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I could get behind this format

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Elwin in Der Langrisser.
Peter the Phoenix from Shining Force 2

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YugiNoob posted...

FUCK. Only now did I notice that my Heinrich hit the absolute max amount of experience, so she wasn't getting anything for Agir <_<

I kinda hoped that they would let experience count, even if the ship wasn't actually benefitting from it :<

"PR EXP is only earned through oil-consuming PvE content (& Operation Siren) with the ships specified under the EXP objectives in the Shipyard. PvP matches, Dorm EXP, Lecture EXP and commissions do not count. The EXP goals are rather large; be prepared for a long grind. Ships who are at an EXP/level cap (i.e. 70/80/90/100~120 depending on limit break, cognitive awakening or EXP hard cap) will still contribute EXP to PR EXP objectives, even if it displays +0 EXP in the combat results."

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Rocky horror picture show.

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Blue_Inigo posted...

Weeks?!

Yeah, the wife has a crazy high sex drive sometimes. I wonder if part of it is the myth of the woman's sexual peak around this age.

dj1200 posted...

holy shit. i'm guessing you handle yourself during this time.

Not as much, I enjoy the reprieve sometimes. I'm fairly low to average for sex drive though I'll hardly turn it down. She's down for sex anytime.

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Have two kids, married for more than a decade. Sex life is still very active, though I wouldn't call it the norm. Sometimes we go weeks without, sometimes it's 2-3 times a day for weeks.

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I mean, how hard is it to just send her the Konami code?

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I say Buh Bye and for some reason I sound insincere like Jerry Seinfeld even though I don't mean to.

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Occasionally I run into a dungeon team that requires me choosing a specific set up just to counter them. With the 3-4 tank groups, Tamaki is amazing for whittling down their healing support backliners. Of course, have to make sure Nozomi/Kuuka isn't present and taunting. But often times I'll just reset my run since I'm usually just using auto anyways.

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2 wins for Mai, one for each boob

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Calwings posted...

It's taken me less than 24 hours to realize that this isn't going to work. The hard cap for stamina you can hold in PriConne appears to be 999, and the game won't even let you claim the stamina from the daily missions if it would put you over this cap. You can still claim the stamina from the guildhouse even if you're at the cap and it goes to the present box, but you only have a time limit of 24 hours to spend enough stamina to claim it or else it just goes poof and disappears out of existence. So unfortunately, saving thousands of stamina for the extra Normal Quest drops event won't work.

You can save up to 999, but that's it. I would say to spend your stamina normally each day until the 23rd, then let the stamina you get on the 23rd and 24th take you to (or close to) that cap of 999 to prepare for the double drops event starting on the 25th.

I was going to say something along those lines but I couldn't remember the details. When it's not an event or clan battle I only play every other day or so. My stamina regularly overflows. Good point on saving for the 24th though I'll probably forget.

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I read an article once in a gaming magazine that went into detail how the PSX was much easier to code games for, and Sony even went out of their way to help newer developers make games for it. Saturn on the other hand was difficult and not intuitive at all, and Sega didn't do much to help third party developers. This lead to a huge library advantage for the PSX.

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I can't help but think of Faradenza. Ratatata. Catchy.

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In my line of work it's someone who specializes in building tanks.

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Maybe the real treasure in this topic is all the friends we've made along the way.

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joe40001 posted...

You are so close to getting it.

You just have to have cut the wire in your brain that seems to link "drug company gets rich off it" with "legitimate pharmaceutical" and then you'd understand exactly why we shouldn't be shutting down ivermectin.

The half-baked studies of ivermectin are doing a decent job of shutting themselves down without any outside help.

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joe40001 posted...

1. They really think it's safe and praise the shit out of it, give 2 billion doses to over 250 million people, with 0 concern for safety issues.

It's effective for what it's intended for. It's not effective for Covid.

2. They are offered a contract for 1.2 billion dollars and a bunch of money to create something that is similar but different enough that they can make money off it.

There is a need for Covid medicine because not enough people are vaccinating and variants are more likely to emerge. Plenty of 'critical thinkers' like yourself also happen to be antivax and/or have a strong anti-pharmaceutical bend. Alternative medicine ahoy!

3. They don't get that money if ivermectin exists as a safe alternative

See above. There is a need. The government is offering money to fill that need.

4. They now have safety concerns

Of the Covid trials. Dumbass.

"I wonder what could possibly be going on!!!!"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34159342/
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/record/NCT04405570?term=molnupiravir&draw=1&rank=5

What is your issue with the trials since you're the expert at reading these things?

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joe40001 posted...

I think that^ might have something to do with it.

I fully expect you to comb through every study involved and highlight it's deficiencies seeing as you are now a self-proclaimed expert on drug studies and tests.

Also, if indeed they had safety concerns about it, do you really think they'd donate over 2 billion doses to over 250 million people or celebrate it's nobel prize?

They're damning the studies of ivermectin for Covid relief. Holy fuck do you ever miss the point sometimes. Wildly so in this case.

Seems waaaaay more like they loved the damn thing, but now it's in their financial interest to doubt it and support their new patented thing, since there isn't money for them to make on ivermectin.

And this is why people call you a conspiracy theorist. This is a theory, made up from conjecture and opinion.

So you are helping to prove my point.

You wilfully misrepresenting someone else's points doesn't prove your point.

PS: I welcome DR to come to the inexplicable defense of the efficacy of molnupiravir.

She isn't the one who brought it up. Why should she have to write up a defense of it? When you make a claim, establish a burden of proof.

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Let's circle back. Ivermectin is owned by Merck. They have a statement on their own website that states; (emphasis added)

Company scientists continue to carefully examine the findings of all available and emerging studies of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 for evidence of efficacy and safety. It is important to note that, to-date, our analysis has identified:
No scientific basis for a potential therapeutic effect against COVID-19 from pre-clinical studies;
No meaningful evidence for clinical activity or clinical efficacy in patients with COVID-19 disease, and;
A concerning lack of safety data in the majority of studies.
We do not believe that the data available support the safety and efficacy of ivermectin beyond the doses and populations indicated in the regulatory agency-approved prescribing information.

https://www.merck.com/news/merck-statement-on-ivermectin-use-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

But somehow 'Big Pharma' is suppressing it's efficacy. Why would Merck make this statement joe?

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Article camping editors can be a huge problem too. It has flaws but it's still a pretty useful site. Just don't expect it to be an arbiter of neutral information on controversial subjects. That's not it's purpose.

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joe40001 posted...

Anybody parroting... talking points without skepticism at this point isn't paying attention.

He says without a hint of self-awareness.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/o5dnsu/for_your_safety/

Wild that it requires a subscription just to use.

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Meh, I don't follow the min-maxing guides. If I like a character, I'll use them and build them up. Squeezing one extra UB out of a character on manual play doesn't scream fun to me. I auto almost everything anyways.

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I realize it's not that simple but couldn't someone who detransitions (so to speak) consider they may be gender nonconforming or genderfluid? Seems like going back and forth between two gender identities must be tough mentally and emotionally. Not that I would ever question anyone who decides to do so. People are who they are.

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ROOTFayth posted...

yeah lol why would you have a panic attack over a picture of a random hockey player, why do you even give a shit?

Anxiety and panic attacks don't necessarily need a logical trigger. Rather, illogical things done with or without purpose can have a worsening effect on someone who is struggling mentally with anxiety.

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This was a few months ago. It's longer now.

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I'm so conflicted.

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Relient_K posted...

I can't even imagine spending that much time on this site.

I can. My imagination sucks though.

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Used all 100 tickets, and 2 10-pulls for 120 tries in Priconne. I got Djeeta with tickets. Second 10-pull got me 2 Karyls. Go figure. Same thing happened with Peco. Seems to be my luck in this game. It's too bad dupes only get you amulets but I guess it's a better system overall than requiring dupes to max a character.

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Bio1590 posted...

The Oilers are way too high as well.

Yeah, same odds an actual Stanley Cup finalist just seems weird to me. Going to be big changes this offseason for them so it's very premature.

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Not Penny's boat

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TroutPaste posted...

Any advice for the sphere grid? Just go in order or is there a strategy to it?

Just follow the path. It'll branch out more at the end giving you plenty of options if you are using the original grid.

Also, when it comes to gaining exp, any character that performs an action in battle gets full xp. No divided exp on this game. If there is no action performed, they don't get exp. Something to keep in mind for boss fights and leveling multiple party members. I only mention it because it's not obvious and is pretty different than how every other rpg handles exp.

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Right choice. I'm guessing it's a closed mortgage. Put in the extra money to knock down the capital as soon as you can.

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Playing Azur Lane, Priconne, and FFBE. The latter is having their 5th anniversary celebration. But typical of Gumi and the global version, the rewards are very underwhelming. Not to mention they often skip upgrades for units that JP got, or the scummy business practices. I'm reminded why I quit the first time. Plus bugs all over the place.

In Priconne, I have a hard time finding reason to log in other than the dailies. I'm currently working a lot so I don't log in every day either. It's such a slow moving game, which makes a fine side game. Just not sure if I'll keep going after S. Karyl.

Azur Lane is still my main. Grinded the event in 3 days to get the medal from D3. Almost done getting all PR1 ships, just a little bit more experience to go. I hope they make DR blueprints more available going forward.

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Neoconkers posted...

lots of stretching and/or ripping, and the baby having a soft skull until after delivery

Yeah, my first child came out as a cone head after a long labour that eventually became a c-section. Went back to normal in a few hours.

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Man, this is one of those games I wish I could replay for the first time.

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When OpSi resets in Azur Lane, it is very helpful to get the 5000 Oil item from the exchange shop. It removes all restrictions on movement between zones, allows you to see the map completely so no recon is required letting you auto-search on every map, and gives you the quickest way to access port missions and complete them every day. Oh, and it gives you all the stat bonuses and coins you would get from completing them normally so you start off in a good spot.

Finally got Ryuuhou. Just at about 100 cubes left. Got everyone else from the event so I'm done pulling for a while. No need to do the daily anymore either.

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YugiNoob posted...

Question about this Azur Lane site

https://slaimuda.github.io/ectl/#/home?ship=new_jersey

When deciding on what to equip, is the most highly recommended gear at the top?

Yes, hovering over should give a pop-up explaining why.

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JACKBUTTMOMMY posted...

This. I also donate it, take care of it, and style it.

I also plan on donating mine. Just another few inches to go.

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I've gotten way more flirts and compliments from women once I grew my hair long. I don't get it. Maybe they sense the confidence.

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joe40001 posted...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8127799/

This is a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled trial for ivermectin.

No, it was a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled trial for ivermectin combined with doxycycline, an antibiotic. Is there any randomized, double blind, placebo controlled trials for ivermectin alone? An important distinction. I agree that further testing is needed, but it's not the smoking gun you want it to be to prove ivermectin is effective.

And fair point that study you posted was one the FDA referred to. Albeit not one that swayed their decision greatly according to their publication. Remdesivir already had a testing history that showed some efficacy against viruses similar to Covid. You act like it was approved at a high price point with a low threshold for approval but you're not factoring in the decade plus of testing it's already been through.

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joe40001 posted...

You are making my point for me about how a low a bar "possible" even is.

I mean you are arguing from a point of "peer reviewed meta analysis of RCTs basically can be completely ignored". Which even if you have your doubts is pretty overstating of things

"If only you could read data you could know you can ignore data that goes counter narrative if you want to."

Study in support of the super expensive Remdesivir:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769871

Open label? That's fine

"Meaning Hospitalized patients with moderate COVID-19 randomized to a 5-day course of remdesivir had a statistically significantly better clinical status compared with those randomized to standard care at 11 days after initiation of treatment, but the difference was of uncertain clinical importance."

That's fine

When it's a study supporting an expensive big pharma patent drug it's safe/effective until proven otherwise, but with ivermectin or anything there isn't money to be made on it's the opposite.

Like why aren't people equally motivated to poke holes into the research for remdesivir? It's as if the hole poking isn't a good faith effort done equally for all things but rather selectively applied to gatekeep the stuff you already don't want to like.

Here is the fda's excuse for the use of remdesivir:
https://www.fda.gov/media/137574/download#:~:text=On%20October%2022%2C%202020,to%20inpatient%20hospital%20care.

Are you all honestly telling me that if that posted the exact same things but the word remdesivir was always replaced by ivermectin the same people here wouldn't be using their same logic to poke holes in it?

I'm not saying we shouldn't use remdesivir, but I am saying when you endorse a big pharma expensive drug which had studies with the same problems if not worse than ivermectin studies, and then you say "NOPE IVERMECTIN OBVIOUSLY BAD, WE SHOULDN'T SUPPORT FURTHER STUDY" you clearly aren't being motivated by good faith rules.

Instead of finding a random journal study article that you says supports remdesivir as a cure (which really doesn't) why didn't you look up the clinical trials the FDA referred to in the release you linked to? They mentioned three trials, including a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled study, among others. They affirmed it was statistically significant. Not a single study with ivermectin has been produced under such strict adherence to controls, much less shown the same benefits.

And if you don't have experience reading journals and studies, you need to understand that the phrase "Worth studying further" is common as they rarely seek to provide definitive statements and doesn't necessarily mean what you hope it means.

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YugiNoob posted...

Do you have any suggested healers? Right now I'm using Sikare, Uriel, Raphael, Ms. Blanc, and Vice. I'm not really seeing the hype behind Raphael though :<

Also I have some Azur Lane questions...When I buy Action Points in the port, are they immediately applied, or is there some menu that I can use them from? I would check myself, but I bought them all without thinking and have to wait for them to restock lol. Same question about stuff like the emergency repairs that restore HP for your ship(s).

They are in the menu called Storage accessed from inside any map, even a port map. You can use your heals or AP refills anytime you're not in battle. Also note you may have some vials (can't remember their name) that will increase one of the three OpSi stats permanently until the next reset. Those are also found in storage and are always worth purchasing in the shops unless you're a hard-core OpSi player who has 250+ in all three already. I don't remember at what level they stop being effective but I think it was near there.

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