u/faroresdragn_

I dont know if I am missing something here, but it seems like Kurapikas syringe chain is broken enough to be a plothole.

The biggest issue I have with it is based on Zenos analysis of chrollo. It is pretty safe to assume that Zeno is one of the greatest nen experts in the world. When Zeno meets Chrollo and sees that he is using stolen abilities, he immediately judges that he must have 4 or 5 conditions to pull that off, and that they are probably complex enough that he wont be able to satisfy them if Zeno keeps him busy fighting. And he was basically exactly correct. Chrollos ability has 4 conditions he has to satisfy to steal an ability.

Based on that totally accurate assumption by Zeno just based on the knowledge that it was a skill stealing ability, it seems absolutely wild to me that kurapika can do it just by poking someone with a syringe. And even that isnt hard to do because its a syringe on the end of a conjured chain that he can manipulate at will. Being able to learn about the ability and use it himself requires emperor time which is a heavy condition, but stealing the ability is apparently as easy as pie.

And as a side issue, if stealing nen/abilities is not something that is only possible with specialization, as I had assumed before this reveal, you would think that nen stealing hatsus would be way more common, as that is a super broken ability to have. I mean not only can kurapika do it with apparently no conditions, its not even his main ability. its just one of the 5 or 6 abilities his hatsu gives him, so we can definitely assume it would be significantly better if that was the one hatsu he had dedicated his nen to. how does everyone not have a hatsu of "...and also if I punch you i can steal your ability"? why wouldnt you?

Am I missing something here? or thinking about something wrong? why is skill thief so hard for chrollo to pull off, and why is the syringe chain so easy for kurapika to pull off? I get they arent identical abilities but the disparity there seems huge.

I am embarrassed to say that I have lived in this area my whole life, and yet dont know the national park very well. I do remember going on hikes through the dunes and absolutely loving it as a kid.

I am going camping at the dunewood campground in Beverly shores this weekend with my daughters (8 and 5). can anyone tell me a good trail we can hike? a good trail that takes us through the dunes but also isnt a 30 mile hike the little ones wouldnt be able to make? so something hopefully not far from the campsite which has a parking lot we can access?

I've put around 250hours into this game and played all the plotlines on hard mode, so I like to think I generally know what I'm doing. I started a maddening run a little while ago just to have done it. Golden deer. I've been spending most of my extra time doing auxiliary battles and my characters are all a much higher level then they ever been at this point in the game. I have all the passive stuff like the saint statues from previous runs, etc.

I haven't had a lot of issues yet. But I've never been the guy in any fire emblem game that tries to min-max, or only reclass people to their optimum classes or agonize over getting everyone the very best abilities and whatever else. I just play the game and make sure I've got a good mixture of fighters, cavalry, and magic users. Current class I am using is Claude, Raph, lysithia, Marianne, petra, sylvain, hilda, leonie, and Dorothea.

Regardless of how you personally like to play the game, is maddening hard enough that I'm going to hit a difficulty wall if I'm not playing while referencing guides and being super anal about it? Like is it going to get just impossible to progress because I'm going to start getting one shot by generic goons because I did something wrong?

I have been brewing hard cider. Not to many batches so I am still learning, but this last batch came out pretty tasty.

After it was done in secondary, I added some brown sugar and then bottled it. After about a week I opened one of the flip top bottles and it was like a cannon shot, so I put them in the fridge and have been drinking them. I have a couple left.

It's been maybe 2 weeks in the fridge. I wanted to take the last few bottles on a fishing trip, where they would be in the car for hours. Do I still have to be concerned with the bottles starting to ferment again and blowing up in the car? Is that a lingering threat that never goes away? Or after being cold long enough is the yeast going to stay dormant?

Salt is a substance that is literally necessary to keep us alive. Because of that, it makes sense that it is one of the five tastes that our tounge is able to detect. it basically just makes meat taste better on like an evolutionary level.

And then the thing that is always said in the same breath is just a seemingly random spice made from spicy ground up seeds or something. I assume that not all cultures value black pepper the same as we do in the west. But since it doesnt have the organic significance that salt does, I assume it could be any spicy thing we pair with salt. Why is it specifically black pepper?

I ordered 25 bare root strawberry plants for my garden this year. I didn't get any notification it arrived. I found out they have been in my mailbox in an opaque brown paper bag for 5 whole days.

It's gonna take a lot of work digging out a bed for them and then planting all 25. Don't want to waste that if there's no chance they are still living after about a week in total darkness. But also I know that I need to rehydrate them so they're obviously pretty inactive anyway. Should I go ahead and plant them? Are they probably ok?

The best example of what I am talking about is when I have seen LOTR fans get a One Ring wedding ring, or even get the script from the One Ring tattooed around their finger.

Like on one hand, its cool that you love lord of the rings that much...but also I feel like a person who loved lord of the rings that much would know youre actually not supposed to want to wear the One Ring? like to each their own, but why would you want the symbol of your eternal love for your spouse to be...a magical item of pure evil that will try to dominate and corrupt your soul?

Like yes its just harmless fandom but it makes me laugh. Are there any other good examples of this that youve seen?

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So, after the lonely island was locked in place, the valar created Tirion and the hill that it was built on, and also in line with that created a lower point in the Pelori so that the light of the trees could shine past them a bit, and it illuminated at least a part of the lonely island. I am pretty confident on that bit of lore.

I have this vague memory of there being some elf who was not one of the Calaquendi, but somehow once sailed close enough to valinor that they could see the light of the trees coming out through this pass in the mountains, but ultimately returned to middle earth after that. I want to say that Cirdan was the elf in this story, and that he kinda sorta got a glimpse of the light of the trees. I dont know if Cirdan was actually the character in that story, or if it just happened in some characters dream, or if my story is entirely made up, and im not sure how to confirm any of this without rereading the entire Silmarillion or even the whole history of middle earth. No idea where I got this idea.

Is there anyone who can confirm this at all or otherwise tell me I made it up?

I am looking for advice on behalf of my wife.

one of her molars hurt years ago and she went in and got a root canal at her dentists suggestion. the tooth never really stopped hurting her, and the pain got worse to the point that she went back in and they had to redo the root canal. honestly over the last couple years I lost track of the number of times she has had to go to the dentist or the endodontist or whatever for this one specific issue. shes gotten the procedure done at least twice, had to wait forever to get the crown on, and she just the other week finally got a temporary crown put on as she is waiting for the permanent one, and she has scheduled another appointment for today because she is still in so much pain.

As far as I understand a root canal is supposed to be a routine procedure, and the purpose is to remove all the nerves from the tooth, so i dont know how she would still be feeling pain there without nerves. We are both becoming *unbelievably* sick of all the dentist visits and the bills to deal with this, and of course her being in pain. she has been to multiple dentists and none of them seem to get the picture that something is wrong here and this shouldnt be causing so much trouble.

At what point is the best idea to give up on trying to make a root canal work and just ask them to pull the tooth out? is there an easy way to manage a missing tooth? we have mainly held back on doing that because we see that permanent implants are crazy expensive, but my wife has found places where you can order like single-tooth denture type things? are those reliable and help prevent drifting teeth or whatever else might happen from missing a tooth?

I know I dont have alot of details specific to her situation, but any general advice you can give would be helpful.