I was thinking of lowering his base str, dex, and con scores by 2 and increasing int, wis and, cha scores by 1 or 2.

This is pretty close to how aging used to be portrayed in D&D so should be good there.

On top of this, I thought on successful attack or physical ability checks id roll a d20 dc 10 check and on a fail he would gain a point of exhaustion

This sounds like it will be absolutely brutal. You say d20 dc10, does that mean you intend to roll unmodified? A 50% chance to give yourself disadvantage on all ability checks on the first successful attack feels like it would snowball quickly. Maybe dial it down somewhat to something that will trigger, but not as often. Also having to roll another check and d4 damage sounds like it would add a lot of time to his turns. Maybe instead you could give him disadvantage on saves against exhaustion causing effects? You could do a similar mirror to your ability score modifications and give him advantage to resist some effects thanks to his experience. Maybe charms or illusions.

I like where your head is at with the battle master. When I did a retired character back in the day the campaign side stepped the age modifiers, since they were no longer relevant, but I used the crusader class from Tome of Battle with a similar theme in powers. Went with a lockdown spear wielder for other character choices. Good luck with the campaign, sounds like it will be a fun time.

That and more really. You could use it to do a green screen effect, but you can also use it to adjust color balance, brightness or do weirder things like swapping values between colors. It gets really crazy when you are working with full video because the time of the current frame is also available to be incorporated, so you can even do animated effects.

Another powerful filter is the convolve filter. That allows you to apply matrix transformations, which can for example be used to apply a homography matrix and adjust a videos perspective.

Well for instance you can use it to apply tranparencys or other effects using the geq filter. It applies a formula to every pixel in the input and can adjust alpha, rgb values, and gamma. You can also use conditionals in your formula and have access to the current pixels location and value, so you can apply your transforms only to specific regions if you want, or do an adjustment keyed only to a specific color.

Ffmpeg has been such cool software to learn. Simple filter chains can do incredible things

Not gonna answer that. Not trying to start drama or anything. If there’s a technical solution to the problem I’m happy, if not I’d rather just keep blocking and not make of it more than I need to

The steam that comes out of dishwashers I’ve used after washing would seem to indicate otherwise. Wouldn’t that temperature shock be dangerous to the ceramics?

Definitely an option, but probably more work than blocking them as I see them

My understanding is that a lot of memoirs are ghost written, so rarely actually authored by the person they are about. They interview people and then most likely invent detail to fill in the rest. That or they find actual photos of events or things and build out the detail that way. If you have a picture of an event and can see the decorations you can probably guess or imagine the smell. Likewise if family members have selfies or things like that you can fill in their outfits from there

Pioneering the latest and greatest adaptation “worse cop/worst cop”

A cottage industry of recovering neighbors who have fallen asleep on their way home and returning them to their beds in exchange for a ‘finders’ fee might develop.

Police involvement may help get him to back off, but be prepared for cops to ignore or minimize what she’s going through. Many cops are stalkers and abusers themselves. From personal experience having someone else to corroborate can help and also having extensive documentation can help get a PPO. I wish you the best of luck, its really not an easy situation and can escalate quickly.

Just think, if we manage to complete a political revolution and these flags continue to feature, we can force future history students to watch One Piece

I think mostly they just optimized load times in general, so the difference is a bit less stark

Solid state used to be basically required for Total War so the map loads would be quick. Still quicker but not as essential anymore

I’m a feminist and a men’s liberation kinda guy. Feminism is necessary and useful as theory and as a movement. It benefits both men and women

Actually set on the picket line

Joe Biden famed for being a great candidate

It hasn’t been the worst on my solo play through, mostly on a group one. There are a variety of issues that are workable, like how you will frequently start combats separated unless your group has the discipline of saints, or how one character will literally never be able to join combat because the terrain is impassable for him and him alone once initiative starts. These things we dealt with, but when combined with hours of lost progress from crashes and desyncs we threw in the towel

I liked this game a lot when I first started playing. Now in the back half of the game its just disappointing. Desyncs, crashes, and uneven balance all over the place. It has its charms but not something I would recommend anymore. Good to see they are on the right side of this though

I would guess no. The Rose Quartzes were only made on Earth and only for pink, so unless they had been an Earth Kindergartner they wouldn’t necessarily be familiar enough with the gem line