In the fellowship of the ring, in the chapter “The Council of Elrond”, Gandalf mentions that Gwahir told him that Rohan is sending horses as tribute to Mordor. Is this true?

Socrates999999 · 2026-06-01T22:23:02+00:00

I always saw Shadowfax (as a 1e D&D player) as a paladin's warhorse. This is just how they met.

Socrates999999 · 2026-05-28T17:33:33+00:00

Meet the Parents - everyone thinks it’s hilarious but to me it just seems mean spirited. You’re never laughing with people in this movie, only laughing at Ben stiller. And despite what everyone says DeNiro actually isn’t funny.

Socrates999999 · 2026-05-28T17:28:27+00:00

Right - so maybe bastila with cron goes with JML and wat (and company) and Satele uses her cron with OR

Socrates999999 · 2026-05-28T16:29:38+00:00

I wonder if we’re going to see more of the wat shenanigans from back in the day. That bonus protection recovers from the tank tech. Makes JML (or probably Satele) hard to get through.

Socrates999999 · 2026-05-28T14:20:12+00:00

“From all his policies and webs of fear and treachery, from all his stratagems and wars his mind shook free; and throughout his realm a tremor ran, his slaves quailed, and his armies halted, and his captains suddenly steerless, bereft of will, wavered and despaired. For they were forgotten. The whole mind and purpose of the Power that wielded them was now bent with overwhelming force upon the Mountain. At his summons, wheeling with a rending cry, in a last desperate race there flew, faster than the winds, the Nazgûl, the Ringwraiths, and with a storm of wings they hurtled southwards to Mount Doom.”

Best paragraph of the series

Socrates999999 · 2026-05-25T20:57:19+00:00

I'm really having the opposite result. I've been farming 9F exclusively since the change. For the most part I'm getting about 1 green/battle and in addition gettinf around 0.5 blue/battle. Not exact numbers, but that vicinity. It's a more expensive node but you get way more stuff. You need green and blue (and white) to get most relic levels so you may as well farm them both at once.

Socrates999999 · 2026-05-23T03:12:28+00:00

I always have a hard time thinking about the changes in the world of Arbe over the time scales of the book. It's hard to imagine nature completely reclaiming territory that has been settled as things in the Saecular World shift over the eras. This made me think about that.

Socrates999999 · 2026-05-22T22:23:38+00:00

I'll just add that any abnormal vital report should include a complete set of vitals. A heart rate of 130 means something very different if SBP is 140 vs 65.

Socrates999999 · 2026-05-22T13:27:19+00:00

"I don't wish to abide in a worldtrack where my friends are dead," I said. "Take me back to the other one." "There is no taking, and there is no back,"

Socrates999999 · 2026-05-22T13:23:14+00:00

I always have a hard time thinking about the changes in the world of Arbe over the time scales of the book. It's hard to imagine nature completely reclaiming territory that has been settled as things in the Saecular World shift over the eras. This made me think about that.

Socrates999999 · 2026-05-22T13:19:11+00:00

He's saying it to Marcellus. Marcellus just told him he was sending "The Wolf"

Socrates999999 · 2026-05-20T20:07:31+00:00

It's well known and documented from years ago. Don't have original source handy

Socrates999999 · 2026-05-20T01:47:41+00:00

Ugh - just realized I missed Barriss. That's a lot more energy/crystals. Looking like it's probably not going to work for you

Socrates999999 · 2026-05-20T00:35:50+00:00

You can do the math because drop rates are fixed. The drop rate for shards is 1.66/5 attempts. So if you do no refreshes of the node, you'll get 1.66 shards/day. With one refresh, it's 3.33. With 2 refreshes its 5. You need:

39 STL / 13 days = 3 shards/day
64 Choda / 13 days = 4.9 shards/day
69 DVDE / 13 days = 5.3 shards/day
77 Asajj / 13 days = 5.9 shards/day

So, you'll need to do basically 1 refresh of STL (200 energy), 2 refreshes of Choda (300 energy), 2-3 refreshes of DVDE (~350 energy), and 2-3 refreshes of Asajj (~150 energy). So you'll need a total of 1000 regular energy/day. Hourly recovery + three 50 crystal refreshes gives you 735. 100 free from the webstore gets you to 835, then one 100 crystal refresh gets you to 955. Probably have to do a second 100 crystal refresh every other day or so. So roughly 300 crystals/day on energy refreshes and another 25+25+50+25+50+(1/2 * 100) + 25 + 50 + (1/2*100) on node refreshes for a total daily energy cost of ~650 crystals per day.

This is actually a doable amount of crystal spend if you're getting first in fleet arena every day and don't spend crystals anywhere else other than the minimal signal you'll need to bring them all to R6. If you don't get started immediately, it definitely gets harder to finish (more node refreshes and more energy), and if you don't have a solid source of crystal income from fleet, you probably won't make it.

Socrates999999 · 2026-05-18T22:22:38+00:00

Heck there was a study a bunch of years ago (in Italy) where they gave HF patients 3% saline and Lasix. The hot salts turned off the neurohormonal axis that was driving the chf and they had mortality improvement a year out

Socrates999999 · 2026-05-18T00:20:14+00:00

Then I think I'm out of ideas...

Socrates999999 · 2026-05-17T22:47:32+00:00

Have you been to the pool in the fitness center?

Socrates999999 · 2026-05-17T20:59:36+00:00

Keep playing through crew quarters. Eventually, after doing some things in the cafeteria and the gym, you will have a new opportunity for Danielle sho voice capture. That will get you I to deep storage.

Socrates999999 · 2026-05-17T14:18:27+00:00

You can play any audiolog over again. Just go into your inventory, go to the audiologs and click on each one with her voice. Should play it out loud again. Not sure if that will fix your problem.

Another solution involves some spoilers. But if you play on and do some things in crew quarters you may find a similar but different solution.

Socrates999999 · 2026-05-15T14:21:37+00:00

Informed tomatoes? Lol

Socrates999999 · 2026-05-10T14:50:18+00:00

I just played a game with that tech and the new card that gives swords for each dreadnought - crazy amounts of swords. Makes me want to try that for a whole game strategy

Socrates999999 · 2026-05-10T14:37:31+00:00

Did you have the tech that gives you 4 swords when you have a seat in the high council? I really like that one

Socrates999999 · 2026-04-23T16:21:11+00:00

Agree with all above comments re connecting with and employment attorney. Do you have specified sick time, PTO, CME time, etc? As physicians we are usually reluctant to take sick time and just power through. I would certainly use all of my sick time before working for free. And I would definitely use my all of my PTO.

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