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Lovely food poison in Mexico to ruin a trip. Lost my tour to chichen itza because i had to leave, too sick and took all day to recover. Looking online this looks common to get sick here, very lame

you're not wrong.

word man, I can't even fathom it.

When Ohio finally went Med Legal, it was only edibles and vape pens. No flower.

As an epileptic, the terpenes are often destroyed to make those things, and its the terpenes that are the medically beneficial aspect.

Thankfully, Michigan actually accepted Ohio Med Cards, which shocked me. I could get flower there.

Oh man, this FFII journey I'm taking is just getting worse by the day. I'm halfway through the game and finding out that most enfeebling magic is just completely useless.

For example, I'm in a dungeon where there are a few enemies who hit like a truck with physical damage. I just barely got blind magic. Makes sense to use that against them, right?... Well, no. Every spell starts at level 1 and some of them take several dozen casts to level up a single level. In the meantime, the spell has an insanely low chance to even land, so you're either stuck grinding it for hours against low level garbage or trying to level it as you progress, which is basically just a waste of precious MP, a loss of damage, and a lost opportunity to level something else instead, all in the hopes that the spell will eventually be worth the trouble.

Ugh. It really makes me appreciate how good the series became later on, though. Even the job point grind of FFV felt far more fulfilling in comparison.

Sorry to hear that. Any idea what food in particular did you in?

Yeah, doesn't help that in the old ones, some spells are bugged. Let me lay down some sexy knowledge on you, assuming you haven't gone and found it already.

In FFII there is a king stat. This stat is AGI. Why? It affects your Evade% Evade% actually determines initiative as well as preemptive strike rate, BUT it needs to be high on FIrion specifically to get the 95% preemptive strikes.

It needs to be high on everyone else, or at least on everyone you intend to have in the front row, because almost all late game enemies have En- enfeeblements on their physical hits, including instant death, which magical resistances won't really protect you from.

To raise evade you either need to equip a shield or a weapon that imparts evade, such as the Main Gauche or Defender. You then need to be struck in combat BY ENEMIES. Hitting yourself will not raise your evade.

That's all there is to evade, but it's not all there is to the battle system. More relevant to your magical woes, the magical system in FFII is pretty strange. The accuracy rating of spells is affected directly by equipment weight, meaning that equipping anything lowers spell accuracy and effectiveness, yes, even for healing spells(though to a less extent, because the game doesn't check evasion for hits you do to yourself). This means that you want your mages to be naked, which means they can't gain much AGI or Evade, so you'll want to put them in the back row.

Daggers have the least impact on magical performance, so while it runs counter to the rest of the series, you actually want your WHM oriented character to wield Daggers, since most White Mage is non-offensive, the daggers will be their bite.

If you don't want to grind, then you have to know what you want each character to specialize in from the start, do a little grinding for some nice base MP anyway, and then move on into the game. You don't want to grind one stat too high, because it will cause the stat gains to be harder to attain outside of that one stat.

You will want your physical fighter to be Firion, and Guy is probably the best choice for WHM, due to WHM needing weapons. This is sort of counter to some guides, because Firion is bugged to gain Spirit up from being hit with enemy magic. If you make Firion a mage though, his AGI suffers, and you will be ambushed more often. There are weapons throughout the game that inflict debuffs or target monster families. They all work. The most noteworthy one is the Ancient Sword, found in the Ice Cavern on the way to get the Bell. It has a low accuracy, but it inflicts Curse and most monsters can't resist it. Curse cuts ATP and DEF on monsters by a significant amount, so much so that it lets you do things like kill the Adamantoise with physical attacks. It is useful for the whole game as a debuff.

Spells that are worthwhile to work on:
Cure
Esuna (Esuna 16 can actually heal death)
Shell (mostly for late game)
Life
Berserk(you can actually cause ATP overflow if you level it too high and cast it on a single target)
Aura
Barrier (Late acquisition and actually unnecessary, but still really good)

Fire
Blizzard
Thunder
Flare
Osmose
Curse
Mute

Honestly, the Firion's AGI/Evade being tied to Preemptives is the biggest deal. FFII is usually considered a hard grindathon, because the mechanics for stat gains are so opaque. Most people playthrough walloping themselves to get HP, only to have no evasion, so they get ambushed 95% of the time and then get enfeebled, and then only live because most enfeeblements only last for the battle duration. Also keep in mind you can switch weapons in combat with ones you have in your item hold slot. This helps immensely, because you can debuff say, a Hill Gigas with the Cursed Sword, and then on the next turn switch to your Wing Sword and one shot it.

I admit in the earlier FF games all i ever did was leveling more and equipping newer gear to smash the attack button (or summoning if available).

Just later on i started to bother with game mechanics. Well thats true because most FF games have the final enemies around lv40~60 and the cap normally is 99, meaning you can always overlevel it and never bother with anything else.

I think i just bothered with buffs if they could be auto maintained (like FFVIII or FFIX). Probably just bothered with debuffs in FFXI unless debuffing was some specific requirement, what could be a reason how im terribly bad in stacking debuffs and keeping them up in FFXI.

How a dumb company raises prices:

"Hello customer, we have decided to raise prices 40% this year as we do every single year. We hope you understand and don't get mad at us being greedy and raising prices so high all the time!"

How a smart company raises prices:
"hello customer, Can you believe the government does not pay for you to get our products for free? I don't know about you but I think this is outrageous, our product is a human right and we suggest you get mad (at nobody in particular) about not getting them for free!"

ps: we have decided to raise prices 40% this year as we do every year, just because we can.

*pays for lobbyists to make sure the thing they said never happens, no matter who is in power because that would create pressure to reduce prices

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Examples of corporations that are very smart:

Pharma industry
Medical industry
Universities

Probably from the water. M o n t e z u m a ' s r e v e n g e.



2nd surgery slated for April 19. Anticipated to be much more difficult and much bigger than the original surgery. I can't wait.

'Luna Rossa's view for literally every second of Race 4.

Day 2 of racing featured the most open water course they can select from due to extremely light winds- in fact, up until 5 minutes prior to race start they were still measuring winds to see if it met the race minimums (there must be steady winds of at least 7 knots for them to race in, otherwise they postpone the race).

This was thought to be a huge advantage for the Italians, as they have been undefeated in winds under 11 knots, and in Race 3, it played out just like that. Italy got a lead, and didn't lose it, albeit the Kiwis again in the downwind legs closed the gap.

But in Race 4, 'Te Rehutai' figured out how to win in light conditions, and absolutely destroyed 'Luna Rossa'. And in light winds, once one of these foiling monohulls gets a lead, it really boils down to hoping your opponent makes a mistake vs being able to beat them. We ended the day still tied, but now at 2-2. What 4 days ago was a "best of 13" quickly was compressed to "best of 9".

Tonight it continues at 7pm PST on NBCSN for those in the states interested for races 5 and 6. Waimarie, Te Rehutai.

Well I had awoke that day feeling fine, we got some coffee and then went on the tour. Like three hours in I started to feel sick. Was hell to get back but i had to abandon the trip, they said there wasn't a doctor for miles and they use shaman medicine so i said k time to get back.

Either it was the coffee or we had some fries the night before. Weird

embrace the medicine of those who have lived in a region for thousands of years. They know better how to address the problems of that area than modern medicine. Damn shame about your trip, though- its an area I've always wanted to explore as well.

(I swear I'm not some granola'd out freak- I just respect the power of plants)

*Constructs a circle of Dua Lipa albums and Danish *** cartoons*

Hell: "Please hold while we attempt to summon Negan and Endoq"

I was with you right here

And then you waste it. Summon her! Priorities. If that ain't yo jam send her my way.

You were still on board with the Danish *** cartoons? lol

I'm not sure I have enough blood to summon Dua Lipa, let alone reroute her. Ah well, I guess I'll start gathering sacrifices.

Got around to doing my thermal mod.


Painstaking, but worth it. Before I'd ride between 102C and 110C on memory junction when mining at 80% PL, - 500mhz memory clock, and core sitting at 1125mhz @ 700mv with fans at 75%. This was about 95-100mh/s.

Now I'm sitting pretty between 90-98C on memory junction, 85% PL, +500mhz mem clock, 40% fan speed, and 110-120mh/s.

careful if you summon the devil

Satan gets all the fun stuff.

Also, the Negan summon worked!

I have bought one happy meal so far and my wife got a shiny bulbasaur; She lit up like a well hung vineyard on New Years.

yo quiero taco berr senpai

Super tired after near 12h work total today.

Most likely gonna work saturday and monday.

Currently the work is actually just studying though.

It doesnt takes that much time to do an Udemy course but i find myself taking 5~10 minutes working on summaries for each 1 minute of video played. Entire course is 12h so this will take a long time, not sure if worth.

Roommate's stim check is already pending, that was fast as hell. I'm not looking forward to taxes this year, fortunately the IRS extended our deadline until June.

The price of puppies have risen x6 the normal price since over a year ago. Cause people are stuck at home and walking dogs is allowed exercise during lockdowns.