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Elendil
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elden ring is dope y'all
my last playthrough was based on doing the funny R2
https://youtu.be/jTfMoh8vB4o
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my last playthrough was based on doing the funny R2
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i think it just gets a big honkin' modifier on the charged war cry R2
Had a silly 20 min row before I picked my kid up but 20 min is 20min
Yeah, the e-mail retention post was about the time period the e-mails are kept on the server before being deleted.
It's basically to try and avoid liability or other problems during a lawsuit discovery. My last company went to a 1-year period (you could manually select individual e-mails to be 7-year retention, but it was a pain if you wanted to do that for your entire inbox).
So the point is to intentionally throw away emails in case you get brought to court?
This must be one of those US things I can’t understand from the outside. It seems like a really sketchy policy to have as a company.
Some organizations will try to put a fig leaf on it and trot out the 'saving disc space/cost' of the e-mail storage.
But, yes, the main motivator is to avoid exposure during court cases.
The actual lawyers of [chat] would have to give the most correct answer, but the way I understand it here: as long as the company defines a set policy "we only retain e-mails for X period", it's allowed in the courts. But it can't be something done in hind-sight after a crime has been committed because then it's willful destruction of evidence (and whatever exact charge goes along with that).
There will then be a discovery period where all of the emails of all the people will be sifted through by attorneys looking for relevant information, using keyword searches and other automation.
A key thing is that a company wants to be able to say "okay, here is everything, have at it, we're done producing documents for you to review." If you have a policy stating 'we keep emails for 3 years' and then you produce thousands of emails that span that 3 year period you can hopefully get the judge / other side to agree, yeah that is everything. If on the other hand you don't have such a policy they might say - well just give me a full image of everyone's laptop, and a full copy of your email server, and the backups of the email servers as far as you have them. Oh, you have offsite disaster recovery that goes back 20 year's? Better spin those back up there might be something relevant! The costs of discovery can very quickly get very large.
In my experience companies creating an email deletion policy to delete the evidence claim it's about not wanting to sort through the evidence to see if they did anything wrong before sending the evidence to the other side and the judge. They try to argue this is totally different from not wanting the judge and the other side to know they did something wrong. They're just trying to cut costs, you see. It's expensive to check you did nothing wrong when you did nothing wrong, you see.
It's slower but the rules are basically 1 to 1 to the table top then and it's easier to sort through a billion spells.
Also respeced back to a knight of the paw so I am riding a wolf again. I just need a haste scroll for nenio, I lost my haste bot.
I was in on a call with the owner and the insurance company. And the insurance company was trying to get the company I worked for to cover the claim. Because the rates “might go up” or “we might get dropped.” But that was how we managed risk. It was much cheaper to have insurance than to retain lawyers in most cases. And it may be the field I’m in but most of the legal shit didn’t involve emails.
I think they just didn't realize how much the cliffs would suck the joy out of exploration, and didn't realize how unpleasant it would be to explore or traverse with a wisplight.
Also there are only 2 or 3 new enemies depending on how you count, compared to neck / grayling / boar for meadow, shaman / brute / gray dwarf / troll / skeleton / skeleton archer for black forest, wraith / blob / zombie / zombie archer / leech / abom for swamp. I think mountain has 4 and plains has 7.
You do eventually get to build a piece of equipment that makes navigation in there (and everywhere else too I suppose) a lot easier and once you have and upgraded armor set it becomes a lot less lethal. Still lethal but far less troubling. The boss is also a nightmare and tbh I'm not sure doable solo without just suicide running it to death.
Advice: First thing you do is build the new pickaxe. Then get the shield and get it upgraded asap. Then the rest of the armor. Also any weapons that do frost damage are nice for the slow effect it has.
Honestly I think this was their first real misstep. A huge portion of the appeal of the game is exploration and limiting what you can see to sometimes a dozen feet at best was... well, it was dumb. If you could upgrade the wisp a few times until the area is at least 3-4 times as large it would help but honestly I think the better idea would have been to have the mist be a wall around the border that you need The Thing to be able to even penetrate and then inside it's just a normal area.
The interior of the Mistlands is less forbidding cliffs and feels far more like Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in China.
It's also a case where unlike every other biome you need your best food until you have some armor upgrades. Preferably at least a half stack of your best health and stamina potions too. Without that every encounter can spiral rapidly.
But I totally agree. The difficulty of the Mistlands is way out of whack with the rest of the progression in the game. It does get better quickly once you get a couple of things but until then it's pretty dire.
Idk that's persuasive maybe they just needed to also change some mechanics so height differences weren't ruinously un-fun
Levels on the jump skill just increase the height you can jump and does nothing for the stamina costs like nearly every other skill in the game.