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Baldur’s Gate intensifies

Google is worth a hell of a lot more than 31 billion dollars.

Google is also said to have unethically controlled key businesses in each part of the advertising supply chain, thereby driving up ad rates for advertisers while reducing the payouts to website owners.

Uh, yeah. Why wasn’t this filed years ago when they started copying website content to their own AMP version of the site and not even routing users to the actual site they expected to see? Google has been trying to acquire the entire Internet, cutting the people who built it, and maintain it, completely out of the picture, ever since they changed their motto.

Walt is always freaking out about something. Dude was way too high strung.

Oh, you don’t want to take a path with an obvious trap? Well a level 20 red dragon swoops from the sky and attacks your level 1 party. Roll initiative!

Ugh, I’ve played with DMs who think it’s a game between them and the players, where their objective is to kill all the players without making it obvious that they’re doing that. Look, man. You’re literally God of this world, you don’t need to try to prove that you’re tougher. Frickin weirdos.

Is that Satya Nadella in the 2nd to back seat?

AKA: IDK how to be a proper website developer.

Is hypnotic pattern actually good? I tried it, and it was mostly resisted every time I cast it, so I dumped it.

Spore Druid and Call Lightning is absolutely amazing. A level 3+ spell that you can cast infinite times without expending further spell slots? Oh hell yes, please!

I’ve been using ice storm a lot more. It has a wider radius, does almost as much damage, and imposes difficult terrain, which frequently knocks enemies prone, wasting their turn.

They aren’t mutually exclusive. Mimics swallow a lot of things whole.

Are you behind a VPN? Sometimes the reroutes trigger these types of issues.

How long until Facebook and Google figure out a system that accomplishes the same thing, but doesn’t technically break the law?

It’s also about the fact that social standards and laws change. What may be perfectly acceptable today, could cost you your job or freedom in a few years.

Look at how many people lost their jobs, careers, and social standings because of old tweets that were resurfaced years later. That’s not even legal changes, just social propriety changes. The internet used to be the Wild West. People would go out with guns blazing, hootin ’ and a hollerin’. Then several years later we found ourselves in this socially progressive identity focused environment and shit people said in passing, likely without any thought at all, suddenly became part of their public identity.

Now imagine that there’s a drastic change in the law. Today you’re celebrating pride month, and 5 years from now homosexuality is outlawed retroactively… Seems preposterous, but it’s really not. We need our privacy, from both the government and corporations.

There’s a whole scene where they mutiny against their leader because they’re starving and dog tired. They want to eat the hobbits, and the only thing that stopped them was one of them getting beheaded for mutiny, and then getting decimated by a squadron of Rohan horsemen. I love that they took the time to include that, since it makes it more believable. The Uruk-hai were pushed to their absolute limits and then beyond, and they snapped, just like men would.

Those 3 consist of an immortal elf, a dwarf who are known for their endurance yet complained the whole trip anyways, and an 85 year old Dúnedain, a race of men descended from the Númenóreans, who are known for their longevity and noble lineage. So they’re not exactly common foot soldiers.

“Nobody tosses a dwarf!”

Don’t fall.

When I was in the Army we always trained in full combat gear. That gets you used to wearing it so the extra weight isn’t noticeable, and it gets you so familiar with it that it becomes an extension of yourself. I imagine knights of Middle Earth used a similar philosophy. Plus, they were expecting worg attacks on the road and needed to be prepared. They did in-fact face worg attacks, so it’s a good thing they were prepared.

Right up the booty!