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Nezha has a new augment out now too which is totally broken https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Divine_Retribution

Basically a room / tile clearing nuke when paired with some sort of decent status primer (usually slash-based).

Use it before it gets nerfed.

https://youtu.be/0Om_gCEezUs

Dante Unbound out

Inaros rework, new Disruption nodes on Deimos [by extreme luck I already got all Dante parts], very nice new lighting in Orbiter and a couple other places elsewhere imo, couple of new Incarnon Entrati wespons, Deep Archimedia out next week, some nice new augment mods, Archon Shard Ascent Fusion, Omnia Void Fissures for all relics, weekly archon shard removed from Kahl missions onto Bird 3, Styanax Deluxe and lots of lovely qol stuff. Mirage Eclipse is changed.

11 Year Anniversay for free Dex Nikana and alerts for previous anniversary items.

Protea Prime out next.

He's probably shoot something.

My 2023 bonus arrived today.  I'm still on leave for five more weeks, and have already agreed to start at the new job (better pay, better commute, better tech stack, better avenues for career growth, and most importantly nobody I interviewed with seemed like a stupid fuckhead) two weeks after that.

Kind of debating my options on how exactly to quit.  My boss is a nice guy who's in way over his head with a large team of incompetents, and my departure is going to suck for him.  I thought about notifying him right away so he has as much notice as possible (I had to wait until my bonus was in hand since upper management has a history of retaliating against people who quit and fucking with my bonus is a thing that would have been in their power), but quitting over Slack/email while I'm OOO feels excessively... cold?  And I'm not sure if letting him stew for five entire weeks while I'm not around to actually do any handoff stuff is really a kindness -- I'd already carefully extricated myself from any project commitments prior to going on leave so there are no plans that he needs to adjust.

In the old days I'd have knocked on his door first thing Monday when I got back, but everyone's hybrid now, and he only comes in on Wednesdays.  So it's gonna have to be over Zoom, and since we *never* do random 1:1s over Zoom, he will start freaking out as soon as he sees it land on his calendar, and his calendar is bound to be full if I wait until that Monday to schedule it.

I'm thinking that the best option might be to surprise him on the Friday before I get back (everyone fucks off early on Fridays so his calendar is bound to have some space) so he has the weekend to collect himself before our team standup on Monday morning which would be the logical place to break the news to the team at large (there will probably be a lot of panic among those ranks as well because I'm doing a lot of folks' jobs right now).

What would Nerf do?   

I picked it up at 30% off, I think it fills out Cathay in particular nicely.

Kislev are fine with or without the updates, and I doubt I will ever play the umpteenth chaos campaign it adds.

In a month where Final Fantasy VII Rebirth just released and Dragon's Dogma 2 is coming in a week, Unicorn Overlord is my early GOTY. Fantastic. Instant classic. Dreamy.

The brutality of fire is reflected more indirectly in the way that Aang reacts to it, to the point where he's basically phobic about learning to firebend because of how destructive it is.

Which really gets right to the heart of my favorite thing about the show, which is that the whole main "quest" of the three season arc is accomplished mostly through well-written character growth.  Aang's whole thing is that he has to master the elements, and the challenge isn't that he has to go and collect widgets and whack foozles, it's that he has to look within himself and change his whole way of thinking.  Like, he can't earthbend because he's too conflict-avoidant, and Toph fixes that by sticking him in a situation where he has to meet something head-on.

Well, there is Zuko's face in the cartoon, but otherwise, yeah, fire is treated more often like kinetic energy.

One thing the show did better was show how brutal fire actually is in war. I don't think there was one episode when at least one person was not horrifically burned, usually to death. The cartoon (for obvious reasons) simply couldn't do that, getting hit by fire was more like being punched... it just tossed people around. Having the fire lord just casually set people on fire when he is done shit talking them works wonders to make him scarier.

The cartoon hits you with the fun cute stuff (martial arts magic!  wacky creatures!) very early, and does a slow burn on the heavier stuff (genocide!  moral dilemmas!  corruption!  redemption!) almost like they were trying to sneak it past the network censors.

The live action version hits you with the genocide right off the bat, like, look this is a grownup show we ain't fucking around, and I think that ironically lessens the impact.