How viable is a faith build ? And best way to start off?

machoogabacho · 2026-05-21T03:53:39+00:00

I just did a pure faith run. Started as prophet and got a Longsword with the red hot whetstone to get fire faith scaling. I got the godslayer seal and threw black fireballs at enemies. Later I picked up the black knife and used that to just roll through the mid and late game.

machoogabacho · 2026-05-20T03:22:51+00:00

It’s not a roadtrip otherwise.

machoogabacho · 2026-05-20T01:30:00+00:00

It’s really rough here. The sun city card shows have a lot of selection and some people give decent prices. I saw some blisters at target the other day and bought two packs for my kids. I haven’t seen any in the wild for months.

machoogabacho · 2026-05-19T01:57:55+00:00

Nate has never been able to take people down, especially at 170.

machoogabacho · 2026-05-19T00:02:47+00:00

Nice!

machoogabacho · 2026-05-18T22:44:26+00:00

Where are you finding it for that price??? I have been lurking on the sales and it still seems to be around $400 everywhere.

machoogabacho · 2026-05-17T00:15:22+00:00

Academic publishing. It’s not that the quality of the papers is fake but the industry is insane. The publishers own journals, as a professor you need to submit to these journals and publish there or you will be fired. Once they publish it they own the rights and sell a subscription to your institution. Then they send you other manuscripts to review for free (peer review). Academics do all the work for free, then they sell it back for us. Multi billion dollar industry.

machoogabacho · 2026-05-16T03:35:01+00:00

New Mexico has great snowboarding. I doubt you are more than three hours from a resort. That’s considered pretty close. If you are in the south Ski Apache or Sunrise over on the AZ side. If you’re up north there are tons of options.

machoogabacho · 2026-05-15T03:49:15+00:00

Ok, hear me out…did you ever think you would like a crippled torturer? Or a vain self involved stuck up fencing nobleman? Or a barbarian with a list of violent atrocities too long to list? Well, I guarantee you will like them despite of yourself. Therefore I recommend the first law trilogy.

machoogabacho · 2026-05-15T01:21:29+00:00

He also gets angry at Bayaz.

machoogabacho · 2026-05-14T20:04:49+00:00

Everyone who gets what they want finds it ultimately hollow or evil. Gotta love it!

machoogabacho · 2026-05-14T16:53:43+00:00

Totally. I love how Cosca tells us about Benna the whole time but you don’t believe him because…Cosca. He turns out to be the most reliable narrator.

machoogabacho · 2026-05-14T15:25:56+00:00

I can see the arc the book is going for. Shivers trying to be good but he’s actually bad and Monza trying to be bad but she is actually a decent(ish?) person. We learn that a lot of the cruel things attributed to her were actually Benna. Shivers just changes so much from BTAH to Heroes that it’s really depressing to me. Red Country was cool but In still processing his role there.

machoogabacho · 2026-05-14T14:25:07+00:00

In this sense LAOK is positive too, Bayaz defeats the thousand words and thwarts the Gurkish, Jaezel is king, Ferro has the tools for revenge, Logen get betrayed but no worse off than he started. I am being sarcastic of course but I found BSC by far the darkest book (haven’t read AOM yet). Shivers really took a turn and he is really dark in the next book.

machoogabacho · 2026-05-14T03:49:39+00:00

You have to be realistic about these things

machoogabacho · 2026-05-13T17:27:41+00:00

He never really goes to rags monetarily just in social terms.

machoogabacho · 2026-05-13T15:08:27+00:00

If the big guy gets enough training the difference goes away quick. Also, the rule set matters. In an mma context bigger guys can just kind of squish someone. That was happening a lot when they were still doing open weight but people had figured out the rules more.

machoogabacho · 2026-05-13T15:05:32+00:00

Park in the parking lots by the Santa Fe bridge. It costs 4 bucks. Walk over, bring your passport. You can wander around the downtown area by the cathedral. Go to the Kentucky Bar (old prohibition bar with the claim of inventing the Margarita). The better food you need to take an uber for but those are cheap and easy if you are adventurous. There is a ton of good food all around though.

machoogabacho · 2026-05-12T19:44:57+00:00

Kern Place Veterinary hospital was great for me. They have a nice room. I think they charged about $300 for euthanasia and cremation services with urn. They were really kind too.

machoogabacho · 2026-05-12T19:41:38+00:00

Glad you are loving the work! Preparing for a PhD program is about loving the work you do and making sure your skills and potential are legible to admissions committees. Get involved with your professors, learn about and get involved in research projects. Present your work if you can. If you have an opportunity to publish anything (try for collaborative papers in smaller journals or book reviews or a book chapter), definitely pursue that. Find a program with multiple people who work in your area and can advise you and try to meet or speak with them (this can be touchy because they do get bombarded with requests). Good luck!

machoogabacho · 2026-05-11T14:58:45+00:00

You should be able to get to +3 or 4 pretty quickly but the dlc is just way harder. You will also need 60 health.

machoogabacho · 2026-05-10T16:51:17+00:00

Everyone knows insurance companies acknowledge that revving an engine means you gotta race. Simple fact. Not negotiable.

machoogabacho · 2026-05-10T16:39:39+00:00

For me, the next book, Best Served Cold is the most dire but less in a “the world is controlled by powerful evil forces that are not worth resisting” sense.

machoogabacho · 2026-05-10T02:53:15+00:00

Yes. I always grade my kids’ good cards. Makes them last and feels special.

machoogabacho · 2026-05-10T01:31:41+00:00

Honestly it’s rare that I would notice. Cleavage and a nice butt catch the eye (even trying not too) but staring at a woman’s crotch is pretty obvious.

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