The Guardian and Ancient shields would auto-reflect beams, but still consume shield durability. Any shield could be used with the parry and not consume durability. (This goes for most if not all monster attacks.)
Yeah, imagine my shock and disappointment when encountering such limitations signing up for credit monitoring (by one of the big 3). It's not enough that my employer has a breach, no. But also finding out that one of the big players has some ridiculous 12 character alphanumeric password restriction. Absolute dogshit.
I'm not a huge fan of the Warriors format, but I had a good enough time with AoC. Some of the cut scenes gave me chills. I'm a little fuzzy about the DLC. I got it, and enjoyed it (don't think I finished all of it), but I'm not sure I'd call it crucial. It's just more game. It's gone on sale a handful of times for the patient gamers out there. I'd wait until you're done with the core game before trying to decide. If you're still flowing, go for it. If you've had enough, let it be.
Been kinda wanting to pick it back up since Age of Imprisonment was revealed.
It's a primary, vot for something, you'll never have to hold your nose in a primary.
It's a nice notion and all, but in far too many locations, people have to vote strategically even in the primary. Very specific example: my state has a gubernatorial election coming up this year. Red and blue primaries are loaded. One of the blue candidates is a lapdog for the state mob boss power broker. Another blue candidate is a sleazeball with money to have been running conservative talking point ads for the past two months. The rest of the field is a mix of middle of the road types and various levels of progressive. At least some of them are there to split the vote, which is historically what the mob boss power broker has done to protect his people (like, say, his little brother) from getting primaried once entrenched. Whoever survives the primary is likely going to do so with only 30-40% of the vote. If I vote by platform, it's effectively tossing my vote away. The only chance at avoiding the sleazeball or lap dog is everyone unifying behind some other (likely) moderate. Failing that, the governor's race is going to mirror the presidential, with someone at best unlikable vs whatever the conservative grift machine turns out.
And in other more local races, the primary is the election. Shit is that deeply embedded here. Being in a solid blue district has its upshots. Fair and open primaries aren't one of them.
except for the AC compressor, which the generator actually would have had enough power to run, but not to kick-start.
This sentence triggered my PTSD. Imagine, if you will, a world where executives insist that datacenter AC be put on UPS battery. A world where those same executives declare that a different datacenter is just fine running at 95% power capacity because "it's not 100%." A world where inrush current does not exist. Except it does exist, but all professional advice is ignored until there are consequences. And even after such consequences are realized, one of those same executives still tries to run his home sump pump off of a desktop UPS during a power outage, pops it immediately, then goes and gets another from the office, which also pops immediately.
The sign in OP's post will always be relevant somewhere.
My teenage nephew, fresh off of regurgitating talking points about how $80 Nintendo games were total ripoffs, happily bought Doom on launch for $70 (with whose money I do not know), beat it in less than a week, and then raved about it in a phone call for over an hour, eager to experience any upcoming DLC.
The ship that dad is holding is sending up slop flares.
Edit: 🤦♂️ I know it's the original art. But the ship is huge, looks like it holds about 9 pegs, and the one on the left is lined up directly over a finger. 🤷♂️
I was okay that day, but lost it while reading The Shepherd's Crown.