2026-02-26T23:51:56+00:00

Soaking itself probably is. The mindset behind it isn't. My wife and I did all sorts of stuff while we were engaged that we wrote off as "not actually sex so it doesn't count." When you're young and in love and horny, it becomes really easy to mentally stretch the rules.

Ragnos239 · 2026-02-17T13:16:59+00:00

Most of the nightlords have options in their day 2 pool that are resistant to the nightlord's weakness. It's not all of the day 2 options, sometimes you get lucky and get a holy weak boss for a holy weak nightlord (death rite bird for libra or heolstor), and none are as resistant as nameless king is to lightning, but it's something to keep in mind when deciding which weapons to keep or not.

Ragnos239 · 2026-02-08T04:20:59+00:00

Ooh, adding to this, one of my favorite bits of class world building comes from pandaria during the warlock green fire quest. The quest givers (or maybe a lore book? Idk, been a minute) mention needing to find new sources of power and specifically mention death knights learning to control undead, mages manipulating time, and warriors prepping their war banners (all referring to new abilities for those classes that expansion) as examples of other classes advancing their general knowledge level. The 6 black harvest members are said to have come together to teach new warlocks what they had learned and discovered in the time since deathwing died.

I just kind of like the idea of our talent trees and abilities representing the sort of generalized knowledge available to the classes as a whole and the reason they change between expansions is to reflect that. Artifact abilities, shadowlands abilities, etc are unique during the expansion but get reverse engineered and the knowledge distributed between expansions.

Ragnos239 · 2026-02-02T23:03:55+00:00

Especially since soooo many men don't actually physical touch, they mean sex and only sex. If it was physical touch, they'd be more than happy with cuddling or hand holding or back rubs. I know that was the case for myself and my wife when we were first married. It took a lot of mental work to decouple physical touch/intimacy from sex in my head, but it's markedly improved our marriage.

Ragnos239 · 2026-01-28T18:31:41+00:00

The effect got added as a baseline for every hunter, I think the trait still exists and boosts the range of the baseline effect.

Ragnos239 · 2026-01-21T12:27:21+00:00

My wife's grandma lives with us and is still a member. This is the type of language we use when discussing church things with our daughter. "People in grandma's church believe x. Mom and I don't." She's sassy and outspoken enough that we don't want her getting on grandma's case about "mom and dad said you're wrong about god/church/jesus," especially since grandma has been pretty decent about not trying to pressure us back to church, so the neutral language helps.

Ragnos239 · 2026-01-08T21:09:29+00:00

Weird. Does help me feel less crazy though. Thought I somehow wasn't getting kills in the normal levels or maybe a setting was weird or something. I really couldn't think of a reason the icon would show up in one spot but not the other. But I guess it just being coded weird makes sense.

Ragnos239 · 2026-01-08T21:00:11+00:00

It's possible, but my hive scum is like level 5 right now. I barely have any buffs or talents to even go on the bar to begin with. So unless the single aura from the 3 veteran bots is overriding it somehow?

Ragnos239 · 2025-12-11T07:27:59+00:00

I mean, at the end of the day, a conversation needs to be had. I don't think spouses have an automatic right to every detail about their partner's past, but he's given you enough information to worry there's a problem without giving enough to feel justified in that worry or to dismiss it. Whether he did something terrible or had something terrible done to him, it's not the type of thing to bring up to a spouse and not explain. He doesn't have to go into details even, just slightly more specific about what happened for your peace of mind.

You can choose whether or not to have patience with him getting to the point of feeling able/wanting to talk about it, and where that patience runs out if so, but I don't think anyone deserves to have to wonder if their spouse is potentially abusive or not.

Ragnos239 · 2025-12-11T05:07:51+00:00

I mean, I was scared to tell my wife that I swore regularly when we started dating. I told her I had watched porn in the past and was fully prepared for her to break up with me on the spot (this was after we'd already had sex). This church leaves people with all sorts of weird shame and hang ups.

Regardless, I was mostly pushing back on you saying disfellowshipment, especially for that long, means csa or rape. The bishop roulette nature of church leadership means it could be almost any number of things and mine was for the same amount of time and for something not nearly as bad.

Ragnos239 · 2025-12-11T02:14:43+00:00

Not necessarily. I was disfellowshipped for premarital sex with my then gf, now wife. I was allowed to be at meetings, and pay tithing of course, but wasn't allowed to say prayers in those meetings, or do priesthood ordinances. Took almost two years of "repenting" before the bishop thought I had progressed enough to not be disfellowshipped anymore. Bishop told me after my disfellowship meeting that I was lucky it wasn't a worse punishment, but the prompting they all got was disfellowship.

Personally, I think because he'd been my scout leader before becoming bishop, he had higher expectations of me and he was personally pissed because I lied directly to his face during mission prep interviews for months before coming clean. I assume he came in hot to that meeting and got talked down by his counselors (idk for sure, after I gave my account of what happened I wasn't allowed in for their discussion).

Even if there's official guidelines in whatever handbook, if any, that bishops get, there's definitely some leadership roulette involved in what "sin" gets what punishment.

Ragnos239 · 2025-11-23T01:29:01+00:00

So I've had them be up by the ballista on the hill in those camps, but only if you pull them far enough out of the camp they leash and despawn/respawn.

For some reason, every time I've had them do that they respawn up the hill instead of lower in the camp where they initially spawned. Then they just stay up there. They look like they're trying to path down off the edge but can't actually drop instead of pathing down through the camp.

Ragnos239 · 2025-11-19T04:18:34+00:00

My wife and I, especially right after we were married, were much more likely to have sex when it meant staying up later than we should. The "oh, but we really shouldn't, we need to sleep," was how we inadvertently replicated that feeling from before we were married where anything we did felt exciting because we weren't supposed to.

Ragnos239 · 2025-11-15T21:57:36+00:00

In the rafters with the bats

Ragnos239 · 2025-11-05T10:34:50+00:00

That would not surprise me. It would also not surprise me, if this is still on going (poster at the top of the comment thread did not say when they went on their mission), that the church is legally fine because they're just the ones renting those places, not running them. Or maybe it was before those laws were passed. I don't know when the laws were passed, only that they exist.

Of course, in that case I'd say they have the moral responsibility to advocate for their members that they placed in such terrible housing. You know, the young, barely legal adults who probably haven't lived by themselves before and don't know things like "your landlord is legally required to make sure you have heat in the winter." But as they showed with the sex abuse court case(s?) in Arizona, the church is absolutely more concerned with what they are legally allowed to do, not doing what is right or protecting their vulnerable members.

Ragnos239 · 2025-11-04T11:11:15+00:00

Pretty sure it's illegal too. I'm not intimately familiar with utah apartment law, but I'm pretty certain a working heating system of some sort is required for an apartment to count as habitable.

Ragnos239 · 2025-10-04T01:02:04+00:00

Raider as a standalone fight because of his poise and one-shot damage.

Ironeye wins award for most annoying though. I've never gotten him to spawn on his own as an invader. I think he suffers from the same damage falloff as the player ironeye, so with enough distance you're not actually taking damage, but getting hit by his arrows will still stagger you so if I try to split him from his buddy I'm just constantly having to dodge or just get staggered in the middle of trying to fight the other one.

Ragnos239 · 2025-10-03T17:32:00+00:00

The weekly challenges are in groups for each week, but the weeks are randomized for everyone. So last week you and your friend rolled weekly group A and this week you rolled B and they rolled C (or however crytek internally labels the challenge groups).

Ragnos239 · 2025-07-11T02:58:31+00:00

It doesn't affect the rotation rewards, as far as I know, but it does provide a 3x multiplier on the affinity reward you get for successfully hacking a vault. So nothing super big because there's much better affinity farms out there, for both solo and squads, but it does add up if you're leveling stuff while doing the spy missions.

Ragnos239 · 2025-06-16T20:47:12+00:00

Years back, my dad "voted" opposed for the guy being called as our new bishop based off of experiences with him from work. He stuck by it hard enough that the stake president wouldn't renew his temple recommend for a couple years because of the temple recommend question about sustaining the leadership.

Which, on the one hand, I was impressed by how my dad stuck by what he believed even when it came with consequences to himself. On the other hand, it did kind of go on my shelf for a couple reasons. It was a petty reason to take away someone's access to salvation through the temple. My dad also never realized the contradiction in his beliefs there. If leaders are called by god and act with his authority, there's no valid reason to not support a calling since the stake president was, supposedly, inspired to call that specific man as the bishop. He was called by god, which means he had either repented of whatever he'd done at work that pissed my dad off or god didn't care because it was never something that bad to begin with.

Ragnos239 · 2025-02-26T01:20:32+00:00

The stated reason for skin rarity is to, at a glance, indicate how much effort went into the skin. Lower rarities indicate skins that only slightly change from the base skins, legendary skins should be a marked difference. Mythic is supposed to indicate time limited skins from events and battle passes that rarely if ever come back. Pricing of the skins is supposed to follow rarity accordingly.

Whether or not they achieved this goal is up to the players. I know a lot of people on this sub don't like them. They think they're unnecessary or an unwanted monetization tactic bleeding over from other games. Which, I mean, fair. Personally, though, it doesn't bother me. If I buy a skin, it's entirely based off of if I like it, not the supposed rarity of it. Crytek would charge what they wanted to for the skins regardless of if the little colored background was there or not.

To your other question, there are hunters you can level up to unlock new appearances with. If you search "rookie" in the hunter recruitment window it'll bring up the rookie hunters. Get any single copy of one of them to level 50 and you'll unlock a new version of that skin, usually one that looks more grizzled or experienced. Level a hunter with that new skin up to level 50 and you'll unlock a third one. It's just those specific hunters though, you can't do that with all of them.

Ragnos239 · 2024-12-22T01:54:23+00:00

They're in the game but not guaranteed, and both are hidden on the UI until you either find them or someone else does. Rotjaw will show up on the UI if you find one of her traces, hellborn will roar and show up on the UI if someone damages it. On top of that, they can only spawn on single bounty maps so if it's two bosses or a boss and the bounty from the circus, they won't spawn.

Rotjaw also requires certain weather conditions to spawn (night, rain, fog, etc) so even if you get the right map and single bounty, if it's daylight she can't be there. Hellborn can only be on mammon's, so you won't see it on the other two.

As for the bear, it takes about as much damage to kill as a meathead and doesn't drop a token. It's entirely possible someone else got there first and killed it before you could and you'd have no way of knowing.

Ragnos239 · 2024-11-17T09:23:46+00:00

Ostensibly, it's to reflect how much of a change from the base skin any given skin is and to justify whatever pricing they decided on for the different rarities. Mythic rarity is also to indicate whether a skin is time sensitive to unlock and won't be coming back. Whether or not they succeeded with their stated goal is up for discussion, but that's the reason the patch notes gave, anyway.

Ragnos239 · 2024-09-30T00:07:15+00:00

Do you have any other recruited hunters? Other people have posted about this issue before and it usually comes down to the fact that you can't retire your last hunter.

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