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20hr ago
I mean IMO there's zero reason to play as an origin character, and from what I remember negative reason (I seem to recall that the character's story doesn't really happen if you play them as the PC). If I were you I would start over and make a custom character, but that's just me.
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1d ago
Gotcha, I missed that reading through the thread. Thanks!
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1d ago
By what metric? As far as I can tell people are ready to hurt each other physically in a way they simply were not ten years ago. That seems like a massive decrease in trust to me.
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1d ago
You gave away the one advantage of the Internet with this post. I hope it was worth it.
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1d ago
Props, man.
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3d ago
It's worth checking your state laws for sure, cause I know in Wisconsin at least it's perfectly legal. In fact, you're even entitled to take the carcass if you didn't hit it with your car - the driver who hit it has dibs, but after that whoever comes across it can take it if they want.
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6d ago
I resemble this remark. I read a ton, but I'm not reading stuff that's been written recently (with a few exceptions). There are a ton of classics to read, and also frankly I don't think most new releases are actually good.
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7d ago
Wait what? I've seen her in other things and can't say I ever noticed them, but maybe I'm not paying attention.
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8d ago
One thing worth bearing in mind is that the biggest risk here is short term. Rent goes up every year like clockwork, while your mortgage is going to stay the same (or even go down if you refinance into a better interest rate). My wife and I have owned our house for 7 years now, and our mortgage is already about on par with what we would be paying for our apartment if we had stayed renters. Plus we have more space here (1300 sq ft at the apartment, 2000 here with 1300 finished and 700 unfinished). It was a stretch at times for the first few years, but between our payments getting cheaper (due to refinance) and rent going up, we are already at the point where we're glad we bought.
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8d ago
She went by Ever. It was unusual but you got used to it.
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8d ago
Dear humanity: we regret being alien bastards. We regret coming to Earth. And we most definitely regret the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!
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8d ago
As you said, virtue names are uncommon, but by no means unheard of, in the US. Almost exclusively for girls, though Felix arguably counts as a virtue name for boys. For girls I've seen Hope, Faith, Grace, Mercy, Charity, Joy and Constance around, as well as one extremely out there example whose full name was Ever Lasting Love (apparently her parents were hippies, lol).
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8d ago
I haven't seen the movie, but I have seen the musical. It has great songs, which is over halfway to the goal line if you're a musical. And I think that the arc of Elphaba and Glinda, going from a really awful relationship, to best friends, to having to part ways, is interesting and works well. Otherwise, it's not something amazing (the movie is almost certainly severely overhyped, even if it's good there's no way it's as good as people say it is). It's just a pleasant musical about a more sympathetic take on a villain from a classic story. If you aren't feeling the musical side of things, check out the original cast recording of the stage version and see if you like that more. I think that soundtrack slaps.
I haven't read the book either (it's on the list to be read someday), but from what I understand it's significantly different from the play, to the point that it isn't really relevant to any discussion about the play (and now movie).
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9d ago
What do mottizens mean, when they reference "fed posting?"
Fedposting is an Internet term in general, not a Motte thing. It means that someone is posting pretty openly about doing very illegal stuff (generally violence but could be drug dealing or something of that nature I guess). The etymology is that federal agents have been known to stir people up to do illegal things, then arrest them for it. Thus, if one were to say "we should go shoot a bunch of people" or whatever, they are posting like one might expect one of those federal agents to. Thus, fedposting.
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10d ago
What's really funny is now GLP-1 drugs have made it a simple matter of adhering to an injection schedule, so these difficult conversations need not happen. Someone just loses a bunch of weight out of 'nowhere'...
As someone who is taking 2mg of Ozempic weekly (for diabetes, which it is helping), I can tell you that unfortunately this isn't true. It still depends on the person. Obviously some have success, but not all will.
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11d ago
Yer a Christian, Harry.
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11d ago
Same. I've never worked with someone who actually liked all the corporate crap, and most people were openly skeptical of it. Nobody really pretends to care about quarterly earnings and the like, either.
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13d ago
I like your post overall but this jumped out at me:
Every Billionaire makes many millionaires, some make other billionaires! Wozniak would never have been a household name if he had refused to follow Jobs.
And Jobs would've been nothing without Wozniak. It was a partnership, not one man following another. They needed each other equally - without Wozniak, Jobs is a sales guy without an interesting product, and without Jobs, Wozniak is a tech guy with a killer product but without the ability to convince people of its utility.
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13d ago
I like our pastor a lot. He's a young-ish (in his 30s) guy from Brazil, who really strives to care for all the people of our parish. He also doesn't make any pretensions to holiness - I've heard him talk at various points about the sins he has struggled with at times, and how if you were to talk to any of his friends from Brazil they would say it's a miracle that he joined the priesthood. He's the model of what a priest should be like imo, and I'm really grateful we have him.
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14d ago
Of the options presented, Clair Obscur. Reasonably fun to play and tells an engaging story. The first Mass Effect is good too, but the games go downhill hard after the first.
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14d ago
It's alright. I certainly wouldn't call it emotionally deep. It is, in the end, a high fantasy "save the world from apocalyptic threats" story which is entertaining but isn't going to knock socks off. I think the thing the game does best is giving you agency in how to approach situations, they really let you come at things pretty much any way you can think of and still accomplish your goals. Obviously there are limits, cause it's a computer game and it can't react to you creatively, but you won't run into them often.
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15d ago
It plays and feels like D:OS so if you enjoyed that, pick up BG3. I think that they did a really good job with it, though I do have my gripes (for example there are characters whose dialogue sounds like it was taken from Reddit, which is a horrible writing choice for a medieval fantasy like the Forgotten Realms).
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16d ago
I will forever lament the way Jackson adapted that scene. Eowyn's speech in LOTR is so beautifully written; it is one of the best bits of prose in the book imo:
"'Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!'
"Then Merry heard in all sounds of the hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. 'But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Eowyn am I, Eomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.'"
I realize that the movie adaptation isn't written with the voice of an epic the way that Tolkien wrote the book, but to go from that beautiful exchange to a generic action movie "I am no man!" as she removes her helmet... it's just such a shame. They really fell short with that scene.
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17d ago
No, I don't think you're dull. Pretty girls who do sick martial arts moves and kick ass are fun, one doesn't need to give it some kind of culture war explanation to make sense of it.
You should look up the details of what origin characters miss out on, because Gale has (imo) the best story of any of the party members. It would be a shame to miss out on it, but hopefully I'm remembering wrong.
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