Damn, I always forget about Boulder Heave when I inevitably run into that wall with DS3 pyro builds. My go to is to switch over to the sunless talisman and spam Dorhy's Gnawing.
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When the settler regimes occupying Zimbabwe and South Africa fell, the apartheid hardliners fled to Israel. Is there any other ethnostate they could flee to this time round?
There was this bloke who used to sit at the train station close to the uni I was attending at the time, he'd drink cans of alcohol and do a little trainspotting. We talked a couple of times and he gave me some advice that helped me get out of my shell and talk to people a lot more. I must've only chatted with him, like, once or twice but I think it made all the difference in pushing me into making friends in what would otherwise've been a very lonely and isolated part of my life.
Not sure if I'd class it as the craziest moment of my life, but it was like a scene out of a sitcom:
When I was a teenager I briefly worked part-time at a place that refurbished various household appliances. Donations came in through the front and ended up in back with very little looking over. We took all sorts in and the workshop floor was split into various departments based on what appliances they dealt with. I was a new hire and they were still cycling me 'round various departments, my least favourite one was when I was assigned to cleaning out used ovens.
One day this box came in and, like, we opened it up and there were various electronic massaging gizmos. So, my supervisor is pulling 'em out, he passes some of 'em to me to give a lookover to make sure they're clean and do, like, PAT tests and stuff.
I'm plodding along and he gets to work on the rest himself. I'm doing the tests on this thing that's like a plastic plate with this piece on the top vaguely shaped like a pair of cupped hands, when my supervisor calls me over to lend a hand. He's got this black tube that goes a bit wider on one end, about as thick as my wrist. It looked kinda like a torch but with a cap screwed over the bit the light's in.
His hands are a bit slippy so he's having a hard time unscrewing the cap, so he asked me to have a go. Wider end pointed away from me, I wrapped my hand around the cap and gave it a good twist. The first clue I had that something was amiss was that my supervisor went bright red. I asked him what's wrong and just told me to see for myself, so I turn the thing in my hand and see this silicone orifice looking back at me.
That was how I learnt what a fleshlight is.
By NPC summons I just mean the gold signs on the ground you can interact with to spawn them.
The one outside Leyndell?
using summons
If you've progressed Millicent's quest far enough she can be summoned for this fight. She does slashing damage so won't deal much to it on her own but dodges well and is aggressive enough to keep it off you.
Great horned Tragoth is always available for this fight and deals strike damage and has a lot of health + heavy armour. Can easily carry this encounter.
NPC summons also don't remove your ability to call spirit ashes, so drop whatever one you want to use on it.
equipment
Flails do strike damage and have good Dex scaling, stick prayerful strike on it to get a FP costing attack that does decent stance damage + heals you (and allies in a small radius around you) for 30% of your max health. It's too slow for most bosses but tree sentinels can be slapped with it quite easy, especially if you've got some allies to distract 'em.
Antspur rapier might be another decent choice. One of, like, two weapons with inherent rot buildup, which means you can grease it to build up a second status effect at the same time. This makes it really useful for enemies with big health pools and high resistance.
Great! Now you can get a staph infection and have your hay fever act up at the same time. I know that'd improve my mood if I was recovering from surgery.
spoilers for latest Dr Who episode
Dr Who bury your gays any% speedrun.
The Doctor and Ruby time travel to a regency ball so they can LARP as the worst possible sorts of saes. Complications abound as the ball is also home to shape shifting owl people and a DnD playing space bounty hunter called Rogue 
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Things I liked:
Scant few this time :(
Set design on that space ship was good, it was cluttered but not in the "we spaffed a million Easter eggs over the background for tedious dorks to play Where's Wally but for childhood nostalgia" sorta way. As someone who lives in a chaotic mess of a house, I felt seen when the Doctor is like "damn bitch you live like this?" To his edgy new boyfriend.
The payoff for the psychic earring dialogue at the start being Ruby downloading martial arts to her brain to beat up a bird person. That was the kinda goofy plot-twist that really makes use of Dr Who's wackier setting elements.
Things I didn't like:
The bird people. I dunno, having their noses being beaks just looked weird and accentuated the people in bodypaint vibe they had. It was probably intentional, but I didn't like it.
My soul leaving my body every time a character said "cosplay".
Rogue. I will not elaborate.
The amount of times Bridgerton was name dropped. Yeah, yeah we get the BBC also has a period drama you can go watch, shut up already.
Overall - this one was my least favourite of the series so far. Bury your gays speedrun still hasn't beat that one Christmas episode where a security guard slides on screen to have a phonecall with his boyfriend only to get immediately killed by a Dalek. And I'm still unsure of the utility of a machine that can detect if something's a shapeshifter but not what shapeshifter they are.
I got 95.61% woman. Not sure what that missing 4.39% is. Maybe the spectral penis aura that all TERFs can psychically detect?
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Tankie has been shifting way beyond its original meaning to just be a vague leftward stab, but being an anarchist and everything I don't think it applies to me just yet
This Shen Yun hash got me surging like Marx's spector. Last thing these terrified peasants saw was a wave of pure red envelope them.